It’s time for the burbs to be heard
KPMG partner and Demographer Bernard Salt looked at some of the changing demographics that also impact on Redfern Waterloo in this article in the Australian on 13 August 2009. 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
Rise, Redfern, and roll away the roller doors
Steel yourself…many shopfronts along Redfern and Regent streets are vacant and there are plans for revitilisation of the area reports Paul Bibby the Sydney Morning Herald’s Urban Affairs Reporter on 11 August 2009. Read More…
Clover Moore’s Inspiring Speech at Redfern’s 150th Birthday Party
This is the speach given by Clover Moore on 8 August 2009 to commemorate 150 years of local government in Redfern. The speech was reproduced in the Central of 12 August 2009. Read More…
Lord Mayor Clover Moore defends Sydney Council’s Redfern record
Lord Mayor Clover Moore has hit back at claims that Redfern is being ignored while its neighbours enjoy “model village’’ status reports Kim Shaw in the Central on 12 August 2009. Read More…
Community Safety Survey 2009
This Community Safety Survey was produced by the Factory Community Centre and REDWatch as a way of getting community input to a number of issues raised about community safety and fear of crime issuers in the local community. Please download the questionnaire and return it to by the end of August 2009. File is MS … Read more
Irene Doutney on Redfern Business Study
This is the text of Councilor Irene Doutney’s address to Council Committee on 3 August 2009 on why Council needed to do more than note the Redfern Business study alongside the report on Newtown. Read More…
Clean Slate launched for Indigenous teens
A NEW program targeting at-risk Indigenous youth was launched this month by Redfern police, Centrelink and Indigenous men’s group BABANA reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 8 August 2009. Read More…
Starved Waterloo begs for groceries
Discount grocery chain ALDI’s bid to set up shop in Waterloo has brought a wave of support from residents, who say the franchise could provide affordable relief to famished area reports Angus Thompson in City News of 6 August 2009. Read More…
Redfern riled over rail cuts
Commuters could be put at risk and vandalism dramatically increase following measures to axe 40 per cent of staff from Redfern Station reports Angus Thompson in City news of 6 August 2009. Read More…
Redfern’s sandy beginnings
Redfern’s natural landscape was defined by sandhills and swamps reports Central on 5 August 2009. Read More…