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VOLUME ONE NUMBER FIFTY-ONE JUNE '07 CIRCULATION 21,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND IT'S A BUNCH OF ARTS! CONCERTS, EXHIBITIONS, REVIEWS, A NEW BRAIN- TEASING CROSSWORD! The Review PAGES 7– 10 Get Out! Foster's to evict Kensington Street tenants Samantha Van would be difficult. "In the not added new tenants since Sydney rental market, there's 2003 as the 17 terraces in T h e Fo s t e r ' s G r o u p , nought around." Kensington and Abercrombie through the property "We're having trouble and Streets were vacated. Four managers of the Carlton & we suspect our neighbours tenants remain in April 2007," United Breweries site, has are too. We're looking at going Mr Hey said. given eviction notices to from [paying rent of] $100 a The terraces deemed of the four tenants of terraces week to $500." heritage significance will be on Kensington Street in "Everything Foster's has retained but require extensive Chippendale. done is legal or correct. But conservation works, he I believe the process has continued. "The ultimate The eviction notice to tenant been curious." decision on the future of the Thane Browne was dated 10 Foster's disagrees. "We site and non-heritage protected April 2007. However, he said publicly announced our buildings will rest in the that he received the notice intention to close and vacate hands of the new owner and about a week later. 25 June is the former Kent Brewery (CUB) developer." the deadline to leave. site in 2003," Troy Hey, Foster's Foster's said the eviction of Mr Browne lives at 40 External Communications tenants is to facilitate the best Kensington St with partner Manger told the SSH. After results for site renewal. "While Robbie Jordan. "We're not the cancellation of a 2003 we will do whatever we can trying to stay here," he said. conditional sale, Foster's do to assist with relocation, "We can't fight this." sought planning approvals for the notice date is part of the "Robbie and I have full the site. It received concept sale process and cannot be time jobs, we can move approval in February 2007. shifted," Mr Hey concluded. out," Mr Browne said. Foster's then appointed Mr Browne and Ms Jordan However, to remain in the agents and is looking to agree are yet to receive any offer Kensington Street residents: Clare, Rebecca, and Digger the dog Photo: Ali Blogg area for his young daughter to a sale mid-year. "We have of help. TICKETS AT THE DOOR ONLY Support Independent Media! $12 A concert in support of Sunday 8th July, 4–8pm, Australian Technology Park (Henderson Rd, Eveleigh) With JACKIE ORSZACZKY, CAFE OF THE GATE OF SALVATION, WIRE MC & more! Y Join Big Brother's TIM BRUNERO (MC) & journalists WENDY BACON (UTS), ALEX MITCHELL (Ex-Sun Herald) and JACKIE ORSZACZK LAWRENCE GIBBONS (City Hub & City News) for fine music, food, drink, arts & crafts stalls, debate & discussion. The South Sydney Herald gratefully acknowledges the support of Australian Technology Park, the Redfern-Waterloo Authority, Appetite Cafe, Tripod Cafe, Guitar Jungle, South Sydney Community Aid. For more information please contact the email@example.com, 0400 008 338 or visit www.southsydneyherald.com.au The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo Telephone 0400 008 338 Phone/fax 02 9698 8949 The views expressed in this newspaper are News those of the author and the article and are not Green light for Green Square pool? necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. ADVERTISING firstname.lastname@example.com 0400 139 710 MAILING ADDRESS: PO Box 2360 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 Claire Thompson councillors asked to be advised of details for community facilities LETTERS It may be cold outside, but the in the Southern (Green Square) Please send letters and emails to: demand for a swimming pool in area. Council resolved to prepare a The South Sydney Herald. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Green Square is hotting up. feasibility study, including public Supply sender name and suburb. consultation for locating the Size: 150 words or less. The proposal to have a swimming proposed pool at the former South We may edit for legal or other reasons. pool at Green Square is an issue that Sydney council offices site, 132-138 Kristina Keneally, MP for Heffron, and 140 Joynton Avenue, Zetland. feels strongly about. "South of Cleve- A brief has been prepared with land Street there are no swimming project outcome defined and a EDITORIAL COMMITTEE pools, no active community facilities business plan is being developed. and no indoor sports facilities." She Recreation planning consultants goes on to add, "Residents that live SLG Group have been engaged north of Cleveland Street enjoy access to undertake the project. It is to 5 swimming pools and a number anticipated that the recommended of active community facilities." Facilities Mix, draft business plan Councillor Tony Poley, former and Project Brief will be avail- Lord Mayor of South Sydney which able for presentation to Council in covered the Green Square area until August this year. it merged with the City in 2004, The consultants have already agrees. "City of Sydney Council undertaken market research by MANAGING EDITOR has yet to resolve a Development phone survey and are completing Andrew Collis Application approval," he says. "An consultations with local community independent group did an initial groups and other stake holders. review of leisure facilities in the area The total budget projection is but there is no doubt that there is a currently $28 million based on need for aquatic facilities here." Cr provision alone and may vary once Poley adds, "Considering how fast Council determines the mix of facili- DAs can be put through, such as the ties and the timing and phasing of recently approved Surry Hills Library, construction. there is really no excuse for the Lord A spokesperson for Lord Mayor Mayor to have taken so long over Clover Moore said, "The intention CO-EDITOR this matter." is all there. It has all been planned. Dorothy McRae-McMahon At last week's Finance, Properties It is just a question of how long it Mentioned as a prospective site for new pool: the old Royal South Sydney Hospital Photo: Kitae Lee and Tenders Committee meeting, is going to take." Newtown local elected to Academy of Science Reem Al-Gharabally CO-EDITOR Trevor Davies "This century is going to be the century of preventative m e d i c i n e, " s a y s P r o f e s s o r Peter Lay, academic director of the Foundation for Inorganic chemistry at the University o f S y d n e y. L a s t m o n t h h e was elected as fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra, the chief scientific PHOTOGRAPHy Ali Blogg body in Australia, in recognition of his extensive research on biochemistry and cell biology. The softly spoken Newtown local is recognized internationally for his team's cutting edge work on developing micron sized x-ray and infrared beams for probing diseases and pharmaceuticals in cells and tissues. This new Ben Falkenmire technology which uses micron and sub-micron sized x-ray beams enables researchers to observe changes within cells and the effect of drugs and toxins on them. ASSISTANT-EDITOR Jessica Moore "By using these techniques to really look at the early stages of PRINTER disease we can then look at ways MPD that we can intervene at that stage 46-62 Maddox St, Alexandria 2015 and stop the damage before it GRAPHIC DESIGNER actually starts," he says. Robert Young His team at Sydney University has been using these techniques REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS to study a wide range of Dr Mualla Akinci Brenden Hills Jessica Amos Darren Mara degenerative disease such Jane Barton Samantha Van a s c a n c e r, c a r d i o v a s c u l a r Bill Birtles Peter Whitehead diseases, diabetes, arthritis and Peter Lay with an Electron Paramagnetic Resonance instrument for measuring metal ions in cells and biological tissues Photo: Andrew Collis Anna Christie norrie mAy-welby tooth decay. Todd Dagwell Claire Thompson Ben Falkenmire Candice Chung Professor Lay's research has potent but quite safe. We are very widely used anti-inflammatory i n N ew t ow n f o r t h e l a s t 2 2 already led to the development hopeful we can use these drugs to drugs have been linked to years, smiles when asked how "We gratefully acknowledge the many of new anti-inflammatory drugs treat arthritis in humans as well increased risk of cardiovascular he feels about his election to the volunteer contributors and distributors designed for the company Nature to replace Vioxx and Celebrex," disease, leading to Vioxx being Australian Academy of Science. who make this publication possible." Vet to treat leg damage on race he says. withdrawn from the market. "It is extra recognition which horses."Our drugs will be very Vioxx and Celebrex, the most Professor Lay, who has lived always helps," he says. The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 News ' Easy access to Neighbourhood Centre Redfern open Trevor Davies community and this diversity aged, a women's group and so should be reflected in the ability on." Lisa said that some activities The Newtown Neighbourhood of all members of the community such as the Homeless Person Legal for Centre (NNC) is currently working to access the services provided Service and day activities for people on two important projects. The for them." from the Greek community had to first is to ensure ease of access to The second project may not be held off site due to the lack of the Centre for all of its clients. be as straightforward, as the space. "We also support groups NNC is seeking a solution to its that receive no funding such as the The organization, which rents the severe shortage of space. NNC Domestic Violence Support group, business! historic Newtown Town Hall from co-coordinator Lisa Burn told a Mental Health Support group Marrickville Council, plays a vital the Herald that currently there and a Survivors of Abuse group by role in the community. Information are 22 staff and nearly the same allowing them to use the Centre and advice is given on a variety of number of volunteers working for during the day at no charge." support services, and programs are the association. They are housed It would seem that building delivered to the aged, the disabled, in five office spaces, three of extensions are definitely called for. low-income earners and those from which are very small and there is How will Council respond to the non-English speaking backgrounds. only one large general space for legitimate needs of this important The upstairs section cannot be used centre activities. organization? by visitors with mobility issues "On a daily basis we see or by parents or carers of small approximately 70 visitors at the Carol Nehme has worked for several years children and babies in prams. front counter in need of information in various roles within the Department Of The NNC is asking Marrickville and support. We run many group Ageing, Disability And Home Care (DADHC) Council to overcome the problem activities at the centre including – as a project officer with recreation and by installing a lift. Tai Chi, Gentle Exercise for over peer support and more recently as an As the Centre's website says, 55s, not-for-profit Bingo, a weekly "We operate within a diverse knitting group, day care for the administrator with responsibilities for home care services. Carol enjoys her work–and work-related opportunities for The Redfern Street upgrade inner-city adventures in Glebe, Annandale is taking shape and while work is and Newtown. underway, your local retailers need Cerebral Palsy does not stop Carol from being involved in community activities. your support. After all, they're the What she finds most prohibitive, however, backbone of the local village. is lack of easy access to public buildings. For information on the Redfern and Regent Streets "In this day and age," she says, "it's an upgrade visit