CUB Site Decision handed down
The decision for the CUB case in the Land and Environment Court was handed down on 14th August 2007. Here is a brief update from FoCUS issued on the 15th August 2007. 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.
Redfern Markets? Watch this space!
The hustle and bustle of people and kaleidoscope of weekly colour that is Paddington Markets may soon be coming to Redfern, as a development application to hold a monthly market on the Cope and Regent Street site has been put into motion writes Claire Thompson in the South Sydney Herald of August 20 Read More…
Union and RWA build community
At a time when the Federal Government response to the sad and complex problems facing our Indigenous population in the Northern Territory is to “send in the troops,” it is reassuring to know that in our own backyard the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy workers Union has a more enlightened app Read More…
The battle for Pemulwuy
Over the last 18 months there have been two marches from the TNT towers across to The Block in support of the Pemulwuy Project writes Trevor Davies Have You Heard? in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007. Read More…
View from the Block: looking forward, looking blak
In 1957 the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee with the support and co-operation of federal and state governments, the churches and major Aboriginal organisations, was formed. NAIDOC Week (2nd week in July) has evolved into a week of cultural events to commemorate Aboriginal and Torres Str Read More…
Movement at Drake-Brockman vs Planning Minister court case
The South Sydney Herald’s Samantha Van reports after the conclusion of the Matthew Drake-Brockman vs State Minister for Planning court hearing, which took place on 25 and 26 July, Frasers Property set up a meeting with City of Sydney Deputy Lord Mayor and Greens Councillor Chris Harris for 10 August Read More…
Victory for sustainable development?
Win or lose in the Land and Environment Court, Darlinghurst resident Matthew Drake-Brockman may have already won – on behalf of the public – against global beverages firm Foster’s Group and the State Minister for Planning Frank Sartor writes Samantha Van in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007. Read More…
Inner-city clergy unite in concern over APEC
Three local clergy, Rev. Graham Long from the renowned Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Rev. Dorothy McRae-McMahon and Rev. Andrew Collis from the South Sydney Uniting Church, will be attending APEC protests in September in order to monitor police activity in response to the powers bestowed on the for Read More…
The media and the formation of community
The media is hugely powerful in its influence on society and therefore carries a grave responsibility. The way we exercise this power has the capacity to build or dismantle human community and now, possibly even the planet itself writes Dorothy McRae-McMahon in a paper given at the Customs House Cit Read More…
Qs & As on Council DAs
Sydney City Councillor Phillip Black has told a Council meeting that there needs to be a clear but comprehensive brochure explaining how the Development Application (DA) process works for residents writes Bill Birtles in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007. Read More…