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In a recent report compiled by Professor of Psychology at Deakin University, Bob Cummins, it was stated that some of Australia’s most unhappy suburbs are right in our backyard. Newtown and Redfern, as well as St Peters and Surry Hills, were named in the gloomy group. The Australian Unity-Wellbeing I Read More…

The problem of solid roller shutter doors on the business landscape of inner-city Sydney has been a “festering sore” for far too long, according to the Potts Point and Kings Cross Heritage Conservation Society reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…

Repeated references to Redfern in crime reports are encouraging perceptions about the level of crime in the suburb reports Brendon Wong in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…

The following comments from Member for Heffron and Minister for Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally appeared in her advertisement in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…

A large part of the formerly gracious Victorian suburb of Darlington was first dudded in the post WWII expansion of Sydney University. A large part of it was razed – the town hall was demolished, the public school marooned on the campus, and only recently nicely landscaped writes Bruce Lay in this O Read More…

The Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s concept plan for the redevelopment of the presently deserted rail-yards at North Eveleigh has been given the tick of approval by the State Planning Minister Kristina Keneally. On January 30 Ms Keneally signed off on the plan with the hope that the 10.7-hectare site w Read More…

The state’s top universities are fighting to hold the line against course and research cuts after losing hundreds of millions of dollars in investments exposed to falling financial markets reports Malcolm Knox in the Sydney Morning Herald of 24 February 2009. Read More…

Despite the Government’s claim that the 2004 amalgamation of the City and South Sydney Councils was to improve the efficiency and quality of services, it has not addressed the duplication by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA) and the Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) says Clover Moore’s eN Read More…

REDFERN is preparing for a brawl this week when the Indigenous Boxing Academy hosts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boxers including former Rabbitoh Joe Williams reports Angus Street in the central of 11 February 2009. Read More…