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VOLUME ONE NUMBER FIFTY APR’07 CIRCULATION 21,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND BILLY SEKAI THORPE HOLLAND DAYS OF ROCK’N’ROLL ARRESTED IN ZIMBABWE IN KINGS CROSS DOROTHY MCRAE-MCMAHON REFLECTS PAGES 8 & 13 PAGE 09 PAGE 14

HICKS COMING HOME – HUMAN RIGHTS RESTORED?

Human rights for David Hicks and for all Photo: Ali Blogg

As we go to press, David Hicks has pleaded guilty to the charge of providing material Bay, the complicity of Govern- and takes from our common life and citizenship. ment in what has been judged, internationally, Regardless of what kind of person David Hicks support to a terrorist organisation, and may well be on his way home to . to be a highly questionable and, indeed, illegal might be – fool, naiveté, misguided adventurer Given the reports of torture at Guantanamo Bay, and the sheer length of time Hicks imprisonment and trial process and its failure to or ruthless killer – he has a right to be treated intervene to protect one of its own citizens. in a way that respects his dignity and accords has spent in detention there, it is not at all surprising that he would accept a plea The focus of this event was human rights, the him the same legal protections that any person bargain and the chance to return home. Some will claim that justice has prevailed. rights accorded to all human beings regardless of accused of crimes within the American (or their colour or ethnicity, their religion or politics, Australian) legal context is due. But what will we make of judicial principles forsaken? What now of human rights for all? their nationality, their gender or sexuality, their These fundamental arguments were taken age, and, most especially in the context of the up by Eva Scheerlinck, CEO of the Australian Liz Watson a feature of this gathering and, while it took the David Hicks case, regardless of whether the Lawyers Alliance. She provided a brief summary form of a service of worship, the liturgy was person has made “big mistakes, small mistakes of the principal concerns that lawyers here On Sunday 25 March a rather different kind an inclusive one and the speakers and other or gigantically huge mistakes,” as one of the and elsewhere have raised. These include the of “rally” was held in Pitt Street Uniting Church. participants included lawyers, politicians, Unit- speakers argued. period of incarceration and the time taken to The event was billed as “a gathering to uphold ing Church ministers and lay members. Those In her address to the gathering, the Federal charge David Hicks. The fact that the original the dignity of every person” and was organised attending were also drawn from a wider range Member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek, empha- military commissions were found to be illegal by the Uniting Church congregations of South of backgrounds and convictions. sised the importance of recognising the rights under US law and the Geneva Conventions and Sydney, Paddington, Pitt Street, and the Wayside The rally’s catchcry – Restore human rights: that are due to David Hicks as a fellow human that the status of the new military commission, Chapel, and students from Wesley College at bring David Hicks home – has become a familiar being as well as an Australian citizen, and, established under a new statue and signed the . Support from other one with gathering outrage over the prolonged furthermore, that the denial or diminishment of into US law by President Bush in October churches and those outside the church was also imprisonment of David Hicks in Guantanamo his rights constitutes a threat to the rights of all last year, is equally continued on page 5  The South Sydney Herald – April 2007

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ADVERTISING [email protected] Tutorial centre opens in Alexandria Ben Falkenmire 0400 139 710 Samantha Van Church is sharing in the project MAILING ADDRESS: by proving the hall and also office PO Box 2360 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 Tyrell Enriquez, 12, is a shy, yet space at a reduced rate. This will articulate young boy. You wouldn’t temporarily house the program until LETTERS guess that two years ago he was two the defunct Redfern Public School Please send letters and emails to: and a half years behind his class is refurbished. The South Sydney Herald. Email: [email protected] mates in reading and comprehen- Thirty-two students, mostly Supply sender name and suburb. sion skills. But, after attending the Indigenous, from Darlington Public Size: 150 words or less. 20-week literacy program at the School, Alexandria Park Community We may edit for legal or other reasons. Exodus Tutorial Centre at Ashfield, School and Our Lady of Mount he was six months ahead and went Carmel Primary School at Waterloo on to win a scholarship to Scots began classes a week before the College this year. opening. “The first week has been EDITORIAL COMMITTEE His mother, Melita Bell, is very fantastic,” head teacher Kyle Pitt proud of him. “The school intro- said. “It surprises me how fast the duced him to a world that he never kids adapt. They come from 8.30am knew…I get all emotional when to 11.30am and we work them hard. I seriously think about it because Every minute is accounted for. Brendan Nelson, Bill Crews and Kyle Pitt Photo: Andrew Collis he’d still be in school – achiev- The reason I do it is because it’s a ing what? He’s at Scots College literacy program that works. What achieving because of the Exodus I get out of it is seeing the kids gain Foundation. They do more than just confidence – they come with low A different sort of army! teach him to read. They gave him confidence – that translates to every Brendan Nelson reflects on new tutorial centre Managing Editor Andrew Collis confidence and an understanding of aspect of their life. After a term how important an education is. He or less, you can see kids’ outlook r. Brendan Nelson, the Federal Minister for Defence, spoke at length said to me one day ‘I go to school almost physically change. That is the Dat the opening of the Exodus Tutorial Centre in the South Sydney because I want to learn and for my most fulfilling thing as a teacher.” Uniting Church Hall in Alexandria. He first connected with this work [Aboriginal] people.’ “It’s great [to open the centre] but in Ashfield when he was Minister for Education and gave a significant Now he wants to be a doctor. there’s more to do,” Crews said. “In grant to the Centre. The following is an extract from what he said. I say that’s all due to the Exodus the scheme of Indigenous kids and Foundation. Tyrell is probably a education, it’s a drop in the bucket. If information is the currency of democracy, how can any illiterate story of many.” We’ve got to move if we want Australian ever expect to be really free? Yet in Australia today, 1 in 12 Last month Reverend Bill Crews conditions of Indigenous people to children cannot pass a basic year 3 national reading test. The performance opened the Tutorial Centre at the improve. We need to provide top of Indigenous students is even more disturbing, where a quarter are Co-Editor Dorothy McRae-McMahon Robinson Centre Church Hall in quality education and that’s what incapable of meeting basic reading standards in year three. The Australia Alexandria. South Sydney Uniting we aim to do.” Council for Educational Research further documents 30% of year 9 students lacking in basic literacy skills. For more than a decade the Reverend Bill Crews has run a remarkable programme at the back of his Ashfield church for kids who can’t read. When not feeding the working poor, counselling prostitutes or keeping drug users alive, Bill has saved young lives in other ways. Under the direction of Professor Kevin Wheldall from Macquarie University’s Special Education Unit, a dedicated team has taught children how to read. Children from the are collected each day for a morning of intensive one to one reading instruction. Co-Editor Trevor Davies The ‘pause, prompt and praise’ programme uses phonics instruction. One boy, after five years in the education system observed at his first session, “Oh, it’s the black stuff you read!” Six months later they are able to write and read a piece of poetry. Word recognition jumps 21 months, reading accuracy 16 months and spelling 12 months. So when Bill came to see me as Education Minister two years ago to set out his vision for a similar centre in Alexandria, I was all ears. Having seen the liberating transformation his team had produced in the lives of many young people, I told him the Commonwealth would commit $1 million to the project. When an official later questioned where the programme might fit, Photography Ali Blogg I replied, “Well. It’s a b….y good job we weren’t running the Health CFMEU worker En Wong Photo: Ali Blogg Department when Fleming turned up with penicillin”. The real tragedy is that no teacher can teach what he/she doesn’t know. Inner city building industry Half the universities training teachers dedicate less than 5% of course time to reading. Too often that small component lacks scientific rigour, SSH outside company, which is working producing teachers who then – through no fault of their own, are unable with another company to supply and to introduce students to the basics of reading. The Construction industry has install the tiles. Children passing from primary to high school barely literate fail to always been tough. Many working The allegation from the Union is fulfil their potential. They are later disproportionately represented in men and women have died on that these companies then employ unemployment queues, public housing and prisons. construction sites and have suffered tilers from the Korean and Chinese Memorising the landscape of a word and guessing from context Advertising & Content Ben Falkenmire serious injuries. Since the introduc- community who are very vulnerable might help, but it is not reading. Reading requires letter and sound tion of ‘Work Choices’ things seem workers, agreeing to pay them at vari- understanding – phonics. to have got worse for the workers in ous rates in cash (well below industry Too often it is assumed that children from marginalised disadvantage the industry. There are some rogue standards, with no entitlements). cannot learn. They can and do when educators believe in them. What employers who feel that they can cut These workers work long days, for as kids bring to school with them determines where they start. But what ASSISTANT-EDITOR Jessica Moore corners and get away with it. The little as $100 per day. While a few of happens in the classroom will determine how far they’ll go. Poor teaching following story may be an example of the workers received some payments, compounds disadvantage. PRINTER the new climate in industrial relations most of these workers have not been God bless Bill Crews, Professor Wheldall and their small army of Marrickville Print & Design since Work Choices. paid at all. reading volunteers. 18 Murray St Marrickville 2204 The Construction Workers’ Union, A spokesperson for one of the GRAPHIC DESIGNER the CFMEU, claims that at one site subcontractors told the Herald “That’s Robert Young in Redfern approximately 20 workers crap. The Union hasn’t shown us any been seriously exploited and are owed payment for their labour. Rather than are fighting for more than $100,000 documentation. I’ve made numerous thousands of dollars for the work create radical new workplace laws REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS in unpaid wages. They are recent appointments with them and they they completed. The Union believes that tilt the scales in favour of big Dr Mualla Akinci Ben Falkenmire Jessica Amos Brenden Hills migrants with minimal language haven’t turned up.” all workers deserve to receive a fair business, the Howard Government Jane Barton Darren Mara skills, few community contacts and lit- En Wong for the CFMEU denied day’s pay for a fair day’s work and we needs to act to ensure vulnerable Bill Birtles Samantha Van tle understanding of Australian law. that the Union hadn’t shown up. “We are committed to campaigning until workers receive proper protections Anna Christie Peter Whitehead The site’s project manger seemed have heaps of documentation. The these workers receive justice. It is not to ensure they are not exploited by Todd Dagwell norrie mAy-welby surprised when asked about the Union salient here is that, too often, acceptable that the builder washes its greedy contractors. The Union will “We gratefully acknowledge the many claims. “What claims? They weren’t migrant workers and ‘illegals’ are seen hands of any responsibility to these continue to pressure the company volunteer contributors and distributors employed by us” he said. He went on as a cheap and exploitable source of workers. The builder has a moral to pay. So far it’s been difficult and who make this publication possible.” to say that they subcontracted work labour by some employers. In this obligation to ensure that the people our members are suffering, but we for all the floor and wall tiling to an case these 20 vulnerable workers have who worked on this building receive will win.” The South Sydney Herald – April 2007  News

