Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
It is 7.15 in the morning and a group of commuters are hitting their stride. Wilson Street is relatively quiet. The sun has just risen behind the terraces. The street is wide enough – and quiet enough – for everyone to talk as they ride. The pace is relaxed reports Samantha Walker in the South Sydne Read More…
There is a novel website where you can find out which of your neighbours cares about global climate change and it calculates how much your behaviour is contributing to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is called www.whoonearthcares.com and it is an initiative of the Australian Conservation Found Read More…
In Redfern, a group of Aboriginal men, and a Maori, have been trained and are running the Gamarada Men’s Self Healing Program reports the South Sydney Herald of June 2008. Read More…
May 20 saw the official opening of Barnardos’ much-anticipated Yurungai Learning Centre in partnership with the Factory Community Centre in Waterloo. The official ceremony was chaired by Yurungai participants, Liam McDonnell and Serika Shillingsworth reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald Read More…
While Volunteer Week was being celebrated across the nation, at the Yaama Dhiyaan café on Wilson Street over one hundred local community members were meeting to thank one another for making their neighbourhood a better place to live reports Phillip Fernandez in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008. Read More…
Fair Trade is an international consumer revolution that is growing at a tremendous rate because of the hard work and vision of people like Roberto Orellana, owner of Mayan Coffee and Xocolat in Waterloo. The increasing demand of consumers for products that not only look and taste good, but also supp Read More…
Inna Goubina, who arrived in Australia from Georgia 14 years ago, is a research officer at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern. She has also been an author and poet, and interviewer with a Russian-language magazine called Australian Mosaic: Australian Russian Language Almanac reports Andrew Co Read More…
“More a meditation than a picture” is how Carl Milton describes his prize-winning painting, ‘Sydney’. The Waterloo resident’s first ever entry into an art competition has received top honours in the City of Sydney’s 2008 Multicultural Art Competition reports Linda Daniele in the South Sydney Herald Read More…
Despite the Rudd Government promising to remove all forms of anti-gay discrimination, about 100 people turned up for the International Day Against Homophobia rally in Newtown on Friday May 16 reports norrie mAy-welby in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008. Read More…
At a glittering Century Ball celebration dinner on Friday May 23, the South Sydney District Junior Football Club gathered en masse to celebrate the centenary of the game and to name its South Sydney Juniors Team of the Century reports Perry Johnstone in the South Sydney Herald of June 2008.
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