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Media Articles on Redfern Waterloo
This is a selection of major news items about Redfern Waterloo from various media outlets.
The AHC also has a good selection of the stories about the Block in their media news section at http://www.ahc.org.au.
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- Winning bidder a shoo-in
- JOEL Hardy bought himself a home yesterday because of its historic features and proximity to transport. It's close to transport all right - Redfern's hectic rail network to be precise reports Hannah Edwards in the SMH of June 24, 2007.
- Mental health services get a boost
- Young people with mental illnesses will have access to more frontline services in NSW, with the state government committing an additional $6 million in funding reports AAP in the Sydney Morning Herald on June 21, 2007.
- Council Supports CUB Site Legal Challenge.
- The City of Sydney has agreed to a grant up to $20000 to fund the expenses in the Land & Environment Court hearing against Fosters and Frank Sartor on 25th/26th July. The grant was made to FOCUS and will be forwarded on to the Environmental Defenders Office. Council has agreed to match donations (including the $10,000 from Legal Aid) to a total of $20,000. FOCUS has already raised $3,000 so, with Council's generosity, that makes a total of $26,000.
- Heffron Budget News
- $3.5 million for the new Redfern/Waterloo Community Health Centre is one of the local highlights in the Iemma Government’s second Budget delivered today, State Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally said today in her Media release "NSW STATE BUDGET 2007– 08 - MEETING OUR COMMITMENTS IN HEFFRON" of June 19 2007.
- Sartor to overhaul building approvals
- THE Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, has promised to overhaul the development approval system as the building industry mounts a fresh assault on council powers reports Catharine Munro Urban Affairs Editor SMH June 14, 2007.
- ILC NIDC School site Update
- Following the RWIU of 13th June 2007 we received an update about the NIDC consultation. The ILC are currently meeting local public housing tenants to brief them and to hear about their concerns
- Cheers: $2bn CUB deal Sydney's largest
- DOWNTOWN Sydney is set to get the largest single development project in the history of the city following the $208 million sale of the Broadway CUB site to Singapore developer Frasers reports Maurice Dunlevy in the Australian of June 13, 2007.
- Brewery sale sparks resident concerns
- Residents in inner-Sydney say they are wary about the sale of the neighbouring Kent Brewery site to developers reports ABC news on 13th June 2007.
- Fight for green buildings
- MATTHEW Drake-Brockman is waging war against a redevelopment in his neighbourhood he believes will unnecessarily damage the environment writes Myles Wearring for NEWS.com.au on 12 June 2007.
- Kent Brewery site sold to Frasers
- Foster's Group Limited (Foster's) today [12 June 2007] signed a $208 million sale agreement with Frasers Property (Frasers) for the site of the former Kent Brewery [CUB Site] in Sydney, Australia.
- EVELEIGH - STILL THE BEST LOCATION FOR SECURITY
- Once again it must be questioned if RailCorp is really serious about railway heritage and the manner in which it is kept says Friends of Eveleigh in this media release of 11th June 2007.
- EVELEIGH - STILL THE BEST LOCATION FOR COALING
- THE MINISTER JOHN WATKINS AND RAILCORP HAVE BOTH BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO MORTUARY STATION. IT’S STILL HAPPENING SO THEY DON’T CARE OR HAS THE MINISTER NO CONTROL OVER RAILCORP? Asks Friends of Eveleigh in this media Release of 11th June 2007.
- EVELEIGH - STILL THE BEST LOCATION FOR TURNING AND WATERING
- EVELEIGH STILL BEING USED BY THE RAIL TRANSPORT MUSEUM reports Friends of Eveleigh in this media release of 11th June 2007.
- Force's $100,000 riot fine
- THE NSW Police Force has been fined $100,000 because it failed to protect its officers during the Redfern riot reports AAP in the SMH of June 8, 2007
- Tick for new stadium, with a few conditions
- THE Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, has offered cautious approval for a new stadium, amid speculation that the film stars Russell Crowe and Anthony LaPaglia are planning to build one in Redfern reports Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter on the Sydney Morning Herald on June 5, 2007.
- Comments by Housing Minister Rose Jackson relevant to Waterloo - 5 June 2023
- At the 5 June 2023 REDWatch meeting, NSW Housing Minister Rose Jackson, responded on the proposed Federal Government housing policy initiatives. She later provided an update on the NSW Governments approach to public housing redevelopments including Waterloo. In the transcript below the Minister says it will be another month or so before the process set by the previous government can be assessed under the principles the new government wishes to apply. Later in the meeting the Minister confirmed the government was implementing the 2022 Labor Conference motion and outlined that the current focus was on items they did not need to legislate.
- Housing redevelopment commences, still seeking private partner
- The long awaited redevelopment of the public housing site opposite South Sydney Oval in Redfern has been given the official go ahead. It is expected to commence in early 2008 and be finished by the end of the following year reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of June 2007.
- Get Out!- Foster’s to evict Kensington Street tenants
- The Foster ’s Group, through the property managers of the Carlton & United Breweries site, has given eviction notices to the four tenants of terraces on Kensington Street in Chippendale reports Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of June 2007.
- Matavi and Tarunga residents bothered by ‘Stand Up’
- It seems that Stand Up – a group of inner city activists (normally very responsible) – have stuffed up. They letter-boxed the residents of Matavai and Tarunga with pamphlets which claim that Frank Sartor’s RWA has announced plans to demolish their homes. This seems like a bizarre action to take as it is not the case. REDWatch remembers a few years ago, when there was a big demonstration over the Waterloo Standards Towers, a whole range of speakers turned up and the local member Kristina Keneally had promised to chain herself to the doors of Batavia. That was back in 2004. The battle was won and the towers are safe. If anything does happen, I’m sure you’ll see Kristina chained to the front door.
- Open all hours – at what cost?
- Owners of late-trading pubs may be lapping up the profits, but many are finding the surge in alcohol-fuelled violence hard to swallow reports Candice Chung and Claire Thompson in the South Sydney Herald of June 2007.
