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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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- Qs & As on Council DAs
- Sydney City Councillor Phillip Black has told a Council meeting that there needs to be a clear but comprehensive brochure explaining how the Development Application (DA) process works for residents writes Bill Birtles in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Parents argue for improved road safety
- Parents with children at the Lois Barker Childcare Centre on Wellington Street in Waterloo are determined to improve road safety in the vicinity of the Centre before a tragedy occurs. They met with City of Sydney Councillor, Tony Pooley, on Thursday 19 July, to discuss their concerns writes Susannah Palk in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Skills and fun after school - Sports Commission initiative at Alexandria Park
- The Australian Sports Commission’s Active (AASC) after-school program has become a large part of the Alexandria Park Community School’s after-school culture. The AASC program is a great opportunity for all primary-aged students to be physically active and to develop positive attitudes to healthy living writes Travis Lane in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Two weeks to change your life
- Imagine being in prison for six months. In that time you’ve managed to get clean and you’re looking forward to turning a new leaf on the outside. Then, a day before you’re released, a fellow inmate asks you, “Looking forward to getting a hit tomorrow?” and suddenly you’re delivered a shock to the system regarding life on the outside writes Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Nation at the crossroads
- “We have to ask why Australia has failed, why Australian governments have failed to deal with the racism that Aboriginal people continue to experience, why some governments have even sought to exploit racist tendencies in Australian society for political gain.” Dr Naomi Mayers OAM is the Chief Executive Officer of the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service writes in the guest editorial in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Referendum – the way for wards?
- The City of South Sydney and the City of Sydney were merged back in 2004. Initially there were no wards and it seems all the candidates in the election committed themselves to introducing wards in the newly merged Council area. Last month members of the Lord Mayor’s team seemed to have changed their minds and are now not so committed to a ward system. Here Labor Councillor Tony Pooley states the case in favour, and former Deputy Mayor John McInerney gives the view of the Lord Mayor and her team. In the end, it’s up to the people of Sydney at a referendum to be held at the next Council election writes the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Sydney, Wentworth warm up for election
- The Greens have again nominated Jenny Leong to contest the safe Labor Party seat of Sydney in this year’s Federal election. The former President of the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association will be vying for the seat against the ALP’s incumbent Tanya Plibersek, the same competitor she came up against as the Greens candidate in 2004 writes Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Serious about climate change: Garrett on song in Darlington
- Unlike the Howard Government, Federal Labor takes climate change seriously. “This is a massive, massive issue,” Shadow Minister for Climate Change Peter Garrett said at a panel on climate change writes Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
- Councils' fates rest in Sartor's hands
- THE Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, has new powers that give him absolute discretion to sack a council and take over its affairs writes Catharine Munro the Sydney Morning Herald’s Urban Affairs Editor on July 30, 2007.
- Russell Crowe rips it up at Redfern
- HE has strolled Hollywood Boulevard and knows his way around Champs d'Elysees but Pitt St Redfern is where Russell Crowe's heart lies reports Marcus Casey in The Daily Telegraph of July 28, 2007.
- $3.5m boost for training
- THE new headquarters for Macarthur-based apprentice and trainee group MG My Gateway was launched last week, as Education and Training Minister John Della Bosca called on the Federal Government to match NSW funding of $3.5 million over four years reports Jessica Mahar in the Camden Advertiser July 26, 2007.
- Aborigines protest PM's NT 'land grab'
- INDIGENOUS people will never agree to the abolition of the permit system in the Northern Territory nor the land rights they fought so hard to earn, a Sydney protest has been told reports AAP on 14 July 2007.
- Darlington West Redfern Urban Design Meeting - 21 July 07
- The Chippendale, Camperdown, Darlington, West Redfern, Newtown Urban Design Study was held on Saturday 21 July 2007 from 2.30 pm to 5.00 pm Notre Dame University, Broadway. The presentation and Questionnaire from the meeting are on the CoS website at the link below.
- Should Sartor have his cake? No, no and no
- The Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, approaches power as a toddler approaches mud cake: big-eyed with gluttony. More! (Shoves, grabs.) I wan' more, more, more! Not for control - hell no. For the sheer gob-stuffing pleasure of it, removing what shape or discipline the system has left. Anyone woozy with the pace of planning change - a lagoon trashed here, a heritage act there - should brace against the seat in front. You ain't seen nothing yet says Elizabeth Farrelly in the SMH of July 4, 2007.
- Rail heritage at risk in Eveleigh
- Following the much contested relocation of Locomotive 3801 to Thirlmere late last year, the Eveleigh Workshop in Redfern is resuming its battle with an uncertain future. Earlier in April, the National Trust of Australia (NTA) had listed the site as one of the most at risk places in NSW, highlighting the threat of potential heritage loss reports Candice Chung in the July 2007 South Sydney Herald.
- Planned and regular maintenance a must for public housing
- The Department of Housing (DoH) is in a bind. Years of less than adequate planned and regular maintenance of its more than 130,000 units has resulted in a backlog of maintenance estimated to exceed $750m. In addition, the DoH has assessed its costs of long-term fire and safety upgrading as $350m reports Andrew Collis in the July 2007 South Sydney Herald.
- Foster’s and Sartor in Land and Environment Court
- Matthew Drake-Brockman is confident of winning against global beverages firm Foster’s Group and the state Minister for Planning Frank Sartor. On behalf of the community, the Darlinghurst resident will challenge the company and Minister in the Land and Environment Court on 24 to 26 July reports Samantha Van in the July 2007 South Sydney Herald.
- Babana: source of strength
- The men of Babana conduct their monthly meetings with a sense of purpose and pride. As a visitor made very welcome, it’s something quite noticeable. Babana is about Aboriginal men, brothers, supporting one another so they might offer greater support to their families and to the local community says the Editorial in the July 2007 South Sydney Herald.
- Honour, recognition and respect – lest we forget
- Members of the RSL and Aboriginal diggers have honoured Indigenous veterans on May 31 at the Pool of Reflection at the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park reports Claire Thompson in the July 2007 South Sydney Herald.
- Danks Street Not “dank & dirty”
- A decade ago the industrial storage site that connects Waterloo to Redfern was a barren place, a “dank and dirty ground,” as William Shakespeare once wrote reports Scott Winter in the July 2007 South Sydney Herald.
