Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Sydney has beat New York, Melbourne and Auckland to win the right to host the Edinburgh Military Tattoo for the second time [and the replica castle is stored in Redfern] reports ABC News of 3 March 2009. Read More…
Trevor Davies has reported on a number of items of interest to Redfern Waterloo in his column in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
Federal Member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek MP, recently toured affordable housing in Pyrmont, managed by City West Housing reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
The City of Sydney has just finished hosting festivities to welcome the Chinese New Year but the residents of the historic Yiu Ming temple complex have little to celebrate. The compound behind Botany Road has witnessed an ongoing saga over construction, with the latest development plans proposing an Read More…
Alana Valentine is a Redfern playwright with previous success in telling the stories of the South Sydney Rabbitohs in Run, Rabbit, Run, and the residents of Parramatta Girls’ Home in Parramatta Girls reports Eve Gibson in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
Newspaper editors rarely allow the words “kindness”, “patience” and “socialism” to coexist in one sentence. However, you’ll need to indulge us, as we join the Guardian in remembrance of the life and times of our Comrade, Peter Symon reports Nick Tesoriero in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
Pamela Neville has lived in Redfern since 1994 and loves it. She was born in Parkes when it was the centre of a wheat belt, rather than the Elvis capital of the world, and left there at the age of four. Her father worked in a bank and the family moved home about every two years as he was transferred Read More…
Wilson Mrouh and his brother Marcelle founded the first Lebanese restaurant in Sydney, on their arrival as immigrants, 51 years ago. At that time, they had to arrange for nearly all the ingredients they needed to be brought in by travellers from Lebanon, so novel was the Lebanese menu. On the wall o Read More…
Michael O’Loughlin is one of the AFL’s great players and holds the Swans club record for the most games played. In recent times the Indigenous star has played as full forward. They say the trainers will only let him have a set number of kicks a week to try and extend his playing life as long as poss Read More…
February, Friday the 13th, the skies are dark with the threat of heavy rain as I ride down Eveleigh Street towards the Community Centre where the first anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations is being celebrated reports Peter Whitehead in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…