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The NSW Government recently announced the start of planning for the second Sydney Metro Rail line, called the West Metro. The train line, proposed to start at Central, will run through stations at Broadway-Sydney University, Camperdown, Leichhardt, Five Dock and on to Westmead reports Naomi Crain in Read More…

Each Chinese New Year, hundreds of people visit the historic Yiu Ming Temple in Alexandria to celebrate. But last month, members of the Yiu Ming community gathered in Retreat Street for a different kind of celebration reports Kelly Lane in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

St Mary’s School in Erskineville commissioned its first Mini Vinnies group at an inauguration ceremony in June. Mini Vinnies is a program of the St Vincent de Paul Society which exists in primary schools in Australia, and the St Mary’s group is the first to open in the Sydney region reports Brendan Read More…

Tucked away behind Erskineville Oval, not altogether visible from the main road, is a quaint clubhouse reports Robert Morrison in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

Let me admit my misgivings about the Northcott Estate, a block in Surry Hills I have visited once, rather timidly, in 25 years of living nearby. My callow prejudices were based on news reports, rumours or sordid stories about things that happened to this friend of a bloke at the pub who knows people Read More…

You might not pick Col James as a fighter. He is slight of build. He has a friendly approach. But you were intended to make the same mistake about Clark Kent. Without the outside-underpants, Col has been a force for houses-for-the-people in South Sydney and beyond all his adult life. He has just “re Read More…

It was standing room only in the Redfern Community Centre. After the welcome to country by Uncle Max, Michael Mundine chaired the occasion of the formal launching of Bill Simon’s book, Back on the Block reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, now barely visible amongst the dense suburb of Waterloo, sits proudly on a hill, as it has for almost 150 years. This year the parish, the oldest in Australia dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, will mark a century and a half of “life and ministry” report Read More…

Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The Fast News in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009 has reported on a couple of Redfern Waterloo items which we have extracted below: Read More…

Proprietor of Southside Money Lent, Robert Tarabo, has an honours degree in psychology. In the pawn broking business it’s a helpful qualification reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…