Public housing for private profit? – Jenny Leong South Sydney Herald
For more than 100 years, government funded public housing has been available to low income earners in NSW. Read More…
Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
This section of the site provides information about the community which lives in the area covered by the RWA and REDWatch. This community covers the suburbs of Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington and Waterl
For more than 100 years, government funded public housing has been available to low income earners in NSW. Read More…
It is with great sadness that last month we lost our friend and comrade Ross Smith. Read More…
It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Ross Smith – a tireless advocate for fairness in the housing system, and member of the Tenants’ Union of NSW. Read More…
Ross Smith SSH Distribution co-ordinator collapsed on Waterloo Green on October 4 as he was preparing to start distribution of the October issue of the paper. Sadly he could not be revived. Ross never spoke to anyone about his family and while he gave much of himself to others, he gave little away a Read More…
This is Ross Smiths’s contribution to the RedWater Montage book on Volunteer. With his passing this sums up how many people in Redfern and Waterloo experienced Ross. This booklet was produced by the Factory Community Centre and South Sydney Community Aid in September 2012. It collects 39 stories of Read More…
Friends and Colleagues of Ross Smith are invited to attend a Memorial Celebration for Ross Smith to be held on 18th November 2016 at 9.30am at Alexandria Town Hall 73 Garden Street Alexandria (Nearest cross street Henderson Road). Read More…
The Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development maintains a map of services in the City of Sydney, Leichhardt, Botany, Randwick, Waverley and Woollahra Local Government Areas. To update services on the map contact ISRC or email: admin@innersydneyrcsd.org.au http://www.communitywalk.com/sydney/inner_sydney_community_services/map/1528111
Save the date – A gathering of family and friends in memory of Trevor Davies: Read More…
A BBQ gathering to discuss a fitting memorial for Trevor Davies and to raise some funds towards will be held on Saturday 26th November 2011 from 12 Midday to 2.00pm at Charles Kernan Reserve Darlington. Options raised in SSH include a Trevor bench in Darlington and more recently a suggestion that Sy Read More…
The Funeral Service for Trevor Davies will be held at 10am on Thursday June 23, 2011 at Pitt Street Uniting Church, 264 Pitt St, Sydney (near to corner of Pitt & Park Streets and a block from Town Hall Station). The service will be followed by refreshments until 1pm. Read More…
Redfern Waterloo Chamber of Commerce (RWCC) is a non-profit organisation providing service to businesses in the district. The Chamber operates its own website from which you can obtain more information. This is the link to the RWCC website. http://www.rwchamber.com.au
The Morgan Disney Review of Human Services in Redfern Waterloo set out to map the Human Services in the area. The review came up with around 200 services. This was many more than the number of services that local service providers said actually operated in the area. In her report back to the Community Services … Read more
REDWatch has organised a Candidate’s Forum in the electorate of Marrickville on Thursday 15 March 2007 at 6pm for 6.30 – 8.30pm at the Redfern Community Centre, Hugo St Redfern. Further details can be found by following the link. http://www.redwatch.org.au/redw/elections/state2007/redwatchse07/forums/
REDWatch has organised a Candidate’s Forum in the electorate of Heffron on Wednesday 14th March 2007 at 6pm for 6.30 – 8.30pm at The Factory Community Centre, 67 Raglan St Waterloo. Further details can be found by following the link. http://www.redwatch.org.au/redw/elections/state2007/redwatchse07/forums/
Greens candidate for Marrickville, Fiona Byrne, and Greens candidate for Heffron, Ben Spies-Butcher, this week met with the Aboriginal Housing Company to discuss the AHC’s plans, and to offer their support for Aboriginal housing on the Block reports this Greens Media Release on 4th December 2006. http://www.redwatch.org.au/redw/elections/state2007/marrickville/greensm/061204greens/
The Central is available on line each week. You will need to download the DjVu plug-in for your browser (up to 7.4MB depending on your browser) to be able to see the pages on the site but there is a link there when you first visit if you need to load it. http://www.villagevoice.com.au/article/99999999/SOU05/61112001
With many people homeless and many people have incontinence problems it is important to be able to find a public toilet. For many people their trip depends on knowing where toilets are. Here we have provided a link to public toilets around Australia. Choose Find and enter your location or post code. https://www.toiletmap.gov.au/