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Emergency services have been denied simple access to a public housing complex in Darlington reports Aaron Jones in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008. Read More…

Earlier this year the former Housing Minister issued a media release announcing $1.6 billion for repairs and upgrades for public housing says the Editorial in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008. Read More…

Last month saw NSW politics in turmoil with a new Premier and Deputy Premier, and the departure from the scene of Frank Sartor, the former Planning Minister and the Minister responsible for the Redfern-Waterloo Authority. Kristina Keneally, the former Minister for Ageing and Disability, was given Fr Read More…

The reshuffle in the NSW Government, with a new Minister for Redfern-Waterloo, Kristina Keneally, and a new Premier, Nathan Rees, “creates a unique opportunity to rethink the methodology of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority,” said REDWatch spokesperson, Geoff Turnbull reports Kate Lamb in the South Syd Read More…

The Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) is hopeful its housing project will finally get off the ground, pending the outcome of a public exhibition showing nine years of hard work reports Lisa Moon in the South Sydney Herald of November 2008. Read More…

Shopfronts in the Redfern-Waterloo area continue to display depressing and uninviting shutters and cages, the ornaments of crime and antisocial behaviour. The recent market turmoil could see more of these shutters becoming permanent fixtures, with the financial crisis already decimating one local bu Read More…

As a local resident, I am very pleased to see that the new Redfern Police Commander, Luke Freudenstein, has said that he will try to ensure the the police officers under his command will do their job properly and obey the law (‘Policing in Redfern’, SSH October 2008) writes Dale Mills in a letter to Read More…

Food brings people together and teaches us about different lifestyles, cultures, even historical backgrounds. And if you were one of the 20,000 hungry, hot-but-happy, Sunday-morning wanderers who took to Danks Street on Sunday October 26 for the Danks Street Festival, you would have noticed what a w Read More…

Screened outside at night, on The Block in Redfern, Wanja cast light on a community which is often overshadowed and overlooked. Writer Angie Abdilla, who is of Tasmanian Aboriginal descent, says that she wanted the film to challenge people’s thoughts on how communities live on The Block and who they Read More…

The City of Sydney has four new Councillors: Meredith Burgmann, Irene Doutney, Di Tornai and Robert Kok. The SSH asked them each to share some of their initial impressions and priorities for the next four years of their office. We expect to hear from Councillor Robert Kok for our next issue reports Read More…