www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au issue of discrimination." or call 9265 9333. "Heritage issues are important, but not as important as safety and access for all people – the very young and very old, parents with prams, injured people, as well as people in wheelchairs. They have just as much a right as anybody." Ms Nehme recently met with Lisa Burns, Centre Co-ordinator of the NNC. The two discussed plans submitted to Council to improve ease of access to the Centre. "I support what Lisa is trying to do here. I think the Council will support it, too." Carol Nehme and Lisa Burns look over plans to improve access for all Photo: Andrew Collis Another make-over for Oxford Street Candice Chung easy mix to make it comfortable volume of traffic in the area. for people to move around," It is also understood that palm Oxford Street's Taylor Square Ms Forsythe said. "It's a well trees had been planted in the area has been flagged as one of the used road thoroughfare and there but were subsequently removed key projects in the latest series are some very significant historic because the authorities received of upgrades to be undertaken by buildings in the area." numerous complaints about people the City of Sydney Council over The Council is considering plans urinating on the trees. the next four years. to install more public art, planting While consensus is yet to be trees as well as reactivating the reached on the validity of yet The Lord Mayor Clover Moore former substation and underground another upgrade of the square, announced a $350 million Local toilet on the northern side of the local businesses point out the Action Plan in March, following square as a spot for a café. need to improve the way public a 12-month consultation with the Liberal Councillor, Shayne spaces are used. "The south side public. The strategy, according to Mallard, believes a café would be of Taylor Square has become a Ms Moore, is aimed to "preserve popular in the area, but expresses congregating point for people to and enhance Sydney's City doubts over other aspects of the decide where to go next after a of Villages." planned upgrades. "Every park night out," Darlinghurst Business "We certainly welcome the and footpath within the City of Partnership president Andrew p l a n n e d u p g ra d e s, " Syd n ey Sydney is having money lavished Duckmanton said. "If you drive Chamber of Commerce Executive on it at an extraordinary speed. But past there any time in the weekend Director, Patricia Forsythe said. if you go around the CBD, it's still morning, it's probably one of the "Basically Taylor Square sits as a not to the standard it should be. most off-putting scenes that you gateway to the CBD, and because The Pitt Street Mall is cracked up can imagine" Oxford Street is such a well known and ruined. It's an embarrassment. Mr Duckmanton said a café shopping street itself, any money It's not a terribly good look for a or additional retail shops could put in there will add to the general world city," Cr Mallard said. attract a mix of people who would appearance of the area," she said. Former South Sydney Mayor, Cr visit the area for more day-time Despite being geographically Tony Pooley, had been involved in activities. "These are enormous central, Taylor Square has long the last upgrade of Taylor Square challenges. It's making sure that carried the reputation of being a four years ago, which "essentially there are infrastructures in place "difficult public space. It's not an hasn't worked" because of the high where people can feel safe." The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 News Have You Heard? Trevor Davies Lions Club Redfern Waterloo Charter Night – Friday 22 June Every suburb needs a Lions Club. The Charter Night for the Lions Club of Redfern Waterloo will be held at 7.30pm on Friday 22 June at the Masonic Club – Castlereagh Inn, 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney at a cost of $40. If you would like more information about the Lions Club Redfern Waterloo or about attending the Charter Night, please contact the club president Norma Ingram on 0404 094 249. The second Tuesday in the month at the Rex Centre in the Cross It all began when Bob Percival started showing movies in his flat in 'the Loo' (Wooloomooloo) on beautiful 16mm film. He chose some of those brilliant classics which proved so popular that now in conjunction with the Kings Cross Arts Guild & Sydney City Council, he has decided to make the gig bigger and better. Their new venue is the Macleay New roles for Cathy Wills and Kate Melhopt Photo: Andrew Collis Room, Rex Centre, 1st Floor above Kings Cross Community Surry Hills Festival is on! Centre (next to Maggie's Restaurant), 50-58 Macleay Street. On Tuesday 10th of July at 5.45pm, Bob will be showing Bringing Up Baby (1938) by Howard Hawks. Cary Grant Bill Birtles Along with the weekly Surry Hills psychiatric social worker in the UK, plays an absent-minded anthropologist busily assembling market and government support, the and working with conflict-affected The Surry Hills Festival will festival allows the Neighbourhood and tsunami-affected communities a dinosaur and planning to marry his straight-laced fiancee go ahead this year, after the Centre to provide a range of services in Sri Lanka. until the order of his life is shattered by an encounter with City of Sydney decided to delay t o t h e c o m m u n i t y, i n c l u d i n g renovations to Prince Alfred childcare programs, language an anarchic heiress played by Katherine Hepburn. The film Park. The popular festival, which and activity classes and walk-in Surry Hills Festival is 'Keeping it Green' is structured around the intellect-instinct opposition. As in first moved to the park last year, advocacy. again this year, after last year's highly was going to be cancelled – until However the centre is temporarily other Hawks' comedies, male and female roles are inverted successful Festival on the grass at Prince the council recently delayed the operating from Bourke St Public Alfred Park. This year the Festival will with the woman taking the active, aggressive role. A great upgrade until next year. School while awaiting the construction of a new building at move to a new date of 13 October, with screwball comedy. Cathy Wills, the director of its home on Crown Street. the last bands closing out at 6pm. the Surry Hills Festival, says the The new coordinator of the centre, The Festival is looking for artists, festival will now happen in October, Kate Melhopt, says the temporary street performers, bands, DJs, roving Matavi and Tarunga residents bothered by which should ensure warmer relocation is putting a strain on the spring weather after last year's services the Centre offers. "Drop- entertainers, etc to complete the line-up 'Stand Up' chilly autumn outing. "It's a great in advocacy is harder because of of eclectic entertainment. If you are It seems that Stand Up – a group of inner city activists opportunity for volunteers in the the relocation and fewer parents interested in performing at the Festival community to contribute and get are sending their children to our (normally very responsible) – have stuffed up. They letter- involved," she said. childcare because it's a bit further please send a bio with a demo CD, any photos, and all contact details to: boxed the residents of Matavai and Tarunga with pamphlets Ms Wills, who is taking on away in Chippendale," she told the direction role after being on the SSH. which claim that Frank Sartor's RWA has announced plans the festival team last year, says But, she said, it is important Festival Director, Surry Hills to demolish their homes. This seems like a bizarre action to organising the event is a huge task, that people realise the centre is Neighbourhood Centre, c/o Bourke but she's "expecting great support still operating and offering the Street Public School, Cnr of Bourke & take as it is not the case. REDWatch remembers a few years from local business." same services. Mort Streets, Surry Hills 2010. ago, when there was a big demonstration over the Waterloo Besides providing the community Ms Melhopt has taken on with music, entertainment, rides, the coordinator role at the Applications close June 29, 2007. Standards Towers, a whole range of speakers turned up and animals and an eclectic mix of neighbourhood centre after working the local member Kristina Keneally had promised to chain market stalls, the festival serves in a range of community-service For more information try the website the purpose of raising funds for the jobs here and overseas. These www.surryhillsfestival.org.au herself to the doors of Batavia. That was back in 2004. Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre. include working as a mental health The battle was won and the towers are safe. If anything does happen, I'm sure you'll see Kristina chained to the front door. Doggy shrine for Regatza Friends do it tough My friend Brenda Mailing has worked in the inner city for the Claire Thompson known in Ivy Lane for sitting in Regatza had lived together for her favourite spot, in front of an 15 years and sadly the dog had Aboriginal community for years, and enjoyed the friendship Poems and tributes, flowers electricity box, where the colourful to be put down after her battle of many. Last month, she had the sad news that her mother and a basket of rose petals are shrine has now developed. with cancer. Residents knew she just some of the memorials that Named after a revolutionary radio was struggling with illness and passed on. I'm sure on behalf of all her friends that our residents of Darlington have added station and meaning 'girl' in Italian, realised she had passed away thoughts and prayers are with Brenda and her family in this to a doggy shrine for a beloved pet this special dog brought much joy to when she was no longer in her pooch who has passed away. everyone in the street and was a big special spot. difficult time. It's also sad to see that Warren Mundine and part of life in the community. One A wake was held on May 20 his family have lost their father, Roy, and our thoughts and Regatza, a friendly 16-and-a-half child wrote, "You always made me where community members year-old Kelpie Labrador, was happy when I saw you after school, were handed photos of the pet prayers are with them all. adored by young and old alike in sitting in your favourite spot." and lit candles and incense in the community. She became well Owner Meredith Williams and remembrance. CITYNEWS eaRTh hoUR - eaRTh aLWaYS On the evening of March 31 embrace Earth Hour. Sydneysiders were asked Earth Hour is about to switch off their lights and consciousness-raising, appliances for Earth Hour, about capturing people's with the community and imaginations and the biggest corporations in empowering them to Australia taking part. make a difference. Now I have called on the The City's existing Green world to make a stand CBD program to help against global warming companies "green" their and follow Sydney's lead buildings – not for an hour, by making Earth Hour a but permanently – was global event in future years. given an enormous boost The biggest impediment by Earth Hour. More than we face is not the lack of 35 companies are now on new technologies to tackle the program. climate change - it is a lack Clover and locals at the celebration of political will. EDMUND RESCH RESERVE COMMUNITY CELEBRATION At the C40 Large Cities The City recently celebrated the rejuvenation of Edmund Resch Reserve in Redfern. Upgrades to Climate Summit in New the reserve include a new Village Green lawn area, new seating, a new drinking fountain and dog York I asked Mayors, tap, and improved turf areas. The park now boasts an attractive pedestrian corridor into the park representing more than 250 from South Dowling Street, with grass and garden beds consolidated, million people in some of CLOVER MOORE MP and native trees to help provide shade. the world's largest cities, to Lord Mayor CITY BUDGET HAS A GREEN FOCUS HAVE YOUR SAY The City's