How Moore’s ‘kinda’onside with RWA – 15.07.2005
The support of Sydney’s Lord Mayor is vital for the success of the Redfern Waterloo redevelopment plan. But as DHEEPTHI NAMASIVAYAM finds out its not guaranteed. (Southside News issue 3/2005 page 10)
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.
Friend or foe Sartor has final say – 15.07.2005
New South Wales Labor MP Frank Ernest Sartor, in his early years as a Sydney City councillor, described The Block in Redfern as: “the most difficult problem I have ever had to deal with”. Today, as a minister, he heads the Redfern Waterloo Authority. JOE CORREY profiles the man who now has extraordi Read More…
Pemulwuy inspires battle for The Block – 15.07.2005
Pemulwuy was the Rainbow Warrior who in the late 1700s united Aboriginal clans to resist the British. This earned him the reputation as the most famous freedom fighter in Aboriginal history. Another battle is now brewing – this time between the NSW Government and the Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) Read More…
Land and secrets on The Block – 15.07.2005
On May 25, a map of Redfern Waterloo was published in the Government Gazette. It showed areas declared state significant within Redfern and Waterloo boundaries and included The Block – land privately owned by the Aboriginal Housing Company. Gazetting means planning and compulsory acquisition powers Read More…
Sacred land and official secrets 15.07.2005
In the early 1970s, many Aboriginal people living in Sydney were homeless and there was a serious overcrowding of what housing did exist. With no permanent housing they constantly faced eviction and racial discrimination in the private rent market. As a result of this lack of affordable housing, a g Read More…
New Redfern policing package needs more Aboriginal strategies
Very few Aboriginal strategies as set out in the Aboriginal Strategic Directions policy have been included in the recent Government package of 32 strategies and initiatives for enhancing policing in Redfern, writes Geoffrey Turnbull.
Residents protest Carr’s Redfern-Waterloo plan – 15.12.2004
On December 6, 300 people rallied in the inner-city suburb of Redfern to protest against the sale of Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) land and the local public school under the NSW Labor government plan to extend the city’s commercial business district out to Sydney Airport. Read More…
Sartor keeps right to annex land around Redfern – 09.12.2004
The new State Government body that will oversee the redevelopment of Redfern and Waterloo will be able to bypass heritage laws and consent to its own development plans despite amendments to the Government’s proposals yesterday.
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Government, developers threaten Redfern Block – 08.12.2004
The inner-city suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo, home to the Australian Heritage-listed Redfern Block, which has historically been a centre of Black empowerment and organising, faces a $5 billion state government “redevelopment”. The plan involves seizing control of the Block and letting private deve Read More…
Action group wants law to ensure rights for residents – 01.12.2004
A residents’ action group has called for the state upper house to tighten legislation next week handing one NSW minister sweeping powers over planning in Redfern-Waterloo, saying there are fears that people living there will be stripped of rights enjoyed by residents of local government-controlled a Read More…