Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
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.
Federal Shadow Minister for Housing, Tanya Plibersek MP, recently showed her support for a unique affordable housing project that could see Marrickville Council offer the community cheap housing on public land reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of September 2007. Read More…
The Commonwealth Government’s Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has a website called Scam. At present this website lists an amazing 14 scams – such as lottery scams, chain letters, pyramid sales, investment scams, mobile phone scams and more reports Trevor Davies in the South Sydney Her Read More…
Darren Cooper has a studio and an art shop at 17 George Street, Redfern. It’s a space he clearly enjoys. He showed me many artworks there – paintings, painted furniture, a surfboard, t-shirts. Inspiration is derived, he explains, from a sense of pride in his people (the Wiradjuri people of the Bathu Read More…
Performance Space at the Carriage Works, in Eveleigh, is fast becoming a prominent attraction within South Sydney’s world of art. Not only has it breathed new life into the once decrepit and decaying buildings of the old State Rail maintenance yards, it is giving many local artists a hub to display Read More…
We were recently shown a letter RailCorp CEO Vince Graham sent to someone concerned about mortuary station. The text of the Vince Graham letter is below in bold italics. Interspersed with the text of the letter you will find some comments from a person with a long involvement in Rail Heritage who wh Read More…
It is now 18 months since Mr John Watkins, Minister for Transport told supporters of Friends of Eveleigh at a meeting in Eastwood Mall, that he had not been informed at any time by RailCorp that Eveleigh’s Large Erecting Shop could be developed as a Heritage Workshop and Museum says a media release Read More…
It was, says the Greens Deputy Lord Mayor, Chris Harris, “a black day for Sydney” – the day Justice Jayne Jagot found for the developer in the Carlton and United Breweries case. Harris is right to be gloomy, and not only because of the hot-house gases involved. Equally disturbing is that the road to Read More…
The NSW Government is advancing plans for the north-west and south-west rail links, including land acquisition for the two projects reports Brian Robins on smh.co.au on August 22 2007. Read More…
TWO Koori students from Bonnyrigg High School have experienced what it’s like to work in the construction industry. Year 11 students Tyson Parker and Malcolm Clayton completed a Koori Job Ready course in construction in April offered by TAFE NSW Chullora and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority reports Ne Read More…
South Sydney Rabbitohs management lodged a complaint with police after an officer allegedly acted aggressively towards two Aboriginal rugby league players reports AAP in the Sun Herald of 19th August 2007. Read More…