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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. You can get up to date news by setting up a Google News alert at http://www.google.com/alerts. News Alerts will not pick up local media and some mainstream media stories which do not appear on a news website, where possible we put these stories on our website to provide wide access to the stories.
What do Crookwell and Redfern have in common?
In the April Edition of the South Sydney Herald Trevor Davies interview with the National Partys Duncan Gay who is a Redfern resident when parliament is sitting.
Redfern-Waterloo tour, a thing of beauty
In this article from the April 2006 South Sydney Herald Mickie Quick talks about the latest of a series of Redfern Waterloo tours conducted by Squatspace.
Hopes for Redfern Police Command of long-term Chippendale resident
In the April 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald Dorothy McRae-McMahon intervied the Redfern Police Commander Catherine Burn.
Residents sceptical of redevelopment
Ben Spies- Butcher in the April 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald reports on recent community meetings concerning the RWA's Draft Built Environment Plan.
State Cabinet invited to Redfern-Waterloo
South Sydney Herald in its April 2006 edition reports on the invitation issued recently to the NSW Premier.
Love song to Sydney, the gritty city
From wharves to warehouses, there is much to admire in our dirty old town, writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the Sydney Morning Herald of March 31, 2006
Premier lays out his plans - 29.03.2006
More trains, more public-private partnerships and more State control over planning – Morris Iemma tells the Courier what to expect during his tenure at the top. Report Kim Shaw Sydney Central Courier.
Labor councils turn on Sartor as ugly fight develops over local planning - 26 March 2006
PLANNING Minister Frank Sartor's bid to seize statewide planning powers to override local councils has been hit by an avalanche of protest, especially from leading local government figures in the Labor Party reports Alex Mitchell State political editor in the SMH March 26, 2006
The Invisible Minister for Redfern Waterloo
REDWatch issued the following Media Statement on March 20 2006 prior to the NSW Cabinet meeting in Ashfield.
How the planning system stifles debate - 17 March 2006
In NSW bureaucrats have too much power to make crucial decisions on development, writes Robert Stokes in Sydney Morning Herald March 17 2006.
Battle for the streets – 13 March 2006
Plans to fix Sydney's Aboriginal ghetto have angered locals and white activists. But that does nothing to solve The Block's problems, writes Imre Salusinszky. Imre Salusinszky is The Australian's NSW state political reporter.
AHC responds to Kristina Keneally's comments on the Block
The AHC has wriiten to local MP Kristina Keneally concerning recent comments she made in Parliament and at a RWA media conference. The text of the letter follows:
Built Environment Plan released: Is this future for Redfern and Waterloo?
The Redfern Waterloo Authority’s draft Built Environment Plan (BEP) has been released to mixed reviews. The South Sydney Herald examined what the plan means for some of South Sydney’s most important sites writes Joseph Correy and Geoffrey Turnbull in the March 2006 issue of the South Sydney Herald.
Cr Firth calls on Sartor to rethink Pemulwuy decision
Labor Deputy Lord Mayor, Verity Firth, has expressed grave concern at the State Government’s apparent abandonment of the Pemulwuy Project. “[The] decision by Minister Sartor is regrettable and should be reversed. It has made the realisation of the project impossible,” said Cr Firth recently reports The South Sydney Herald in its March 2006 Issue.
Indigenous jobs boost
Redfern-Waterloo Authority Minister Frank Sartor has announced that 26 indigenous job seekers will be employed to work on a $45-million project at the Australian Technology Park (ATP).
City of Sydney councillors air their concerns about the future of Redfern Waterloo - 8 March 2006
Alexandra Walker reports in the 8th March edition of Sydney Central Courier that Inner Sydney could be left with an oversupply of office space if the Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s (RWA ) plans go ahead too quickly, a City of Sydney councillor has warned.
Redfern/Waterloo: Land grab plan announced - 8 March 2006
Two weeks ago at a gala launch, the NSW government revealed the draft Redfern/Waterloo Built Environment Plan, the first stage of a blatant attempt to commercially redevelop these suburbs, and incorporate them into an enlarged Central Business District writes Peter Mac in The Guardian.
Once again, Frank gets it wrong on The Block
Darlington-Redfern branches of the Australian Labor Party Media Release Thursday, March 2", 2006
The reality behind the Redfern plan: a boon for the big end of town - March 1 2006
Elizabeth Farrelly SMH March 1, 2006 writes: 'JOBS, jobs, jobs," boomed the minister. "This plan is about jobs and opportunity, opportunity and jobs, jobs and opportunity." The only job on offer at this particular sun-baked news conference was a consummate snow job. It was a small, select news conference, with a handful of the hand-picked standing around in the sun waiting for the Minister, who was a half-hour late taking up his spot in the shade.
'Stressed out' police threaten to strike - 28 February 2006
Exclusive by Kara Lawrence Daily Telegraph February 28, 2006
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