Tania is a remarkable woman with an inspiring story and a big heart. She started selling The Big Issue many years go in Pitt Street and has returned, sharing a pitch with James outside Badde Manors Cafe on Glebe Point Road.
The mural depicts the famous photograph of African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos signaling the “Black Power” salute during the medal awards ceremony,...
Little Secrets develops Patricia Casey’s interest in interior worlds, private spaces, memory and dreams. Her subjects are caught in a moment of private reverie, veiled by elements of the natural world. The mundane is manipulated and transformed into a surreal tableau in which the viewer is invited into a state of internal reflection.
The award of Australian of the Year to Indigenous athlete and community leader, Adam Goodes, could invite in all of us a new reflection on our relationships with the first owners of this land.
Newtown resident David Angell is tackling one of the marathons in the world of classical music. Over the course of almost 12 hours, spread over the weekend of February 28 – March 2, David will be conducting Orchestra 143 in performances of all (well, nearly all) the symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
On Saturday November 23, as the rain stopped and the sun came out, a huge quilt was spread out over the grass in First Fleet Park at Circular Quay. The quilt was made from around 200 pieces of cloth sewn together, each piece having been painted by members of Uniting Church congregations throughout NSW and the ACT and featuring designs opposing the detention of refugee children.
Red Cross invites customers to visit their nearest Red Cross Shop to buy Kris Kringle gifts. Not only will you be supporting the great work of Red Cross, but you may even find the perfect novelty gift with hundreds of new and used items under $10.
The 20-metre high sandstone façade of the Australian Museum was transformed last month with images of larger-than-life Aboriginal women to celebrate the inaugural Corroboree Sydney festival. The striking, over-sized projection artwork, by Sydney-based Wiradjuri artist Nicole Foreshew, featured striking, moving-images of women draped in cloth.
An Aboriginal artist whose family has over 80 years of combined military service will create a public artwork for Hyde Park to honour the sacrifices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service men and women. Tony Albert’s dramatic sculpture will feature four seven-metre-tall bullets and three large-scale fallen shells to represent the diggers who lost their lives.
October 28 was Blue Knot Day, an initiative coordinated by Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA), the leading national organisation advancing the needs of the estimated 4-5 million Australian adult survivors of childhood trauma ...
ALEXANDRIA: Let’s be S.Pacific, newly formed to provide support and information services to Pacific Islander and New Zealander families or individuals living in the City of Sydney area, will meet at Alexandria Town Hall, 73 Garden Street, on Thursday afternoons between 2 and 4pm. Assistance on housing, health and legal matters and other community services will be available.
At a recent meeting of the City of Sydney, councillors resolved to honour the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men who served Australia in the armed forces with a monument in Hyde Park South.
This year the Sydney Peace Prize Lecture was delivered by Dr Cynthia Maung, founder of the Mae Tao Clinic. The lecture is an important initiative of the Sydney Peace Foundation.
The Harbour City Raskulls is the entry-level team of the Harbour City Baseball League (HCBL). The Raskulls, says coach Gary Fishburn, will provide a friendly, encouraging environment for children 7 years and under, with the focus on fun, friendship and fitness, not competition. The SSH talked to coach Gary Fishburn about the Raskulls and the HCBL.
WATERLOO: An enthusiastic group of volunteers from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia came to Weave Youth Services rooftop garden on Wednesday September 18. United Way, a national charity, organised the group to help local young people.
ULTIMO: Woolly blankets, hot soup, a “pop-up” op shop and volunteer vets, UnitingCare’s first Souptember event was launched at the UnitingCare Harris Community Centre with glorious weather on Sunday September 15.
After six months in Melbourne, Scott has seen the light and returned to the sunny skies of Sydney. Formally a vendor selling The Big Issue at Potts Point, the “man in the chair” is working a new pitch outside IGA on Oxford Street. “It’s all just starting up [again] so I have to get it all going again. If I sit in a different position or if I don’t have a chair no one knows it’s actually me.”
Sydney’s DirtyFeet is a not-for-profit contemporary dance organisation run by artists. Throughout September and October DirtyFeet is presenting “The Right Foot Project” – dance workshops for people with and without disability between the ages of 14 and 26 years. The workshops are led by Sarah-Vyne Vassallo, who was recently awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship for excellence in integrated dance practice.
Grayndler, Wentworth and Sydney are the three federal seats best covered by the South Sydney Herald. All three were safe seats before the federal election and that has not changed. Grayndler, held for the ALP by Anthony Albanese, saw a two party preferred swing to the Liberal Party of 0.3 per cent. Sydney and Wentworth saw swings of 2.8 and 2.9 per cent respectively. All three sitting members increased their first preference vote by between 1.1 and 3.8 per cent. Those gains came largely at the expense of the Greens, who saw their first preference vote decline by 2.8 per cent in Wentworth, 2.9 per cent in Grayndler and 6.4 per cent in Sydney.
