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Chippendale residents treated Sydney-siders to a rare delight this month when they transformed their streets into a community food fair reports Flint Duxfield in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008. Read More…

Working out of the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Woolloomooloo, theatre company Tamarama Rock Surfers is collaborating with Redfern locals, Luke Cowling and Melinda Dransfield of Unit 107. Their new production of Kiss Me Like You Mean It, written by Chris Chibnall of Doctor Who and Torchwood fame, is a play Read More…

In the late 1960s, Kathy, a young woman living and working in suburban Sydney, met a Polish medical student and fell in love. In My Two Husbands Kathy Golski, recollects her time with her first husband, Olek, which was tragically cut short, and how she found love again with another Polish man, Voy. Read More…

The Redfern-Waterloo Authority will be wound up by 2012, Planning Minster Kristina Keneally has announced reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 5 November 2008. Read More…

Monica Barone is not your typical CEO. Artworks adorn her office walls, and there is not a whiff of smugness from the woman who manages a good deal of Sydney’s urban infrastructure writes Emma Kemp in City News of 2 November 2008. Read More…

Koori Radio is thriving in its new home in Redfern, offering better services and opportunities for indigenous youngsters. Having previously broadcasted out of the old Marrickville hospital site, the station now boasts several community-focused programs reports Peach Emmett in City News of 26 October Read More…

The EDO apartment building, designed by the Sydney firm Stanisic Associates, and CarriageWorks, by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, were “really innovative”. CarriageWorks, which won the Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage, was so good it almost won a commercial architecture award as well, Mr Tzannes said. T Read More…

A chance for all … Tremain Mundine and Clive Cavanagh speak to the businessman Andrew Forrest about the jobs they would like to find reports Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald of October 31, 2008. Read More…

THE Federal Government will fund a big expansion of the country’s main indigenous boarding school scholarship scheme to allow an extra 2000 Aboriginal students to attend top secondary schools reports Mark Davis Sydney Morning Herald Political Correspondent October 31, 2008. Read More…

The rap star Snoop Dogg arrived in Sydney late yesterday and headed straight to the Redfern Community Centre, where the mob waited, chanting his name. The visit was to help promote the Field of Dreams project, a South Sydney Football Club youth charity scheme to build a touch-football field in The B Read More…