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REDFERN: The Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) has delivered on its promise to build 62 affordable homes for rent to Aboriginal families as the first...

DARLINGTON: Darlington Public School children recently came to the rescue with what Professor Winsome Evans hopes will be an enduring artwork on her Abercrombie...

ROSEBERY: In July the state government made changes to the housing code that could allow the 1912 Covenant, which set the character of the...

At Carriageworks on February 13, the 12th anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, the survivors of Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) launched a modified bus to take their stories on the road.

REDFERN: On the evening of July 10, the Wednesday of NAIDOC Week, it was standing room only in the main hall at Redfern Community...

REDFERN: Since being painted in 2000, the flag mural wall which featured in the opening credits of Redfern Now has become an iconic backdrop...

REDFERN: In late February, as the government went into caretaker mode, a $100 million accessibility upgrade for Redfern station was announced.

Wesley Enoch from the Noonuccal Nuugi people of Stradbroke Island believes that the date of Australia Day should not change, but that the way it is marked should be.

The Waterloo community came together for Summer on the Green

For many who attended over the day Archie Roach’s heart-wrenching performance of “Took the Children Away” was a highlight.

Want to rub shoulders with acrobatic primates in the steaming jungles of Madagascar?

Another stopgap measure for Redfern station, but still no plan for a desparately needed full station upgrade.

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre introduces the Boarding Housing Good Practice Awards.

Over 100 health practitioners, health administrators, tenants and representatives of agencies met about the current and future health needs of the Waterloo area.

Foyer51 will provide housing and on site support as young people moved out from out-of-home care.

The exhibition at Carriageworks, 1917: The Great Strike, jointly curated with the City of Sydney, is open 10am-6pm every day until August 27

The AHC has submitted a new DA for the student accommodation precinct of the Pemulwuy Project to fund its affordable housing.

The sound of chainsaws close by made me rush upstairs to see what was happening.

At KU Sunbeam Preschool outdoor education in the garden plays in the daily routine of the children.

More than 30,000 volunteers have contributed to Wrap with Love over the last 25 years

Essential for kids to understand fire safety at a young age.

In “Feed the Whale, Feed the Dream”, Blak Douglas uses elements of the top three submissions from Gina Georgiannis, Leanne Bryce and Vicki Waddy.

Still "no upgrade works currently committed to or funded".

My journey with epilepsy has been more complicated than many, but neuroscience is making progress in its understanding, diagnosis and treatment.

Reflections and contrasts: southern Africa's surprising connections with our local issues.

On June 15, 2016 City of Sydney Council held a public meeting entitled “Packed In – Bad Planning vs Smart Growth: The Future of the Central to Eveleigh Precinct”.

Neil Lewis Stuart passed away on May 26. In early June a gathering was held in Katoomba, his home since the late 1980s, to commemorate and celebrate Neil’s life.

Yarbun Festival is a rich gathering place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural expression. This year's theme was "Our Future, Our Youth"

When it was formed in 2012, the Lift Redfern campaign sought one lift immediately, as an interim measure, and the release of the timetable...

At just 20 years old, Shaquille Robinson may have been the youngest in her class when she graduated with a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment at Eora College Darlington, Sydney TAFE, but she is a multi-award winner.

The NSW government will offer the Australian Technology Park (ATP) by invited tender. The decision comes without the body in charge of the sale, UrbanGrowth NSW, having responded to concerns raised about the sale by the City of Sydney or local resident groups encouraged to make submissions.

Bright orange signage emblazoned with the words, “innovation, sustainability and community”, welcomes visitors at all major entrances to the Australian Technology Park (ATP). Banners along all pedestrian and bicycle pathways throughout the site also include the word “heritage”, but they all ring hollow to local residents’ groups as the government proceeds with its plans to sell the ATP.

In its submission to UrbanGrowth NSW, the state-owned corporation responsible for the sale process, community group REDWatch pointed out that an approved subdivision appears...

The proposed ATP sale has been met with concern by REDWatch which was successful in requesting City of Sydney Council to undertake an assessment...

The Bays Precinct was the focus of an international summit at the Australian Technology Park on November 19 and 20. World-leading urban renewal experts talked about the best ways to revitalise the 80 hectares of state-owned public land, bordering Sydney’s inner harbour from Sydney Fish Markets west to White Bay.

The Edna Ryan awards, recognising the feminist achievements of women, were celebrated on October 17.

Just over a week before Gough Whitlam’s death, about 60 Glebe community members gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his government saving large swathes of Glebe from demolition for a planned freeway.

For 21 years the Cancer Council NSW has been holding Australia’s Biggest Morning Teas. These gatherings are hosted by celebrities and individuals in their homes or workplaces in May and June, to raise funds for cancer research, prevention programs, and advocacy and support services.

Your news editor is a knitting tragic who has had brain health problems with epilepsy and associated episodes of mental illness. An event that combined yarn based craft and brain health was an irresistible assignment, so I signed up to attend the Knit Your Way to a Healthy Brain workshop at the University of Sydney on June 19.

The Factory Community Centre’s Volunteers Community Participation Awards recognise the many contributions of volunteers to the inner city. Each year for the past seven years the Awards lunch has grown larger and larger, so much so that this year all volunteer activities needed to happen in Redfern and Waterloo.

The Sydney Story Factory has been working with Martha Austin’s senior primary school students at Alexandria Park Community School during the last school term. Sebastian Wooldridge explained: “We have been making posters to support making a lift at Redfern station. It’s important as Redfern station is one of the stations that has the most steps and if an elderly person gets off they have to walk up the stairs.”

REDFERN: The Attorney-General Mark Dreyfuss visited Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) to announce $60,000 of untied federal funding at a time when the state government has cut funding to community legal centres across the state.

With the imminent release of the state government’s Planning White Paper, the City of Sydney has agreed to assisting communities with consultation workshops. Council will provide free meeting space and access to funding through the Quick Response Grants program for relevant community meetings.

In announcing the winners of an international design competition for the Green Square Library, jury member Professor Glenn Murcutt congratulated Matthias Hollenstein, 28, and Felicity Stewart, 30, but warned them that the expectations for subsequent projects will be influential in shaping their careers. Their design was chosen from a field of 167 entrants from 29 countries.

Still in his sweaty Redfern t-shirt after early morning training at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence’s Eora Gym alongside Shane Phillips and the youth involved in the Clean Slate Without Prejudice program, Superintendent Luke Freudenstein was relaxed.

During the holiday season public tenants received letters from Minister for Family and Community Services Pru Goward urging them to declare their unauthorised occupants and to phone a “dob in” phone line to report their neighbours.

On October 15, in light of the Gonski Review of school funding, Tanya Plibersek, the Federal Member for Sydney, hosted a public forum with three speakers about the Future of School Funding.

WATERLOO: The Aboriginal Employment Strategy Ltd (AES) has relocated its Central Sydney office from Glebe to Waterloo. The new office was opened by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Victor Dominello, on October 19.

One year on from its founding Assembly last September, Sydney Alliance held its second City Assembly at the Sydney Town Hall on Sunday October 28 to report back to over 1,000 members from its 48 partner organisations.