The Demolition Begins as Redfern Gets a Revamp
Public housing in troubled Redfern in Sydney’s Inner Suburbs is getting a major facelift reports Victoria Owens on Macquarie National News of 9 January 2008. Read More…
Redfern’s $28 Million Housing Redevelopment Underway
Minister for Housing, Matt Brown today announced the demolition of old public housing buildings in Redfern is underway to make way for better, greener homes for those in need reports this media release from Matt Brown NSW Minister for Housing on 9 January 2008. Read More…
Blowing Waterloo’s stack for green square
WORK on the much-vaunted $1.7 billion Green Square town centre, first mooted in the early 1990s by the Keating government, has finally begun with the demolition of the former Waterloo Incinerator at Zetland reports Wendy Frew the SMH’s Urban Affairs Editor on 1 January 2008. Read More…
Russell Crowe dumps cheerleaders for children
First Russell Crowe made the decidedly un-Hollywood move of dismissing the cheerleaders at his Sydney rugby league club. Now, continuing his campaign to make the game more family-friendly, the Oscar-winning actor has succeeded in banning gaming machines from the premises of the club, rejecting them Read More…
SOUTHS LEAGUES CLUB SAY NO TO POKIES
The South Sydney Leagues Club (SSLC) Board has reached a majority decision to have no poker machines in the Club upon completion of the redevelopment in 2008 reports this Press release from Souths on 21 December 2007. Read More…
Pokies dumped by Souths Leagues Club
The future of South Sydney Leagues Club will depend on a boost in memberships after it decided to remove its 60 poker machines – although the licences will be retained for a “rainy day” reports AAP on the SMH website on December 20, 2007. Read More…
Sydney Symphony concert for the isolated
IT WAS the final Sydney Symphony concert for 2007, but the first in a series of concerts each year to be attended by disadvantaged fans reports the Sydney Morning Herald of 16 December 2007. Read More…
The word is hope
At the end of a week in which the only news about Aboriginal Australia was the legal system’s failure to protect a 10-year-old girl gang-raped in Cape York, the scene at Redfern Town Hall on Friday was a timely antidote for despair reports Miranda Devine in the Sydney Morning Herald of 16 December 2 Read More…
Overall View from Walker – Philip Streets
This diagram was released by the DoH on 9 January 2008 when the Minister announced that work would commence on the redevelopment of Walker and Elizabeth Street DoH properties. PDF 2MB. Download: Overall from Walker-Phillip Corner.jpg »
Aerial view from Walker – Philip Corner
This diagram was released by the DoH on 9 January 2008 when the Minister announced that work would commence on the redevelopment of Walker and Elizabeth Street DoH properties. PDF 3.9MB. Download: Aerial from Walker-Phillip Corner.JPG »