Burgmann Comes Out Swinging
LABOR lord mayoral candidate Dr Meredith Burgmann said she believed Sydney Council needed a major shift in policy focus reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 23 July 2008. Read More…
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Protests: End income quarantining!
The unjust quarantining of Aboriginal people’s Centrelink benefits, enforced as part of the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention, has been labelled by some as the intervention’s most destructive element Reports Jay Fletcher in Green Left of 19th July 2008. Read More…
Candidates Keep it Green
GREENS councillor Chris Harris is again running for Lord Mayor in September’s elections, with newcomer Irene Doutney also aiming for a seat on Sydney Council reports Jennifer Bennett in the central of 16hJuly 2008. Read More…
Voters will decide on Sydney Wards
VOTERS will have the power to decide whether they want Sydney Council to introduce a wards system at September’s elections reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the central of 16th july 2008. Read More…
RWA, AHC and the Block in Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage
There are many references to Redfern in the Standing Committee on Social Issues Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales Interim Report June 2008. Here we have extracted two sections about the RWA and Aboriginal Housing Company that deal with one of the ongoing issues in Redfern – Abori Read More…
Redfern Set to Become a Major Business and Media Hub
Redfern’s commercial property sector is about to get a huge shot in the arm through the pre-leasing program to be launched next week for a television and media hub in the heart of Australian Technology Park reports this press release of 11 July 2008 from City PR on behalf of CB Richard Ellis and Che Read More…
The brutal reality about halls of higher earning
The university, says John Ralston Saul, is “where civilisation’s knowledge is divided up into exclusive territories”, where academics daily invent “dialects sufficiently hermetic” to preclude internecine seepage. Each faculty, discipline or research team thus becomes a kind of Da Vinci Code cryptex, Read More…
RWA Eveleigh Pedestrian / Bike Bridge on Exhibition – Until 15th August 2008
The Department of Planning have placed on public exhibition the RWA’s proposal for a pedestrian & bike bridge, which the RWA call the Eveleigh Heritage Walk (EHW). The bridge no longer provides the link from CarriageWorks to near the new Channel 7 building as proposed by the RWA in its preliminary a Read More…
Space-age development plan sends some locals into orbit
GEORGE JETSON would approve but a developer’s vision for futuristic apartment blocks on the Carlton United Brewery site in Broadway has drawn a mixed response from residents reports Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 11, 2008. Read More…
Find the best property investment suburbs
Sydney and Canberra have five suburbs with yields of over 6pc yield and Darlington in Sydney has the best return for landlords reports news.com.au on July 11, 2008 Read More…