Grand new community centre
After two years away, the Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre has come home – bigger, smarter and greener than ever reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. 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.
Homeless, not helpless
The subject of homelessness on Sydney’s inner-city streets is one sometimes ignored by mainstream media and negated by public policy makers; a seemingly invisible social condition left to wait on park benches and outside train stations reports Laura Banister in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…
Factory Community Centre Supports Aldi for Waterloo
In the letter below to Council on 26 August 2009 the Factory Community Centre came out in support of a Development Application incorporating an Aldi Supermarket in Waterloo (City of Sydney Council DA D/2009/633). The Factory Submission reads: Read More…
ABC Speaking Out – Heidi Norman on “The Black Heart of Redfern: Economic development and Aboriginal people in 20th Century Redfern”
The first interview Rhianna Patrick conducted on ABC’s Speaking Out of 23 August 2009 was with Heidi Norman about Redfern. [We have edited the ABC website description below to only include the Redfern material and have provided a link to the large MP3 download of the entire programme]. Read More…
Redfern’s Great Depression
Redfern is experiencing its own Great Depression with 65 shops vacant and economic activity as slow as it was in the 1930s, according to a City of Sydney Council business precinct study reports Kim Shaw in Central on 26 August 2009. Read More…
Google lets creative types play in their Sandbox
Media and advertising types were invited to the Carraigeworks in Eveleigh for Google Creative Sandbox 09. The first Creative Sandbox to be held outside of the United States, the event was designed to showcase all the newest developments to the Google product range which can often fly under the radar Read More…
Redfern to reinvent itself
Redfern’s major players are putting their heads together to resuscitate Redfern’s business precinct, starting with a slap of paint on the dreary shutters that line the suburb’s main street reports Angus Thompson in City News of 20 August 2009. Read More…
Redfern reaches 150
This month, Redfern Town Hall hosted a day of celebrations to mark the suburb’s 150th birthday, but not all of Redfern’s residents were there to celebrate reports Drew Sullivan 20 August 2009. Read More…
Hillsong gives up on Sydney mega church site
Hillsong has given up trying to build a mega church at this Rosebery site after continued opposition from locals reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 11 August 2009. Read More…
Rail history at Central Station
Central station will offer steam train rides this weekend on the historic 3526 and 3642 locomotives, the pride of the NSW railways in the 1920s and 30s reports Kim Shaw in Central on 19 August 2009. Read More…