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.
Two years ago to the month the SSH reported the eviction of tenants from the Carlton & United Breweries site on Broadway. In the same month, the site was purchased for development by Frasers Property reports Ann Deslandes in the South Sydney Herald of June 2009. Read More…
The community of Erskineville is again fighting plans to build a supermarket, despite the earlier rejection of an application by the same developers. The operators, identified as Thomas Dux/Woolworths, plan to build on the corner of Erskineville Road and Gowrie Street, which is also the same site pr Read More…
Environmental activist, Sydney University graduate and mother, Jenny McAllister, has recently been elected to the Labor Party Leadership Team, alongside Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Senior Trade Union leader Michael Williamson. Each member will assume the role of National President for a year, Read More…
Premier Nathan Rees announced today the Government had delivered its promise to make it easier to build affordable housing – cheaper rental properties, granny flats and specialised social housing reports this Media Release of 1 August 2009. Read More…
Planning Minister, Kristina Keneally, today announced new State Government appointees to the City of Sydney’s Central Sydney Planning Committee (CSPC). They will hold the positions until July 2011 reports this media release from the Minister for Planning on 30 July 2009. Read More…
More than any other urban area in Australia, the Block in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Redfern, has become a meeting place and, some say, spiritual home for city-dwelling Aborigines. However, it has also long struggled with problems of crime, violence and drug-dealing. When not in jail, stolen-gene Read More…
TWN years of dispute over a $60 million housing project for Sydney’s notorious The Block precinct has ended but no one has committed to funding the Aboriginal development reports Vincent Morello from Agence France-Presse on 2 July 2009. Read More…
A $60 million redevelopment of the notorious inner-Sydney precinct The Block is a step closer to reality, but no one knows where the money will come from reports ninmsn on 2 july 2009. Read More…
The Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally on 2 July 2009 announced approval for the Aboriginal Housing Company’s Pemulwuy Project Concept Plan writes Geoff Turnbull from REDWatch. Read More…
The Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern is celebrating after plans to breathe new life into The Block were finally given the go-ahead reports ABC on 2 July 2009. Read More…