Talent breaks out at Weave, Redfern
WEAVE Arts Centre will be launched at North Eveleigh on May 11 with an inaugural exhibition titled Breakout reports Aimee Scott in Central on 8 May 2011. Read More…
Media Articles on Redfern Waterloo 2004 – 2013
News articles between 2004 and 2013 concerning Redfern Waterloo from various sources. After this date media stories were included in the areas of the site most relevant to the article.
New home for the homeless
Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, has turned the first sod to ceremoniously begin construction of a new nursing home for homeless older people, in Sydney’s inner city suburb of Redfern reports Stephen Easton on Australian Aging Agenda on 3rd May 2011. Read More…
Newest attraction leaves the platform
IT’S enough to make the Fat Controller jealous – and so it should, having cost the NSW taxpayer about $30 million. But when Trainworks, the state’s newest tourist attraction, opens its doors for the first time tomorrow afternoon, Agris Celinskis hopes a new generation will be entranced by the magic Read More…
Noisy garden shed at Redfern’s ATP deemed “temporary”
NEIGHBOURS of the Australian Technology Park temporary gardeners’ compound are ecstatic it will finally live up to its “temporary” label now that the application to extend its use for another five years has been withdrawn reports Central on 30 April 2011. Read More…
Questions for New NSW Government
REDWatch has set out a series of questions in has about NSW Government Policy as it relates to Redfern and Waterloo Issues. The list of questions below were part of an invitation to Premier Barry O’Farrell for himself or one of his relevant Ministers to attend a REDWatch meeting and brief locals abo Read More…
Inner-city fights to save its villages
This article in the Sydney Morning Herald of 11 April by Jonathan Chancellor covers the Ashmore estate at Erskineville where city and state planners disagree over the allowable density for its development. While this development is outside Redfern and Waterloo the extra traffic from such development Read More…
Public Housing Sell-Off
REDFERN-WATERLOO: The Redfern Waterloo Authority released its blueprint plan for the future of public housing land in Redfern and Waterloo. After several years in development, The Draft Built Environment Plan 2 was made available for public comment reports South Sydney Herald in April 2011. Read More…
The Good, The Bad and the BE2
The Built Environment Plan 2(BE2) focuses on renewal of the two principal estates of public housing in Redfern and Waterloo writes Bruce Lay in The South Sydney Herald of April, 2011 Read More…
ATP Letter to Communters & an ATP Worker Response
Following concerns from Alexandria residents regarding ATP tenants parking in local streets the ATP in mid March leafleted cars parked in the area encouraging any ATP tenants to park within the ATP and offering concessional rates. Subsequently REDWatch received a copy of a letter from some workers a Read More…
Parking in Alexandria – Letter from Lord Mayor to Residents
The letter below was written on 11 March 2011 to an Alexandria resident regarding the Council’s follow up to the ATP Parking Study. Given the general interest in Alexandria about this issue we are running the letter on the REDWatch website. Read More…