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
After 60 years the Alexandria Rovers Football Club has made the move to Erskineville Oval from Alexandria Park. It now allows the club to train where we play reports Perry Johnstone in the South Sydney Herald of April 2009. Read More…
For many young people all it takes is the right opportunity to get their career and their life back on track Koori Job Ready is a program set up in inner city Sydney to train young Indigenous people to work in the construction industry reports Michael Edwards for ABC’s AM on 4 April 2009. Read More…
Cleveland Street is a death trap for cyclists and pedestrians and Erskineville Road is not much better, locals told Sydney Council at a community meeting on Wednesday reports Kim Shaw for Central on 3 April 2009. Read More…
Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Redfern has had its fair share of negative media: not least of all about riots, drugs and violence. But the community is fed up with its own problems and is taking them into its own hands reports SBS’s Living Black on 30 March 2009. Read More…
“The ibis restaurant” – a corroded, road-dwelling dumpster where urban pests constantly feast, is just one of the eyesores of the Redfern-Waterloo public housing precinct reports Angus Thompson in City News on 19th March 2009. Read More…
In the issue of City News on 12 March, there was an article about the Eveleigh Market, which incorrectly named the market as the ‘Carriage Works Market’ writes Stephanie Zappala in this letter to City News. Read More…
The City of Sydney is to consider 73 proposals for Alcohol Free Zones (AFZ) from police and local residents across Sydney reports Annette Shailer in The Shout on 27th March 2009. Read More…
IT HAS been a tough time for pubs. Bankers have been pulling the plug on many hotels [including Redfern’s Woolpack] and forcing distressed sales to reap back some of the cash owed reports Carolyn Cummins in the Sydney morning Herald of 28th March 2009. Read More…
The following statement has been circulated by Russell King CEO of ways regarding the defunding of their Youth Employment Programme covering Redfern Waterloo on 24 March 2009/ Read More…
FRUSTRATED city residents have called for the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority’s responsibilities to be passed to Sydney Council reports Robert Burton-Bradley and Kim Shaw in Central of 11 March 2009.. Read More…