SMDA planning glimpse – North Eveleigh Affordable Housing

The $M30+ CUB site contribution for affordable housing gets a top-up with the discovery of a Housing Affordability Fund grant to the RWA for $7,911,904 for a “North Eveleigh Affordable Housing Project”. The grant was made 22 months ago on 19/4/2010 and is to be expended within 59 months. No announce Read More…

Winners of the Railway Short Film Competition

“Winner of the Inaugural Railway Short Film Competition held as part of the Open Day at the Eveleigh Heritage Workshops and Australian Technology Park was John Mannion from inland South Australia, with his touching documentary – Last Train, a documentary on the ripping up of an historic rail link at Read More…

Clover Moore MP Questions on Redfern Station to Minister for Transport

Clover Moore MP placed the following questions on Notice in the Legislative Assembly on 15 February 2012. On 21 March 2012 the Minister for transport responded to them all with the one liner: “The Government is in the process of determining where future upgrades to stations will take place and Redfe Read More…

Cinema Heritage: Eveleigh Rail Film Festival

Tina Kaufman anticipates a day of secret joys at a festival which will choof its way through a primal connection – steam and cinema. The life and career of JP McGowan, Australia`s first Hollywood success story, depended on the Everleigh Rail Yards, as the NFSA will be quick to explain. Tina Kaufman Read More…

Locals praise plans to bring back The Block

ELEANOR HALL: Plans to redevelop the once-notorious Block in inner-Sydney are being welcomed by the people who live there. The Block in Redfern was once one of the nation’s most feared addresses – an epicentre of crime and substance abuse. But it was also the heart of Sydney’s Indigenous community a Read More…

Redfern Station Easy Access Estimates response – Nov 2011

The Hon Cate Faehrmann MLC placed a question on Notice about accessibility at Redfern Station to the Transport Minister in Estimates General Purpose Standing Committee No. 3 in October 2011. The Minister did not answer the question regarding Redfern Station in the transcript below: Read More…

LIft Redfern Petition – Landscape

This is the landscape version of the Lift Redfern Petition to Make Redfern Station Accessible Now. Down load this petition and print it off and get everyone to sign it and be part of the 10,000+ signatures that generates a debate in the NSW Parliament asking the Minister for Transport to take immediate action to … Read more

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