Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
A DEAL to build a software laboratory in Sydney where businesses can find answers to real-world problems on the fly has inched closer to a result with a proposal landing on the desk of Industry Minister Kim Carr reports Stuart Kennedy in the Australian of June 09, 2009 Read More…
Horrible memories were unearthed but the launch of Pastor Bill Simon’s autobiography, Back on the Block, last Tuesday was most certainly a day of celebration reports Angus Thompson on 25 June 2009. Read More…
Bill Simon is a pastor working in the heart of Redfern. Back on the Block is the story of his life, simply told writes Andrena Jamieson in Eureka Street on 5 June 2009. Read More…
Perhaps the most wrenching moment in Bill Simon’s autobiography, Back On The Block, is when, as a young man, he meets the mother from whom he was stolen as a child. Throughout his wretched teen years, No.33, as he was in Kinchela Boys’ Home, had sustained himself and his three younger brothers on ho Read More…
HISTORIC buildings could be taken off the heritage list and redeveloped after the NSW Government changed laws protecting them writes Matthew Benns in the Sydney Morning Herald of June 14 2009. Read More…
Scores of shopping trolleys from a Coles supermarket in Surry Hills are being stolen and dumped in Redfern, according to residents reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 4 June 2009. Read More…
THE global financial crisis has hit Sydney University finances hard and may force it to delay some of its ambitious building program reports Rebecca Woolley on 9 June 2009. Read More…
Kinga Farago won women’s sparring at Seido benefit tournament Seido Karate dojo in Abercrombie St raised $2000 at an action-packed inter-dojo tournament reports Central on 2 June 2009. Read More…
One man risks his life every day trying to make Redfern a better place to live. Drug dealers have threatened him, his family has received menacing letters at home and he has been verbally abused many times reports Irina Moldovan in UTS’s Reportage on 8 May 2009. Read More…
A major drug raid at ‘The Block’ at Redfern, in Sydney’s inner suburbs, has led to 18 people being charged reports Annika Burgess on Macquarie national News of 14 May 2009. Read More…