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.
Commander Luke Freudenstein, the present officer in charge of Redfern Police is not a total stranger to the South Sydney area having earlier served for four years in the Newtown command. After working as the Crime Manager in Manly and also in a wider regional area of police work, he spent two months Read More…
Selling ox tongues and ocelot spleens to spectators in the Jerusalem Coliseum, Brian – in Monty Python’s Life of Brian – encounters a group of four conspiring revolutionaries, who reproach him for selling Roman imperialist tidbits instead of proper food. “Are you the Judean People’s Front?” asks Bri Read More…
Hillsong Church has withdrawn its $72 million development application for the former RTA site in Rosebery after Sydney City Council commissioned an independent assessment of the plan that found the proposed mega-church and adjacent office block exceeded the height and scale allowed. The study also Read More…
SYDNEY children as young as 12 are experimenting with the highly dangerous drug ice because they see it as glamorous, senior police say reports Kara Lawrence in The Daily Telegraph of 4th August 2008. Read More…
Saturday’s Reclaim the Block festival has been declared a success by organisers and residents, who wanted to reclaim their streets from the drugs and antisocial behaviour the area is known for reports the Central of 30th July 2008. Read More…
SYDNEY Liberal councillor Shayne Mallard has positioned himself as the mainstream alternative to a trio of “big-spending left-wing politicians” vying for the Lord Mayoralty reports Menios Constantinou in Central of 30th July 2008. Read More…
A Hillsong self-esteem program which encourages girls as young as 10 to wear make-up and aspire to professions including waitressing and hairdressing is being taught in Redfern-Waterloo schools, alarming teachers, parents and health workers reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 30 July 200 Read More…
THE grandiose vision of the Rabbitohs NRL part-owner Peter Holmes a Court to have a poker machine-free South Sydney leagues club is expected to be scuppered at a vote of the membership on August 17 reports Andrew Clennell State Political Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008. Read More…
In a city bursting at the seams, everyone has designs on this Redfern icon, writes Sunanda Creagh in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008. Read More…
I’m walking the dog. It’s evening rush hour, near Redfern station. A young couple wobbles by like escapees from a three-legged race, giggling because she has new, less-than-sensible shoes and at day’s end can barely walk. “Take them off,” I suggest. He glares, wondering perhaps which “them” I mean. Read More…