Sartor changes zoning of the Block to commercial – 9 February 2006
Aboriginal Housing Company Media release 9 February 2006. Read More…
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Draft Built Environment Plan to Drive Jobs Growth in Redfern & Waterloo – 10 February 2006
Kristina Keneally’s Heffron E-Herald 10 February 2006 No. 2 on the release of the RWA Built Environment Plan. Read More…
CITY SUPPORTS MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL – 10 February 2006
The City of Sydney has contributed $12,500 to Midnight Basketball for Redfern-Waterloo, an innovative sports program which aims to give young people life skills while diverting them from crime and anti-social behaviour.
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Teenagers shoot hoops to avoid the weekend’s pitfalls – 9 February 2006
Bonnie Malkin Urban Affairs Reporter Sydney Morning Herald reports: REDFERN has a new weapon in the fight against crime: basketball. The Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Frank Sartor, and the West Sydney Razorbacks have launched the Midnight Basketball Tournament to lure young people off the streets a Read More…
Redfern redevelopment plan not about moving Aborigines: Minister – 9 February 2006
The final stage of the New South Wales Government’s plan to redevelop Redfern has been released.
New plan on the Block unwelcome to owners – 10 February 2006
Bonnie Malkin and Sherrill Nixon Sydney Morning Herald February 10, 2006 report that: THE symbolic heart of Sydney’s Aboriginal community – the Block in Redfern – will be transformed into a bustling commercial hub under a State Government plan to attract investors and reverse the fortunes of the tro Read More…
Aboriginal anger as Block rezoned – 10 February 2006
John Stapleton in The Australian reports that LONGSTANDING tensions between Sydney’s Redfern Aboriginal community and the NSW Government escalated yesterday after Planning Minister Frank Sartor announced that Redfern’s Block, a centre of Aboriginal activism for more than 30 years, would be rezoned f Read More…
City lodges application for Redfern Park
Following Council’s commitment of $19 million to upgrade Redfern Park the City of Sydney has today lodged a Development Application (DA) to remove the dilapidated grandstand and associated structures, which have fallen into a state of disrepair.
Development body turns one
Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s first birthday greeted with mixed reviews. Report Alexandra Walker (SydneyCentral Courier 25th January 2006 page 3) Read More…
Members likely to decide Rabbits’ fate
Club vows to keep politics out of any privatisation vote. Report Jonathan Dart (SydneyCentral Courier 25th January 2006 page 5)