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.
Michael Mundine Senior, CEO of the Aboriginal Housing Company received a call from Meredith Burgmann this morning (Saturday September 6th 2008) advising that the Redfern Waterloo Authority has paid the $68,750 fee for the assessment and exhibition of the AHC’s Pemulwuy project. No conditions have be Read More…
While news of the tougher smoking laws targetting retailers has won widespread praise from public health advocates, local businesses doubt they will have any impact on sales and are taking the move in their stride reports Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
On August 20, Planning Minister Frank Sartor made a walk around the North Eveleigh site with representatives from the Redfern-Waterloo Authority, the Department of Planning, consultants and a selection of local residents who have made objections to the North Eveleigh Concept Plan. This followed a pr Read More…
Dr Meredith Burgmann, the Labor Party’s mayoral candidate, met with Redfern residents and community leaders on Saturday August 23 to hear their concerns, and to outline her own vision for the area reports Alex Mackenzie in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
The upgrade of Redfern station is the most central aspect of the RWA’s plans for the social and economic redevelopment of the Redfern-Waterloo area reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
It was like a teary episode of the sit-com Cheers – with a South Sydney twist. After nine years as owner and manager of Appetite Café in Regent Street, Redfern, Leanne Fraser was saying goodbye. The café was crowded with regulars – enjoying the after-hours ambience, reminiscing, getting to know each Read More…
Some good news on buses has emerged out of the widespread distress at the proposed changes to the 311 route. A local Labor delegation led by Jo Holder, ALP candidate for the City of Sydney Council, met with Sydney Buses General Manager of Planning, Roger Wilson, on Friday August 8, and secured his Read More…
Cleveland Street’s Britannia Hotel has a colourful history. It is the pub in which corrupt former cop Roger Rogerson drank a beer before shooting to death Sydney underworld figure and heroin dealer, Warren Lanfranchi, in nearby Dangar Place in 1981 reports Vanessa Watson in the South Sydney Herald o Read More…
Chippendale residents in a long-running fight to resolve the safety problem of trying to cross City Road have accused the Lord Mayor of arrogance and treachery reports Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
The South Sydney Herald has reported a number of times over the past three years on the problems facing the Yiu Ming Temple on Botany Road. In April of this year, Ben Falkenmire presented a calendar of events. Read More…