Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
In this Update: NEWS : Built Environment Plan Stage 2 (BEP 2) Update – Stakeholder Engagement Report – Community Facilities Report – Future community engagement / Barani Book launch – City of Sydney / Media attention for The Block / NAIDOC Week success / Redfern brand continues to gain momentum / DE Read More…
The Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) has released the Stakeholder Engagement Report for the Built Environment Plan Stage 2 (BEP 2). The report prepared by Mediate Today, the RWA response and a media release have been placed on the RWA website on 22 July 2011. Below you will find a link to the docume Read More…
Aboriginal activists and artists gathered at Chapel by the Sea last Saturday to save one of Australia’s major Aboriginal art collections. The future of Gordon Syron’s famous collection is in danger of being split up and scattered unless enough money and space can be found to maintain it reports Nich Read More…
On 9 May 2011 RailCorp wrote to occupiers of Holdsworth Street regarding the Railcorp “North Eveleigh Substation Relocation Project”. As part of this project RailCorp plan to replace the retaining wall on the Eastern Side of Iverys lane which will involve the removal of all existing vegetation. The Read More…
On 9 May 2011 Railcorp wrote to residents backing on to Ivery’s Lane regarding their plan to move substations on North Eveleigh in line with the North Eveleigh Concept Plan and to renew the retaining wall along Ivery’s Lane. This is a copy of letter sent to some owners along Ivery’s Lane asking for their … Read more
This article was published in the Planning Institute of NSW’s journal New Planner June 2011. Our attention was drawn to this article at the presentation by City of Sydney on July 7 2011 because of its comments on the effectiveness of the BEP2 consultation which is contested between local agencies an Read More…
Rebelling against the seasonally inappropriate snowmen and reindeers that festoon Australian houses at Christmas, Norrie May-Welby opted for a simple, but meaningful, decoration. The word ‘‘love’’ has lit up this Redfern street for years, and not just at Christmas. It inspired fellow residents of C Read More…
They’re preparing kangaroo pies in the sunny kitchen at Yaama Dhiyaan Hospitality Training College when I first visit Aunty Beryl Van Oploo. It’s a warm November day and spring is in full swing in Sydney, Australia. Outside in the street, the jacaranda trees are flaunting their opulent lilac blossom Read More…
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence at inner city Redfern by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer was awarded the top honour for recent urban design projects, the Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design, as well as a commendation for public architecture. Read More…
Sister Marnie Kennedy was a nun and an educator, counsellor, activist, spiritual leader and defender of the rights of the dispossessed and marginalised. She was greatly valued and dearly loved for her warmth, grace, wisdom, generosity of spirit and capacity for love reports this obituary in the Sydn Read More…