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
Newspaper editors rarely allow the words “kindness”, “patience” and “socialism” to coexist in one sentence. However, you’ll need to indulge us, as we join the Guardian in remembrance of the life and times of our Comrade, Peter Symon reports Nick Tesoriero in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
Pamela Neville has lived in Redfern since 1994 and loves it. She was born in Parkes when it was the centre of a wheat belt, rather than the Elvis capital of the world, and left there at the age of four. Her father worked in a bank and the family moved home about every two years as he was transferred Read More…
Wilson Mrouh and his brother Marcelle founded the first Lebanese restaurant in Sydney, on their arrival as immigrants, 51 years ago. At that time, they had to arrange for nearly all the ingredients they needed to be brought in by travellers from Lebanon, so novel was the Lebanese menu. On the wall o Read More…
Michael O’Loughlin is one of the AFL’s great players and holds the Swans club record for the most games played. In recent times the Indigenous star has played as full forward. They say the trainers will only let him have a set number of kicks a week to try and extend his playing life as long as poss Read More…
February, Friday the 13th, the skies are dark with the threat of heavy rain as I ride down Eveleigh Street towards the Community Centre where the first anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations is being celebrated reports Peter Whitehead in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
Gordon and Elaine Syron and their collection of over 1300 paintings and thousands of photographs and artefacts have been given more time by the RWA to negotiate a new, hopefully permanent, home for the collection following a recent meeting with Minister Keneally reports the South Sydney Herald of Ma Read More…
In a recent report compiled by Professor of Psychology at Deakin University, Bob Cummins, it was stated that some of Australia’s most unhappy suburbs are right in our backyard. Newtown and Redfern, as well as St Peters and Surry Hills, were named in the gloomy group. The Australian Unity-Wellbeing I Read More…
The problem of solid roller shutter doors on the business landscape of inner-city Sydney has been a “festering sore” for far too long, according to the Potts Point and Kings Cross Heritage Conservation Society reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
Repeated references to Redfern in crime reports are encouraging perceptions about the level of crime in the suburb reports Brendon Wong in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
The following comments from Member for Heffron and Minister for Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally appeared in her advertisement in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…