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
In 2006, the year after Fr Ted Kennedy died, members of the community of St Vincent’s Church in Redfern approached Tom Bass and the sculpture studio school at Erskineville to design a memorial. This was followed by multiple meetings to discuss the nature of this project with Marnie Kennedy, Fr Ted’s Read More…
Performance Space presents There Goes The Neighbourhood, a major curatorial commission and book project by local curators Zanny Begg and Keg de Souza. Exploring the global phenomena of gentrification through the local frame of Redfern, the curators have gathered artists, activists, philosophers, wri Read More…
Not even the grey skies and looming rain could keep the scores of skateboarders and scooter riders away from the 10th Annual Fernside Skating Competition reports Alexander Fleming in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009. Read More…
The new breed of inner city residents, who sit outside a café drinking their skim milk lattes, think that they are living the village life and have a great sense of community spirit. The true long-time locals will know that the inner city will never be a village made up of families who send their ki Read More…
Well, howdy! So what’s happening in the wide, wide world of sports? Not since the heady days of 1964, when a young Cassius Clay stood over a prone Sonny Liston and declared to the world, “I am the greatest!” have we seen such confidence in a young sportsperson Report by Adrian Spry in the South Sydn Read More…
On the issue of affordable housing, we may have a united City of Sydney Council. In fact, on this occasion, the smaller parties are publicly speaking out in defence of the Council’s Draft Affordable Housing Policy as developers move against the public interest reports the South Sydney Herald of May Read More…
Christopher [not his real name] is a man who understands the hard-hitting effects of the criminal justice system reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of May 2009.
MANY comics will tell you that a “funny thing happened on the way to the gig”, but Al Pitcher has got the photos to prove it. There is the picture of the street kid who mooned him in Glasgow, the photo of the mother throttling her child at a wedding in Melbourne, and the picture he took, just yester Read More…
Children and their parents enjoyed free eye testing at Alexandria Park Community School recently when The Benevolent Society and Redfern Waterloo Authority sponsored a day of good health and family fun reports Kim Shaw in Central on 30 April 2009.. Read More…
Thank you, Central, for raising the very important debate on the topic of ‘Street drinking and Alcohol Free Zones’. I read with interest the divided views on their effectiveness and it appears there is valid argument in both camps writes Mike Shreenan in this letter to Central on 22 April 2009. Read More…