Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Gordon and Elaine Syron and their collection of over 1300 paintings and thousands of photographs and artefacts have been given more time by the RWA to negotiate a new, hopefully permanent, home for the collection following a recent meeting with Minister Keneally reports the South Sydney Herald of Ma Read More…
In a recent report compiled by Professor of Psychology at Deakin University, Bob Cummins, it was stated that some of Australia’s most unhappy suburbs are right in our backyard. Newtown and Redfern, as well as St Peters and Surry Hills, were named in the gloomy group. The Australian Unity-Wellbeing I Read More…
The problem of solid roller shutter doors on the business landscape of inner-city Sydney has been a “festering sore” for far too long, according to the Potts Point and Kings Cross Heritage Conservation Society reports Pam Dagwell in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
Repeated references to Redfern in crime reports are encouraging perceptions about the level of crime in the suburb reports Brendon Wong in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
The following comments from Member for Heffron and Minister for Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally appeared in her advertisement in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009. Read More…
A large part of the formerly gracious Victorian suburb of Darlington was first dudded in the post WWII expansion of Sydney University. A large part of it was razed – the town hall was demolished, the public school marooned on the campus, and only recently nicely landscaped writes Bruce Lay in this O Read More…
The Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s concept plan for the redevelopment of the presently deserted rail-yards at North Eveleigh has been given the tick of approval by the State Planning Minister Kristina Keneally. On January 30 Ms Keneally signed off on the plan with the hope that the 10.7-hectare site w Read More…
During 2008 Waterloo Neighbourhood Advisory Board carried out a series of consultations to develop a proposal for future ‘community engagement’ strategies and on how to increase resident involvement in local decision making processes. This information sheet summarises the proposal to be implemented and to be piloted over the course of 2009. (92 KB MSWord). Download: … Read more
This is the 1 March 2009 News Update from the Coalition Chippendale Community Groups. This Issue is in PDF format as it includes pictures from DAs. In adition to an editorial it icludes updates on : 1. Former CUB Site (Frasers Broadway) 2. Notre Dame University misleads local community over future plans – another DA … Read more
The state’s top universities are fighting to hold the line against course and research cuts after losing hundreds of millions of dollars in investments exposed to falling financial markets reports Malcolm Knox in the Sydney Morning Herald of 24 February 2009. Read More…