International Women’s Day at Chippendale norrie mAy-welby Industry Settings.” poverty, oppression, exploitation “Jackie,” a sex worker who had and abuse. Eva Cox OA, leading Australian also been asked to speak, took great About sixty people, some from feminist and UTS senior lecturer, pleasure in quoting an article in the other agencies that served sex chose to spend International Wom- Daily Telegraph that reported high workers, attended SWOP for the en’s Day at SWOP, the Sex Workers levels of happiness among sex work- launch and tour of the premises. Outreach Project. Eva rejected the ers, and also a high level of tertiary SWOP provides free and confidential view of some feminists who claim qualifications, contrary to common services to women and anyone that sex workers are all victims and prejudices about sex workers. else working in the sex industry that sex workers cannot be feminists. Of course, those who care in NSW, and their office is at “Such views are not respectful of the about respect for, and safety of, 69 Abercrombie St Chippendale; intelligence of women who choose sex-workers, are aware that there telephone 9319 4866. to do sex work,” Eva said. can be situations, especially Eva had come to help launch “The overseas, where women have few norrie mAy-welby is the Metro Safety Report: Safety Issues in Sex choices in conditions of extreme Coordinator for SWOP

The Carlton & United Brewery site Photo: Ali Blogg

Ever try to pour a is spending $50 million revitalising the schooner into a midi? Redfern area, Redfern Street and the all new . Trevor Davies telegraph pole in the area, inviting the South Sydney Herald that there While the work is going people to a meeting and, with 3 days was about about a 5% difference in The Daily Telegraph reported last notice, 90 people turned up at the the floor space ratio for the same on your local shopkeepers month that “planning Minister Frank Chippendale Peace Park on Thursday number of cars. The council allowed need your business. After Sartor is being sued over his approval March 15. 100 metres and the State Govern- of the controversial redevelopment of Greens Councillor and candidate ment 120 metres. all, they’re the backbone the Carlton United Brewery site. Mr for the state seat of Sydney, Chris One resident, who didn’t want to of the community. Sartor and the CUB parent company, Harris, co- chaired the meeting to be named, said that if the approved So come down to Redfern Fosters, are named in a law suit garner support for Matthew Drake- plans add more than 8,000 residents lodged by concerned local Matthew Brockman’s legal challenge. The and workers to Chippendale, with Street – it’s local, friendly Drake-Brockman. Mr Drake-Brock- organizers had invited a couple of towers up to 40 storeys high, then and it’s value for money! man lodged his papers with the Land speakers to address the meeting this development is just too big. and Environment Court this week about how to fight the State Govern- “It’s like trying to pour a Schooner and will issue his points of claim in ment. There was a Councillor from into a Midi!” www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au the next few weeks.” Leichardt who had helped save Other residents agree. Lindsay Inner city environmentalist-activ- Callan Park and Joe Holder who Charles, long time Chippendale ist, Matthew Drake-Brockman, was part of the Coalition against the resident, told the Herald that neither argues the $2 billion development is Cross City Tunnel. the present propsal nor the eralier not environmentally sustainable. It After this, Councillor Chris Harris City Council’s proposal for the is the same argument used by Peter told the meeting,“The Minister had $2 billion development CUB site community input and an open and Provision for seven buildings Gray who challenged the approval an opportunity to require that CUB is environmentally sustainable. transparent process. over 60m in height, two over 90m of the Anvil Hill coalmine near deliver a project that would be a He claimed that residents would The Minister has approved the and one at almost 120m contrast Muswellbrook. Matthew Drake- model for sustainable development. have taken legal action against redevelopment with an increased the City’s envisaged two build- Brockman told the Daily Telegraph: Instead, he decided on a ‘business as either proposal. floor space of 4.18:1, where the ings between 70 and 100m. The “I have watched with dismay as usual’ approach. This flies in the face Former Deputy Mayor, John City proposed a range between significant public domain areas of the State Government took over the of the Government’s commitment to McInerney, told the South Sydney 3.5:1 and 4:1, with the maximum Brewery Square and Tooth Avenue CUB project. I believe that the State address climate change.” Herald that Councillor Harris was contingent on design excellence and will be heavily overshadowed and Government will not act to protect The Sydney City Council lost wrong. “The City had been about community benefit. No protection of vulnerable to strong winds.” Sydney from climate change, it will planning control of the $2 billion to publicly exhibit new planning three significant heritage buildings not use water sustainability and it development after Mr Sartor seized controls when the State Government that the City proposed to protect For more information from gives priority to large developers control of the project last June. Chris intervened. The Concept Plan has (buildings 32, 35A and 35B). This Chippendale Residents contact them at at the expense of existing and Harris was anxious to point out that resulted in denser, less sustainable destroys the proposed ‘special area’ [email protected] future generation.” what Frank Sartor had approved development than envisaged by centred on the Irving Street Brewery For more information from After this Chippendale declared was not much different to what the City’s draft controls – draft complex and enables destruction of Chippendale Residents contact them at war. Posters appeared on every the Council had agreed on. He told controls that were still to undergo the ‘sunburst’ building. [email protected]  The South Sydney Herald – April 2007 News ELECTION RESULTS: Labor, Labor and Clover