draft 2007/08 Budget progresses spending Residents of Darlinghurst, East on major projects with a focus on local environmental Sydney, Elizabeth Bay, Kings initiatives. There is provision for a new Live Green Cross, Potts Point, Rushcutters festival on 25 August, $1.5m to become carbon Bay and Woolloomooloo are neutral, a new Waste Management Strategy and invited to discuss and hear more 28,500 new recycling bins for residents. Money has about issues affecting the City been allocated for 1,300 new trees and maintenance East at a Community Forum on of parks will be stepped up. The Budget is on Tuesday, 26 June. The forum will exhibition at www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au until 8 June. be held at the Rex Centre, off Baroda Street, Kings Cross. Residents of Alexandria, Beaconsfield, MOVING AHEAD AT GREEN SQUARE Rosebery, St Peters and Zetland are invited to a community forum Work will soon begin to design public areas of the Green NOMINATE YOUR for the City South on Thursday, 28 Square Town Centre, with the City and its development FAVOURITE LOCAL June at Green Square Community partner Landcom appointing consultants mcgregor + partners BUSINESS Facility. Both meetings will be to design the project. The subject area covering 14ha around Applaud your favourite held from 6pm until 8.30pm. For Green Square Railway Station will include a network of parks local business in the fourth details, call 9265 9333 or visit www. and open spaces such as a civic plaza and neighbourhood annual City of Sydney cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/meetings. activities areas, and a range of new community facilities, Business Awards. Vote for an such as a library community centre and an aquatic centre. exceptional business across 29 SYDNEY GOES ITALIAN categories including fashion, fresh food, environmental Enjoy a taste of Italy on Sunday 3 June at Primo Italiano services and best innovative staged in the city's original Little Italy, East Sydney. Stanley business. Vote online at www. and Yurong streets will become an Italian piazza between thebusinessawards.com.au 11am and 5pm with a fountain, al fresco dining, gourmet food or look out for entry coupons stalls, big bands, roving musicians, street drama, an Italian at local businesses, branches pop music beer garden, vintage scooters and a children's of the Commonwealth Bank or parade. For more information visit www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov. call 9264 0757. Nominations au/whatson or call 9265 9333. close Tuesday 24 July. CAPTURE A PIECE OF SYDNEY LIFE Photographers are invited to submit works for Sydney's favourite photographic exhibition - Sydney Life. Twenty-six images will be selected and enlarged for exhibition in Hyde Park North during the City's Art & About Festival in October. The Sydney Life Prize, sponsored by the City of Sydney and AMP Capital Investors, is valued at $10,000. For an entry form visit www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au or call 9265 9062. Competition closes 3 July. ConTaCT The CITY neIGhBoURhooD SeRVICe CenTRe, ReDFeRn neIGhBoURhooD SeRVICe CenTRe, eRSKIneVILLe Phone: 9265 9333 Tower 2, 1 Lawson Square, Redfern NSW 2016 104 Erskineville Road, Erskineville NSW 2043 www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm Saturday 9.00am to 12 noon. Closed public holidays. Closed public holidays. The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 News 1967 Referendum – 90%"Yes for Aborigines" that were inhabited by Aborigines the Federal Government to make were not covered by the census, with special laws that applied to Aboriginal the government making only rough Australians and took on a symbolic population estimates. significance as a first step towards "They counted sheep, dogs, cattle, reconciliation. even camels in the desert – but no blacks. Bobby agreed that although the It was dangerous to count them because Aboriginal community has come a they'd have to supply them with housing long way since the historic vote, much and health facilities, so it was easier by work is still needed to be done in areas keeping the numbers down," Bobby said. such as housing and health care. "After On 27 May 1967, over 90 per cent of housing, health follows. You can't get Australians voted "Yes for Aborigines" one without the other. There are also not in the referendum, with overwhelming enough services for mental health – with support showing across all states. the drugs that are going around today, The constitutional amendments allowed the medical service is overloaded." Candice Chung Bobby at the Survival Expresso Bar in Redfern Photo: Ali Blogg see your mother or father or your Open all hours – at what cost? grandparents – you had to get written Bobby Perry remembers the 1967 permission," he recounts. "Leading up to Candice Chung and Claire Thompson Referendum as a turning point in the darker chapters of Australian the referendum, most of us were either brought up in the reserves or missions Owners of late-trading pubs may be What key players think history. The long-time political and many of us were isolated from the lapping up the profits, but many are about 24-hour licensing: activist, now 68, was a member of the mainstream society, right up to 1967." finding the surge in alcohol-fuelled "Police normally oppose 24-hour licences. Aboriginal Progress Association which The embattled activist said it was violence hard to swallow. campaigned for Indigenous citizens' important to fight for changes like the They tend to cause all sorts of trouble." right to be properly accounted for in referendum because the Indigenous For late-shift workers and vigilant party- - Mark Walton, Superintendent of Redfern Police the population census and be included population was desperately in need of goers, the thought of having a place to in policy considerations. improvements in welfare provisions. knock back a drink or three in the steely "A responsible licensee doesn't want to attract "We had meetings to discuss campaigns pre-dawn hours can be a comforting one. any negative attention to their pub. It's also "Politically it was a bad time," Bobby but no halls around here, in Redfern While there have been countless debates important not to annoy the neighbours or create said, "The Liberal Party was in power or in the city, would rent to Aboriginal over the culture of all-night boozing, experts repercussions for yourself with the Licensing Board, and the politicians were still living in people. They'd say, 'They're all drunks, and inner-city residents are claiming that the Police or Community Groups." the 1800s." they're trouble makers'. We had to get issue is far graver than a matter of taste. "Our lives were governed by the white Trade Unionists to book a hall and Earlier this year, a report released by - Paul Grinham, licensee of Tudor Hall, Redfern Aboriginal Welfare Act. If you lived on then we'd take over." the NSW Bureau of Crime and Statistics a reserve, you had to get permission Prior to the constitutional (BOCSAR) revealed that violent crimes "If I had the right type of clientele I would open later from the white manager to go and amendments, remote rural areas have climbed almost 50 per cent in the past but it's just not feasible in this area." decade. The alarming trend is believed to be - Geoff Chadwick, licensee and manager fuelled by alcohol-related assaults involving of Somerset Hotel, Redfern young men aged between 18 and 24. "I've really had my eyes opened since taking over this pub," licensee and manager community who are often viewed as of the Somerset Hotel Geoff Chadwick said. problem drinkers. passion for lEarning, prepariNg for life The hotel has a licence enabling it to stay According to Dr Weatherburn, there is open until 1am yet management chooses to simply no magic formula when it comes to shut at 9pm in order to avoid the drunken determining how many late-trading licences and disorderly crowds. should be granted in an area. "If I had the right type of clientele I would "There's no set point at which it all open later but it's just not feasible in this becomes intolerable," he said, "But clearly area. Licensees are always on the lookout the more licensed premises you have, the for someone who is a potential threat," Mr more risk of trouble you've got. So Councils Chadwick said. need to consider how many licensed Director of the Bureau, Don Weatherburn, premises they've already got when they're said the rising number of late-trading pubs deciding whether to grant a new licence is a key factor behind the violence caused or extend the licence to someone who's by excessive drinking. There are currently already there." 600 venues around the country issued with Last month, the State Government's chief 24-hour liquor licences, with 444 of those advisor on alcohol, Professor Ian Webster, located in NSW. called for a ban on 24-hour licensed pubs. "Late-trading premises are more likely to Professor Webster said in a public forum have problems with assaults because people that where there is a concentration of who go there are far more likely to become hotels and pubs operating for extended intoxicated," Dr Weatherburn said. hours, there is a higher amount of injuries "Basically, no matter how committed you – causing hospital emergency departments are to the responsible service of alcohol, if to become "crowded-out." your pub is open for 24 hours and someone An earlier study by the BOCSAR has is entitled to sit in that pub drinking for 18 found that a small proportion of hotels hours, virtually no matter how slowly they accounted for almost 60 per cent of all the drink, they're going to end up drunk." assaults on hotel premises in Inner Sydney, At the nearby Railz Hotel, management with these assault 'hot spots' more likely admits it is a constant challenge to ensure to be premises which have extended or a responsible level of service. "It is often 24-hour trading. very hard to pick those who are drunk Despite concerns and recommendations, and people who just can't speak very late-trading premises have continued to St Andrew's Cathedral School, Gawura campus, is an well," Assistant Manager Simon Keeble flourish in Sydney's entertainment hub. Anglican day school occupying a unique place in the city said. "We are very vigilant. Unfortunately Only two months ago, a court has given trouble often occurs when a sober person permission to a new nightclub in Taylor of Sydney and offering dynamic learning opportunities for buys take-away alcohol for friends who Square's Kinselas Hotel to stay open for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. are drunk." 24 hours. The nightclub has agreed to The Herald was told that Railz Hotel has trade until 3am to abide with council attempted to secure an extended licence but conditions and will remain on a 12-month Enrolling from KindErgartEn to YEar 5. was refused on the grounds that it would trial ahead of lodging its application for a be taking advantage of the Aboriginal permanent licence. For an Enrolment Application or to attend a School Tour, contact the Head of Campus on 02 9286 9500. telephone 02 9286 9500 | Sydney Square, Sydney NSW 2000 | www.gawura.nsw.edu.au More news on page 11... Wire MC funky brotha from da Bowra Mish SSH Wire MC also collaborated with Morganics on Stereotype – a production that is a mixture T his MC – also a guitarist, songwriter, actor and community worker – brings power to the people with his own brand of of theatre, hip hop and comedy – which has appeared at the Sydney Opera House and other venues around the country. The two "abodigital" hip hop! are currently rehearsing a new show called Survival Tactics. Wire MC, a Gumbayngirri descendant Survival Tactics is described as "a hip hop from Bowraville on the mid-north coast of theatre show with spoken word, graffiti and New South Wales, has been bringing his physical theatre combining to tell gritty, country rebel beats to the city streets and uplifting stories of urban life." Wire MC will play the Support Independent Media! concert at country towns of Australia for the past 8 years. Showing across Australia during July, it also As well as performing at venues and features MC and dancer Maya Jupiter, Tongan Australian Technology Park on Sunday 8 July, 4–8pm. Tickets $12 at the door. festivals around the country, including soul singer SistaNative, Bboy Jay from the Homebake, WOMADelaide, Yabun and Wickid Force breakers, and representing the Support Independent Media! is a fundraiser for the South Sydney Herald. Join us the Dreaming Festival, Wire MC travels to Gravity Warriors, Nick Power. for fine food, drink, music and lively debate, arts/crafts & more. remote communities around Australia with Wire MC sees hip hop as the "new fellow MC Morganics, conducting hip hop corroboree" for young Indigenous Australians, Also playing: Jackie Orszaczky, Café of the Gate of Salvation, the Clarity Project. workshops for young Indigenous people. who are looking for a way to express One of these workshops led to the successful themselves and their culture in a positive way. