Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
The much loved 3801 steam locomotive will no longer be located or operated from Sydney after November under current plans by RailCorp according to this media statement from 3801 Limited on 13 July 2006. Read More…
The ILC has now created a web page on their site with details of the National Indigenous Youth Development Centre Redfern. The site contains PDF fact sheets on the services that will be using the new centre as well as PDF files of two of the three display boards at the unveiling of plans for… Read More…
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has established a site in Redfern to protest against the NSW Government’s failure to allow new housing on The Block. The Redfern Waterloo Authority recently rezoned The Block and consequently limited the number of residential properties that could be built on the land rep Read More…
The founders of Sydney’s famed Edna’s Table restaurants have teamed up with the Redfern Aboriginal community to create a hospitality training college for local school leavers reports Judith White in the July 2006 edition of the South Sydney Herald. Read More…
Last year, The South Sydney Herald had an article from Denise Davis who had been to the big apple, New York, and looked with interest at Harlem – the sometime infamous New York suburb which over the past decade has been transformed. She drew some comparison between Harlem and Redfern. Here, former N Read More…
I am a Black American woman from California. I studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, with a specialisation in African Areas. Soon after I graduated, I went on to work in Africa and was based in Harare, Zimbabwe. This extensive experience in international work has helped contribute Read More…
In your June 2006 edition, you ran an article ‘Local MP calls for Street Drinkers to be moved into Wet Centres’. It will be interesting to see if your paper is more interested in providing the ‘Harm Minimisation Industry’ mantra with an unchallenged forum than providing balance reporting on the trea Read More…
The Lions Club is establishing a branch in Redfern-Waterloo, with the aim of helping the local community through various projects. The formative meeting was held in early June and the branch will be officially created once more local members join. The Lions already have in Australia over 1,400 clubs Read More…
City of Sydney Council is considering the introduction of a centralised waiting list for all childcare facilities in the Local Government area. Deputy Lord Mayor Verity Firth says her experiences as an expectant mother led her to call for a this type of waiting list because the current system was a Read More…
A birthday party atmosphere greeted the media and the Minister for Community Services, Reba Meagher and the Member for Heffron, Kristina Keneally when they arrived at the community based Poet’s Corner Preschool on a recent cold June morning. The occasion was the presentation of a cheque for $110,000 Read More…