Ben Falkenmire outcomes for the night, Marrick- ville voters baulked at change. This year’s NSW election Labor’s Tebbutt improved on her result failed to raise many previous 10.2% winning margin eyebrows, with the Iemma adding a further 5%, despite a Government, Kristina Keneally, +4.0% swing in favour of the Carmel Tebbutt and Independ- Greens’ Fiona Byrne. ent Clover Moore mandated by Of the performance Carmel voters for another four years. said from her celebrations at the Royal Exchange Hotel in Iemma and his Labor party Marrickville, “We are very happy staid of threatening attacks with the result, and the fact that from the media and state infra- we improved on 2005 is a real structure critics to win 52 seats, endorsement of our efforts in a minor -3.2% swing against the electorate”. incumbents. The Liberals were Tebbut announced after the the stand out performers, not elections that she had relin- that their +2.1% swing and quished the Education Minister 20 seat result was a miraculous portfolio to spend more time with effort. More so that it was the her family. While not ruling out first swing away from Labor a comeback to the frontbench, since 1988. The Greens could the Marrickville MP said she was only manage a +0.5% swing in their favour, winning no seats cognisant the opportunity may but ending up with 8.8% of the not arise again. total primary vote. Clover Moore will celebrate In the electoral domain of the her twentieth year in the seat of Sydney next year, formerly SSH, winners were grinners on Mark Spinks, Brena McDonnell, Ray Minniecon, Linda Bon, Chris Carben Photo: Ali Blogg the Saturday night of the elec- the seat of Bligh. Moore further tion, with the three candidates added to her dominance in the forecast to win by the SSH all seat, with a 2.5% swing in her claiming victory. favour, recording more than 40% Aboriginal war Kristina Keneally returned for of the primary vote. This is the her second sitting in the Hef- first time she has hit punched fron seat with a significant yet above 40% since 1991. The predictable 24.2% win over the Liberal party’s Edward Mandla heroes campaign Liberals and the Greens. Both faired second best with 20.6%, of the latter recorded positive marginally in front of Labor’s SSH not, officially at least, welcome in who served in the 29th Battalion swings in part due to the absence Linda Scott (19.9%). Clover greeted her party faith- the armed forces in either World and was awarded a Military Medal of competing parties. Special eter Charlton is The War. Yet many joined and served for “displaying rare bravery in ful at Friscos in Woolloomooloo, mention must be made however PCourier Mail’s national affairs with distinction beside their white the performance of his duty. His of the Greens’ Ben Spies-Butcher thanking both Council and MP editor. He is a former Army comrades. Some Aboriginal men irresistible dash and courage set a for a hard-earned 6.0% swing in staff and supporters present. Reserve Lieutenant-Colonel who said they experienced little or no wonderful example to the remainder his favour. “It’s such a fantastic victory,” commanded a battalion in an discrimination in the services, even of the team”. The seat of Marrickville was said Moore. “We have fabulous integrated regular-reserve brigade though they might have had to tell Reg grew to admire the military always going to be close follow- opportunities ahead of us and in Brisbane. He is also a published the enlisting officer they were Maori feats of both his father and uncle. ing a tough 2005 Bi-election win we are going to look to make the military historian, with works on or Indian. He served 12 months behind the for Labor. Consistent with voting most of them.” World War I and II, to his credit, At least 25 Queenslanders of lines on Crete. He also served on he wrote in the Courier Mail about Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander the Kokoda Track and lost a brother some of our Unsung Heroes. extraction were killed in the First there. He was promoted to Lieu- AIF. Some estimates put the number tenant and served as a Company He wrote: “Indigenous Austral- who served at more than 1000. In Commander at Kapyong. There ians were not officially welcome in WWII, many are many more Reg Saunders who Seat Heffron Marrickville Sydney the World War forces – so they said joined up after the entry of Japan deserve recognition. they were Indian or Maori. into the war. More than 800 Torres This year on Anzac Day there From the magnificent Australian Strait Islanders and mainlanders will be a march to commemorate War Memorial in to the were members of the Torres Strait the Aboriginal Diggers why made local statue of the Digger, resting Force, formed to defend the Strait as the sacrifice in various Australian ALP1 ALP2 IND(Moore)3 Winner on reversed arms, memorials to a major shipping route. These men theatres of war. The march will Australian service in wartime are were paid only one-third the wages leave The Block at 12noon to go common. But only two mark, spe- of white soldiers. Thanks largely to St. Saviours Anglican Church cifically, the efforts of indigenous to research by Canberra academic in Young Street, Redfern. Then, at Margin 24.2% 10.0% 13.3% Australians. One is in Canberra, Dr Robert Hall, the survivors were 3PM, at the Damien Minton Gal- the other at Broadbeach on the compensated in the early 1980s. lery in Great Buckingham Street, Gold Coast. The latter is a simple Many thousands of Australian Redfern, there will bean exhibition inscription on a rock: “This rock Aboriginals have enlisted and called “The coloured Digger”. Two is placed here to honor Yugambeh served in Australia’s defense forces