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Australian Technology Park, the Redfern-Waterloo Wilcannia Mob, who had a surprise hit with Authority, Appetite Café, Tripod Café, Guitar Jungle, South Sydney Community Aid. Down River in 2002. Check: www.myspace.com/survivaltacticsonline Support Independent Media and pick up a Bluesman Strat! Leo Piplos of the Guitar Jungle in Redfern has kindly donated a 2003 Bluesman Strat electric guitar for auction at our fundraiser on 8 July. The Bluesman Strat is classic black, with humbucker and 2 single-coil pickups to give a variety of tones (ranging from Les Paul, SG, to Stratocaster, to Telecaster). It's a professional guitar – and a very special instrument used to sell the whole Bluesman Strat range here in Australia. Great-sounding, great-playing, with versatility to match! Fully serviced and set up! The guitar is autographed by rock guitarist Pete Northcote (Richard Clapton, Dragon, Margaret Ulrich, Paul Kelly, Yothu Yindi), whose own CDs are available from the Guitar Jungle, or from Pete's website (www.peternorthcote.com). Check out Pete's latest CD, 'Conditions Apply'. 5 minutes with... Pete Northcote – check page 10 For fine, famous and vintage guitars and amps (servicing and repairs) visit the Guitar Jungle at 153–155 Regent Street in Redfern. Phone Leo on 9698 1300 Pete Northcote and Leo Piplos with the Bluesman Strat Photo: Andrew Collis The Review June 2007 come as you are common ground Redfern photographer, Jack Carnegie, has been photographing local people whom he describes as "...members of the modern working class of inner and eastern Sydney. They include a builder, painter, union organiser, artist, teacher, public servant, students and community Julie Paterson workers. They are also the unique and colourful characters that make Common Ground the area such a great place to live. They are neither rich nor famous Screen prints and paintings on recycled textiles and found wood and are, as far as I know, happy to be that way." Opening Saturday 2nd June 5–7pm Until 23rd June Jack Carnegie's exhibition "Come as you are" will be on Sheffer Gallery display at the Regard Gallery 372 Wilson St, Chippendale 38 Lander St, Darlington 2008 Sydney 16 June to 1st July. Open Sat and Sun 12 to 3pm. Indigenous artists dream together at Performance Space Ben Falkenmire Indigenous artists will get together for the first time at Performance Space in their new CarriageWorks location later this month for an eclectic mix of shows centred around the theme Ngalaringi Nangami Dyaralang ('Our Dreaming'). Lily Shearer, Indigenous performance broker at Performance Space, said the two nights of works were an exciting introduction of indigenous artists to the community. "The theme reflects the belief that contemporary dreaming, what we're feeling now and how we are living, is just as important to indigenous people as traditional dreaming," said Shearer. Choreographed by Vicki Van Hout, the opening night on Friday 22 June will feature a 'Welcome to country' contemporary song piece and the gracious and hilarious swipes at everyday society by the female comedy duo Bigitbri. Uncle Greg Simms will showcase his wisdom in wood carving, calling on the intelligence of his La Perouse elders while Will Jarrett, also known as Wire MC, will collaborate with Redfern based painter Adam Hill and his sister Tammy for a hip hop theatre production that shakes the consensus-fluff about land, culture and people. The two nights will also feature the Black Seed dancers, cooking performances by catering group Yaama Dhinawan and a host of short and savvy films. Two in particular to watch out for are Sonja Brindle's Redfern, Aborigine, Me which looks at modern day life on the Block, and Billy Mcpherson's Pullin Around, a refreshing reminder of the rich possibilities in indigenous relationships. Ngalaringi Nangami Dyaralanng is on Friday 22 June and Saturday 23 June from 8pm at the Performance Space in the CarriageWorks building. Tickets are $15 per night. If you are an indigenous performer and thinking about going on tour, check out Shearer's hosting of the Which Way Winter Festival on Thursday 21 June. Participants will be educated about how to plan for and go on tour around the country with musicians Emma Donovan and Radical Son in attendance. Tickets are also $15. The Review June 2007 Eastside Arts Supporting live music in Sydney with two unique venues: Eastside Music Café & Stone Gallery on Oxford RESOURCE PERFORMANCE (Paddington Uniting Church). Café Carnivale every Friday night from 7.45pm www.cafecarnivale.com.au WORKSHOPS Saturday 9 June Saturday 23 June composer, arranger and musician Tony Gorman Almost Acoustic VIMALA SAMA presents his major work for clarinets and percussion. Private Coaching THE RAIN MAKERS (Vic) + Rhubee Neale $15/$12 Southern Indian classical dance Laya - Timeless Rhythms $20/$15 Saturday 30 June Acting Workshops Eastside Music Café Eastside Music Café Almost Acoustic The Rainmakers are a family from the dry parts An evening for the connoisseurs of vibrant South ALEX LEGG (Vic) AND Jane E Seymour of Central Victoria. James and Jane are from the Indian dance and music featuring Kuchipudi dance Francesca Sidoti nationally-acclaimed folk group Blackwood. Their exponent Vimala Sarma, and a musical soiree with Roots and folk with heart Actor & Acting Tutor three children join them with marimba, ukulele, the contemplative and resonant tones of the veena, and soul $15/$12 MA,unsw;BADA,uk; ARTTS Inter.,uk guitar, fiddles and accordion. a South Indian fretted string instrument. Eastside Music Café www.makingmusic.com.au Alex Legg has been slowly building up a storm with Sunday 24 June four songs in the Australian Top 10 Roots Charts • Shakespeare Saturday 16 June SANDY EVANS TRIO and one song, 'Heaven Help Me' covered by Johnny TANYA SPARKE (with Alister Spence) Neel, at Number 2 on blues charts around the world. • Audition & Call-Backs Songs from her jazz-inspired Darkwood Road AND Tony Gorman's "Songs This is his second Sydney gig. Come and be part of and more. $15/$12 of Hope" 3pm $15/$12 the magic. • HSC Eastside Music Café Eastside Music Café Singer/songwriter Tanya has worked with some of Australia and New Zealand's finest creative talents Sandy Evans is recognised as one of the leading saxophonists (tenor and soprano) and composers Doors open 8pm 9572 9049 including Sandy Evans, Tim Finn and Jane Campion in contemporary jazz in Australia. The trio will Bookings on 9331 2646 firstname.lastname@example.com who said of her singing, "Listening to her is an utterly perform mostly Sandy's compositions plus fresh firstname.lastname@example.com original experience, treasured, deep intoxicating." interpretations of standards. Award-winning www.eastsidearts.org.au www.rpworkshops.com.au Welcome to Performance Space's program of events at our new home CarriageWorks Centre for Contemporary Arts 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh | performancespace.com.au ! SLEEpERS WAKE! WAChET AUF #3 REELDANCE INSTALLATIONS NIgEL KELLAWAY a nagging desire to connect ChOREOgRAphICS A man at the edge of recollection harbours llation works by European & historical specificities, nostalgia Choreographics is a series of three insta with the present. Adrift from cultural and the moving image. Inspiration for n washes up alongside political Australian artists exploring dance and for Glenn Gould, JS Bach and Dean Marti rings of physical movement n. the films has been drawn from graphic rende anxiety and unreliable personal recollectio and choreography: sequentia l photographic movement studies, Virginia Baxter, Jai McHenry, Aman da Stewart & Josephine Wilson collude by costumes and flick-books. way, one of Australia's most animation, traces of movement articulated on a new performance work for Nigel Kella artists Saïd Mahrouf, Hester Tamm es & Toon de Zoeten; Simon Ellis & David accomplished & surprising performers. Keersmaeker Corbet; Thierry De Mey & Anne Teresa De $20/$15 + BF* 7 - 16 JUN WED–SAT 8PM $25/ TIX 25 MAy–30 JUN WED–SAT MAR 12–8PM Heidrun Löhr STU DENT RUSH WED & THUR $12 Video still from In Situ II NgALARINgI NANgAMI DYARALANg (OUR DREAMINg) LIQUID ARChITECTURE 8: INDIgENOUS pERFORMANCE NIghTS FESTIVAL OF SOUND ARTS From ceremony to contemporary performance, social to environmental, Australia's premier sound-arts festival celebrates its eighth year Weilmoringle to Redfern, Ngalaringi Nangami Dyaralang celebrates the with live performances, audio-visuals and installations in a sense- creativity & diversity of Indigenous cultures. Short performances, dance, specific feast for the ears. International guests include the shudder film & song will be presented over two nights by emerging & established inducing French audiovisual performance group Cellule d'Intervention Indigenous artists. Metamkine and Swiss aktionist performance artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant & Dave Phillips. 22 – 23 JUN 8PM ALL TIX $15 + BF* Natalie Carroll 28 – 30 JUN 8PM OPENING NIGHT $10/$8 + BF* 29 & 30 JUN 15/$12 + BF* SEASON PASS $30/$25 + BF* STREET, EVELEIgh pERFORMANCE SpACE @ CARRIAgEWORKS 245 WILSON pERFORMANCESpACE.COM.AU TICKETS AT ThE DOOR OR ThROUgh MOShTIX.COM.AU, of the Australian, State and AT ALL MOShTIX OUTLETS OR CALL 92094614 *BOOKINg FEES WILL AppLY Performance Space is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative its arts funding and advisory body Territory governments, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, and the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW. Take A Break In Paradise A place to switch off and revive 3 hrs from Darlington Newnes Hotel Cabins Historic Wilderness Retreat Newnes, Wollemi National Park TEL 02 6355 1247 www.lisp.com.au/~newnes 10 The Review June 2007 Theatre Review BY JESSICA AMOS ToPo Crazy Crossword! Written by Neil Cole Directed by Mike Bishop Seymour Theatre Centre Thursday 17 May – Saturday 9 June Bookings 9351 7940 "Better to have been a has-been than a never-was ... I can assure you – his past achievements qualify him as a has-been!" Topo is a fastabout Enrique –'Topo' funny and often moving – physical play very Iglesias. Topo is reputedly one of the best front rowers in the history of Australian Rugby Union as well as having had a fantastic international career. Playwright Neil Cole shows how Topo came over from Argentina just before joining the Wallabies in 1984 at the behest of new coach Alan Jones. That year – during the world tour – for the first and only time – the team beat England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland! However within just a few years Topo didn't feel so good. Topo told Mick Reagan on the Sports Factor on Radio National that, "I realised that back in 1987 after I retired in '87, in 1988 I started to feel really unwell and barren and just empty, and I thought that was because I retired from Rugby, Rugby was missing and that's exactly what I needed. So I went back and played at club level for another three years. But then after that there were similar problems, being down, or lack of energy and not being able to sleep... So I was undiagnosed for eight years. But in 1996 I realised that perhaps it was time to go and see a psychiatrist." He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He couldn't work and he lost all his finances. Topo briskly moves between these events but always returns to a night when Topo (Peter Hosking) is working as a taxi driver after he has retired from Rugby. A passenger (Billy MCPherson) doesn't have his full fare. There is push and shove. Then the guy recognises Topo. He asks why Topo is working as a taxi driver who argues over $5 and who can't get up after being knocked down? Topo's knees are stuffed from years of Rugby but he wont let this guy help him stand up. This production is amazing in that it shows Topo – apparently 'the rock' in scrums – the 'strong man' in his team – somewhat painfully accept his mind is not quite right. It forces him to let his friends – former coach Alan Jones (Shane McNamara) and team mate Mark Ella (Isaac Drandich) see his vulnerabilities. By the way, these men aren't SNAGS. They represent different attitudes for Topo; an 'easy does it' acceptance of life or the all or nothing, win Crossword by D.P. at all costs attitude. Topo is a tight play with excellent performances ACROSS DOWN from all. Shane McNamara is hilarious as Alan 1 Traditional cleansing ritual. (7,8) 2 E.g. a room conversely provides e.g. a marina. (7) Jones capturing his distinctive manner of speaking. 