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
Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below: Read More…
Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo’s story is captivating in its own right, involving an improbable rise from working in the affluent Eastern Suburbs of Sydney as a nanny, to her status today as an Indigenous community leader and co-founder of Yaama Dhiyaan Hospitality Training College. While Aunty Beryl’s past Read More…
Trying to navigate around the services available to the community can be hard work, or in some cases like finding a needle in a haystack. Now it won’t be so difficult. Just calling James or Michael will start you on the right track. They can meet with you or answer your calls reports the South Sydne Read More…
There were two articles in the December 2009 SSH that perpetuated the practice of categorising Waterloo as the third-class suburb of the former South Sydney local government area writes Ross Smith from Waterloo in this letter in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010. Read More…
A capital grant of $16 million to build a specialist aged care facility for homeless people in Redfern was reported in Member for Sydney Tanya Plibersek’s advertisement in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010 Read More…
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has “more than underperformed” and “bullied” small nations at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, according to Aboriginal and Islander activist Patricia Corowa who attended the troubled summit reports Melanie Kembrey in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010. Read More…
The Hon. Kristina Keneally MP, Premier of NSW gave up some of her precious time on Australia Day to drop by and lend a hand to the Alexandria Rovers who were running a food stand at Yabun 2010 at Victoria Park reports Perry Johnstone in the South Sydney Herald of February 2010. Read More…
On February 13, to mark the second anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generation, the Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney is participating in a national day of action beginning at La Perouse at 9am for a walk against racism and finishing in a rally at The Block at 1pm reports Neil Whitfiel Read More…
Dr Miriam Pepper of Waterloo was one of four Uniting Church members among 130 people arrested in Canberra on November 23 reports the South Sydney Herald of February 2010. Read More…
Set in a remote Aboriginal settlement, Warwick 1ornton’s critically acclaimed Samson & Delilah was said by many to have been the depiction of outback life Baz Luhrmann ought to have created. And while some may be surprised that this hauntingly intimate picture made it as far as the Cannes Internatio Read More…