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Whether republican or monarchist, most of us took some delight in seeing the Aboriginal kids of Redfern interacting so happily with Prince William a week before Australia Day said Frank Brennan’s Australia Day call for more tolerence reported on CathNews on 25 January 3010. Read More…

One man polishing his Australia Day gong this morning is Roy Wakelin-King. You may remember him from such government appointments as chief executive officer of the World Youth Day Co-ordination Authority reports The Diary in the Sydney Morning Herald of 26 January 2010. Read More…

THE nation’s oldest Aboriginal education institution cancelled its literacy, numeracy and business courses this week, turning away enrolled students because of federal funding cuts reports Debra Jopson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 22 January 2010. Read More…

The following media release was issued by Andrew Woodhouse, president, Australian Heritage Institute, an Australia-wide network of local heritage societies and Mr Gordon Syron, distinguished Indigenous Artist for an art exhibition by Gordon Syron at Chapel by the Sea, Bondi Beach until 4 February 20 Read More…

Opposed to the M5 East extension … Colin Lee, 78, remembers a time when you could swim in the Cooks River. A LIFE-LONG Tempe resident, Colin Lee, remembers when you could sink an onion bag into the Cooks River to catch prawns or dive off the banks into the water reports Ben Rushton in the Sydney M Read More…

SYDNEY’S suburbs – from the Sutherland Shire to the densely packed inner west to the north shore – would be carved up by a labyrinth of motorways that do little to reduce traffic congestion, under two plans being considered by the State Government writes Andrew West in the Sydney Morning Herald of 1 Read More…

REFORMS introduced after the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody have not worked, the outgoing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, has said reports Malcolm Brown in the Sydney Morning Herald of 23 January 2010. Read More…

Prince William won over Aboriginal elders and children during a visit to the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern on Tuesday afternoon reported Dina Rosendorff on ABC on 19 January 2010. Read More…

A church in Sydney’s Redfern neighbourhood has become the battleground for a clash of traditions, following a row over a baptismal font and removal of chalk writings referring to an “Aboriginal Christ” reports Catholic News on 19 January 2010. Read More…

The fight, ostensibly, is over a baptismal font and some words in chalk on a wall, but the latest in a series of rows at St Vincent’s Catholic Church in Redfern shows the conflict runs much deeper reports Jacqueline Maley in the Sydney Morning Herald of 19 January 2010. Read More…