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Friends of Redfern Station, about fifty local residents, rallied outside Redfern Station on Saturday July 18 amid concerns that RailCorp’s line-by-line staffing review will have a detrimental effect on safety and accessibility for elderly and less mobile passengers. The review, which is due to be co Read More…

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

In NAIDOC Week, when many aspects of Aboriginal life are celebrated, an enthusiastic gathering was held at the Redfern Community Centre on the Block. The special guest for the occasion was Federal Government Minister Tanya Plibersek who had been supporting the Mudgin-Gal Women’s Centre of the Aborig Read More…

South Sydney Leagues has opened for trading in intimate café mode until the new Club is re-opened. Nestled near the Moreton Bay Figs and adjoining Redfern Oval is the wonderful Park Café on Chalmers reports in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

Ron Fox was surprised to be selected as our reader of the month. He is the sort of person whom, I suspect, would always be surprised to find himself the centre of attention reports Dorothy McRae-McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

Neighbourhood centres will reduce opening hours and cut services after missing out on a government-recommended funding increase in June’s State budget reports Doug Dingwall in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

NAIDOC stands for the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee, but over the years it has become the name of a week reports Barrie McMahon in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

Alex McAlees, the Streetbeat Coordinator, and Heather Coull, Streetbeat Counsellor from South Sydney Youth Services, Redfern, were recently recognised for their work in supporting local teenagers with substance abuse problems at a state-wide forum for the Getting It Together Scheme. Community Servi Read More…

For about 30 years now I’ve been writing about other people – their jobs, their politics, their wins and losses, their births, their deaths and everything in between. Today I’m writing a little about me writes Denis Peters in the South Sydney Herald of August 2009. Read More…

Gordon Syron is known as the “father of urban Aboriginal art”. His gritty, narrative style is direct, bold. Common motifs in his vivid oils and water-colours include black fairies and “red coats”, waratahs, wildflowers and native birds. Syron eschews “dots and dashes” in favour of a certain realism Read More…