Row over new Health Centre
A NEW $10-million health centre is a win for the Redfern Community according to the State Government, but some have asked what was wrong with the facility at the Rachel Forster Hospital site. 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.
Memorable moment hidden from view
A documentary about Olympian Peter Norman who stood up for human rights at the 1968 Mexico Olympics has renewed calls for the removal of a RailCorp barrier obscuring a famous mural of him Robert Burton-Bradley Central of 20 August 2008. Read More…
In the record books with bronze
Redfern’s Robin Bell became the first ever Australian to stand on a slalom canoe podium when he won a bronze medal in the C1 slalom race last night (12 August) reports Joshua Levi in Central of 20th August 2008. Read More…
Bid to make Metro land council solvent
AUSTRALIA’S richest local Aboriginal land council, which represents indigenous people from Palm Beach to Hurstville and Manly to the Hunter Valley, has been placed into financial administration Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter in the SMH of 21 August 2008. Read More…
Redfern base to simulate Harbour attacks
A new $8.5 million Defence research facility in Sydney will use 3D technology for the first time to develop counter-terrorism measures for Australia’s ports and harbours reports ABC news of 19th August 2008. Read More…
‘No hard feelings’ over pokie ban rejection
The co-owner of the South Sydney Football Club, Peter Holmes a Court, says the defeat of a proposal to ban poker machines is still a great outcome for the community reports ABC News of 18th August 2008. Read More…
Sydney Council elections – four years on and Clover wants more
Four years in office has failed to dampen Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s enthusiasm for the job, so the independent councillor and state MP is ready to work to keep her title in September’s local government elections reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 6th August 2008. Read More…
How South Sydney’s no-pokies leagues club plan died
ON Sunday morning fewer than 100 people will gather in Redfern Town Hall to end South Sydney’s proposal for a no-pokies leagues club reports Josh Massoud in the The Daily Telegraph of August 13, 2008. Read More…
Communication Breakdown
AN indigenous art collection valued in the millions could be lost after negotiations between its owners and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority broke down writes Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 13th August 2008. Read More…
Heritage heresy
Frank Sartor’s plans to demolish some of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, a site of world heritage significance, is heritage heresy: they will transform Redfern into “Redfern Heights”, and create a vanilla society writes Andrew Woodhouse in a letter to the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…