Anthony Simmons is one of the party 74.2% 57.7% 67.5% men and women who served in since 1901, and several have won artists exhibiting and is one of the pref. defense of this country. Yugambeh decorations, but the first to be few Aboriginal sculptors around. is the linguistic name of the Abo- promoted to a commissioned rank Pastor Ray Minniecon, from Cross riginal people whose tribal region was Reg Saunders of Victoria. Roads Church in Redfern, told the extends inland from the Logan and Reginald Walter Saunders was Herald that he is hoping that some Swing 0.0% 2.3% to GRN 2.5% to IND Nerang Rivers... We honor those born a member of the Gunditjmara of Anthony’s work will be included who served in the armed forces people, just outside Framlingham in the Anzac War Memorial in Hyde and those who made the supreme Aboriginal Reserve in the western Park in an Aboriginal section. The Source: www.abc.net.au sacrifice. The symbolism of this district of Victoria on 7 August campaign for Indigenous people to 1. Predicted with 69.8% of the vote counted. rock serves to highlight the role 1920. His father, Chris Saunders, be included in the War Memorial 2. Predicted with 74.0% of the vote counted. played by indigenous Australians and uncle, William Reginald Rawl- is going to be a long campaign but 3. Predicted with 63.8% of the vote counted. in defense of this country.” ings, had served with the first AIF. maybe Aboriginal people are used Indigenous Australians were Reg was named after his uncle, to long campaigns! The South Sydney Herald – April 2007  News

Hicks coming home – human rights restored? continued from page 1 the questions raised by the American dubious. Hicks is now faced with philosopher, Judith Butler, who in a the new charge of providing material post-September 11 world, asks us: support for terrorism, a charge that Who it is that we mourn and who is lawyers argue cannot be considered it that we do not mourn? “Who counts to constitute a war crime according to as human? Whose lives count as lives? the Law of War. Hicks is to be tried ... What makes for a grievable life?” before a military commission which Elenie Poulos reminded attendees that can deny him the right to be present although it is “costly to love outcasts throughout his “trial” and the right and misfits and those who are painted to be informed of the evidence that is for political gain as our enemies,” that being used against him. The “court” “it is possible and that the shift in will admit evidence obtained under public sentiment towards David and duress or coercion. It will also admit his situation is evidence of this.” hearsay evidence which prevents Various symbols were placed on the defence from cross-examining the central table during the service any witnesses. and orange ribbons were distributed. Other speakers focused on the Participants pinned the ribbons on as spiritual issues which the Hicks case a symbolic act of “commitment to the raises for us all. Rev. Elenie Poulos restoration of human rights and the of UnitingJustice spoke of the way in dignity of every person.” There were which our response to David Hicks songs from Shireen Malamoo and Itu and his treatment “speaks to the state which emphasised the importance of of our communal soul.” She called on individuals and groups standing up those attending the event to consider and being counted in the fight for the Speakers at prayers/protest: Eva Scheerlinck, Elenie Poulos, Tanya Plibersek, Bill Crews Photo: Ali Blogg

Have You Hunting in packs Heard? uring the State Election the media have been following the Trevor Davies Dleaders, recording every move they made. John Stapleton was there, representing a major Australian media organisation. Joe Tripodi – maybe I could have stopped him! It was in the early 90’s. I was, and still am, a Labor Party Branch Secretary. John Stapleton journalists. Debnam had one to turn Iemma into a winner. As At that time Joe Tripodi wasn’t in Parliament. It wasn’t until 1995 that he young and under-resourced press Mitchell points out, they couldn’t made it across the line. In those days, local Labor Party branches had to The Liberal Coalition was secretary. While Labor could afford run on their record, which under elect delegates to the Annual Young Labor Conference and one year our out-spent, out-spun and out- to fly plane loads of journalists Carr was abysmal, they couldn’t branch elected no-one. That year, at the Annual Conference, Joe’s faction maneuvered. Once again Labor around the state, the Liberals run on Iemma’s charisma, he of the party was short of numbers. Seeing our branch had no delegates, out showed just how brilliant they are often resorted to public transport. didn’t have any. Instead, far from of the kindness of his heart, Joe gave us a delegate. I wasn’t around to sign on the campaign trail. There have “The Labor machine is expert a minister who had performed the nominations so someone else signed it. Joe’s factional enemies - and now been 26 state and federal at running campaigns and spin unexceptionally in his portfolios there were and still are plenty, thought that Joe had pulled a swifty. They elections since there was a change doctoring,” Salusinszky said. “The and been part of the Carr cabinet, of government in Australia. media has been harder on the he was transformed into a compiled a dossier of such practices called “Abuse of Power - NSW Labor Iemma used incumbency to coalition than Labor. There has likeable bloke, a suburban man, in 1993” in which the incident was recorded. I was asked by various people full effect, spending $100 million been a ganging-up on Debnam, in counterpoint to Debnam, the if I would have the person, who signed the nomination form in my name, of your money on “government” but they really didn’t run a very “toff” from Vaucluse. charged. The other day, a friend sent me an extract of Hansard in 1995. advertising of services to convince professional campaign.” One day, early in the campaign, It recorded, “Mr. Humpherson moved, pursuant to notice, that this House the electorate that, when it came Much of it boiled down to an Debnam held a water taste test on refer to the Police Commissioner and Director of Public Prosecutions the to basic services, the people of over-simplified battle between the Corso at Manly to demonstrate document entitled “Abuse of Power - NSW Labor in 1993” published by ALP NSW weren’t doing so badly after Iemma and Debnam. that recycled water tasted just Membership Defence Committee and request a full investigation and report all. At the same time, he pulled off As Anne Davies at the Sydney like tap water and the Liberals investigating the following allegations:” It all came back to me. If only I had a magnificent sleight of hand to Morning Herald pointed out: would save the state billions by agreed to take action. But Joe was only young and we all make mistakes. suggest his government was only “It was a very presidential style not opting for a desalination plant. The guy deserves a break and I thought perhaps I was wrong. 