2 Live 2 Deadly
From humble beginnings operating out of a terrace house in Redfern twenty years ago, the Aboriginal voice on Sydney radio has struggled to seal its place on the city’s airwaves reports ABC’s Message Stick on 5 July 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
Off the Rails
There is a crowd spilling onto the streets, looking up at a man high above them on a window ledge. Bathed in spotlights, he stands ramrod straight with his back to the window. He shivers rhythmically. Is he a would-be suicide? Writes Edward Scheer in the Monthly in March 2007. Read More…
Pemulwuy ushers in new era for Aboriginal Housing Company
After a 10-year wait, the Redfern Aboriginal community has finally won control over the future development of the Block reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 8 July 2009. Read More…
$60m to overhaul The Block, Redfern
AN ambitious revival of The Block in Sydney has been unveiled but no one has offered to pay the bill of $60 million to fix what was a crime-ridden inner-city slum reports Vikki Campion and AAP in The Daily Telegraph of 3 July 2009. Read More…
Green light for The Block development
There is a joke around Redfern that if the long-awaited redevelopment of The Block ever goes ahead, a statue of former planning minister Frank Sartor should take pride of place reports Elicia Murray Urban Affairs Reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald on 3 July 2009. Read More…
Artist finds haven in chaotic city life
While the Redfern-Waterloo public housing estate has a troubled reputation, one local has found artistic inspiration in a small spot in the frantic inner city suburb reports Angus Thompson on 2 July 2009. Read More…
Living lab proposal takes shape
A DEAL to build a software laboratory in Sydney where businesses can find answers to real-world problems on the fly has inched closer to a result with a proposal landing on the desk of Industry Minister Kim Carr reports Stuart Kennedy in the Australian of June 09, 2009 Read More…
Redfern community honours leader’s survival story
Horrible memories were unearthed but the launch of Pastor Bill Simon’s autobiography, Back on the Block, last Tuesday was most certainly a day of celebration reports Angus Thompson on 25 June 2009. Read More…
Surviving institutional abuse
Bill Simon is a pastor working in the heart of Redfern. Back on the Block is the story of his life, simply told writes Andrena Jamieson in Eureka Street on 5 June 2009. Read More…
Danger of refuge being destroyed in Block battle
Perhaps the most wrenching moment in Bill Simon’s autobiography, Back On The Block, is when, as a young man, he meets the mother from whom he was stolen as a child. Throughout his wretched teen years, No.33, as he was in Kinchela Boys’ Home, had sustained himself and his three younger brothers on ho Read More…