Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
The EDO apartment building, designed by the Sydney firm Stanisic Associates, and CarriageWorks, by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, were “really innovative”. CarriageWorks, which won the Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage, was so good it almost won a commercial architecture award as well, Mr Tzannes said. T Read More…
A chance for all … Tremain Mundine and Clive Cavanagh speak to the businessman Andrew Forrest about the jobs they would like to find reports Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald of October 31, 2008. Read More…
THE Federal Government will fund a big expansion of the country’s main indigenous boarding school scholarship scheme to allow an extra 2000 Aboriginal students to attend top secondary schools reports Mark Davis Sydney Morning Herald Political Correspondent October 31, 2008. Read More…
The rap star Snoop Dogg arrived in Sydney late yesterday and headed straight to the Redfern Community Centre, where the mob waited, chanting his name. The visit was to help promote the Field of Dreams project, a South Sydney Football Club youth charity scheme to build a touch-football field in The B Read More…
Associate Professor Lucy Taksa (Director, Industrial Relations Research Centre and Australian School of Business, UNSW) launched the Worker’s Register with Premier Bob Carr (whose father worked at Eveleigh) on 29 August 1999 at an open day held by the ATP. Her proposal was not only the register but also a keeping place for the social… Read More…
The Conservation Management Plan in June 1996 provided a catalogue of all the significant heritage items (over 200). It detailed their significance, current condition and detailed a conservation policy and maintainence schedule for each item. The Technology Park was given a heritage grant to implement the the CMP but did not undertake the required work.… Read More…
This is the official RWA Heritage Planning map which shows the buildings recognised by the RWA as of Heritage significance. Such a precinct has great potential for heritage tourism if a well thought out heritage interpretation strategy is put in place. Note file is 3MB PDF. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/rwass/060828SEPPheritage/view
The future shape of north Eveleigh is currently being determined by the Department of Planning. Following consideration of exhibition submissions the RWA has produced a Preferred Project Plan for the Department to assess. Here you can find out more about the issues at North Eveleigh. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/northeveleigh/nemp
This is the sum total of the RWA Heritage interpretation Strategy for the Former Eveleigh Railyards as at October 2008. While the HIS was prepared as part of the North Eveleigh preferred Project Proposal it indicates the RWA is considering a wider heritage strategy across the site. The Eveleigh Heritage Meeting of 28 October 2008… Read More…
Dear Kristina Keneally, Re: The blacksmithing workshop at Eveleigh. Thank- you for you letter 27 August in reply to my correspondence. You may have heard that following a media campaign, along with the support of the community, and ex-Eveleigh workers, we still have tenure. Whilst we want to put the stress and disruption of the… Read More…