18 months old and that somehow campaign. We have focused The event provided television he shared none of the blame for heavily on personalities rather with their shots of Debnam for the debacle Bob Carr left behind. than issues.” This suited the need the day but not much else. Trying As Alex Mitchell, chief to simplify everything for TV and to write something about this Anzac Day in Redfern political correspondent for the ignore boring things like policy. utterly un-newsworthy event, The march in Redfern is always an interesting day. It goes from Redfern RSL Sun-Herald and president of the And in this regard Iemma used I asked Debnam whether they to Redfern Park, leaving the RSL at 11am at the War Memorial in Redfern NSW Parliament’s press gallery, his position as Premier to full were launching anything, doing Park, with NSW Mountain police and the Knox College Old Boys band noted: “There has been a very big effect. While Debnam was just anything, announcing anything. leading the march. Local Catholic priest, John Knight, and Salvation Army difference in the editorial writers, another man in the crowd that “No, no, no!” came the answers, padre, John Hodge, will conduct the service. After the march and service, who by and large have been crossed the Harbor Bridge for its we’re just doing a taste test. people are invited to go to the RSL for lunch. critical of the Labor Government; 75th anniversary, Iemma’s team Nothing could have shown and journalists in the field, who had carefully staged-managed the up the ineptness of the Liberal are more influenced by spin event. Iemma walked across the campaign better. Really, what doctors.” One editorial suggested bridge at the head of the crowd were the journalists meant to Redfern and Alexandria lose two old diggers the Carr/Iemma government with governor of NSW Marie write? “You should learn from Two Redfern diggers won’t be at the Anzac day march this year. Bill Ebert, was the worst in 75 years. But Bashir, holding the hands of his Labor and make announcements who died last year, was very active in the community for many years. you wouldn’t know it from the children, pretending to be an on just about anything,” I said He represented Alexandria on the old South Sydney and City Council and coverage, and Mitchell is critical ordinary person. It was a gift for to Debnam’s media spokesman. toward the end of his life distributed The South Sydney Herald in his streets. of his colleagues for letting Labor Iemma and a gift for TV. It was You could have put out a press get away with it. “Journalists left to the ineffective detail of release announcing that Debnam He was also on the board of Redfern RSL. Bill was a good man and he should be less susceptible to print to point out that only two was launching a series of taste will be missed by his mates on Anzac day. The other is person who will spin doctors.” days earlier 4,000 motorists were tests across Sydney’s suburbs not be there on Anzac day is Ian Duffner. Ian was a long-time resident of The Coalition was solidly out- trapped on the bridge for hours ahead of the announcement of the Wells Street in Redfern. Born in 1929, he spent 40 years of his life in the spent. State political correspondent after yet another public transport Liberal’s new water policy, vital to Royal Australian Navy. I used to speak to him when, in a former life, I was for The Australian, Imre, described debacle - a broken down train avert the looming water crisis and a street-sweeper and used to chat with Ian when I swept his street. Both it as almost a David and Goliath had again created transport chaos rectify years of Labor inaction and men will be missed, not only by me, but I am sure by all their mates and competition. Iemma had at least across Sydney. incompetence. “No one falls for the Redfern community. There was no proof but it was a claim made by four highly capable staff members Despite Labor’s many that crap,” came the reply. Oh yes someone who should know better in front of a large inner city crowd. whose sole job was to deal with advantages, it took pure genius they do, and yes they did.  The South Sydney Herald – April 2007 CITYNEWS RemoVInG SIGnaGe CLUTTeR Poorly located and over-used We are also removing signage creates visual excess and outdated park clutter and confusion, signage and replacing them undermining its intended with signs that are more aim of managing traffic and welcoming and encourage providing directions. use of our open spaces. The City has to date reviewed approximately 20 per cent of the local government area and removed 1,363 unnecessary poles and 1,557 CloveR MooRe MP excess signs for recycling. Lord Mayor Many international cities successfully use coloured road line markings as an alternative to signs and the RTA has agreed to consider a proposal being NEW PLAYGROUNDS FOR OUR CHILDREN prepared by the City. A new playground to delight children of all ages and abilities is the central project in the next Using road markings is stage of works for Sydney Park. The City has committed $5.9 million to the works, in addition particularly appropriate to the $9.4 million spent creating the park since 1998. The all-abilities playground will be for parking laws such as enjoyed by all children including those in wheelchairs or with hearing or sight impairments. Last “No Stopping” at month the City opened three small pocket parks in Redfern (pictured above), the new Barcom intersections and “No Avenue Park in Darlinghurst and the completion of stage two works at Frog Hollow, Surry Hills. Parking” across driveways.