9 Original Sydneysiders in the oral tradition. (4) 3 Kitsch old Australian living animal initially. (5) His portrayal panders neither to Jones' critics or supporters. The four actors easily slip into minor 10 I relax and unwind, a South Sydney suburb. (10) 4 (& 25 across) Nice and clean. (4,3,4) roles and along with excellent lighting and sound 11 An Abba freak goes to Aboriginal men's group. (6) 5 East/West South Sydney thoroughfare. (9,6) create press conferences, scrums and more with a set 12 Kate Leigh's sister in South Sydney? (8) 6 Read this – You're it! (6) where the only prop (excuse the pun) is a football. Veteran playwright Neil Cole is an Associate 13 Cheapest rated sale. (5,4) 7 Simply infuriating. (9) Professor at the Medical Department at Monash 15 King of the jungle heard tellin' fibs. (4) 8 Builders tool – disturbed gal, one taken in by nun. (4,3) University. His research has shown that people learn best about mental health by hearing individual 16 Silly emu eats name list. (4) 14 Anzac's rut makes Spanish holy cross. (5,4) stories. Cole has said, "...people could go to watch 17 Freaky fingers 1,3,5,7 etc.. (3,6) 16 Muster heard martial. (7) this play as a piece of theatre in its own right, it's 21 Escape from baker! (5,3) 18 Erases inverted seed let in. (7) not just about bipolar, it's a story that's very rich and replete with a whole series of issues to do 22 The Law's on this Redfern street, literally. (6) 19 Lazy 'loo tied in knots. (3,4) with life, and Rugby and life, and then bipolar." 24 Ties T-shirt around the most dehydrated. (10) 20 Big Jacuzzi. (3,3) According to Cole, at least 13% of people with 25 See 4 down. 23 Remedy for 24 across. (5) bipolar commit suicide. All profits from Topo go to the Black Dog Institute and the Brain and Mind 26 North/South thoroughfare intersecting 5 down. (9,6) All answers in next month's edition! Research Institute. 5 minutes with... 2. How do you go about writing songs/tracks? A chord progression first? A riff/lick? A lyric idea? some of the other styles better, but I've always been able to "fake" most styles. You have to be able to do Conditions Apply and said he "would be interested to hear what I do if I played with my inner ear to Guitarist Pete Northcote It's always different. The weirdest thing happens. I that as a session musician. the other side of the playground." Cryptic, yes. But get an idea (not necessarily a musical one) in my head when someone like Steve Vai says something like 1. How did your a few days before I sit down to write something. A 4. Your first guitar? Most treasured guitar in that to you… you try to figure it out! I guess that new album come picture, a person, an emotion or just a feeling enters your collection? led to a different approach to this new album, and about? Who plays me and I have no control over the outcome of the Well I have a lot of guitars…and I mean a LOT!!! although Conditions Apply has a lot of different styles, on it with you? piece. I start with one riff or a chord progression When I was 9 years old, my parents bought me a all of who I am, this new album is a lot more focused Where was it and it usually ends up completely different from the guitar (you know the $25 kind) for xmas. I was taking for me as a guitarist/composer. It's about a scientist recorded? original idea I had. The interesting thing about the tennis lessons at the time. It was too expensive to do named Poindexter who tries to discover a genius The album was a collection of songs I had recorded process is that once completed, the track is 100% true both so they asked me to choose one or the other. I sex act that will cure the condition of falling out of over the years along with some library/production to the original vision/feeling I had. So it really doesn't chose guitar. I guess my favourite is the Ibanez JEM love, only to find that the sex act is not a sex act at music I had recorded (music for TV, Film etc... feel like "me" doing the creating. Yikes, now I sound floral. It's just the most versatile guitar I own. I do all. It's complicated, but you'll get the idea once you I have 12 albums in circulation all over the like a hippy! have a beautiful blonde 1956 Gibson 175. That is one hear the album. Ha! I also have a DVD I produced world. It appears on everything from Oprah to sweet guitar. of myself and Jim Kelly (amazing guitarist) at the Bourke's Backyard). I did most of the playing and 3. Do you have a favourite style of guitar playing? Basement last year. We have a gig at the Darling programming myself, however I do have a few Inspirations? 5. What next for Pete Northcote? Harbour Jazz Festival and the Basement both on guests. Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa), Jade I love all styles, all players. I grew up listening to I have a new album coming out in a few months. the 11th June. All details are on my MySpace site. Macrea, Jeff Duff, Brydon Stace, Kere Buchanan, bands like Yes, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and It's a "concept album." Yep that's right (now I AM Nick Sinclair and Pete Drummond. It was mostly Frank Zappa. But I love everything nowadays. I am sounding like a hippy). I received a very interesting www.myspace.com/peternorthcote recorded at my studio in St Peters. predominantly a rock player, and I wish I could play email from Steve Vai last year. He really liked www.myspace.com/peternorthcoteguitarstudios The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 11 News cont'd ADVERTISEMENT Redfern housing redevelopment commences Tanya Plibersek MP Member for Sydney Pam Dagwell The Housing Minister has assured tions and while they have been told her that all of the current residents they can return there is a 'fishhook' The long awaited redevelopment will be offered alternative housing in in the wording. of the public housing site opposite the area and given the opportunity "In the Minto redevelopment the Budget 2007 South Sydney Oval in Redfern has to return to the new units on their change of unit sizes meant that been given the official go ahead. completion. the new housing was not always It is expected to commence in early Councillor Tony Pooley, who was 'appropriate to their needs' and some 2008 and be finished by the end of mayor of South Sydney at the time tenants had to move away from a the following year. the Master Plan was approved and community which they had been a resident of Redfern, says the exist- part of for a long time." A Master Plan was approved by ing public housing is in very poor There is also a concern that the The Howard government missed an the then South Sydney Council in condition. proposal will allow different building opportunity in this year's budget to late 2002 but was postponed while "There is no question that the standards for the new private and set a path for the future of Australia the Department of Housing sought a accommodation has to be rebuilt," public dwellings. The private section private partner to help with the cost. he says. "The area was originally will be populated by high-rises with by taking the easy option of delivering They have now decided to proceed swamp land, there are subsidence greener common spaces and a more an election-year budget, focussing on independently while they continue problems and the Department of appealing streetscape, according to one-off give-aways. that search. Housing is simply not able to keep Mr Smith. The Minister for Housing, Matt up with the maintenance needed on "There is a line drawn down Brown, has announced that $27m the units." the middle of the road with the In contrast Labor has announced an will be spent on demolishing the Cr Pooley is pleased that this disadvantaged on one side and the 'Education Revolution': existing 106 apartments and replacing model will see an overall increase in wealthier on the other. This is not them with 40 family terrace houses the number of bedrooms originally following State Government policy with small backyards and 66 units designed specifically for seniors. planned and that taxpayers will be saved the $5m spent every ten years of 'salt and peppering' those in need of assisted housing into the general ˛ Investing $2.5 billion in a Trades Training Centres in Schools plan; The western side of the land parcel on maintenance costs. community," he says. which is bounded by Elizabeth, Long-term Waterloo Department of The South Sydney PCYC, which Phillip, Morehead and Kettle streets is expected to be sold to a developer Housing tenant, Ross Smith, is more sceptical of the project outcomes for occupies adjoining land owned by the Department of Housing, will not ˛ 15 hours a provide all four yearearly $450 million to with week of high quality olds who will be allowed to construct 158 the Redfern residents. Mr Smith says be affected by the project. They have childhood education; high rise dwellings for private sale. that while Department officers have been offered a lengthy renewal of "This new, state-of-the-art develop- spoken to many tenants on a house- their lease and a choice of relocating ment is great news for the people of Redfern," says local member for by-house basis, he is doubtful they will organise a general meeting where to the former Redfern Public School site recently redeveloped by the ˛ million to encourage students to use $111 maths and science at university and to study Heffron, Kristina Keneally. issues can be aired publicly. Indigenous Land Council. The Sydney City Lord Mayor, "We all recognise the need for The problem may be that if the their degrees within the maths and sciences Clover Moore, also welcomes the change but there should be genuine need for repairs and ongoing main- professions, particularly teaching; and announcement but says, "I am con- consultation between the residents tenance forces the PCYC to move cerned about the future of existing tenants and keeping public housing and the Department," Mr Smith says. "Many of these people have lived in from the immediate housing estate area, it may be difficult for many of ˛ find the construction ofasharedprogram Investing $62.5 million on pilot to facilities in the inner city." this complex for three or four genera- the youth it serves to follow. between government and non-government schools . We also have a plan to manage and protect our environment, including: ˛Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol; ˛ 2050; greenhouse gas emissions by 60% Reducing by ˛ fund; a $500 million national