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On May 19, Indigenous people can vote in the NSW Land Council election. It is the first election since 1999 for the State’s peak representative body in Aboriginal Affairs reports Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007. Read More…

Wednesday, 14 February, marked the third anniversary of the death of 17-year-old TJ Hickey in Redfern. A crowd of over 300 people, ranging from local residents to Indigenous elders from Far North Queensland, gathered for an angry yet peaceful rally reports Irene Pye in the South Sydney Herald of Mar Read More…

The RWA has asked for comment on its affordable housing plan for the Redfern-Waterloo area. Ross Smith responds in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007 and The South Sydney Herald invites you to go to the Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s website to read their affordable housing plan, then go to the RED Read More…

In a few months’ time, the graffti-ed wall in front of the Marton high rise block in Raglan Street, Waterloo will be transformed by a beautiful mosaic reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007. Read More…

The South Sydney Football Club and the National Aboriginal Sports Corporation of Australia (NASCA) have entered into an alliance supporting each other in Indigenous community programs reports Trevor Davies in Have You Heard? in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007. Read More…

As we have been reporting, the Redfern Community Employment Development Program faces the axe by July this year because the Federal Government is convinced that the CEDP is not an appropriate way of putting Aboriginal people into full-time employment reports Trevor Davies in Have You Heard? in the S Read More…

The NSW Attorney General, Mr Bob Debus, cut the red tape and marked the launch of the Newtown Homeless Persons Legal Service in early February reports Alex Serpo in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007. Read More…

Sally Quilter in the South Sydney Herald of March 2007 letters page writes of her experience of the Redfern Lock Down on January 21 2007. Read More…

Heffron Labor incumbent Kristina Keneally has denied that the State government’s promised desalination plant will cause road closures and extensive roadwork in Erskineville. Claims that the $1.9 billion desalination plant at Kurnell will cause two years of road works across Sydney’s southern suburbs Read More…

Residents from the seat of Marrickville gathered at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre in February to hear from Labor incumbent Carmel Tebbutt and competing candidates, in an open forum chaired by venerable feminist and academic Eva Cox. Read More…