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Steel yourself…many shopfronts along Redfern and Regent streets are vacant and there are plans for revitilisation of the area reports Paul Bibby the Sydney Morning Herald’s Urban Affairs Reporter on 11 August 2009. Read More…

This is the speach given by Clover Moore on 8 August 2009 to commemorate 150 years of local government in Redfern. The speech was reproduced in the Central of 12 August 2009. Read More…

Lord Mayor Clover Moore has hit back at claims that Redfern is being ignored while its neighbours enjoy “model village’’ status reports Kim Shaw in the Central on 12 August 2009. Read More…

This is the text of Councilor Irene Doutney’s address to Council Committee on 3 August 2009 on why Council needed to do more than note the Redfern Business study alongside the report on Newtown. Read More…

A NEW program targeting at-risk Indigenous youth was launched this month by Redfern police, Centrelink and Indigenous men’s group BABANA reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 8 August 2009. Read More…

Discount grocery chain ALDI’s bid to set up shop in Waterloo has brought a wave of support from residents, who say the franchise could provide affordable relief to famished area reports Angus Thompson in City News of 6 August 2009. Read More…

Commuters could be put at risk and vandalism dramatically increase following measures to axe 40 per cent of staff from Redfern Station reports Angus Thompson in City news of 6 August 2009. Read More…

Redfern’s natural landscape was defined by sandhills and swamps reports Central on 5 August 2009. Read More…

Glebe might be the model city village on its 150th birthday, but on the other side of Parramatta Rd, Redfern is languishing under an undeserved reputation and municipal neglect, City of Sydney councillor Irene Doutney has said reports Kim Shaw in the Central of 5 August 2009. Read More…

IT WAS mad and cool at the same time, said nine-year-old Mundarrah Welsh. With a ‘‘Close the Gap’’ sticker plastered on his cheek, the Darlington Public School student was giddy from tackling the South Sydney star Chris Sandow at a Redfern park reports Jessica Halloran in the Sydney Morning Herald o Read More…