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This is the text of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd’s Speech at the Launch of the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence Redfern, Sydney 26 February 2010 – This has not been checked against Delivery. Read More…
Maybe it should be renamed the National Centre of Indigenous Heckling. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd became the second high profile politician in a fortnight to be heckled at Sydney’s National Centre of Indigenous Excellence – by members of the indigenous community angry at the federal government report Read More…
A new National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, aimed at helping Indigenous children achieve their goals, has opened at Redfern in Sydney reports Bridget Brennan for ABC news on 26 February 2010. Read More…
Could the best way to save Ballymore be to knock down the stands? [Is what happened in Redfern a model] Phil Lutton explores the question in the Brisbane Times of 25 February 2010. Read More…
More than a year on from the federal government’s pledge to halve the number of homeless people nationwide by 2020, Australia’s largest city has recorded a 22 per cent increase in those sleeping rough reports Belinda Cranston of AAP in the Sydney Morning Herald of 25 February 2010. Read More…
Following the February 19 announcement by Housing NSW (HNSW) of the Waterloo Green Neighbourhood Project, which will see substantial security and maintenance upgrades to the six public housing buildings that make up the Waterloo Green Estate, City of Sydney Greens Councillor Irene Doutney is calling Read More…
UNDER a Coalition government work on both the north-west and south-west rail projects will be ”well advanced” by the time of the 2015 State elections reports Brian Robins and Louise Hall in the Sydney Morning Herald of 23 February 2010. Read More…
Familiar words … former premiers Nathan Rees, Morris Iemma and Bob Carr all promised improvements in the transport system. Finally, the government can enjoy some applause – albeit half-hearted – from the critics in the cheap seats writes Andrew West in the Sydney Morning Herald of 22 February 2010 Read More…
A MONTH-long free art mecca celebrating original works from Sydney’s city fringe will be held from March 25 reports Nick Soon in the Blacktown Sun of 22 February 2010. Read More…
Kristina Keneally has taken the axe to the transport blueprint of her predecessor, cancelling the proposed metro network to spend the money on expanding the heavy rail system reports Andrew West in the Sydney Morning Herald of 22 February 2010. Read More…