$550m to `sex up’ Eveleigh
THE long-neglected railyards at Eveleigh are set to become one of Sydney’s trendiest areas under a $550 million revamp of the site reports political writer Linda Silmalis in the Suday Telegraph of 27 April 2008. Read More…
2004-2012 Statements
The Redfern Waterloo Authority operated until 2011-12 when it was taken over by the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority. Here we have captured some of that history as it happened in Redfern Wate
DRAFT BLUEPRINT FOR NORTH EVELEIGH RELEASED
Minister for Planning and Redfern-Waterloo Frank Sartor today previewed draft plans that will help deliver an upgrade to Redfern Station and new affordable housing to the area reports this media release from Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Planning and the Arts Frank Sartor. Read More…
Movement at the station to ease squeeze
A $550 MILLION redevelopment of the old Redfern railway workshops will include a 16-storey block of flats just 100 metres from the troubled area of The Block reports Frank Walker in the Sun Herald of April 27, 2008. Read More…
Indigenous diggers march through Redfern
More than 100 onlookers have cheered on Indigenous veterans taking part in the Coloured Diggers’ March in Redfern, in inner Sydney reports ABC on Friday April 25, 2008. Read More…
Indigenous servicemen to be remembered
A roll of honour for Aboriginal ex-servicemen and women will be compiled during an indigenous Anzac Day celebration in Sydney’s Redfern reports AAP April 23, 2008 in the Sydney Morning Herald. Read More…
Lest we forget: indigenous diggers still fighting
THERE is one in almost every suburban centre and country town in Australia – a bronze digger in a slouch hat or a sandstone monument marking the sacrifice made by Australia’s servicemen and women reports Paul Bibby Sydney Morning Herald April 10, 2008. Read More…
Fight your own battles
In this opinion piece on nzherald.co.nz Irfan Yusuf, a Sydney lawyer who won the 2007 Allen & Unwin Iremonger Award for public affairs writing puts the Coloured Digger story into the broader colonial war context. Read More…
Friends of Eveleigh Remember fallen Railway Workers from the Large
ON ANZAC DAY WE WILL REMEMBER THEM – They left the Large to see the world and to fight a bloody war in support of their country and our allies. Sadly many did not return reports this media release from Friends of Eveleigh on 24th April 2008. Read More…
Risky State of Play
HOUSING NSW playgrounds in Redfern and Waterloo are no place for children, with rusty equipment, sharp edges, broken swings and missing bolts just accidents waiting to happen, mothers said. Owen and Samantha (pictured) just want a safe place to play, with equipment that works reports Robert Burton-B Read More…
False Promises – `Clueless’ minister can’t deliver
HOUSING NSW has contradicted Housing Minister Matt Brown about the failure of a new Waterloo Graffiti eradication program. The Minister announced the program last month and at a press conference at the Marton public housing building said the new program was to target graffiti both “inside and outsid Read More…