Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
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
“I GUESS I’d like to experience being white for a while and walk amongst the white people without anyone flinching,” says Sonya Brindle, 40 writes Joel Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of April 18, 2007. Read More…
The NSW National Trust has nominated the Hammerhead crane, the 19th century Eveleigh railway workshops at Redfern, and the remains of a 40,000-year-old blue gum forest along the side of the Pacific HIghway in northern Sydney reports ABC News on Wednesday 18th April 2007. Read More…
WHEN David Williams’s uncle returned from the Korean War – exhausted and recovering from a gunshot wound – the family took him to Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital in Brisbane. The door was closed in their faces reports Paul Bibby in the Sydney Morning herald of April 17, 2007. Read More…
AFTER Pyrmont, Homebush Bay, Green Square and Rhodes, the next big urban consolidation challenge for Sydney is a curly one – Redfern reports Harvey Grennan in the Brisbane Times of April 17, 2007. Read More…
A PRIVATE school will open a campus exclusively for Aboriginal children on its main campus when the new term starts next week reports Hannah Edwards in the Sun Herald of April 15, 2007. Read More…
Sydney University architects Paul Pholeros and Col James have developed a prototype home clinic and wash room for the Indigenous Australian community. Currently on display at the Sydney Home Ideas Centre in Alexandria, their design will be incorporated into 62 proposed new dwellings at The Block in Read More…
The Premier, Morris Iemma, revealed the “fresh young new faces” on his new front bench last week, which included Heffron MP Kristina Keneally who has been elevated to a ministerial position reports Cara Davis in the Southern Courier of 4th April 2007. Read More…
PAUL Keating’s address at Redfern Park in 1992 was a great speech because it was about leadership, principle and courage. In the history of Aboriginal peoples’ relationship with the non-Aboriginal political and legal institutions of this nation, no prime minister had said what he said argues Patrick Read More…
WHEN the organisers of a music festival at the Block in Redfern asked the Health Minister, Tony Abbott, for his support, they were hoping for a donation, some resources, perhaps even an appearance by the man himself reports Joel Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of April 6, 2007. Read More…
A plan by St Andrew’s Cathedral School to set up a campus for indigenous children in Redfern has exposed divisions in the community, writes Joel Gibson in the Sydney Morning Herald of April 6, 2007. Read More…