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A $550 MILLION redevelopment of the old Redfern railway workshops will include a 16-storey block of flats just 100 metres from the troubled area of The Block reports Frank Walker in the Sun Herald of April 27, 2008. Read More…

More than 100 onlookers have cheered on Indigenous veterans taking part in the Coloured Diggers’ March in Redfern, in inner Sydney reports ABC on Friday April 25, 2008. Read More…

A roll of honour for Aboriginal ex-servicemen and women will be compiled during an indigenous Anzac Day celebration in Sydney’s Redfern reports AAP April 23, 2008 in the Sydney Morning Herald. Read More…

THERE is one in almost every suburban centre and country town in Australia – a bronze digger in a slouch hat or a sandstone monument marking the sacrifice made by Australia’s servicemen and women reports Paul Bibby Sydney Morning Herald April 10, 2008. Read More…

In this opinion piece on nzherald.co.nz Irfan Yusuf, a Sydney lawyer who won the 2007 Allen & Unwin Iremonger Award for public affairs writing puts the Coloured Digger story into the broader colonial war context. Read More…

ON ANZAC DAY WE WILL REMEMBER THEM – They left the Large to see the world and to fight a bloody war in support of their country and our allies. Sadly many did not return reports this media release from Friends of Eveleigh on 24th April 2008. Read More…

HOUSING NSW playgrounds in Redfern and Waterloo are no place for children, with rusty equipment, sharp edges, broken swings and missing bolts just accidents waiting to happen, mothers said. Owen and Samantha (pictured) just want a safe place to play, with equipment that works reports Robert Burton-B Read More…

HOUSING NSW has contradicted Housing Minister Matt Brown about the failure of a new Waterloo Graffiti eradication program. The Minister announced the program last month and at a press conference at the Marton public housing building said the new program was to target graffiti both “inside and outsid Read More…

WITH the MTV awards taking place this weekend, Redfern residents around Australian Technology Park are getting ready for another noisy Saturday night reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 23rd April 2008. Read More…

REDFERN resident Irene Doutney has spent her life fighting for Sydney’s less fortunate. Now the veteran aid worker and volunteer has turned her hand to politics, aiming to become the second Greens councillor on Sydney Council come September’s election reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd Read More…