Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Plans to convert the disused Hive building at 21-23 Erskineville Road into a new supermarket were approved at a DA meeting on Monday September 24. This has left a number of local Erskineville residents displeased with Lord Mayor Clover Moore and her Sydney City Council. However, just as many local r Read More…
Larissa Behrendt’s latest novel Legacy was launched by Germaine Greer last Friday at the State Library reports Central on 4 November 2009.
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The proposed redevelopment of an unused Redfern presbytery as an Aboriginal school has been met with some opposition reports Navot Rom in the South Sydney Herald in November 2009. Read More…
In just its second month of operation, the Redfern and Waterloo Community Markets, or RedWater Markets, attracted 14 stallholders, many bargain hunters and happy faces reports. The market, held in Redfern Park on Saturday, October 17, was a colourful sight Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald in Read More…
The Food Distribution Network (FDN) is a fresh food service, delivering quality fruit and vegetables to the frail aged, people living with disabilities and their carers reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald in November 2009. Read More…
In an effort to deter the use of vehicles on inner-city streets, Sydney City Council is pushing ahead with plans to carpet suburbs with paid meters and tighter parking restrictions. One suburb that will cop new meters is East Chippendale, situated between Abercrombie and Regent Streets reports Nicho Read More…
“My dictionary has just three words,” Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo says. “Communication, Education, Respect. That’s what I tell those students in there all the time.” Not a bad dictionary that, and there’s a story and a half behind it reports Neil Whitfield in the South Sydney Herald in November 2009. Read More…
On September 25, the Hon. Linda Burney, NSW Minister for Community Services and Minister for Women, officially announced the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence’s Youth Advisory Committee (NCIEYAC) reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald in November 2009. Read More…
Breakfast is essential for Chantelle Kemble. The 17-year-old discovered that when undertaking a short course in hospitality near where she grew up in the suburb of Waterloo, where more than 70 per cent of housing is public. The course was only for nine weeks, but they were a long nine weeks for Chan Read More…
On Saturday October 24, a group convened at Tripod Café in Darlington to draw to a close the Running for Pemulwuy fundraising campaign begun in training for the Sydney Running Festival (held on September 20) reports the South Sydney Herald in November 2009. Read More…