Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
I’m walking the dog. It’s evening rush hour, near Redfern station. A young couple wobbles by like escapees from a three-legged race, giggling because she has new, less-than-sensible shoes and at day’s end can barely walk. “Take them off,” I suggest. He glares, wondering perhaps which “them” I mean. Read More…
Do you …..
· …you use Waterloo Green to catch up with friends?
· …or maybe have Housing issues?
· …or need to know more about Centrelink?
· …or you just enjoy a free BBQ?
Answered Yes? …then join us for the BBQ
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THE Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, has appointed one of his former chiefs-of-staff as the new boss of the government agency in charge of billions of dollars worth of land on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour reports Jano Gibson Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney morning Herald of July 28, 2008. Read More…
History could be torn from its roots in one of Sydney’s most historic precincts if the Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s (RWA) eviction of the blacksmiths at the Eveleigh Railway Yard substantiates reports Emma Kemp in City News of 5th July 2008. Read More…
This letter was distributed in the lead up to the Saturday, 26 July 2pm meeting at CarriageWorks Track 8 about the proposed meeting and the City’s concerns about the RWA’s North Eveleigh Concept Plan. Read More…
This is a letter from 1988 from The Smithsonian Institution – National Museum of American History Washington DC about the importance, and the great rarity of the machinery collection here at Eveleigh. The File is 927 KB PDF with OCR overlay. Download: Smithsodian Institute – Washington DC.PDF »
This is a PDF version of the July 2008 RWA Update. The File is 630 Kb PDF. Download: july08_newsletter.pdf »
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…
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 »
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…