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.
Sister Marnie Kennedy was a nun and an educator, counsellor, activist, spiritual leader and defender of the rights of the dispossessed and marginalised. She was greatly valued and dearly loved for her warmth, grace, wisdom, generosity of spirit and capacity for love reports this obituary in the Sydn Read More…
Sekisui House Australia Holdings Pty Limited and Frasers Property Australia enter into joint venture agreements to jointly develop $2billion Central Park development reports this media release from the parties on 7 July 2011.
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The statement below was made by the Federal MP for Sydney Tanya Plibersek in the Parliament of Australia House of Representatives on 16 June 2011 about Trevor Davies following his death on 14th June 2011. Read More…
The Redfern community is mourning the death of REDwatch founding member Trevor Davies following his death on Tuesday. Mr Davies will be remembered for founding and editing the South Sydney Herald and for his community activism and commitment to social justice writes Tara Blancato in the City News of Read More…
The SMDA has received its brief for both the Redfern and Waterloo and Granville areas under the State Environment Planning Policy (Urban Renewal) 2010. The briefs set out the areas the SMDA is required by the study to investigate and make recommendations upon. Read More…
The local residents’ action group “Hands off Glebe” held a protest on May 18 to stop the demolition of public housing in Cowper St, Glebe. The 15 buildings on the Cowper St site have the capacity to house 289 people but the former NSW Labor government decided to sell most of the land to private deve Read More…
THEY were once Sydney’s crime capitals, ruled by drug lords and violence. Now the same dangerous suburbs have been named in a national report as the city’s hot-property suburbs. Homes in “rough and ready” Maroubra, heroin-capital Cabramatta and no-go zone Redfern are now attracting top dollar report Read More…
THE Premier, Barry O’Farrell, took office promising to hand planning powers back to the people, and inner Sydney residents are taking him at his word reports Kelsey Munro in the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 May 2011. Read More…
REDWatch has joined with a range of other resident groups in issuing an Open Letter to the NSW Government and the City of Sydney requesting the City Plan be placed on hold. The statement follows a range of concerns raised by residents groups about changes forced on the City of Sydney by the previous Read More…
The Storage at Kennards for the Syron’s Keeping Place Collection runs out on 23rd May 2011. If the Syron’s can not find somewhere for the collection by then or pay for more storage the Keeping Place collection will be auctioned by Kennards to pay for the storage. An initial period of storage was pa Read More…