Needle Van moves from Block to Hudson Street
The Redfern Waterloo Authority have advised that as of 16 December 2009 that the needle and syringe van that was previously located on the Block has been relocated to Hudson Street. Read More…
Needle Stick Issues in Caroline Street
Some residents in Caroline Lawson and surrounding area received a letter from a Caroline Street resident in early December who had received a needle stick injury from a needle over their back fence. The resident was concerned at the response from the needle Van and Council and wrote to surrounding r Read More…
Rail passenger injuries soar
THE number of commuters injured on trains, stations and in railway car parks has risen by more than two-thirds, figures show reports Lisa Carty in the Sydney Morning Herald of 27 December 2009. Read More…
Need, not judgment, on our city’s streets
The profile of Sydney’s poor has changed over a century, but the Brown Nurses are still helping, writes Rick Feneley in the Sydney Morning Herald of 26 December 2009. Read More…
Providing a better service to Indigenous Australians
Two new positions have been created to assist Indigenous Australians in accessing services in South and South-Eastern Sydney reports City News on 23 December 2009. Read More…
Thousands turn up at Christmas lunches
For the past 11 years, the Moulds family have celebrated Christmas day with other people. This year, the other folk numbered more than 1200 guests at the annual Salvation Army lunch at the Eveleigh CarriageWorks in inner-Sydney’s Redfern reports ninemsn on 25 December 2009.
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A network that delivers the goods
For those who can’t get out to buy food, this service is priceless, writes Nick Galvin in the Sydney Morning Herald of 21 December 2009 about the Food Distribution Network. Read More…
From the school of hard knocks to top of the class
WHILE the achievements of the top HSC students were celebrated this week, a small group of students gathered in the basement of a church in Surry Hills to celebrate a different kind of success reports Anna Patty the Sydney Morning Herald’s Education Editor on 19 December 2009. Read More…
ATP Letter on C7 Residents Meeting – 23 Dec 09
The following letter was sent by the ATP to people who attended the meeting on 15 December 2009 about the 8 Central Avenue Eveleigh (the new C7 and Global Television building). As not all those who attended left contact addresses we are posting the letter so this information is diseminated to all wh Read More…
ATP Heritage Statement – December 2009
This public statement on ATP Heritage was issued by Australian Technology Park Precinct Management Ltd (ATPPML) on 24 December 2009. Read More…