clean Establishing coal ˛ Boosting the use of renewable energy through interest free loans to help Australians install energy efficient measures such as solar panels, rainwater tanks and grey water recycling systems; and ˛ Investing $250 million into a National Water Security Plan for Town and Cities to secure water supplies by repairing water pipes and reducing leaks, wastage and evaporation. Jenner House in Roslyn Street Photo: Bill Sheridan This budget was the chance to address Jenner House in jeopardy… again the challenges facing our community. The cost of living has increased, many Peter Whitehead the demolition of an existing garage. development work. Mr Bartlett took Australians are facing insecure pay Plans and concept sketches are part in the restoration of near-by and conditions at work, and the Prime Jenner House once soaked in the posted near the gate for passers-by to historic Yellow House. A lot of sun on a handsome ridge east of the consider. Not everyone is impressed. work will be required to remove Minister says "families have never had city. Now it shivers in a canyon of SSH was told that the proposed the patchwork alterations of nearly it so good". apartment blocks. It is two-thirty in changes could lead to "amenity losses a century from the villa's past lives the afternoon, the sun is blocked by to residents in adjacent buildings" as Hospital and Naval Offices. It the eight-storey block of flats built due to possible loss of privacy, lack is estimated that approximately Unfortunately many Australians don't next door against the northern of setbacks, breezeways, increased $500,000 worth of joinery on the feels that they're seeing their share of boundary in 2000. noise and overshadowing. windows and doors is needed to meet our national prosperity. Horse breeder Tony Peterson and heritage standards. The Heritage Council of New South his wife had bought the heritage-listed Opposing the development is Wales has received a development property in 1998 as a family home. Potts Point & Kings Cross Heritage Authorised by Tanya Plibersek MP proposal for alterations and additions The dramatic nineteenth-century Potts Conservation Society, led by to Jenner House, its conversion to Point villa had a price tag of more Andrew Woodhouse. Most locals, Labor Member for Sydney two dwellings, the construction of an than $2 million. however, are supportive, recognizing 422 Crown St, Surry Hills NSW 2010 additional dwelling, subdivision of the Mr Peterson has appointed Phillip the improvements promised by 9357 6366 | www.tanyaplibersek.com land under the Strata Schemes Act and Bartlett to manage the proposed the plans. 1 The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 News ADVERTISEMENT Billionaire brings Chinese art to Chippendale Kristina Ben Falkenmire the driving force behind the gallery's theme. "My wife has always been a statement," said Neilson who reminded the SSH Picasso would not Keneally A South African-born billionaire keen on contemporary art and some have received much interest from the MP is currently awaiting development approval to build a four-storey of the wildest stuff is coming out of China at the moment," explained Mr conventional galleries existing in his time. "We are only interested in ego contemporary Chinese art gallery Neilson. "We are trying to alert peo- and if we don't have the space we MEMBER in Chippendale's Balfour Street. ple about these works from a nation cannot feature the pieces." FOR HEFFRON that is set to become the world's next Such a large-scale venture has The current three-storey ware- leading political force." been referred to by residents as house on the corner of Wellington To assuage profit-hunting con- "exciting". However, some have and Balfour streets will be undergo- cerns, Mr Neilson told the SSH the expressed concern over the height The business of buses ing a $4.7 million facelift to provide for a void inside, a Chinese-themed White Rabbit gallery will be set up as an independent not-for-profit and floor space regulations in the DA submitted which will set a precedent tea room on the ground floor and an charity that will receive seed funding in the mixed-use area. I am concerned about the challenges the State Transit open-air deck on top. from no doubt one of his capital rich A City of Sydney Council spokes- The White Rabbit gallery will entities. "We don't want to set this person told the SSH: "As with all Authority is currently facing in providing an on-time be owned by self-made billionaire thing up only for someone else to DAs, city planners are carefully Kerr Neilson and his wife Judy. come along and take artistic control," assessing the proposal to see if it service for Heffron residents on the 309/310 route. Mr Neilson is the heart and soul of said Mr Neilson. But not everyone will affect privacy or have shadow- Platinum Asset Management, which will appreciate their efforts. "My wife ing impacts on nearby residents That's why I am taking the matter up directly with partly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in late May this year, wants to provoke a strong reaction from people, whether they enjoy the and buildings." In fact, as a result of the assess- the Minister for Transport and the STA. valuing Neilson's personal interest works or not." ment, Mr Neilson has been required at around $3 billion. The Neilsons intend to provoke to change his initial restaurant With this kind of disposable viewer's reactions through a variety concept for the ground floor to a I am urging the Minister for Transport to consider income it is no wonder Mr Nielson of media including paintings, video tea room, to presumably accom- options for improving the service. These include and his wife have been able to accumulate enough contemporary and media art, photography and sculpture. To accommodate for such modate City's parking concerns for the area. introducing a pre-pay service on Botany Road and Chinese art works to furnish a gal- an ambitious plan they needed size, The Council said their assessment lery close in size to the Museum of hence the selection of the Balfour is nearing completion. The White making changes to the 309/310 routes south of the Contemporary Art. Street building. Rabbit Gallery is expected to open Neilson assures the SSH his wife is "The building really has to be in the next 12 to 15 months. Botany Shops precinct. I am of the view that these changes, along with continuous monitoring and other projects that the Government is introducing as part of Feature It may not be fancy: its Urban Transport Policy, will make a real difference to 309/310 routes. Some residents have asked if there are still articulated gay, lesbian, buses (bendy buses) on the 309 corridor. The STA Exploring the needs of homeless youth advises me that a bendy bus departs Mascot Shops at bisexual and transgender 7:54 am and arrives at Martin Place at 8:25 am, as one Meredith Turnbull By 2004 Twenty10 was still referring to the 'Doona' of the extra services introduced last year. report and people from around Australia were still Twenty10 has been providing services requesting it as a key text to understand the concerns to homeless and marginalised gay, of homeless GLBT young people. It was decided to Given the success of the pre-pay route to Bondi, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT) revisit the report and assess the state of homeless I also recommended to the Transport Minister that he young people and educating the GLBT young people in New South Wales ten years on. welfare sector and broader community Young people and community workers were consider introducing another pre-pay service on Anzac about homophobia since 1981. interviewed from all over New South Wales. Surprisingly, the recommendations from the new Parade, perhaps the 400 or a similar route. I n 1995 the Twenty10 funded it own research research were very similar to those of the 'Doona' which explored the housing and related needs of report. This demonstrates that despite some key Some residents have raised with me concerns lesbian and gay youth. The study called 'As Long legislative reforms and some reported positive changes As I've Got My Doona: A report on lesbian and gay in community attitudes, these young people were about capacity on the 343 bus route as it travels youth homelessness' was the first study of its kind in still experiencing additional complexity within their Australia and its recommendations were used to lobby homelessness, because of their sexual or gender through Redfern. the government to increase support to Twenty10 and identity, or how these identities were perceived and to strengthen the response to homelessness among treated by others. I am advised by the STA that capacity on the 343 gay and lesbian youth throughout the government and New themes from the report which is called community sectors. 'It May Not Be Fancy' (a reference to Twenty10's bus service has been affected by the diversion of accommodation) include the emergence of culturally In 1996, the Department for Community Services and linguistically diverse young people and the the 309/310 routes from Redfern Street due to the (NSW) commissioned its own report called 'Bedding increasing difficulty of juggling mental health issues, upgrades undertaken by the City of Sydney. Down the Issue: A report into the provision of services drug use and homelessness. Most concerning was to homeless young gays and lesbians'. The report the perceptions from young people that homelessness aimed to review the recommendations and resultant services were still not safe for non-heterosexual I am further advised that the STA is re-installing the actions from the 'Doona' report, and to identify people, and from service providers, that homophobic emerging issues and recommend feasible actions that bullying was not discouraged among young people. 309/310 bus stops on Redfern Street, and anticipates could be made by the government. the services should resume shortly. It has been 25 years since the Twenty10 Association Both reports made very similar recommendations was formed and over ten years since the 'Doona' including: report was released. In that time young gay, lesbian, Following the re-introduction of these services bisexual and transgender people and their concerns 1. Increasing the amount of supported have moved in from the margins – slightly. However, to Redfern Street, the 343 should return to its accommodation; the similarity in the recommendations in the 'Doona' regular capacity. and 'It May Not Be Fancy' reports indicates that 2. Providing sensitivity training community workers; despite some improvements, there is still much work to do before gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender 3. Including the specific concerns of gay and lesbian young people can access the same level of support as youth in government policy and research; their homeless heterosexual peers. Kristina Keneally MP 4. Developing multi-purpose services to address the Member for Heffron welfare, health and social concerns of gay and Twenty10 offers a range of services for ALL young Shop 117, 747 Botany Road, Rosebery NSW 2018 lesbian youth; in particular within schools; GLBT people from 10am–5.30pm each weekday. Phone: (02) 9699 8166 Fax: (02) 9699 8222 You can call them on: 8594 9555 or 1800 64 2010 5. Developing strategies to reduce homophobic attitudes and crimes in particular within schools, on or email: firstname.lastname@example.com Email: firstname.lastname@example.com the streets and within community services. www.twenty10.org.au The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 1 Comment & Opinion Faith READERS' LETTERS In life & death The fundamentals of reality Dorothy McRae McMahon I'd like to say that most popular atheist literature T here is something about looking serious illness and death in the face which often sharpens our perspectives on everything. unfortunately aims its target squarely at fundamentalism rather than mainstream For some people, there is a new intensity