Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
admin The link is to the Final Report of the Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues on Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales Final Report – Report 41 – November 2008. File is 989Kb PDF. http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/committee.nsf/0/5e06cb564943b260ca25750e0002d05d/$FILE/081125%20Final%20Report%20for%20website.pdf
An increasing number of homeless people are bunking illegally in public housing at Redfern and Surry Hills, prompting a new joint imitative from the City and the NSW Department of Housing reports Angus Thompson in City News on 7th December 2008. Read More…
A SPORTS facility costing $24 million is being built in Redfern to help develop and foster the next generation of Aboriginal stars Reports Daniel Lane in the Sun Herald of December 14, 2008. Read More…
Protesters in Sydney have called for a halt to the federal government’s intervention program in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities reports AAP in the The Age website on December 13, 2008. Read More…
This link is to a Youtube video from the Wrought Artworks openday. It covers extacts from a number of the speaches from the day and some footage of the day. The content covered is broader that the Blacksmith and covers the need for a heritage solution accross the entire site. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd4Rg7zkrxc
The NSW Government plans to privatise the Australian Technology Park at Redfern and most of Darling Harbour, in a bid to raise the revenue needed to pull the state’s budget out of the red reports Sandra Fonseca in the Central on 10th December 2008. Read More…
TEN Redfern housing blocks have been torn down to make room for a new era in public housing reports Matthew Levinson in the Sydney Morning Herald of December 10, 2008. Read More…
Dr Anita Heiss, a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales and one of Australia’s most prolific and well-known authors of Indigenous literature, will be presenting children from the wordUP! literacy program that recently ran at The Yurungai Learning Centre community based project in Read More…
Wednesday 10 December is International Human Rights Day and is the sixty years¹ anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Declaration came about in the aftermath of World War Two and was envisioned by those determined to ensure that nothing like Nazi Germany would ever happen ag Read More…
Recent studies have shown that by the age of 15, more than one-third of Australia’s Indigenous students do not have the skills and knowledge in reading literacy needed to meet real-life challenges.1 The wordUP! literacy program recently run at The Yurungai Learning Centre in Waterloo in Sydney is a Read More…