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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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- Pauper Bunnies now NRL princes
- The paupers of the NRL are now the princes, with South Sydney's sponsorship drive ranking them in the nation's top five earners for jersey advertising of all team sports. The Rabbitohs announced a combined venture with property developer Trivest which includes away jersey sponsorship and the re-development of the Leagues Club in Redfern reports AAP in the West Australian of 1st March 2007.
- Off the Rails
- There is a crowd spilling onto the streets, looking up at a man high above them on a window ledge. Bathed in spotlights, he stands ramrod straight with his back to the window. He shivers rhythmically. Is he a would-be suicide? Writes Edward Scheer in the Monthly in March 2007.
- Brothers are making a difference
- Babana is an Aboriginal word meaning “brother.” It is also the name of an Aboriginal men’s group formed in March 2006 to provide men with opportunities to network, discuss issues affecting local men, meet with other Aboriginal men’s groups and work on projects that benefit the local Redfern-Waterloo community reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Only the beginning - Redfern Oral History website launch
- “Every step I take, I have a memory.” These are words spoken by community representative Sharon Hickey at the launch of Redfern Oral History, a website documenting stories and photographs of people associated with the Block reports JP Collis in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- From Waterloo to Broadway – free by bus
- It was a great day for many residents in the City of Sydney when Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, launched the first free shuttle bus for the area reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Indigenous vote crucial in Land Council poll
- On May 19, Indigenous people can vote in the NSW Land Council election. It is the first election since 1999 for the State’s peak representative body in Aboriginal Affairs reports Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Rally remembers TJ Hickey
- Wednesday, 14 February, marked the third anniversary of the death of 17-year-old TJ Hickey in Redfern. A crowd of over 300 people, ranging from local residents to Indigenous elders from Far North Queensland, gathered for an angry yet peaceful rally reports Irene Pye in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- RWA’s Draft Affordable Housing Plan questionable, says local activist
- The RWA has asked for comment on its affordable housing plan for the Redfern-Waterloo area. Ross Smith responds in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007 and The South Sydney Herald invites you to go to the Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s website to read their affordable housing plan, then go to the REDWatch website and read some of the other responses. It’s your suburb, get involved. Read and respond. We invite your comments in our Letters page.
- Community art: a work in progress
- In a few months’ time, the graffti-ed wall in front of the Marton high rise block in Raglan Street, Waterloo will be transformed by a beautiful mosaic reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Rabbitohs and NASCA form alliance
- The South Sydney Football Club and the National Aboriginal Sports Corporation of Australia (NASCA) have entered into an alliance supporting each other in Indigenous community programs reports Trevor Davies in Have You Heard? in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Federal Government trashes Redfern Employment Program
- As we have been reporting, the Redfern Community Employment Development Program faces the axe by July this year because the Federal Government is convinced that the CEDP is not an appropriate way of putting Aboriginal people into full-time employment reports Trevor Davies in Have You Heard? in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Homeless Persons Legal Service opens in Newtown
- The NSW Attorney General, Mr Bob Debus, cut the red tape and marked the launch of the Newtown Homeless Persons Legal Service in early February reports Alex Serpo in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Redfern lock-down
- Sally Quilter in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007 letters page writes of her experience of the Redfern Lock Down on January 21 2007.
- Water and housing: Labor and Greens go toe to toe
- Heffron Labor incumbent Kristina Keneally has denied that the State government’s promised desalination plant will cause road closures and extensive roadwork in Erskineville. Claims that the $1.9 billion desalination plant at Kurnell will cause two years of road works across Sydney’s southern suburbs were frst made by the Daily Telegraph in February reports Bill Birtles and Trevor Davies in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- The great Marrickville debate
- Residents from the seat of Marrickville gathered at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre in February to hear from Labor incumbent Carmel Tebbutt and competing candidates, in an open forum chaired by venerable feminist and academic Eva Cox.
- ALP Secretary nervous about election
- Mark Arbib, the New South Wales ALP General Secretary, said the ALP was not playing the underdog score card and did in fact feel very nervous about the election at a Fabian Society evening held in late February reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Political Profile: Clover Moore seeks double-decade
- Time seems to have lent its worldly hand to Clover Moore, without draining away any of her energy reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Political Profle: Linda Scott makes her run
- Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Sydney, Linda Scott, believes the 2007 NSW state election will be a difficult one reports Reem Aigharabali in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- John McInerney’s change of climate
- In January, The City Hub reported that John McInerney, former town planner and City of Sydney Councillor, is going to stand for the lower house seat of Heffron reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2007.
- Greens support for redfern Gym
- Mundine’s Gym lost its ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) funding some time ago, but continues to serve the community in spite of difficulties reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2007. Every afternoon lots of local kids go there – free of charge – to stay healthy. Over the last couple of months people have been encouraged to help out by giving a donation to the Gym to cover the cost of training the kids. In January it was Tanya Plibersek, the local Federal Member, who came to the party.
