July 2008 RWA Update – PDF Version
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Burgmann Comes Out Swinging
LABOR lord mayoral candidate Dr Meredith Burgmann said she believed Sydney Council needed a major shift in policy focus reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 23 July 2008. Read More…
ILC NIDC Master Plan – June 2008
This is a copy of the updated Master Plan map that was on display at the ILC Open day at the former Redfern School site on 26th June 2008. The file is 946 KB PDF. Download: A-.1 MASTERPLAN.PDF »
Protests: End income quarantining!
The unjust quarantining of Aboriginal people’s Centrelink benefits, enforced as part of the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention, has been labelled by some as the intervention’s most destructive element Reports Jay Fletcher in Green Left of 19th July 2008. Read More…
Candidates Keep it Green
GREENS councillor Chris Harris is again running for Lord Mayor in September’s elections, with newcomer Irene Doutney also aiming for a seat on Sydney Council reports Jennifer Bennett in the central of 16hJuly 2008. Read More…
Voters will decide on Sydney Wards
VOTERS will have the power to decide whether they want Sydney Council to introduce a wards system at September’s elections reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the central of 16th july 2008. Read More…
RWA, AHC and the Block in Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage
There are many references to Redfern in the Standing Committee on Social Issues Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales Interim Report June 2008. Here we have extracted two sections about the RWA and Aboriginal Housing Company that deal with one of the ongoing issues in Redfern – Abori Read More…
Poster for ATP’s Blacksmithshop Open Day – 17th August 2008
An Open Day will be held on Sunday 17th August 2008 from 10am – 2 pm at the ATP’s Blacksmiths Shop with tours on the hour of the workshop, blacksmithing demonstrations and explanations of steam powered blacksmithing assemblages by Guido the Blacksmith. The Blacksmiths have been served a Notice to quit by the RWA so… Read More…
Redfern Set to Become a Major Business and Media Hub
Redfern’s commercial property sector is about to get a huge shot in the arm through the pre-leasing program to be launched next week for a television and media hub in the heart of Australian Technology Park reports this press release of 11 July 2008 from City PR on behalf of CB Richard Ellis and Che Read More…
The brutal reality about halls of higher earning
The university, says John Ralston Saul, is “where civilisation’s knowledge is divided up into exclusive territories”, where academics daily invent “dialects sufficiently hermetic” to preclude internecine seepage. Each faculty, discipline or research team thus becomes a kind of Da Vinci Code cryptex, Read More…