Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Urban slum, Aboriginal icon or real-estate goldmine? Depending on the beholder, The Block signifies many different things and inspires both fear and affection in Sydneysiders. Barely 8,000 square metres in size, it’s cordoned off from the rest of Redfern by four streets – Eveleigh, Caroline, Hugo an Read More…
Years ago the Gadigal – Sydney’s Aboriginal people – travelled in a circle. They’d spend six months at a waterhole, eat, drink, fish, hunt and dance. When water got low or food got scarce, they’d move onto the next waterhole. A few seasons later they’d come back to find the waterhole was full and al Read More…
A MASSIVE police presence, including Public Order and Riot Squad have arrived at The Block, after the overnight stabbing murder of a 23-year-old Aboriginal man in the Redfern’s notorious Everleigh Street last night reports Lauren Wiliams The Daily Telegraph May 22, 2008. Read More…
Gathering Ground celebrates the children and community of the Block. Stephen Dunne reports in the Sydney Morning Herald of May 23, 2008. Read More…
QUEENSLAND-based construction firm Watpac has won the contract to build the Seven Network’s new $120 million headquarters in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern. Read More…
This letter from Robert Domm Chief Executive Officer Redfern Waterloo Authority appeared in the letter / opinion page of the central of 21st May 2008 in response to the article last week on human services.
This letter from Nicola Cunningham appeared in the letter / opinion page of the central of 21st May 2008 in response to the article and letter last week on the need for more fenced playground in Redfern. Read More…
ERSKINEVILLE residents have claimed victory in their fight to prevent a two-storey Woolworths supermarket being built at the Hive Complex on Erskineville Rd writes Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 21 May2008. Read More…
A CHARITABLE program that makes $5 Opera House tickets available to low-income earners is transforming lives with a dose of high culture reports Robert Burton-Bradley in the Central of 21 May2008. Read More…
THE Federal Budget, handed down last week, included almost $50 million for local universities and $50 million for cancer research at Camperdown writes Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 21 May 2008. Read More…