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
AUSTRALIA’S richest local Aboriginal land council, which represents indigenous people from Palm Beach to Hurstville and Manly to the Hunter Valley, has been placed into financial administration Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter in the SMH of 21 August 2008. Read More…
A new $8.5 million Defence research facility in Sydney will use 3D technology for the first time to develop counter-terrorism measures for Australia’s ports and harbours reports ABC news of 19th August 2008. Read More…
The co-owner of the South Sydney Football Club, Peter Holmes a Court, says the defeat of a proposal to ban poker machines is still a great outcome for the community reports ABC News of 18th August 2008. Read More…
Four years in office has failed to dampen Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s enthusiasm for the job, so the independent councillor and state MP is ready to work to keep her title in September’s local government elections reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 6th August 2008. Read More…
ON Sunday morning fewer than 100 people will gather in Redfern Town Hall to end South Sydney’s proposal for a no-pokies leagues club reports Josh Massoud in the The Daily Telegraph of August 13, 2008. Read More…
AN indigenous art collection valued in the millions could be lost after negotiations between its owners and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority broke down writes Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 13th August 2008. Read More…
Frank Sartor’s plans to demolish some of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, a site of world heritage significance, is heritage heresy: they will transform Redfern into “Redfern Heights”, and create a vanilla society writes Andrew Woodhouse in a letter to the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
The Mercy Foundation which has been based in Waterloo for over a decade has been an advocate for many groups of people and has provided financial support for the implementation of projects covering a wide range of social justice initiatives reports the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
With the Council elections just over a month away (September 13), our writers have been interviewing the candidates. We’ll have profiles again next issue writes the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…
For more than 30 years the Cana Communities, a volunteer-based organisation that receives no government funding, has been offering services to people in need. Its focus is on people “most in need” – suffering from loneliness, mental illness, addictions, homelessness – and alienated within society. C Read More…