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Volunteers make a world of difference

National Volunteer Week is the annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers.

Sydney candidates – NSW election 2019

The seat of Sydney includes Surry Hills (north), Paddington, Potts Point, Ultimo (east) and Woolloomooloo.

Balmain candidates – NSW election 2019

The seat of Balmain includes Glebe and Ultimo (west).

Newtown candidates – NSW election 2019

The seat of Newtown includes Chippendale, Darlington, Erskineville, Eveleigh, Newtown, Redfern, Surry Hills (south) and Waterloo (north).

Heffron candidates – NSW election 2019

The seat of Heffron includes Alexandria, Beaconsfield, Erskineville (east), Rosebery, Waterloo (south) and Zetland.

Pemulwuy Project approved

With approval for the 24-storey student housing development the Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) can now self-fund its Pemulwuy Project.

‘Buzzing Minds’ brims with boarding house residents’ creativity

Buzzing Minds: A Sydney Noise Compilation is the brain child of Jason Simonit (Jay), a case worker at Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC).

The shape of things to come …

Including the social housing in the metro there will only be 98 more social housing units than there are now. The overall increase in...

Introducing Nina Serova

Nina Serova will work closely with residents and agencies to ensure that they have the tools and information they need to take their views on the Waterloo redevelopment to government.

‘Why should we go to school …?’

The School Strike for Climate Action called for an end to the delays from government on effective climate change policies.

‘A charity gift gives twice’

This Christmas consider the increasingly popular “charity gift”.

Artists’ salient responses to the Western Front battlefields

SYDNEY CITY: An exhibition of contemporary artwork capturing the battlefields of the Western Front from a century ago and reinterpreting the significance these places have in our nation’s culture and history is now on display at Sydney’s Anzac Memorial.

With better support comes positive change

Blue Knot Day and the week that follows is dedicated to raising awareness and support for over five million Australian adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse.

Access delayed, no schedule for action

Federal legislation requires full train network access by 2022, but no plans for Redfern station accessablility scheduled.

Community expertise undervalued

Restore support for public housing tenant services!

New national day?

Despite a growing consensus pointing out the painful associations of January 26, endured by First Peoples as a date commemorating invasion, destruction of land...

Season of Creation inspires, provokes

Between September 1 and October 4 churches from many traditions and in many countries celebrated the Season of Creation.

Victor Trumper’s famous fiver

Jim Cattlin writes: “I am researching for a monograph on an historic event at Redfern Oval.

Fresh angles on the world’s wild treasures

Sergey Gorshkov has to plan for months and take all his camera gear and other supplies in by helicopter but he still finds any excuse to visit Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean in the Russian Far East.

Recycling workshop’s first decade

Waterloo Recycling Workshop is held each Friday morning in the garage of the Turanga flats at 1 Phillip Street.

Because of her, we can

Friday July 13 saw a lively NAIDOC Week celebration at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) in Redfern.

Testing the options

The NSW government has released three options for the redevelopment of the Waterloo estate.

Drug action team hosts NAIDOC celebration

Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre and Surry Hills Community Drug Action Team hosted a NAIDOC afternoon celebration.

Practical local action on homelessness

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre’s second annual “Newtopian Sleepout” aims to raise $100,000.

UN Day in Support of Victims of Torture

In 2007, when Sekai Holland was campaigning for democratic change in Zimbabwe, she was arrested, beaten and tortured.

‘Authentic, caring, passionate’ – Vale Irene Doutney

Sydney’s public housing community has lost a great activist and a great friend with Irene Doutney’s death on June 11.

Local landmarks feature at Little Fictions

Homeownership has been such a hot topic throughout Sydney for so long.

Slow pace and place

Against the Sky is an exhibition of new paintings by Sydney artist Hayley Megan French.

Who we want to be

Cultural change demands the difficult and patient work of social critique and institutional reform.

Marching for clean air, water, energy

One year out from the next state election people from all parts of Sydney and NSW issued a powerful call for clean, renewable energy.

Women making history on the James Craig

In the lead-up to IWD, women involved in the volunteer activities of the James Craig made history with the ship's first all-female watch.

Lessons of the past, hopes for the future

It's right to allow space for conversions of heart and mind - it's also right that ignorant commentary from a person of considerable influence be revisited.

Holistic approach to health in Green Square

Green Square will be a site for a new RPA HealthOne East, which will incorporate an academic general practice centre, population health and community-based services.

Recognising achievements of women in the music industry

AWMA is a long time coming, but arrives with the gender-tide turning.

First festival for ‘fur-kids’

The inner west boasts one of the largest populations of dog owners in Sydney, so Addison Road was the perfect place to launch this new festival.

A fair day for diversity and fun

Mardi Gras Fair Day attracted more than 70,000 people.

Treaty

Pre-contact Australia was the world’s most ancient multicultural diversity, based on the hundreds of distinct sovereign nations, with different languages and cultural practices.

Vale Sol Bellear

Sol Bellear passed away on November 29, 2017, aged 66, and was farewelled with a state funeral in Redfern on December 9.

Wordplays – December 2017

Maidie remembers …   At nine years old – 72 Derwent coloured pencils in a tin box, a just ripe mango, and a newly minted $2 coin – her best Christmas ever.   – Catherine...

Christmas Bowl supports Rohingya refugees

Over 600,000 Rohingya children, women and men have been forced to flee their homes.

Funding to break domestic violence cycle

Youth Off The Streets, a not-for-profit in Sydney, has received a $25,000 Social Investment Grant.

Editorial – Waterloo metro station site clearing and excavation

Waterloo metro station site clearing and excavation.

Interfaith vigil held for Stop Adani day of action

Faith communities joined a nationwide day of action on the weekend of October 7 and 8, against Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine.

Word Plays

Subway system R N Q W or A B C D or maybe even F but it’s closed for repair the day I go to Brooklyn so take D and change at...

Freedman Jazz Fellowship Concert

A showcase to decide the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellow.

Championing inclusion

St Vincent de Paul Society NSW’s Ability Links has launched its new Inclusion Champion project to support businesses to diversify their customer base.

Aboriginal housing in Redfern

Darlington/Redfern has been my home for 18 years.

David’s Place on the move

After 13 years David’s Place at 17 Little Albion Street will be moving to St Canice’s Catholic Church near Kings Cross.

Renewing vows

We are not concerned about where equal marriage will lead us, because it is clear to us that it will lead to more love and more justice.