Government extends deadline for wages
Aboriginal people have been given more time to claim some $68 million of “stolen wages” held by the State Government writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 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
The new generation
REDFERN’s Binowee Bayles is representative of a new generation of local Aborigines: smart, articulate and possessed with a proud sense of Aboriginal identity writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 2009. Read More…
Change sweeps The Block
THE inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States might have seemed a world away for some of us, but for Redfern’s indigenous community, the winds of change were blowing close to home writes Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 28 January 2009. Read More…
Full house sign up for Redfern clash
SUMMER may be only half over, but rugby league has its first sell-out of 2009 with South Sydney’s return to Redfern against Wests Tigers to be played before a full house reports AAP in The Australian of January 26, 2009. Read More…
2 of US – Gordon Syron & Elaine Pelot Syron
Aboriginal artist, activist and art curator Gordon Syron, 67, first met his American documentary photographer wife, Elaine, 63, in 1982, after he was released from prison. They are the “keepers” of an extensive collection of indigenous art and artefacts, for which they are seeking a permanent home r Read More…
Americans celebrate Obama inauguration in Sydney
BRITTANY Spencer was a long way from home, but she wasn’t about to let a little thing like a 15-hour time difference stop her from witnessing the Obama inauguration reports Michelle Cazzulino in the Telegraph of January 21, 2009.
Service not Delivered – Letter
In this letter in the 21 January 2009 Central Ross Smith responds to an earlier Central article on Housing NSW “Sewer pipe fix delayed”. Read More…
Tickle the Ivories
YOU may have noticed the pianos that have appeared on city streets in the last fortnight. Fee! free to sit down and play reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 21 January 2009. Read More…
No to Supermarket
RESIDENTS have triumphed after a controversial proposal to build a two-storey supermarket at Erskineville village was rejected in the NSW Land and Environment Court last week reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 21 January 2009. Read More…
Broadway set to become a ‘windswept high rise canyon’
Chippendale and Ultimo residents have to put up with yet another large scale development on Broadway which will include permanent closure of Jones Street and an increase in high rise buildings writes Anne von Fehrn in City News of 21 January 2009.
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