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Frank Sartor’s plans to demolish some of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, a site of world heritage significance, is heritage heresy: they will transform Redfern into “Redfern Heights”, and create a vanilla society writes Andrew Woodhouse in a letter to the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…

The Mercy Foundation which has been based in Waterloo for over a decade has been an advocate for many groups of people and has provided financial support for the implementation of projects covering a wide range of social justice initiatives reports the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…

With the Council elections just over a month away (September 13), our writers have been interviewing the candidates. We’ll have profiles again next issue writes the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…

For more than 30 years the Cana Communities, a volunteer-based organisation that receives no government funding, has been offering services to people in need. Its focus is on people “most in need” – suffering from loneliness, mental illness, addictions, homelessness – and alienated within society. C Read More…

The very musical and flamboyant Roberto Orellana of the Mayan Cafe, situated at 32 Dank Street (corner of Dank and South Dowling streets) Waterloo, invites you to experience the most random colourful and cultural experience you’ll find within our community writes Scott Winter in the South Sydney Her Read More…

Artist Chantal Labbe cannot pinpoint when she first started drawing but her need for creative expression was recognised early on by some insightful school teachers. “From the age of 10 or 11, I was allowed to draw throughout classes in school. They realised it helped me to focus and pay attention. T Read More…

Sonia Zhou has done what few people her age, and for that matter few within the general population, will ever get to do in their lifetime. She has sat in NSW parliamentary chambers writes Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…

Matt Norman, the director of the film, Salute, about the role his uncle, Peter Norman, played in the black power protest at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, has been campaigning for an iconic mural writes Reem Al-Gharabally in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008. Read More…

It’s always wonderful to see fantastic exhibition sites in Sydney. Visitors to Melbourne or Adelaide will know that their exhibition facilities, particularly for showcasing installation pieces, far exceed those available in Sydney – with one exception writes Carissa Simons in the South Sydney Herald Read More…