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
Glebe might be the model city village on its 150th birthday, but on the other side of Parramatta Rd, Redfern is languishing under an undeserved reputation and municipal neglect, City of Sydney councillor Irene Doutney has said reports Kim Shaw in the Central of 5 August 2009. Read More…
IT WAS mad and cool at the same time, said nine-year-old Mundarrah Welsh. With a ‘‘Close the Gap’’ sticker plastered on his cheek, the Darlington Public School student was giddy from tackling the South Sydney star Chris Sandow at a Redfern park reports Jessica Halloran in the Sydney Morning Herald o Read More…
Fifty people attended a rally at Redfern station on July 18. The protesters said Railcorp’s proposed staffing cuts were unjustified and put commuters at risk reports John Coleman, in Green Left Weekly on 25 July 2009. Read More…
Andrew Hamilton the consulting editor for Eureka Street looks at Edmond Campion’s book about Father Ted Kennedy in Eureka Street on July 23, 2009. Read More…
Police have launched a program designed to steer “at risk” youths within the Redfern Local Area Command away from a potential life of crime reports police media on 19 July 2009. Read More…
Jonathan Hill reviews Edmund Campion: Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern in Eureka Street on July 17, 2009. (David Lovell Publishing, Melbourne, 2009. ISBN: 9781863551298 ) Read More…
The following is an extract from Frank Brennan Frank Brennan’s homily at the mass preceding the launch of Edmund Campion’s Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern on July 16, 2009 Read More…
SYDNEY’S black urban heart has been in Redfern much longer than people think writes Debra Jopson in the Sydney Morning Herald of 10 July 2009. Read More…
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s wife Therese Rein has visited The Block at the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern to launch a book about the Stolen Generations reported ABC news on 16 June 2009. Read More…
The City of Sydney Council has declared The Block an alcohol-free zone after a request from Indigenous locals reports ABC news on 7 July 2009. Read More…