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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.
- Support for Redfern & Darlington Business Precinct
- New "Business Precinct Studies" for Redfern and Newtown will guide our work to strengthen the local retail hubs, with a new Council officer being employed to help us do the needed work with local communities, including local business associations, police and other government authorities reports CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 28 August 2009 - No. 462.
- Residents face eviction to house homeless
- It reads almost like a Yes, Minister script – the Department of Housing evicting its own tenants, in order to build a facility for…homeless people. Yet remarkably, the evidence is there in black and white, in the form of ‘relocation’ notices distributed to the residents of the Alexandra Terraces in Camperdown reports Shant Fabricatorian in the City news of 27 August 2009.
- On your bike for Factory seconds
- Waterloo’s Factory Community Centre is taking sustainable living to the next level, giving old and ruined bicycles a second chance in their Cycle Re-Cycle Workshop reports Angus Thompson in City news on 27 August 2009.
- Supermarkets – the new urban battleground
- It’s raining supermarkets in Sydney, it seems, and the storm is provoking contrasting reactions from residents while presenting a complex planning problem to Council and the State Government reports Michael Gormly in City news of 27 August 2009.
- Factory Community Centre Supports Aldi for Waterloo
- In the letter below to Council on 26 August 2009 the Factory Community Centre came out in support of a Development Application incorporating an Aldi Supermarket in Waterloo (City of Sydney Council DA D/2009/633). The Factory Submission reads:
- Redfern’s Great Depression
- Redfern is experiencing its own Great Depression with 65 shops vacant and economic activity as slow as it was in the 1930s, according to a City of Sydney Council business precinct study reports Kim Shaw in Central on 26 August 2009.
- ABC Speaking Out - Heidi Norman on "The Black Heart of Redfern: Economic development and Aboriginal people in 20th Century Redfern"
- The first interview Rhianna Patrick conducted on ABC's Speaking Out of 23 August 2009 was with Heidi Norman about Redfern. [We have edited the ABC website description below to only include the Redfern material and have provided a link to the large MP3 download of the entire programme].
- Google lets creative types play in their Sandbox
- Media and advertising types were invited to the Carraigeworks in Eveleigh for Google Creative Sandbox 09. The first Creative Sandbox to be held outside of the United States, the event was designed to showcase all the newest developments to the Google product range which can often fly under the radar reports Willem Reyners Tay at www.digital-media.net.au on 21 August 2009 .
- Councils battle spread of new supermarkets
- SUPERMARKET proposals are fast becoming Sydney's new urban development battlegrounds, as major grocery chains clash with councils and residents over large stores proposed for their suburbs reports Paul Bibby Urban Affairs Reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 August 2009.
- Redfern to reinvent itself
- Redfern’s major players are putting their heads together to resuscitate Redfern’s business precinct, starting with a slap of paint on the dreary shutters that line the suburb’s main street reports Angus Thompson in City News of 20 August 2009.
- Rail history at Central Station
- Central station will offer steam train rides this weekend on the historic 3526 and 3642 locomotives, the pride of the NSW railways in the 1920s and 30s reports Kim Shaw in Central on 19 August 2009.
- Newtown station upgrade overdue
- RailCorp has lodged plans to upgrade Newtown station with a lift, new ticket office, refurbishment of the heritage buildings and a covered concourse with three new shops reports Marie Sansom in Central of 19 August 2009.
- Housing NSW Waterloo Green Update – August 2009
- The following Update on work on Waterloo Green has been distributed by Housing NSW in August 2009.
- Fringe-dwelling Rabbitohs get new $15m vet lab neighbour
- ALEXANDRIA is being transformed into a centre for science and technology companies; the most recent addition is by the veterinary pharmaceuticals firm Parnell of a $15 million manufacturing plant and laboratories writes Carolyn Cummins in the SMH of 15 August 2009.
- Northcott secures community worker
- Housing NSW has vowed to continue funding the community development worker at Northcott public housing estate in Surry Hills for another two-year term reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central on 15 August 2009.
- Australian Technology Park Tree Replacement Program - Henderson Road
- The Australian Technology Park will begin removing sick poplar trees on Henderson Road and replacing them with healthy native specimens in August 2009 reports this media release from the RWA on 14 August 2009.
- BUILDING LOW INCOME WORKER HOUSING
- On Monday night, Council supported an amendment to its planning policies to enable the City West Housing Company to build affordable rental housing across the City of Sydney area reports Clover Moore's eNews of Friday 14 August 2009 - No. 460.
- CELEBRATING REDFERN'S SESQUICENTENARY
- Last weekend I celebrated 150 years of Redfern at sesquicentenary events at Redfern Town Hall. The City is working with the local community to publish a book of local history and put together a time capsule to offer future generations a better understanding of early 21st century Redfern reports Clover Moore in her eNews of Friday 14 August 2009 - No. 460.
- It's time for the burbs to be heard
- KPMG partner and Demographer Bernard Salt looked at some of the changing demographics that also impact on Redfern Waterloo in this article in the Australian on 13 August 2009.
- Lord Mayor Clover Moore defends Sydney Council’s Redfern record
- Lord Mayor Clover Moore has hit back at claims that Redfern is being ignored while its neighbours enjoy “model village’’ status reports Kim Shaw in the Central on 12 August 2009.
