Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
admin CONSTRUCTION has begun on Australia’s first national academy for young indigenous athletes in Redfern, two years after it was announced reports Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter in Sydney Morning Herald of August 19, 2008. Read More…
Organisers estimate that at least two thousand people took the opportunity to visit the Open Day at Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops in the Australian Technology Park during Sunday. Visitors went on guided tours of the operational heritage Blacksmiths shop and showed their support for the ongoing opera Read More…
The following letter was written to the SMH but unpublished. Michael Clarke was involved in 2006 as the Chairman of the Engineering Heritage Committee in correspondence with the Minister over arrangements for Heritage preservation at the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop. Read More…
ON Sunday morning fewer than 100 people will gather in Redfern Town Hall to end South Sydney’s proposal for a no-pokies leagues club reports Josh Massoud in the The Daily Telegraph of August 13, 2008. Read More…
AN indigenous art collection valued in the millions could be lost after negotiations between its owners and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority broke down writes Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 13th August 2008. Read More…
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Frank Sartor’s plans to demolish some of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, a site of world heritage significance, is heritage heresy: they will transform Redfern into “Redfern Heights”, and create a vanilla society writes Andrew Woodhouse in a letter to the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
The Mercy Foundation which has been based in Waterloo for over a decade has been an advocate for many groups of people and has provided financial support for the implementation of projects covering a wide range of social justice initiatives reports the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
With the Council elections just over a month away (September 13), our writers have been interviewing the candidates. We’ll have profiles again next issue writes the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
For more than 30 years the Cana Communities, a volunteer-based organisation that receives no government funding, has been offering services to people in need. Its focus is on people “most in need” – suffering from loneliness, mental illness, addictions, homelessness – and alienated within society. C Read More…