What could you expect if you develop schizophrenia? Your relationships and employment prospects would take a huge hit. Your risk of physical ill health would sky rocket. You would very likely experience discrimination in the general medical system, which will compound your physical ill health. You may suffer from distress, fear or loneliness that has you reaching for cigarettes, alcohol or other drugs. There are medications that may help your symptoms, but they won’t cure you. They will also make you feel sedated and may lead to the ballooning of your body mass. You may be lucky enough to have friends or family members to care for you and make up for the deficits in your ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. Your carers, though, will inevitably find themselves exhausted, worried and grieving for the loss of a loved one who is not actually dead. Carers may also find themselves unable to share their troubles in any meaningful way. It is this isolation that Dr Anthony Harris describes as “a burden that cannot be shared”.
Multi-award-winning artist, curator and educator Miriam Cabello has marked the 40th anniversary of “the first September 11” – the Chilean military coup in 1973 that brought Augusto Pinochet to power and heralded a sad chapter in her home country’s history. As part of the Sydney Fringe Festival’s “Cultural Rebels” program (September 6-29), Cabello’s artworks highlighted the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
GLEBE: More than 100 people gathered on September 27, in the late afternoon, at the Tranby Aboriginal College, for the launch of the book Making Change Happen. The book was written by Professor Heather Goodall, University of Technology Sydney historian, and Kevin Cook, long-time leader of Aboriginal communities in NSW.
ZETLAND: The Rotary Club of South Sydney is launching a competition to design a logo for the upcoming Green Square Markets at Joynton Park. In anticipation of the Markets opening in late Spring, the competition calls on creative talent in the area to express the spirit and vibrant life of Green Square and South Sydney.
DARLINGTON: The Big Issue works to support and create job opportunities for homeless, marginalised and disadvantaged people. Susan Leith-Miller, Manager of The Big Issue in NSW, appreciates that members of the community help vendors rebuild their confidence and pride.
In the three federal seats covered by the South Sydney Herald – Grayndler, Wentworth and Sydney – there is little to no chance of any upsets this year. The incumbents all hold their seats by comfortable margins.
Noel Debien from the ABC Radio Religion Department was MC for a multi-faith Prayer and Meditation Vigil held on August 14 in the Martin Place Amphitheatre under the banner “Respect Earth”. The event was organised by the Faith and Ecology Network (FEN).
Curated by Catherine Wood, a new exhibition at the Orchard Gallery in Waterloo presents a selection of works created in recent printmaking workshops at the South Sydney Uniting Church led by Hayley Megan French and Margaret Vazey.
Asylum Seekers and Offshore Processing
What policies will your party put in place to work collaboratively in the region to improve the conditions for asylum...
Asylum Seekers and Offshore Processing
What policies will your party put in place to work collaboratively in the region to improve the conditions for asylum...
I am standing for election because I believe in working to secure a cleaner environment and a fairer Australia for future generations. As a single working mother, I understand the pressures of living in Sydney. I wish to end policies that make it harder to just get by, such as putting single parents on Newstart and cuts to universities. As a long-time refugee advocate and co-founder of ChilOut, I believe we must stop putting children in detention and outsourcing our refugee obligations to our poor neighbour. This election, I am standing up for what matters.
Peter Boyle is a national co-convenor of the Socialist Alliance and has been a socialist activist since the early 1970s when he radicalised around war, race and class issues after his family migrated to Australia from Malaysia. He remains involved in solidarity work with the Bersih democracy movement in Malaysia. Peter writes regularly for the newspaper Green Left Weekly and has had a long involvement with the Aboriginal rights movement, including AbSchol and land rights campaign in WA in the 1970s, the campaign against Aborginal Deaths In Custody in Sydney in the 1980s. He has two daughters and two grandchildren.
Talk Show (Gallery 1)
Artists: Anney Bounpraseuth, David Capra, Mitchel Cumming, Elliot Hughes, Daniel McKewen, Giselle Stanborough and Skye Wagner
Curators: Sandra Di Palma & J.D. Reforma
Until September 8
Glenn first began work with The Big Issue seven years ago. Medical issues were causing him much distress when looking for a job. Glenn knew he needed a reliable job that he would be able to do and excel at. Glenn had seen Big Issue vendors on the street, and knew it would be a good fit for him. “I needed to do something active, something that would get me up and out, earning myself a good income.”
On Saturday August 3 a Service of Lament was held at the Pitt Street Uniting Church in Sydney. The Social Justice Forum, which brings together the Uniting Church and its community service and social justice division of UnitingCare NSW.ACT, called the Service to express sadness and concern at the treatment of asylum seekers.
The launch of Dorothy McRae-McMahon’s book, A Life and Death Conversation with Ali, was an occasion for warm reflection. The event was held on July 6 at the South Sydney Uniting Church and was chaired by parish minister Rev. Andrew Collis. More than 100 people were in attendance, including publisher and editor Rev. Dr Ian Price, guest speaker Julie McCrossin, family and friends of the author and the author’s deceased partner Ali Blogg.
Wild Valley Art Park in the Blue Mountains will launch a unique creative art festival in September – Australia’s first drawing festival and sketchbook drawing trail.
Gamarada Indigenous Healing and Life Training Ltd is launching a campaign to meet the needs of more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men in Sydney. The organisation has sent the following media release.
Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) provides information to assist individuals, groups and faith communities to learn about and take action against climate change. Last month ARRCC launched the first in a series of Climate Action Kits, a resource produced for faith communities. The kits provide practical advice and information to turn concern for climate change into action.
“It is a national shame that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are 15 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous adults, while...
