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The State Government has put the NSW Lotteries Corporation up for sale. Originally introduced in 1931 by the newly elected Lang Labor Government, the State Lottery attracted controversy with many deriding the “vice” of gambling. But the State Lottery Bill was seen as the only way to solve the Govern Read More…

Sydney Council has completed the final stage of its promised upgrade to Erskineville Oval, transforming the ground into the best junior training facility in South Sydney. Administrator and home team, the Alexandria Rovers, called upon Council to complete the last remaining phase of the upgrade to en Read More…

Although the nation has managed to avoid a technical recession, the effects of the GFC are beginning to materialise in Sydney. Citywide belt tightening has become an issue for Sydney’s formidable independent radio station FBi. The financial crisis has knocked off around $1 million in revenue that th Read More…

Can the Greens take the seats of Balmain and Marrickville from Labor at the 2011 state election? History suggests not. Unlike Independents, minor parties have found it virtually impossible to win lower house seats. Since the 1940s, the sole minor party victory in a Legislative Assembly seat occurred Read More…

After two years away, the Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre has come home – bigger, smarter and greener than ever reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…

The subject of homelessness on Sydney’s inner-city streets is one sometimes ignored by mainstream media and negated by public policy makers; a seemingly invisible social condition left to wait on park benches and outside train stations reports Laura Banister in the South Sydney Herald of July 2009. Read More…

In the letter below to Council on 26 August 2009 the Factory Community Centre came out in support of a Development Application incorporating an Aldi Supermarket in Waterloo (City of Sydney Council DA D/2009/633). The Factory Submission reads: Read More…

The first interview Rhianna Patrick conducted on ABC’s Speaking Out of 23 August 2009 was with Heidi Norman about Redfern. [We have edited the ABC website description below to only include the Redfern material and have provided a link to the large MP3 download of the entire programme]. Read More…

Redfern is experiencing its own Great Depression with 65 shops vacant and economic activity as slow as it was in the 1930s, according to a City of Sydney Council business precinct study reports Kim Shaw in Central on 26 August 2009. Read More…