about questions Christianity. What they don't around life after death. Does it exist at all? Who or what lies there realise is, most Christians waiting for us? What does our life here carry which might affect abhor the extremities of their any future existence? What has been its meaning and purpose? religion just as much as the Of course our attempts to answer these questions are atheist community. Having usually determined by our already held beliefs about ultimate reality, but a new sense of our mortality engages us more said that, as a former Christian deeply with what we have believed, or may now choose to with a Bachelor of Theology, believe. There is a soul searching which takes place and which Cartoon: norrie mAy- welby I feel there is still some needs to be respected in ourselves, or in those we love. room for an atheist critique The death, or life-threatening illness, of someone near to us also of mainstream Christianity. often invites us into a challenging journey. It is as though the life we While most Christians are have been living wheels into a different reality. The way we perceive comfortable with scientific relationships is sharpened. We may have been simply humming laws generally, ultimately along together and suddenly we look at each other and see someone there are points at which their infinitely precious to us. Every day and every moment becomes a beliefs depart from the bounds privilege, even as we try to keep thongs as normal as possible. of physics. In other words, Friendships are revealed for what they really are – superficial many Christians believe in APEC: like Sydney or deeply faithful, life-consuming or life-giving. What was it that you meant to say to someone, or to do with them, a kind of dualism where the which you had been putting off? Were there unresolved issues natural and the metaphysical between you which need to be faced and sorted out? worlds co-exist. In contrast, Time becomes significant in new ways. You find yourself exploring whether what you had planned is important or whether it was just a way of filling in the day. during the Olympics, most atheists believe that the physical world in which we live is the crucial, important Somehow the money you had been saving looks different to you now. Is it so valuable that it needs to be used carefully and sparingly so that it is held in trust for those whose lives may be but in a bad mood and only real world – a belief which may bring a greater appreciation in living for the transformed with a gift later on? Was it being saved for a future which moment and commitment Andrew Collis influential visitors, and to avoid the may not come? Does the present moment plead for the funding of embarrassment of civil dissent as to our own lives. Personally, L healing, pain relieving or moments of cherishing? Maybe all the egal professionals have well as terrorist activity. birthday gifts planned for years ahead are better given now. while I believe that the lent a voice to those In view of the APEC summit, scientific laws are the best Then you look at your life as it has been. What and who had expressing concerns over legal professionals point out you hoped to be? Did you intend to add something to the life the Asia-Pacific Economic that the right to political protest indicator of the true nature of of others or the world that you have not yet done? Could you Co-operation (APEC) Leaders is a valuable component of a reality, I am still inspired by be gentler to yourself than you were before – understanding Meeting to be held in the CBD democratic society. It is noted that the historical Jesus and many your own vulnerability and humanness in clearer more the weekend commencing activists, many of them younger who follow in his example. honest ways? Or will you now be your own tough judge? 7 September. people, should be entitled to So within an acceptance of As we enter even part of this journey with our own mortality, express themselves peaceably. the laws of nature, I think the we may find ourselves asking whether we should not always live The event will see 21 of the However, the prospect of world's most powerful people new police powers including historical Jesus who related to life like this – with greater depth and sharpness, as though life all members of society can still – including the US President preventative detention (detaining has assumed more vivid colours in front of us. We are shocked and leaders of Japan, Russia, a person suspected of intent to inspire our lives and give us out of complacency as life choices stand more starkly before China and Indonesia (each with commit a crime) and covert search hope for a better future. our eyes. Things that seemed so important have become so trivial personal security detail), high-level warrants, rings alarm bells. It that we can caste them away like fluff which has gathered around Ben Walker bureaucrats, business leaders and would be tragic if younger activists Chippendale us on the road. On the other hand, sometimes the life ahead media representatives – descend or other vulnerable members of the looks so fearful that things stand still and cold in apprehension upon the city. society were to find themselves in and we hold the fluff around us for warmth and comfort. Between 6,000 and 7,000 the wrong place at the wrong time. In our stronger times, we might ask ourselves whether we could not executive hotel rooms will be The prominence of APEC is a Share the love look at life with this clarity every day. Should we not be aware of every required, with the US President and reflection of our region's economic question in each moment as though it is genuinely a moment of truth? his entourage rumoured to require progress. But the millions of Clover Moore is right I don't believe that any of us has the strength or courage to an entire five-star hotel just for dollars spent on security reveal to spend $60 million of live like that. Thankfully, life is usually given to us spread out in themselves! Security bill estimates, the underlying fragility of our ratepayers' hard-earned gentler ways. When it is not, as in war, many of us cannot bear taking into account thousands of economic and political systems. savings on her office – our federal and state police plus the We pay a high price for our its severity and sometimes suffer from the experiences forever. Town Hall – from heritage SAS, begin at $15 million! freedom, and may even be willing However, even if our days deliver us the encounter with neglect (Daily Telegraph, During the summit, the CBD will to exchange personal and social death, sometimes is does become a gift for our present and be cordoned off, roads closed and freedoms for the right to free trade "$60m to repair crumbling future – a sort of revelation which may enhance our journeying. public transport affected. There and better business relations. Town Hall," April 25). Why And if there is one thing which we may just receive as a special will be a closer watch for threats of Exactly how high a price are we then, isn't a similar amount realisation, it is that we cannot judge each other's walking terrorism and introduction of new willing to pay? A local solicitor puts of money spent on heritage into the seeming darkness of death. Tomorrow, in our own police powers and penalties. it this way: "It's so important that human frailty, we may find that we can do no better. There are concerns that any new we look out for each other. APEC conservation plans to save our police powers remain proportionate will be like Sydney during the other heritage sites including to risk – in particular that Olympics. But this will be Sydney Jenner House, Potts Point, distinctions are clearly maintained in a bad mood." currently subject to a savage between "activist" and "terrorist". over-development application It is also important that powers for 3 swimming pools, a 12-car granted in the wake of race riots in The NSW Ombudsman will monitor the Cronulla not be extended to deal garage and two apartment with the very different situation situation with respect to new police blocks, which will partly "Celebrating the lives of the diverse people of South Sydney, inviting discussion on issues of concern and interest, adding encouragement to possibilities for community." of public demonstrations against powers implemented in the run-up demolish this magnificent villa globalisation or war. and raze the heritage-listed Partner with the SSH and 21,000 readers who are: Sydney will follow Shanghai's to APEC. gardens – a heritage heresy if - savvy on a diverse range of issues lead and implement a special To view the latest discussion papers ever there was one. - passionate about the area in which they live public holiday on 7 September - looking to support community businesses and people to encourage locals to vacate Andrew Woodhouse visit: www.ombo.nsw.gov.au/ the Sydney metropolitan area. Potts Point & Kings Cross email@example.com Understandably, the Government is whatsnew/latestmedia.html Heritage Society keen to make a good impression on 1 The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 Features SOUTH SYDNEY ENVIRONMENT A daintier footprint to be proud of Anna Christie Jealous? Criticising the materialistic tendencies of the big-footprinters F or those readers who are not up with the lingo, "McMansions" are large inevitably attracts accusations of envy, but my objection to their lifestyles is not motivated by envy. My objection is that the free-standing homes with McMansion lifestyle is unsustainable, and many, many rooms upstairs causes environmental impacts that are felt and cavernous open-plan living areas beyond their immediate neighbourhood, downstairs, and usually lots of paved for example air pollution and carbon areas and multiple garages. If you did emissions, not to mention their waste, the not know what a McMansion was, this sand dunes that were plundered to provide is an acceptable omission for a South them with cement and so on. Sydney resident. Those bloated, pseudo The big-footprinters want plenty of architect-designed palaces favoured by space to stretch out in. Never mind that the so-called "aspirational" Australians Sydney's market garden belt is under – are usually found in newly developed threat by property developers who want to suburbs of the urban sprawl, or cash in on the continuing love affair with places where old cottages have been the monumental McMansion lifestyle. The demolished to make way for someone's NSW Labor Government is supporting this fantasy palace. myopic folly, which will sterilise the very fertile farming land for future farming, McMansions have a much larger in favour of pretentious ghettoes of the ecological footprint than those of us who resource-greedy. live in terrace houses, or multi-dwelling Market gardeners will be forced out An old digger's buildings. The ecological footprint is a to ever more distant locations, having to measurement (in hectares) of how much truck their produce long distances, making land is needed as water catchment to your vegetables much more expensive. provide your home with water, waste It's not just the per capita footprint that disposal, food and energy production, is growing. As the footprint grows, so transport, buildings …all the "ecosystem does Sydney's population. You really black experience services" that underpin our lifestyle. have to suppress common sense if you Although criticised by some as being believe Sydney's expansion can just go over simplistic, ecological footprint is a on and on. technique used by the NSW Environment What is particularly galling is the Protection Authority (the EPA) to measure sense of righteousness displayed by our environmental performance in its those McMansion-loving aspirational periodic "State of the Environment" Australians . To "aspire" has suggestions "It was the system that let him down" says 82-year-old Val Hinton of her reports (which may be viewed on the EPA of lofty ideals. But what are they "aspiring" NSW website). to? Their aspirations appear to be