Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
This diagram shows the staff structure proposed for the NCIE in May 2009. The diagram is taken from the position Description for the Indigenous Employment & Training Coordinator and is included here to provide an indication of the organisational structure and the kinds of jobs provided by the centre. You can express interest in jobs… Read More…
IT COULD be Sydney’s stupidest station – Macdonaldtown, right next door to the city and in the heartland of the progressive Inner-West, boasts a wheelchair-accessible phone and ramps for wheelchair users to get on and off trains reports Joe Hilderbrand in The Daily Telegraph of 18 May 2009. Read More…
ROEBUCK Plains, a cattle station purchased amid controversy by the Indigenous Land Corporation before becoming a $30million jewel in the Kimberley pastoral industry, is to be handed back to Aboriginal traditional owners reports Stuart Rintoul in the Australian of 19 May 2009. [REDWatch Note – While Read More…
In early 2009, NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally approved the North Eveleigh Concept Plan writes Graham Quint in the National Trust Magazine (NSW) for May – July 2009. Read More…
Like the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy, who fought early colonists, Mick Mundine is no shirker and is hell bent on redeveloping The Block, his patch for almost 40 years. John Ellicott reports in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 May 2009. Read More…
With the global economy in trouble, joblessness is on a lot of people’s minds. A program in Sydney’s Redfern is relieving this anxiety for many. The Koori Job Ready course trains unemployed Aboriginal men – including some who’ve had difficult home lives – for jobs in the construction industry report Read More…
Narrow definitions of talent are gone and the hunt for genuine individuality is on at Eveleigh this weekend, where auditions for the seventh series of Australian Idol are underway reports Kim Shaw on Central on 16 May 2009. Read More…
Police have arrested and charged 18 people after a major drug raid in ‘The Block’ at Redfern, in Sydney’s inner suburbs reports Central on 14 May 2009. Read More…
A handful of high profile crimes in recent weeks has created a perception of fear in Redfern according to local police reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 14 may 2009. Read More…
The Federal Government has contributed $2 million toward redeveloping the Waterloo Youth Facility reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central on 13 May 2009. Read More…