Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
THERE is one in almost every suburban centre and country town in Australia – a bronze digger in a slouch hat or a sandstone monument marking the sacrifice made by Australia’s servicemen and women reports Paul Bibby Sydney Morning Herald April 10, 2008. Read More…
In this opinion piece on nzherald.co.nz Irfan Yusuf, a Sydney lawyer who won the 2007 Allen & Unwin Iremonger Award for public affairs writing puts the Coloured Digger story into the broader colonial war context. Read More…
ON ANZAC DAY WE WILL REMEMBER THEM – They left the Large to see the world and to fight a bloody war in support of their country and our allies. Sadly many did not return reports this media release from Friends of Eveleigh on 24th April 2008. Read More…
HOUSING NSW playgrounds in Redfern and Waterloo are no place for children, with rusty equipment, sharp edges, broken swings and missing bolts just accidents waiting to happen, mothers said. Owen and Samantha (pictured) just want a safe place to play, with equipment that works reports Robert Burton-B Read More…
HOUSING NSW has contradicted Housing Minister Matt Brown about the failure of a new Waterloo Graffiti eradication program. The Minister announced the program last month and at a press conference at the Marton public housing building said the new program was to target graffiti both “inside and outsid Read More…
WITH the MTV awards taking place this weekend, Redfern residents around Australian Technology Park are getting ready for another noisy Saturday night reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 23rd April 2008. Read More…
REDFERN resident Irene Doutney has spent her life fighting for Sydney’s less fortunate. Now the veteran aid worker and volunteer has turned her hand to politics, aiming to become the second Greens councillor on Sydney Council come September’s election reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd Read More…
HILLSONG Church has been accused of infiltrating the South Sydney Police and Community Youth Club in the guise of volunteers in order to recruit children reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008. Read More…
THIS Anzac Day, an often forgotten but vital contingent of diggers will be remembered at Redfern reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008. Read More…
Speaking in Redfern last night at the opening of the Coloured Digger-2 exhibition at the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern ANZAC Day March Coordinator, Pastor Ray Minniecon, last night issued an open invitation to supporters in the community to march with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicem Read More…