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
February 2010 – RWA Update – Text Version – Redfern: A Centre for Excellence / A message from our CEO / Specialist Health Centre set to serve Redfern / Premier Keneally retains Redfern Waterloo ministry / World-class movies to be made in Darlington / Alexandria wins with Emu Astrology Banner / Senio Read More…
Following a community meeting in December last year where parking issues were raised, the Australian Technology Park Precinct Management Limited (ATPPML) has appointed Transport and Urban Planning to undertake a parking study in the local streets adjacent the ATP site reports Newsletter 1 from Trans Read More…
Conceptual art couldn’t get more conceptual than that issued by American Joseph Kosuth, whose most famous work One and Three Chairs (1965) is a visual representation of Plato’s Theory of Forms housed at MoMa in New York. In it, a chair literally sits, is represented sitting in a photograph and is de Read More…
For far too long the nation’s focus has been on Aboriginal disadvantage rather than their positive contributions to Australian society writes Ehssan Veiszadeh in City News on 11 February 2010. Read More…
It already has a Hyde Park, to match its namesake in London. Now, Sydney is seemingly turning to New York for inspiration, with the new public space approved this week for part of the former Carlton and United Breweries site on Broadway provisionally given the name ‘Central Park’ reports Shant Fabri Read More…
THE State Government put the M5 extension on the backburner when Premier Kristina Keneally announced her Metropolitan Transport Plan, but Tempe residents still have a fight on their hands to prevent the proposal going ahead reports Kate Carr in the Inner West Courier on 24 February 2010. Read More…
Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore MP has voiced her approval for the planned extension of the light rail service in inner Sydney after Premier Kristina Keneally announced the commitment in last weekend’s transport blueprint for Sydney writes Kevin Cheng in Central on 23 February 2010. Read More…
Construction is to begin shortly on the redevelopment of the former Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Broadway, in Sydney following the approval of the site’s $6 million main public park and associated infrastructure reports Annette Shailer in The Shout on 10 February 2010. Read More…
They come straight from school, dragging parents and grandparents behind them, cartwheeling and spinning on the newly sprung dance floor of the Redfern Community Centre reports Linda Morriss in the Sydney Morning Herald of 12 March 2010. Read More…
One of the most under-recognised names in the history of NSW is John Joseph Cahill, better known as Joe, or even “Old Smoothie”. Joe Cahill represented the Cook’s River area of Sydney in the NSW parliament between 1925 and 1959. [He was also a fitter at the Eveleigh railyards] writes Phillip O’Nei Read More…