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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.
- Redfern lament
- DRIVING past Redfern Oval breaks your heart writes Ray Chesterton in The Daily Telegraph May 25, 2007
- ILC School Update – 22 May 07
- The ILC have advised that some some archaeological investigation work is about to begin on the site. This means the car park gates will be closed and there will be no public access to that bit of the property from this Friday May 25th. The ILC consultants also advised that they will be letter boxing properties neighbouring the former Redfern School on Tuesday 22nd to advise them that the proposals for the site are on exhibition and about the archaeological work. The project and its appendices are now all on the Department of Planning website at:
- SYDNEY COUNCIL THREATENS JUANITA NIELSEN'S HERITAGE HOME
- "Sydney Council's plan to eliminate the community grants component of its Local Action Plans, details of which have been released in a revised budget currently out on public exhibition, will threaten important community-based projects" Andrew Woodhouse said on 17th May 2007 in a Media Release from the Potts Point & Kings Cross Heritage Conservation Society Inc.
- Redfern NAB Volunteer Awards scheme
- Redfern Neighbourhood Advisory Board is turning up the heat to find our exceptional Volunteer of the Year in an awards scheme. Members of the public, volunteer and community groups are being asked to nominate individuals who deserve to be recognised for making an outstanding contribution by their volunteer work.
- Indigenous Budget Statement 2007-8
- This is a copy of the Indigenous Budget statement issued by Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the Hon. Mal Brough, MP on 8 May 2007
- Block edging closer to rebirth
- For years there has been talk about revitalising the area of Redfern known as the Block reports ABC news 4 May 2007.
- Save Black Fella's Dreaming
- The Member for Sydney and Lord Mayor Clover Moore has joined her support for keeping the "Black Fella's Dreaming" collection in public hands. A large part of the collection goes to Auction on Wednesday 9th May 2007 at Bonhams & Goodmans. Clover Moore has written to the minister for the Arts Frank Sartor asking him to secure the collection for the public. Below you will find a copy of her letter as well as an update on what is happening to try and save the collection.
- Redfern setting complements Goot's minimalist style
- MANY of Sydney's fashion set discovered Redfern for the first time when they swarmed on the suburb's CarriageWorks railway complex for the Josh Goot show this morning reports Georgina Safe and Edwina McCann in the Australian of May 03, 2007.
- “Unethical” – Foster’s to block legal aid
- Goliath has attacked David even before he got his slingshot out, City of Sydney Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Chris Harris said on his website last month reports Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- Where there’s smoke there’s … pollution
- It has been described as a living museum, a unique snapshot of history preserved in time, or merely an amusement device that runs round in circles but, to some unhappy residents living in Chippendale, an iconic locomotive is causing smoke to come out of their ears reports Claire Thompson in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- News Ltd gobbles up the lot
- Local news coverage may come under threat as one of the last independent community newspaper groups is snatched up by media giant News Limited reports Candice Chung in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- Rental crisis: high prices in the inner city
- Rental property prices across the inner suburbs have dramatically risen in the last three months as the rental boom continues. Several agents told the SSH that prices have steadily increased since January this year, by up to $80 a week. While owners and agents are reaping the benefits, renters are struggling in a highly competitive market reports Bill Birtles in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- South Sydney Community Aid at 40: Help write the history!
- When you have been working within a community for 40 years, there will be stories to tell. University of Technology Sydney Shopfront students are currently writing a history of the South Sydney Community Aid Co-op, including a history of events which have taken place within the community over the past 40years – events that have evolved the agenda and services for the Co-op reports the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- Darlington kids take it to the Bridge!
- The Sydney Harbour Bridge is part of the history of Darlington Public School as one of the two schools that took part in the opening ceremony in 1932 reports Reem Al-Gharabally in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- Keneally promoted to cabinet
- The fresh-faced recruit of the Iemma Cabinet, Kristina Keneally, was happy to discover that she can see her electorate from her new Governor Macquarie Tower office reports Candice Chung in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- Howard’s shame – a sad day for Redfern
- As we have been reporting, 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 the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- First ever march for Coloured Diggers
- As the rain poured so did the emotions of the hundreds of Aboriginal veterans and their descendants who took part in a landmark march and church service on Anzac Day in Redfern as they remembered the part played by the Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders in the wars of our nation reports Claire Thompson in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- Mick Mundine celebrates – more to come
- The Aboriginal Housing Company’s Mick Mundine recently celebrated his 60th birthday in style in what could be a festive year for the Redfern figurehead reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- Kensington Street Chippendale Evictions
- On Monday 16th April 2007, all the remaining tenants in Kensington St, Chippendale, received a notice demanding vacant possession of the premises within sixty days – that is, by 25th June 2007 reports Trevor Davies in the Have you heard? column of the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
- A new space for coffee, kids, creative arts
- An “enormous honour” was the way Aboriginal MP, Linda Burney, described the opportunity to open the new Survival Café on the corner of Redfern and Renwick Streets, Redfern reports Aletha Penrith in the South Sydney Herald of May 2007.
