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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.
Minister on Central to Eveleigh Corridor Renewal Project in Parliament
On Thursday 22 August 2013 the Member for Sydney Alex Greenwich asked minister Hazzard about public open space, child care, high schools and primary schools, and safe cycling paths for new and existing adjacent residents and workers to the Central to Eveleigh Corridor. Below from the Hansard Proof is the Minister's response.
Responses to Lift for Redfern Station Announcement
Below we have collected statements made by various political party representatives (Liberal, Labor and Greens) about the announcement of a lift for Redfern Station. They are provided together for contrast. Lift Redfern which organised two petition and a range of other activites from schools to lobbying drove the community campaign. Lift Redfern was supported accross the political spectrum but it was really a community campaign with many people playing a part. When the anouncement was made here is what the political parties said.
Redfern ready to roll as minister promises a lift
For the past five years Edward Hartigan, 29, has been travelling from Campbelltown to Redfern on weekday mornings to pick up copies of The Big Issue to sell in the city. But Mr Hartigan is in a wheelchair, and Redfern station has no disabled access on any of its 12 platforms reports Jacob Saulwick the Sydney Morning Heralds Transport Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of 16 August 2013.
Redfern Station to get lift, says Berejiklian
Redfern Station will finally be upgraded with a wheelchair-accessible platform reports Jacob Saulwick the Sydney Morning Heralds Transport Reporter on 15 August 2013.
It's give then take over Redfern station funding
When it comes to Sydney power couples, they don't come much more powerful than Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his wife, former deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt. But Sydney residents might be wondering what they are getting out of the relationship, after it emerged on Thursday that Mr Albanese personally vetoed plans for an upgrade of one of Sydney's busiest trains stations because it was next to his wife's seat reports Jacob Saulwick the Sydney Morning Herald's Transport Reporter n 9 August 2013.
Central to Eveleigh redevelopment – it’s big!
NSW cabinet recently decided redevelopment of the railway corridor stretching 3km from the CBD’s Goulburn Street car park to Macdonaldtown would be part of an international Expression Of Interest (EOI) process writes Geoff Turnbull in the August 2013 South Sydney Herald.
City's main rail corridor plan attracts global developers with big ideas and legacies
The architecture firm behind the world's tallest building has signalled it wants to develop Sydney's main rail corridor, as the state government fields global interest in a project to remake the central business district's southern edge reports Nicole Hasham Urban Repairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald on 29 July 2013. In a companion peice the SMH reports that the prospect of a future train service to the northern beaches is all but sunk because high-rise development over Chatswood railway station failed to leave room for extra rail lines, Willoughby Council says, sending a warning to the state government as it opens Sydney's main rail corridor to developers.
Council Motion Re Central to Eveleigh
At City of Sydney Council on Monday 29 July 2013 the following motion was unanimously carried by Council regarding the Central to Eveleigh Corridor proposal. Interestingly it indicates Council is meeting the Metro Strategy targets for new housing but needs new commercial and jobs development. The motion was moved bt Councillor Christine Forster and amended at the meeting before being passed unanimously.
Smiths want rare bays to forge on
British artist blacksmith Jake James has worked all over the world, but the seven-hundredweight Massey power hammer at the Eveleigh locomotive blacksmithing bay in Sydney's Redfern was the biggest he had ever used writes Julie Power in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 25, 2013.
David Pitchford appointed UrbanGrowth NSW CEO
John Brogden, Chairman, UrbanGrowth NSW announced today the appointment of Mr David Pitchford CBE as the new Chief Executive Officer of UrbanGrowth NSW reports this UrbanGrowth NSW media release of 22 July 2013.
Redfern in new seat of Newtown - Comment until 17 July
A new Electorate of Newtown is propoposed in the NSW Electoral Boundaries Distribution which will include Redfern, Eveleigh and Darlington along with Surry Hills, Chippendale, Camperdown, Newtown, Stanmore, Petersham,Enmore and the western part of Erskinville.
REDWatch Comment on Government’s “Central to Eveleigh Global Precinct Opportunity” Anouncement
The NSW Government has called for expressions of interest to revitalise and expand Sydney’s CBD by redeveloping land and airspace in the Central to Eveleigh rail corridor on Friday 12 July 2013. This is REDWatch's initial comment on the anouncement and its implications.
REDWatch Submission on Draft Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney to 2031
This is the July 2013 REDWatch submission on the Draft Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney to 2031.
Railway tower plans: many questions, no answers and little trust
Building big things over rail lines is an idea that has been around for decades – but its time may now have arrived. The O'Farrell government's plan to throw open development rights for that wide scar of open railway track between Central and Redfern looks like a good idea, even if it is one that is easier planned than executed reports Jacob Saulwick SMH's Transport Reporter on 12 July 2013.
Railway apartments will change Sydney forever
Melbourne covered its city railway lines with Federation Square and Sydney has several apartment blocks sitting over tracks in St Leonards and Chatswood. But this plan - if ever implemented - will change Sydney forever reports Stephen Nicholls SMH's Property Editor on 12 July 2013.
Developers may erase city's 'Berlin Wall' effect
High-rise towers could be constructed from Central Station to Eveleigh and structures built over rail lines after the state government invited the world's developers to redraw central Sydney writes Nicole Hasham the SMH's Urban Affairs reporter and James Robertson on 12 July 2013.
Sydney Central Station at heart of multi-billion dollar redevelopment
OFFICE workers will be able to watch trains whizz past from their desk or apartment dwellers from their bedroom, under a new vision to build high rises over Sydney’s railway lines writes Vikki Campion Urban Affairs Reporter of the Daily Telegraph on July 12, 2013.
New Planning System for NSW White Paper - Until 30 June 2013
Here REDWatch has provided links to key documents necessary to understand the New Planning System for NSW White Paper and its implications for Redfern Waterloo.
A Corridor Re-Development Offer: Swap you: Chinese skyscrapers for a motorway
At least 150 pre-fabricated skyscrapers from Central Station to Strathfield, conveyor belts shuttling building materials above Ultimo, train lines ripped up for new ones underground, and much of the steel and concrete shipped from China, with an army of international workers assembling it all for a pittance. This option was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on June 29 2013. This unsolicited proposal gives an indication of the kind of proposal that may be put up for the Central to Eveleigh corridor when the NSW Government look for internatioinal expressions of interest.
REDWatch Submission on A New Planning System for NSW
This is the REDWatch submission to the Department of Planning and Infrastructure in June 2013 concerning the New Planning System for NSW White Paper and Draft Legislation.
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