Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
A meeting of Waterloo businesses, local residents, and community service providers was held on 1 October 2008 to discuss a number of issues around the Waterloo Shops. This meeting decided to circulate a questionnaire to Waterloo businesses as a first step to identify and prioritize issues prior to requesting Redfern Police to undertake a Community … Read more
The Friends of Eveleigh have produced this map of the former Eveleigh Rail Yards to show what remains of the former Eveleigh complex. While much has been removed key elements remain that could provide the focus for both active rail heritage and for heritage tourism. File is 415 KB PDF. Download: MAP 2008.pdf »
Koori Radio is thriving in its new home in Redfern, offering better services and opportunities for indigenous youngsters. Having previously broadcasted out of the old Marrickville hospital site, the station now boasts several community-focused programs reports Peach Emmett in City News of 26 October Read More…
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