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THE Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, is set to take control of the city’s biggest residential project, igniting fears he will allow enormous apartment blocks that will become Sydney’s future slums reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald June 9, 2006. Read More…

The following media release was issued by Andrew Woodhouse, president, Australian Heritage Institute Inc. – an Australia-wide umbrella group of local heritage societies on Thursday 8th JUNE 2006 in response to the SCPC voting to hand the CUB site over to Minister Frank Sartor. Under the RWA Act the Read More…

An eleventh hour grab for cash by the State Government is jeopardising two years of careful planning to set development controls and achieve community benefit from redevelopment of the historic Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale reports Clover Moore in her E-News and a media stat Read More…

SYDNEY Lord Mayor Clover Moore accused NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor of making a multi-million-dollar “cash grab” yesterday by contemplating higher density at Foster’s Group’s $1 billion-plus CUB site development in Sydney’s Chippendale, in exchange for higher affordable housing levies reports Read More…

A PRIVATE school’s move to open an inner-city school for Aboriginal children has been met with enthusiasm, prompting offers of funding support from the community reports Hannah Edwards Sun Herald May 28, 2006. Read More…

ONE of Australia’s oldest private schools plans to establish a school for Aborigines to try to raise education standards among indigenous children reports Hannah Edwards in the Sun Herald May 21, 2006. Read More…

ABORIGINAL housing in many remote communities is so run-down through lack of cash that building new dwellings is pointless, a housing research body study has found, reports Debra Jopson in the SMH. Read More…

The following article has appeared on the Redfern-Waterloo Yahoo group and the Stop the War Coalition web site in Sydney about the event. Read More…

Who determines the real agenda in focus groups, asks Tim Brunero as he reviews his participation in a recent event organised by the Redfern-Waterloo Authority in the South Sydney Herald. Read More…