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You might not pick Col James as a fighter. He is slight of build. He has a friendly approach. But you were intended to make the same mistake about Clark Kent. Without the outside-underpants, Col has been a force for houses-for-the-people in South Sydney and beyond all his adult life. He has just “re Read More…

It was standing room only in the Redfern Community Centre. After the welcome to country by Uncle Max, Michael Mundine chaired the occasion of the formal launching of Bill Simon’s book, Back on the Block reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, now barely visible amongst the dense suburb of Waterloo, sits proudly on a hill, as it has for almost 150 years. This year the parish, the oldest in Australia dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, will mark a century and a half of “life and ministry” report Read More…

Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below: Read More…

Proprietor of Southside Money Lent, Robert Tarabo, has an honours degree in psychology. In the pawn broking business it’s a helpful qualification reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…

The State Government has put the NSW Lotteries Corporation up for sale. Originally introduced in 1931 by the newly elected Lang Labor Government, the State Lottery attracted controversy with many deriding the “vice” of gambling. But the State Lottery Bill was seen as the only way to solve the Govern Read More…

Sydney Council has completed the final stage of its promised upgrade to Erskineville Oval, transforming the ground into the best junior training facility in South Sydney. Administrator and home team, the Alexandria Rovers, called upon Council to complete the last remaining phase of the upgrade to en Read More…

Although the nation has managed to avoid a technical recession, the effects of the GFC are beginning to materialise in Sydney. Citywide belt tightening has become an issue for Sydney’s formidable independent radio station FBi. The financial crisis has knocked off around $1 million in revenue that th Read More…

Can the Greens take the seats of Balmain and Marrickville from Labor at the 2011 state election? History suggests not. Unlike Independents, minor parties have found it virtually impossible to win lower house seats. Since the 1940s, the sole minor party victory in a Legislative Assembly seat occurred Read More…

After two years away, the Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre has come home – bigger, smarter and greener than ever reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…