based late husband Cecil. Speaking in a soft, gentle tone, Val remembers Cecil South Sydney dwellers may take some on material goals. They aspire to big as "a good man who was well-liked and loved" – but who also became satisfaction in knowing that we have a houses, lots of cars, home cinemas and smaller ecological footprint than many other big-ticket consumables. "very bitter" over his treatment as an Aboriginal returned soldier. other Sydney-siders, particularly those Unfortunately, while McMansion who choose to live in McMansions in dwellers pay for their materialistic car-dependent suburbs. pleasures, they do not pay the true costs of Robert Domm also took Cecil and Val's eldest son off them and Undoubtedly the built environment of their impacts on the environment, which made him a State ward. The child, Ray Vincent, was South Sydney is more economical than McMansion estates, not only because of our architecture, but also because we are – to use the terminology of economists – are "externalised". In other words, the consumers get the benefits, but the hidden C ecil Hinton was a strapping young man in his twenties when he donned his army fatigues to fight for Australia in the Second World War. deemed "uncontrollable," which Ray remembers as a common term applied to Aboriginal children in those days. Cecil and Val tried in vain for many years to get more likely to undertake adaptive reuse (of costs like air pollution, waste and resource Eventually captured by the Japanese, he spent three their son released and sent back home. industrial, warehouse or civic buildings) depletion, are borne by the community and a half years in Singapore's notorious prisoner- As if this wasn't enough, Cecil continued to suffer rather than demolish and rebuild. We as a whole. of-war camp at Changi. The cruel experience was the discrimination that he had encountered prior to are also likely to be less car dependent These costs to the environment should to afflict him for the rest of his life. going to war. He was, for example, refused service than those who have restricted use of not be externalised, but should be costed in hotels because he was Aboriginal. Ray Vincent, public transport, or prefer to rely on cars and paid for by those who take the Repatriated in poor health to Sydney at war's now 62 and a resident of Redfern, remains angry to – sometimes to the level of three cars benefits. At the moment, Sydney-siders end, 29-year-old Cecil formed part of a small group this day: "My father fought for his country but came or more in a household. Then there are with smaller ecological footprints are in of diggers whose sacrifice and suffering as POWs back to a place that just hadn't changed," he says. Val other factors, like the energy efficiency effect subsidising those who pollute and became etched into this country's history and Hinton adds: "He was good enough to risk his life in of our homes, compared with notorious deplete non-renewable resources. Those folklore. He retained lasting friendships with his war but not good enough to drink in a pub." McMansions which are difficult to heat, with the big ecological footprint should wartime comrades, including the legendary Weary But his old digger comrades stuck by him. and are customarily fitted out with be called to account for the invisible Dunlop with whom he sometimes went on fishing Ray fondly remembers his father as being a proud air conditioning. costs they fob onto the community as trips to the Gold Coast. person who would never ask for charity despite his Despite their size, they are often a whole. Prior to the war, Cecil had enjoyed steady struggle to raise a very large family on a meagre "attractively priced " largely because they Some of you may have friends, employment and played rugby league for the Redfern war pension. "Dad just had this uncanny knack of are (according to some Master Builders) relatives or work colleagues who live All Blacks. However, the hard labour, beatings winning the regular Friday night chook raffles run not built to last. According to some in McMansions. I do. They are most and malnutrition suffered at Changi left him with by his mates at Seven Hills RSL," Ray says with a reports, many of these buildings will start likely oblivious to the impacts of their a permanent heart condition and debilitating leg chuckle. "The respect the old diggers showed for my to experience major deterioration within lifestyles on the wider community, or injuries from untreated tropical ulcers. father was inspiring," he recalls. 20 years, requiring virtual rebuilding. on future generations ability to enjoy Upon his return he landed a good job with the The system though had one final indignity to Their extravagance came to mind anything like the environment we have NSW Tramways, which involved walking around the mete out to Cecil Hinton. On 4 May 1982 the recently when I read a Sydney Morning today. In particular they seem to be rail network and oiling the numerous tram junctions. Commonwealth Repatriation Board finally upheld Herald article extolling the wonders of quite unmotivated by the principle of His workmates were well aware of the walking Cecil's claim to a war pension at the TPI rate a Baulkham Hills home which "boasts sustainable building design. impairment caused by his wartime leg injuries, so following representations from the Federal Member a garage with room for three cars... the However, there are changes in the they often gave him a lift on the trams to the various for Chifley on his behalf. Tragically, Cecil had died neighbours have a five car garage and air. As the time draws closer and closer junctions. Unfortunately for Cecil, this was against just a few months earlier at only 65 years old. up the road one house has an eight- to the inevitable introduction of carbon the employer's rules and his practice of catching a lift The cause of death was a heart attack brought on car garage". Each of the family's two taxes, and whole-of-life responsibility for on the trams ultimately led to his dismissal. by the hypertensive cardio vascular disease that the children, aged 6 and 10, has their own manufactured goods (called "extended Following this disappointment, he was never able Veterans Affairs Department had accepted was related "study" and the father has a dedicated producer responsibility"), we can wait with to work again and obtained a disability pension from to his war service. room for his model aircraft. It takes quite interest to hear the "big-footers" cries of the Commonwealth Department of Veterans Affairs. It seems appropriate that the last word in this sorry a large ecological footprint to support protest when they will fnally have to pay He claimed a higher rate of pension for total and story should go to Cecil Hinton himself. While he was these lifestyles. the true costs of their chosen lifestyles. permanent incapacity (TPI) as a result of his war a POW in Changi, his Japanese tormentors used to injuries but was refused. He could not understand goad him by asking why he, as a black man, would the knock-back given that all other ex-Changi POWs fight for a racist country like Australia. If you would like to suggest environmental issues in South Sydney that need investigation, seemed to qualify for the TPI rate. "Because it's my country, mate," he would reply, please contact Anna Christie by email: firstname.lastname@example.com Around this time, the child welfare authorities defiantly and proudly. The South Sydney Herald – June 2007 15 Community Notices & Advertising A.G. 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Free financial counselling is being offered by amazed if convinced that truth is indeed a qualified financial counsellor to 40 people stranger than fiction. Anyway, they will I work with my constituents to make government and bureaucracies accountable, empower the community, willing to take part in a quick private and also enjoy it. Papua Niugini nationals confidential survey about their money troubles. may have even more difficulty, but for ensure social justice for individuals, and protect the urban and natural environments. The information given to The Settlement will be the older literate citizens, it may help used to improve financial services in the area. to provide some explanation for the Contact my office to talk about your ideas or concerns or if you need help with NSW Government matters. 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The season opening form While definitely not out of finals for South Sydney has turned contention the Bunnies need to on its head, with the Bunnies resurrect some consistent form for losing the last six of their the full 80 minutes of a game to seven matches. make their way up the ladder. Taylor has his men barricading The latest of the team's in defence, but moments of frustrating defeats was to the lapsed thought and subsequent Gold Coast Titans in Round 11 breaks in the line of defence are at Carrara Stadium. In a match costing them games. Diddo down befitting of their mid-season the other end. form, the Rabbitohs never let Every tackle and every caught their opponents escape to an ball adds to a winning formula. unassailable lead, yet failed to An exhausting thought for Taylor convert try-scoring opportunities and his assistant coaching staff in the closing period to win. The to embed in his player's minds, Juliette Kumari at the Mundine Gym Photo: Andrew Collis Indian Queen in Waterloo Rabbitohs spilled an opportunity but such is the reality of the 2007 to tie the game again after the NRL competition. Titans had taken the lead in The Rabbitohs need to step up the second half, with the Titans their game intensity in the coming hammering in the nail with 10 five to six rounds when they minutes to go to win 25-18. take on the likes of competition A similar game pattern was leaders the Storm in Round 12 Trevor Davies certificate with the Boxing help with their exercise regime observed in the Rabbitohs' loss to and the Manly Sea Eagles in Authority of New South Wales. She (as someone who trains there 3 Canberra the week before where Round 14. Knocking one of the One journalist writing in a also lobbied the authorities to allow days a week I often find her advice the green machine closed out big guns off their pedestals, a task local paper back in 2000 said women to fight on promotions in incredibly helpful). She trains Holly the game in the final 12 minutes, not impossible for this mercurial of Juliette Kumari: "She is one other male dominated sports. Fernely. Holly is a world champion and against the Broncos and South Sydney team, will reinstall tough lady who can lift a 120kg Juliette trains with some of kick-boxer and boxer. the Auckland Warriors where some of that winning blood in the man without any hesitation." Australia's toughest men at When Juliette talked to the the Bunnies almost stole the green and red jersey veins. Mundine's Gym on the Block in SSH about her career she stressed game from under the nose of the It starts at training with The article went on to say: "She Redfern. As someone who's seen that she wants to help poor and opposition in the dying minutes. someone yelling down their has been an Australian champion Juliet in action in the gym she is marginalized people to defend The Rabbitohs' fourth straight throats and finishes when the in wrestling under the name of good – as tough as or tougher than themselves – and to enjoy healthy loss sees them scouring the clock hits 80 minutes. "the Indian Queen." Juliette has most of the men who train at the life-styles. bottom of the table as the Go the Bunnies! attained a kick boxing trainer's gym (tougher than me I should say, and I train there). Juliette is very proud that she's If you want to benefit from Juliette Kumari's been trained by the best – Uncle wisdom she also takes classes at the Dick Blair, Uncle Jim West and Aboriginal Dance Theatre at: Tony Mundine. Juliette now trains 88 Renwick St, Redfern. people at the gym. 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