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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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- 10,000+ Lift Redfern
- The Lift Redfern Station Campaign exceeded its 10,000 signature target. The petitions will be handed over to Heffron MP Kristina Keneally on 2 May for tabling and debate in parliament reports Geoff Turnbull in the May 2012 edition of The South Sydney Herald.
- Needle Van moves from Block to Hudson Street
- The Redfern Waterloo Authority have advised that as of 16 December 2009 that the needle and syringe van that was previously located on the Block has been relocated to Hudson Street.
- Expression of Interest - Indigenous seat on Heritage Taskforce
- Nominations are now open for Indigenous people to participate as a member of the Redfern Waterloo Heritage Taskforce for 2010. Nominations close 25 February 2010.
- Rail passenger injuries soar
- THE number of commuters injured on trains, stations and in railway car parks has risen by more than two-thirds, figures show reports Lisa Carty in the Sydney Morning Herald of 27 December 2009.
- Need, not judgment, on our city's streets
- The profile of Sydney's poor has changed over a century, but the Brown Nurses are still helping, writes Rick Feneley in the Sydney Morning Herald of 26 December 2009.
- Thousands turn up at Christmas lunches
- For the past 11 years, the Moulds family have celebrated Christmas day with other people. This year, the other folk numbered more than 1200 guests at the annual Salvation Army lunch at the Eveleigh CarriageWorks in inner-Sydney's Redfern reports ninemsn on 25 December 2009.
- ATP Heritage Statement - December 2009
- This public statement on ATP Heritage was issued by Australian Technology Park Precinct Management Ltd (ATPPML) on 24 December 2009.
- Providing a better service to Indigenous Australians
- Two new positions have been created to assist Indigenous Australians in accessing services in South and South-Eastern Sydney reports City News on 23 December 2009.
- ATP Letter on C7 Residents Meeting - 23 Dec 09
- The following letter was sent by the ATP to people who attended the meeting on 15 December 2009 about the 8 Central Avenue Eveleigh (the new C7 and Global Television building). As not all those who attended left contact addresses we are posting the letter so this information is diseminated to all who may be interested.
- A network that delivers the goods
- For those who can't get out to buy food, this service is priceless, writes Nick Galvin in the Sydney Morning Herald of 21 December 2009 about the Food Distribution Network.
- From the school of hard knocks to top of the class
- WHILE the achievements of the top HSC students were celebrated this week, a small group of students gathered in the basement of a church in Surry Hills to celebrate a different kind of success reports Anna Patty the Sydney Morning Herald's Education Editor on 19 December 2009.
- $300,000 FOR MARRICKVILLE COMMUNITY PROJECTS
- Member for Marrickville, Carmel Tebbutt today announced that more than $300,000 in funding would be shared by thirteen local community organisations [inclkuding the Settlement] reports this media release of 16 December from Member for Marrickville Carmel Tebbutt.
- Darlington Pedestrian Cycling and Traffic Calming Plan Available - Goes to CoS Committee 16 Dec 09
- The Final Report for the Newtown Erskineville Camperdown and Darlington Pedestrian Cycling and Traffic Calming Plan is now publically available. It is going to the 16 December 2009 CoS Traffic Committee before being endorsed by Council in 2010.
- Redfern Fight Night
- REDFERN police commander Luke Freudenstein has been gloving up and hitting the pads to break down boundaries between police and the Redfern Indigenous community reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the print edition of Central on 16 December 2009.
- NSW Premier Keneally in the hot seat
- Kristina Keneally’s performance has yielded hits and misses in the past year, with critics and supporters made and lost in the local community reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 15 December 2009.
- Housing and Mental Health Agreement - JGOS Replacement
- The NSW Joint Guarantee of Service (JGOS) for people with mental health problems arose from a 1997 partnership between the NSW Housing and Health Departments. In 2003 the signatories were expanded to include the NSW Aboriginal Housing Office, the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW, and the Department of Community Services. This marked the beginning of the current JGOS structure writes Ross Smith in TSN's Rimfire Review of 14 December 2009.
- RWA UPDATE Issue #3 11th December 2009
- This is the RWA’s second electronic Update which was issued on 11 December 2009.
- Redfern now Sydney’s Premier Suburb
- Kristina Keneally, Redfern’s representative in the state parliament, is now the first female Premier of NSW writyes Aaron Cook in City News on 1o December 2009.
- Nine charged in Redfern drug raid
- Eight people will face court in Sydney today, charged over a drug bust at The Block in Redfern reports ABC News on 10 December 2009.
- Premier to retain direct control over Redfern Waterloo
- Premier Kristina Keneally will retain her portfolio over the Redfern Waterloo area as it is ``close to her heart’’ the new Premier told Central reports Kim Shaw in Central on 8 December 2009.
