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admin Please join us in true spirit on Thursday, the 12th of February, where Uncle Gordon Syron, an Elder from the Worimi and Biripi Nations is congratulating SBS on the documentary series “First Australians” by donating a painting. This painting is similar to the painting that saw Syron win the “COFA Pro Read More…
In this letter of 28th January 2009 REDWatch Spokesperson Geoff Turnbull responds to Central’s “Grand plans for Eveleigh” (Central, January 14) about Eveleigh Heritage. Read More…
Aboriginal people have been given more time to claim some $68 million of “stolen wages” held by the State Government writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 2009. Read More…
REDFERN’s Binowee Bayles is representative of a new generation of local Aborigines: smart, articulate and possessed with a proud sense of Aboriginal identity writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 2009. Read More…
THE inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States might have seemed a world away for some of us, but for Redfern’s indigenous community, the winds of change were blowing close to home writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 2009. Read More…
THE State Government is expected to release up to 10 hectares of land to the commercial and residential property market within months, having approved a plan to convert heritage buildings at Redfern’s North Eveleigh into high-rise towers reports Wendy Frew the Sydney Morning Herald’s Urban Affairs R Read More…
The Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo, Kristina Keneally, today announced she has approved a concept plan for the redevelopment of the historic former Eveleigh Railway Yards site in Redfern reports this news release of 30th January 2009 from the Minister’s office.
SUMMER may be only half over, but rugby league has its first sell-out of 2009 with South Sydney’s return to Redfern against Wests Tigers to be played before a full house reports AAP in The Australian of January 26, 2009. Read More…
Aboriginal artist, activist and art curator Gordon Syron, 67, first met his American documentary photographer wife, Elaine, 63, in 1982, after he was released from prison. They are the “keepers” of an extensive collection of indigenous art and artefacts, for which they are seeking a permanent home r Read More…
BRITTANY Spencer was a long way from home, but she wasn’t about to let a little thing like a 15-hour time difference stop her from witnessing the Obama inauguration reports Michelle Cazzulino in the Telegraph of January 21, 2009.