HIDDEN WATER SOURCE COULD FREE DOG NEW BICYCLE LANES TO IMPROVE SAFETY DROUGHT-PROOF PARK EDUCATION Up to 55 kilometres of new separated cycle lanes could be A four-kilometre electrical cable tunnel running between PROGRAM created in the City of Sydney under an innovative plan currently Alexandria and Haymarket could help drought-proof Sydney The City will offer free dog being considered by Council. The new lanes would improve Park and erskineville oval. A joint feasibility study will obedience training to the safety of cyclists while maintaining parking and traffic determine if groundwater collecting in the tunnel could be residents, starting Saturday flow. Research undertaken by the City indicates Sydneysiders reused to irrigate Sydney Park. The study will examine other 5 May. The half-hour classes would be more likely to cycle if there were dedicated bicycle water reuse options including stormwater run-off for use run for 10 weeks. Classes lanes and better awareness by motorists of bicycle safety. in irrigation and the wetlands in the park. The Sydney Park will be held between 10am Groundwater and Stormwater Reuse Project is one of 31 water and 1pm at Sydney Park, St reuse projects being undertaken to replace mains water use. Peters and Ward Park, Surry Hills. Afternoon classes will be held 1pm and 4pm at Federal Park, Glebe and edmund Resch Reserve, East Redfern. Numbers are limited. To register call 9265 9333 or email council@cityofsydney. nsw.gov.au

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR COMMUNITY GRANTS The City’s annual Grants and Sponsorship Program is now open. The program supports community projects and organisations providing services in the City of Sydney area. Applications VIEW THE MASTERPLAN FOR BEARE PARK are invited in six categories: The City invites you to view the detailed Masterplan for Local Community, Community, the upgrade to Beare Park and Kings Cross Rotary Cultural, Business Support, Park. The masterplan resolves to join the two parks parks Environmental and Heritage. by creating a shared zone between the carpark and marina, For further information, enhancing the Harbour edge and improving access and is on contact the City on 9265 9333, exhibition at www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au and at Council’s email communitygrants@ City East office, 50 - 52 Darlinghurst Road Kings Cross until cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au or Thursday 12 April. visit www.cityofsydney.nsw. gov.au/grants.

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TOP: Phoenix Jarvis Cocker, Pixies, LEFT TO RIGHT: The Rapture, New Young Pony Club

Photos by Bob de Freitas except Jarvis Cocker by Marty Whitsitt  The Review April 2007 Theatre Reviews by Jessica Amos Theatre in Sydney by Peter Whitehead Parramatta Girls Written by Alana Valentine ntil 15 April The Downstairs Theatre, with Valerie Bader, Annie Byron, Jeanette Australian premiere of Eugène Labiche’s Directed by Wesley Enoch Belvoir Street, Surry Hills, presented by Cronin, Lisa Flanagan, Genevieve Hegney, An Italian Straw Hat, a famous Belvoir St Theatre UTwo Hour Traffic,52 Pick Up, written by Roxanne McDonald, Leah Purcell and vaudeville farce from 1851, translated Company B TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi. A guy, a girl and a Carole Skinner directed by Wesley Enoch.” by May‑Britt Akerholt and directed by 21 March – 22 April 2007 deck of cards. Each card has a scene from their Joseph Uchitel. (Monday nights – pay what you relationship – a kiss, an argument over how to inishing May 5 at The Old can but be prepared to queue.) cut carrots, the sweet and ridiculous exchanges Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo, rom 19 April, The Downstairs that pepper any relationship. The cards are FLast One Standing is written by Theatre, Belvoir Street, Surry Hills “They can do anything they want thrown in the air, with the scenes performed in Sydney playwright and actor Ned Manning. FAnna in the Tropics. Written by to you in here.” the order they’re picked up by a rotating cast Audiences will recognize themselves in this Nilo Cruz. . From the company that brought “I don’t have anything they want.” of actors, two each night, directed by Paul Barry. beautifully crafted tale that effortlessly uses you Greek Tragedy in 2002: Zoë Carides, “Well you better find something…” shifts in time from present to past back to the Christina Falsone, Rom Gulla, Radek Jonak, inishing Saturday 21 April at the present. Tracy Mann, Ned Manning, Glenn Dina Panozzo, Nicholas Papademetriou, As people found their seats, a young girl Darlinghurst Theatre, Elizabeth Bay, Hazeldine and Eve Morey are directed by Lani Tupu and Steve Vella directed by waited on a ledge in the semi darkness of the FTerence Crawford’s Love’s Triumph. Jessica Symes. Nicholas Papademetriou. stage. The audience settled and Carole Skinner Buzzy, bawdy and enormous fun played on walked on stage – drawing us into the story of an extraordinary set inspired by a kitsch uesday 17 April 6.00pm at the York reviews 