Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
I saw an advertisement for a State Government Community Cabinet in the local paper and rang the number. I was given a 15-minute timeslot for a one-on-one meeting with the Minister of my choice. I turned up at the appointed time. I located the person that I had spoken to on the phone and had my name Read More…
It is a sun-drenched Wednesday morning and the grounds of Sydney University are flooded with students, spilling en masse out of lecture theatres and into the cluttered streetscape. In the midst of the bustle, sitting patiently beside a small trolley packed with glossy printed paper, is a man clad in Read More…
Young Sydney artist, Hayley Megan French, presents a series of paintings investigating the material, compositional and conceptual possibilities of Contemporary Abstract painting reports Eve Gibson and Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of September 2009. Read More…
The City’s latest homelessness Street Count reveals the dramatic affect of the global financial crisis on some Sydneysiders. The Count shows 12.7 per cent more people sleeping rough on Sydney’s streets this winter, compared with August 2008 reports CLOVER’S eNEWS of Friday 28 August 2009 – No. 462. Read More…
New “Business Precinct Studies” for Redfern and Newtown will guide our work to strengthen the local retail hubs, with a new Council officer being employed to help us do the needed work with local communities, including local business associations, police and other government authorities reports CLOV Read More…
It reads almost like a Yes, Minister script – the Department of Housing evicting its own tenants, in order to build a facility for…homeless people. Yet remarkably, the evidence is there in black and white, in the form of ‘relocation’ notices distributed to the residents of the Alexandra Terraces in Read More…
Waterloo’s Factory Community Centre is taking sustainable living to the next level, giving old and ruined bicycles a second chance in their Cycle Re-Cycle Workshop reports Angus Thompson in City news on 27 August 2009. Read More…
It’s raining supermarkets in Sydney, it seems, and the storm is provoking contrasting reactions from residents while presenting a complex planning problem to Council and the State Government reports Michael Gormly in City news of 27 August 2009. Read More…
AUSTRALIA’s first indigenous jobs website will be launched by the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce on Monday reports Erik Jensen in the Sydney Morning Herald of 29 August 2009. Read More…
In the current economic climate it is important that consumers be provided a variety of price-based choices in local supermarkets. This argument has been cited by residents with respect to the proposed construction of an Aldi store in Waterloo reports Laura Bannister in the South Sydney Herald of Au Read More…