Indigenous heartland under threat
Redfern’s Aboriginal heritage could be lost to a restoration project that favours business, writes Verity Firth in SMH February 15, 2006
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
Redfern-Waterloo UPDATE February 2006 (PDF Version)
This is a 156 KB PDF version of the RWA’s February 2006 Update which contains- Strategy for Revitalising Redfern-Waterloo / Built Environment Plan Released for Community Consultation / Encouraging Jobs and Enterprise through Development of Strategic Sites / Proposed Land Use for RWA Strategic Sites / North Eveleigh / Australian Technology Park /South Eveleigh / … Read more
Revamp for Redfern ignores railway heritage – 13 February 2006
Bonnie Malkin SMH Urban Affairs Reporter reports SYDNEY may lose a large part of its railway heritage under plans to revamp Redfern and Waterloo, the National Trust has warned. Read More…
Souths’ oval to be razed – 11 February 2006
By JOSH MASSOUD in the Daily Telegraph reports SYDNEY City Council will spend $500,000 to demolish the contaminated Redfern Oval – and the Rabbitohs won’t stop them. Read More…
Firth Calls on Sartor to Rethink Pemulwuy Decision – 10 February 2006
Media Release from Verity Firth Deputy Lord Mayor, City of Sydney 10 February, 2006. Read More…
Sartor changes zoning of the Block to commercial – 9 February 2006
Aboriginal Housing Company Media release 9 February 2006. Read More…
Draft Built Environment Plan to Drive Jobs Growth in Redfern & Waterloo – 10 February 2006
Kristina Keneally’s Heffron E-Herald 10 February 2006 No. 2 on the release of the RWA Built Environment Plan. Read More…
CITY SUPPORTS MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL – 10 February 2006
The City of Sydney has contributed $12,500 to Midnight Basketball for Redfern-Waterloo, an innovative sports program which aims to give young people life skills while diverting them from crime and anti-social behaviour.
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Teenagers shoot hoops to avoid the weekend’s pitfalls – 9 February 2006
Bonnie Malkin Urban Affairs Reporter Sydney Morning Herald reports: REDFERN has a new weapon in the fight against crime: basketball. The Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Frank Sartor, and the West Sydney Razorbacks have launched the Midnight Basketball Tournament to lure young people off the streets a Read More…
Redfern redevelopment plan not about moving Aborigines: Minister – 9 February 2006
The final stage of the New South Wales Government’s plan to redevelop Redfern has been released.