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Friends of Erskineville have stepped up their Internet-based campaign in opposition to the proposal of a two-storey supermarket. The momentum has continued to gather pace with more than 3,000 people signing petitions in local shops and online reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of March 20 Read More…

Rosebery residents met face-to-face with Hillsong last month to decide the fate of the building of a 2,700-seat mega-church at an old RTA site in Rosebery reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008. Read More…

REDFERN rugby league hopefuls will have a home ground for the first time in almost 80 years when they share Redfern Park and Oval with the South Sydney Rabbitohs writes Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 5th March 2008. Read More…

ABORIGINAL Housing Company chief executive Micheal Mundine says nothing will stop the company’s Pemulwuy Project for The Block, despite the volunteer organisation being unable to pay an assessment fee required by the Planning Department writes Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 5th March 2008. Read More…

One hundred years ago, the Eveleigh rail yards were filled with train carriages and noisy machinery. These days, visitors are more likely to encounter break dancers, dinosaur puppets or a studio audience for So You Think You Can Dance Australia writes Louise Schwartzkoff in the SMH of March 6, 2008. Read More…

With the start of the university year approaching, many young students will be leaving home for the first time, often into shared housing reports this media statement from Office of Fair Trading on 19 February 2008. Read More…

JUST seven months ago, the future for Chris Davies was looking very bleak. The 18-year-old was unemployed, had no contact with his family and roamed the streets of Sydney’s inner-city Redfern Brad Norington in The Australian of March 04, 2008. Read More…

A PLAN to renovate a Redfern community centre and invite Aboriginal artists to repaint a destroyed mural has reopened old wounds in the rapidly changing suburb, pitting some residents against members of the indigenous community writes Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter of the SMH on March 4, 2008 Read More…

FORMER high-ranking Hillsong member Leigh Coleman has been accused of deliberately misleading the public and the media as the battle for Rosebery’s future intensifies reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 27th February 2008. Read More…

SYDNEY faces the loss of significant rail and Labor union movement history unless more is done to preserve the Eveleigh rail yards, local group Friends of Eveleigh (FOE) has said. At the centre of the debate is the heritage listed Large Erecting Shop, the only remaining building at the rail yards st Read More…