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For about 30 years now I’ve been writing about other people – their jobs, their politics, their wins and losses, their births, their deaths and everything in between. Today I’m writing a little about me writes Denis Peters in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

Gordon Syron is known as the “father of urban Aboriginal art”. His gritty, narrative style is direct, bold. Common motifs in his vivid oils and water-colours include black fairies and “red coats”, waratahs, wildflowers and native birds. Syron eschews “dots and dashes” in favour of a certain realism Read More…

The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association has been in George Street Redfern since the 1950s. In addition to its supported employment program it is now opening a creative initiative on Level 11, 1 Lawson Square, the building above the Redfern Police Station. This is especially impressive because it Read More…

As a non-painter, I went into the exhibition at the Washhouse Gallery (in June) deliberately at a time when there would be no crowd or ambience of furtive assessment. I took my time and was rewarded accordingly reports Peter Griffin in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

Eve Gibson spoke with Newtown artist Maggie Stein who is currently a co-stallholder at the Eveleigh Artisans’ Market in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

The NSW Government recently announced the start of planning for the second Sydney Metro Rail line, called the West Metro. The train line, proposed to start at Central, will run through stations at Broadway-Sydney University, Camperdown, Leichhardt, Five Dock and on to Westmead reports Naomi Crain in Read More…

Each Chinese New Year, hundreds of people visit the historic Yiu Ming Temple in Alexandria to celebrate. But last month, members of the Yiu Ming community gathered in Retreat Street for a different kind of celebration reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

St Mary’s School in Erskineville commissioned its first Mini Vinnies group at an inauguration ceremony in June. Mini Vinnies is a program of the St Vincent de Paul Society which exists in primary schools in Australia, and the St Mary’s group is the first to open in the Sydney region reports Brendan Read More…

Tucked away behind Erskineville Oval, not altogether visible from the main road, is a quaint clubhouse reports Robert Morrison in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

Let me admit my misgivings about the Northcott Estate, a block in Surry Hills I have visited once, rather timidly, in 25 years of living nearby. My callow prejudices were based on news reports, rumours or sordid stories about things that happened to this friend of a bloke at the pub who knows people Read More…