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
Environmental activist, Sydney University graduate and mother, Jenny McAllister, has recently been elected to the Labor Party Leadership Team, alongside Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Senior Trade Union leader Michael Williamson. Each member will assume the role of National President for a year, Read More…
Premier Nathan Rees announced today the Government had delivered its promise to make it easier to build affordable housing – cheaper rental properties, granny flats and specialised social housing reports this Media Release of 1 August 2009. Read More…
Planning Minister, Kristina Keneally, today announced new State Government appointees to the City of Sydney’s Central Sydney Planning Committee (CSPC). They will hold the positions until July 2011 reports this media release from the Minister for Planning on 30 July 2009. Read More…
The Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) released the first evaluation report of the Redfern-Waterloo Human Services Plan Phase One today (28 July 2009) reports this media release from the Redfern Waterloo Authority. Read More…
The Department of Planning has placed changes to RWA Height of Buildings map for the Redfern Town Centre. The changes reduce the street wall / podium heights from 5 to 2-3 storeys and reduce the setbacks of tower buildings. The full details of the exhibition are in the advertisement below which appe Read More…
More than any other urban area in Australia, the Block in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Redfern, has become a meeting place and, some say, spiritual home for city-dwelling Aborigines. However, it has also long struggled with problems of crime, violence and drug-dealing. When not in jail, stolen-gene Read More…
TWN years of dispute over a $60 million housing project for Sydney’s notorious The Block precinct has ended but no one has committed to funding the Aboriginal development reports Vincent Morello from Agence France-Presse on 2 July 2009. Read More…
A $60 million redevelopment of the notorious inner-Sydney precinct The Block is a step closer to reality, but no one knows where the money will come from reports ninmsn on 2 july 2009. Read More…
The Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally on 2 July 2009 announced approval for the Aboriginal Housing Company’s Pemulwuy Project Concept Plan writes Geoff Turnbull from REDWatch. Read More…
The Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern is celebrating after plans to breathe new life into The Block were finally given the go-ahead reports ABC on 2 July 2009. Read More…