The Fast News – Compiled by Trevor Davies
Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below: 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
Pawn psychology – cash for gold
Proprietor of Southside Money Lent, Robert Tarabo, has an honours degree in psychology. In the pawn broking business it’s a helpful qualification reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…
Newsagents in it to win it
The State Government has put the NSW Lotteries Corporation up for sale. Originally introduced in 1931 by the newly elected Lang Labor Government, the State Lottery attracted controversy with many deriding the “vice” of gambling. But the State Lottery Bill was seen as the only way to solve the Govern Read More…
Erko Oval now best in South Sydney
Sydney Council has completed the final stage of its promised upgrade to Erskineville Oval, transforming the ground into the best junior training facility in South Sydney. Administrator and home team, the Alexandria Rovers, called upon Council to complete the last remaining phase of the upgrade to en Read More…
Automatic for FBi
Although the nation has managed to avoid a technical recession, the effects of the GFC are beginning to materialise in Sydney. Citywide belt tightening has become an issue for Sydney’s formidable independent radio station FBi. The financial crisis has knocked off around $1 million in revenue that th Read More…
Can the Greens take Balmain and Marrickville in 2011?
Can the Greens take the seats of Balmain and Marrickville from Labor at the 2011 state election? History suggests not. Unlike Independents, minor parties have found it virtually impossible to win lower house seats. Since the 1940s, the sole minor party victory in a Legislative Assembly seat occurred Read More…
Grand new community centre
After two years away, the Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre has come home – bigger, smarter and greener than ever reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…
Homeless, not helpless
The subject of homelessness on Sydney’s inner-city streets is one sometimes ignored by mainstream media and negated by public policy makers; a seemingly invisible social condition left to wait on park benches and outside train stations reports Laura Banister in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…
Factory Community Centre Supports Aldi for Waterloo
In the letter below to Council on 26 August 2009 the Factory Community Centre came out in support of a Development Application incorporating an Aldi Supermarket in Waterloo (City of Sydney Council DA D/2009/633). The Factory Submission reads: Read More…
ABC Speaking Out – Heidi Norman on “The Black Heart of Redfern: Economic development and Aboriginal people in 20th Century Redfern”
The first interview Rhianna Patrick conducted on ABC’s Speaking Out of 23 August 2009 was with Heidi Norman about Redfern. [We have edited the ABC website description below to only include the Redfern material and have provided a link to the large MP3 download of the entire programme]. Read More…