Train station CCTV to reduce terrorism threat
Sydney’s busiest train stations will have cameras installed that can recognise faces, in an attempt to curb terrorist threats reports ABC News October 1 2006. Read More…
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Edgy venue forged from gritty past
Dance beats and theatre voices will soon drum out yesterday’s echoes of metalwork at an old railyard, writes Valerie Lawson in the Sydney Morning Herald of October 2 2006. Read More…
Move to extend privacy law exemption
THE New South Wales Government has proposed changes to privacy laws that will enable its agencies to share information about young people at risk of falling into a life of crime reports AAP on 26th September 2006. Read More…
Submission by 3801 Ltd to the RWA BEP
This submission includes the Assessment of Adequacy of the Large Erecting Workshop. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/southeveleigh/large/
3801 Limited calls for answers on its future now!
3801 Limited Chairman, Dr John Glastonbury has called for the half a million citizens of NSW who have enjoyed the iconic experience of locomotive 3801 to ask for answers from the Premier. Read More…
Statement on the Block and the Aboriginal Housing Company
Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally has told the Aboriginal Housing Company that she looks forward to the lodging of their development application for the area known as ‘the Block.’ [From a media release from Member for Heffron Kristina Keneally issued 13 September 2006].
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Lost: another opportunity for excitement
GOVERNMENT is like shampoo. You have to use it, but the less you can get away with, the healthier. What’s worse than one shampoo, therefore, is two. The Carlton and United Brewery site on Broadway offers a fine exemplar of this maxim: the only thing more ruinous than one level of government is two. Read More…
UN Special Rapporteur puzzled over obstacles to Pemulwuy Project
The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Miloon Kothari, visited the Aboriginal Housing Company on 3 August reports Vladimir Korotkov in the South Sydney Herald of September 2006. Read More…
Pemulwuy lives, say hundreds who attend Block protest
On Thursday 10th August, more than 400 people attended a candle light vigil in Redfern in support of the Aboriginal Housing Company’s (AHC) Pemulwuy Project – a redevelopment plan for the historic Indigenous precinct in Sydney known as The Block, reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald Sep Read More…
The 3801 train leaves Redfern
Like many an Australian story, the future of the beloved steam train 3801 is all about money, real estate, bureaucratic intransigence and political manoeuvering reports John Stapleton in the South Sydney Herald of September 2006. Read More…