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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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- “Something deep within my spirit”
- Darren Cooper has a studio and an art shop at 17 George Street, Redfern. It’s a space he clearly enjoys. He showed me many artworks there – paintings, painted furniture, a surfboard, t-shirts. Inspiration is derived, he explains, from a sense of pride in his people (the Wiradjuri people of the Bathurst region) and love of country, as well as from the world of commercial art and design (Nicole Colmer, Lyn Onis and Ken Done have served as mentors) reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- Bystander @ Performance Space
- Performance Space at the Carriage Works, in Eveleigh, is fast becoming a prominent attraction within South Sydney’s world of art. Not only has it breathed new life into the once decrepit and decaying buildings of the old State Rail maintenance yards, it is giving many local artists a hub to display their work reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007.
- The limo Olympics get the green light
- FORGET the frantic staff at the airport, the dark-suited bodyguards with ear pieces, the long lines of nervous police dressed in ill-fitting riot gear. If you want to see real pressure during APEC, then head to Eveleigh says Linton Besser Transport Reporter in the SMH of September 1, 2007.
- Councils in their sights: angry ratepayers demand more say
- A proposed gun shop highlights unrest about one-size-fits-all rules, writes Robert Wainwright in the SMH August 25, 2007.
- RailCorp Reveals Plans for Mortuary Station
- We were recently shown a letter RailCorp CEO Vince Graham sent to someone concerned about mortuary station. The text of the Vince Graham letter is below in bold italics. Interspersed with the text of the letter you will find some comments from a person with a long involvement in Rail Heritage who when they saw the letter felt the RailCorp CEO’s comments should not go unchallenged. For professional reasons the person making the comments wishes to remain nameless.
- The Museum Site that RailCorp Refused to tell the Minister about - 24th August 2007.
- It is now 18 months since Mr John Watkins, Minister for Transport told supporters of Friends of Eveleigh at a meeting in Eastwood Mall, that he had not been informed at any time by RailCorp that Eveleigh’s Large Erecting Shop could be developed as a Heritage Workshop and Museum says a media release from Friends of Eveleigh on 24th August, 2007.
- Fooled again by a system that stinks
- It was, says the Greens Deputy Lord Mayor, Chris Harris, "a black day for Sydney" - the day Justice Jayne Jagot found for the developer in the Carlton and United Breweries case. Harris is right to be gloomy, and not only because of the hot-house gases involved. Equally disturbing is that the road to this decision is lined, several deep, by the fools the planning system takes us for writes Elizabeth Farrelly in the SMH of August 22, 2007.
- NSW fast-tracks plan for rail links
- The NSW Government is advancing plans for the north-west and south-west rail links, including land acquisition for the two projects reports Brian Robins on smh.co.au on August 22 2007.
- Aboriginal Souths players targeted: club
- South Sydney Rabbitohs management lodged a complaint with police after an officer allegedly acted aggressively towards two Aboriginal rugby league players reports AAP in the Sun Herald of 19th August 2007.
- CUB Site Decision handed down
- The decision for the CUB case in the Land and Environment Court was handed down on 14th August 2007. Here is a brief update from FoCUS issued on the 15th August 2007.
- Students build for the future
- TWO Koori students from Bonnyrigg High School have experienced what it's like to work in the construction industry. Year 11 students Tyson Parker and Malcolm Clayton completed a Koori Job Ready course in construction in April offered by TAFE NSW Chullora and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports Nena Bogunovic of Bonnyrigg High School in the Fairfield City Champion of August 15, 2007.
- Mock gunfire likely during APEC training
- Defence force troops and vehicles will storm railway sites around Sydney this week and fire blank ammunition during training exercises in the lead-up to next month's APEC summit reports AAP on 13th August 2007.
- Redfern Markets? Watch this space!
- The hustle and bustle of people and kaleidoscope of weekly colour that is Paddington Markets may soon be coming to Redfern, as a development application to hold a monthly market on the Cope and Regent Street site has been put into motion writes Claire Thompson in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Union and RWA build community
- At a time when the Federal Government response to the sad and complex problems facing our Indigenous population in the Northern Territory is to “send in the troops,” it is reassuring to know that in our own backyard the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy workers Union has a more enlightened approach writes Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- The battle for Pemulwuy
- Over the last 18 months there have been two marches from the TNT towers across to The Block in support of the Pemulwuy Project writes Trevor Davies Have You Heard? in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- View from the Block: looking forward, looking blak
- In 1957 the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee with the support and co-operation of federal and state governments, the churches and major Aboriginal organisations, was formed. NAIDOC Week (2nd week in July) has evolved into a week of cultural events to commemorate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage. The theme for this year is: looking forward, looking blak writes Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Movement at Drake-Brockman vs Planning Minister court case
- The South Sydney Herald’s Samantha Van reports after the conclusion of the Matthew Drake-Brockman vs State Minister for Planning court hearing, which took place on 25 and 26 July, Frasers Property set up a meeting with City of Sydney Deputy Lord Mayor and Greens Councillor Chris Harris for 10 August. Cr Harris told the SSH that Mr Drake-Brockman and sustainability consultant Michael Mobbs will also attend the meeting writes Trevor Davies Have you Heard in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Victory for sustainable development?
- Win or lose in the Land and Environment Court, Darlinghurst resident Matthew Drake-Brockman may have already won – on behalf of the public – against global beverages firm Foster’s Group and the State Minister for Planning Frank Sartor writes Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Inner-city clergy unite in concern over APEC
- Three local clergy, Rev. Graham Long from the renowned Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Rev. Dorothy McRae-McMahon and Rev. Andrew Collis from the South Sydney Uniting Church, will be attending APEC protests in September in order to monitor police activity in response to the powers bestowed on the force by the NSW Government writes Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- The media and the formation of community
- The media is hugely powerful in its influence on society and therefore carries a grave responsibility. The way we exercise this power has the capacity to build or dismantle human community and now, possibly even the planet itself writes Dorothy McRae-McMahon in a paper given at the Customs House City of Sydney Library run in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
