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Hope Butterflies swarm in Surry Hills Library

Two thousand Hope Butterflies swarmed into the Surry Hills Library in November. The Hope Butterfly colony created by Erskineville artist Nick Baldas was launched in...

Christmas comes to you in Sydney’s villages

Christmas concerts and celebrations for you and your family will spread the joy of the festive season across Sydney’s villages this year. There’s a live...

Station consternation

While residents agree that action to make Redfern station accessible is long overdue, they are also aware that accessibility is but one aspect of...

The Gypsy Baron

The Strauss operetta The Gypsy Baron, while possessing the usual melodramatic narrative devices of its genre – arranged marriage, mistaken identity and lost treasure, uncharacteristically touches on racist attitudes in waltz time.

We have a new website!

The South Sydney Herald launched its new website www.southsydneyherald.com.au in September.

Sexual assault resource honoured

Your Body, Your Choice, a “first of its kind” multi-language sexual assault resource, has been honoured for excellence in community engagement at the 2019 NSW...

Food aid – the new normal?

Foodbank’s 2019 Hunger Report tells us that one in five Australians have experienced food insecurity in the last 12 months, most of them women. Released...

Living on the edge – a tribute to Ray Richmond by John Burbidge

The Rev. Ray Richmond was at the forefront of social change. This included his pioneering work at Sydney’s Wayside Chapel in creating an injecting room for drug users. A celebration of his life will be held on November 17 (details at the end of this tribute).

Low-cost grocer eases the burden for battlers

Not-for-profit Settlement Services International (SSI) has partnered with Mission Australia to open the Staples Bag Camperdown ...

Little scribes write to bridge the city-country divide

Children in the city are being invited to swap their life stories with children in the country under pressure from the drought as part of the My Life Story program ...

‘As the temperatures rise, so will we’

About 80,000 Sydney students, parents and grandparents, workers and climate action supporters rallied in The Domain on Friday September 20.

Join us! Striking students call for action

In August a regional gathering of Uniting Church congregations was addressed by members of the church’s tertiary student group.

Housing to end homelessness

Homelessness Week came about from various churches and missions running winter vigils to remember people who had died on the streets. The annual week...

Reducing plastic bag pollution and waste

It’s not so long ago that supermarket checkout operators would routinely put as few as one or two items into each lightweight plastic shopping...

The Settlement in great shape

DARLINGTON: Since 1926 The Sydney University Settlement has provided services to the community from its centre at Edward Street in a building that was...

Digging our heels in

REDFERN: Reconciliation Park is a stone’s throw from The Block where the Aboriginal Housing Company’s aging terrace houses have been bulldozed to make way...

Powerful film steps courageously into drug reform debate

This article is sponsored by Uniting, the Board of the NSW and ACT Synod of the Uniting Church responsible for the work of community...

Every hour, 20 children run for their lives

The figures are staggering on World Refugee Day. On June 20, the total number of forcibly displaced people including refugees, internally displaced people and...

Launch of new resource to support tenants

REDFERN: On Tuesday June 11 Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) hosted a community forum on the impact of public housing redevelopment. The forum was held...

Oxfam Australia shuts trading arm … but you can still help it fight poverty

Oxfam Australia says that while, its stores and online trading are closing, people’s generous donations will continue to help it save lives.

Police safety tips

Do you know how to prevent property and car theft? Here are the best tips for keeping your car and possessions safe:

Paradise of portraits

An exhibition at 107 Projects in Redfern in May features photographic portraits taken in the Redfern-Alexandria-Waterloo area.

Sydney Candidate Profiles – Federal Election 2019

The federal election is Saturday May 18.

Building social change to meet climate challenge

The climate science is in. The psychological barriers to action are multiple. The politics of denial continues. This is our context – and, indeed, the “great moral challenge of our generation”.

Who are these well-known Australians?

One of the longest-running touring exhibitions in Australia returned to Sydney in mid March – and you’re invited to contribute your response to it.

Kimberley rising

Sydney-born landscape artist Luke Sciberras’ exhibition Rose in View features works made on location in remote regions of the Kimberley Coast in Western Australia.

Message of peace after terror in Christchurch

The recent tragedy in Christchurch has left many grief-stricken and horrified. It has also generated respect for wise and loving responses offered in the context of unimaginable loss.

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.