20 – 25 April opens 28 her character, Judi. I looked back to the young 1960s Sydney. Garry Scale, Mark Owen Theatre, Seymour Centre, Darlington, April at the Stables, Kings Cross, Griffin girl but she was gone. With humour and pathos Taylor, Megan Drury, Andrew James, TPeter Garrett, Shadow Minister for the Arts PWorld Premiere, Ian Wilding’s October, this mesmerizing play weaves a path between Rob Thomas, Damion Hunter, Pearl Tan will launch: Australian Arts: Where directed by Julian Meyrick . Publicity promises the present – the reunion of women who lived and Robert Woodhead directed by The Bloody Hell Are You? edited by “the provocative and hilarious October will at Parramatta Girls Training School – and the Brendon McDonall. John Clark, Peter McCallum and Ian Maxwell continue to linger in the shadows of every past. At the reunion, they confront the past and Entry: Free. Bookings are essential. 9351 7940. street corner on the way home”. its effects on their lives. They walk through the ntil 22 April at Belvoir Street, rooms of the institution – now deserted but so Surry Hills, Company B presents rom 19 April, East Coast nd do not miss the chance to visit the new crowded in their minds. It was really a prison UParramatta Girls by Alana Valentine. Theatre Company at thePilgrim Carriageworks Performance Space, – a dumping ground for “delinquent” girls “A stirring tribute to mischief and humour FTheatre, Sydney, with the Australian AWilson Street, Darlington, for an exciting – like Kerry (Lisa Flanagan) who was judged in the face of hardship and inequality” Academy of Dramatic Art, presents the variety of events and installations. “uncontrollable at three months old!” Their memories of “Dr Fingers” and his like take them and us back. Playwright Alana Valentine has said that, “the fact that they had a bad experience is five minutes – then do you keep escalating the horror of that experience? No, you have to look at the RESOURCE character who is experiencing that and why it keeps haunting them.” Lynette (Valerie Bader) PERFORMANCE – all tight brittle reserve – sits outside – unable to enter the reunion. The adult Gayle (Annie Byron) does the humiliating “dance of the jiggly WORKSHOPS tit” for a guard now alive only in her mind. Ralph Myers and Rachel Burke use the set and the Private Coaching lighting respectively to express emotions. The long dark windows cast by the huge shadows Acting Workshops render Marlene (Leah Purcell) the powerless child she is when the Children’s Court charges Jane E Seymour her with neglect. The eight characters including the inspiring Melanie ( Jeanette Cronin) Actor & Acting Tutor and the others find ways to survive – or not. MA,unsw;BADA,uk; ARTTS Inter.,uk However, it is in the moments that they find, eventually, support for each other in the face of Take A Break In Paradise beatings and rape, that the audience finds itself salty teared and leaning forward. • Shakespeare A place to switch off and revive 3 hrs from Darlington The characters are drawn from playwright Alana Valentine’s interviews with 35 women • Audition & Call-Backs who lived at Parramatta Girls Home that ran under various names until it was closed in 1974. • HSC Newnes Hotel Cabins - Valentine was reportedly inspired by material Historic Wilderness Retreat on Stateline around four years ago about Newnes, Wollemi National Park Parramatta Girls in part because – indigenous or white – the girls all experienced the same 9572 9049 cruelty. As one character says, “I don’t reckon [email protected] Ph. 02 6355 1247 there was a black and white in here – just black www.lisp.com.au/~newnes and blue.” It’s also an Australian story. “There’s www.rpworkshops.com.au nothing like that extra thing of “there’s nowhere to hide … this is not about Nazi Germany, this is about Australia, so deal with that,” Valentine Soul-jazz- maestro Jackie Orszaczky will is quoted as saying in the SMH. At just 12 years old in 1962, Coral Pombo headline a fundraiser for the South Sydney Herald became one of around 25,000 girls who on Sunday 8 July. Mark that date in your diaries! Blow your were sent to this institution. For one year, Pombo was dependent on people that, it has A great afternoon of grooves and tunes with Jackie own trumpet! recently emerged, typically used brutality to Orszaczky and band, plus Australia’s premier gospel a control children – just because they could. Send your band / cappella choir, Café of the Gate of Salvation… 41 years later Pombo organized a reunion for theatre / art bios and “Parramatta Girls” as they are known. That More acts to be announced. pics to be published in same year – 2003 – there was a senate inquiry, The fundraiser will be held at the Australian the Review “Forgotten Australians,” about the abuse of Technology Park (Exhibition Hall) in Eveleigh from 1-4pm. Tickets $12 (All pics must be children in institutions. A photo of Parramatta 300 dpi at print size Girls Training School shows two long lines of (available online or at the door). Join us for music, BBQ lunch, drinks, and arts/ or will be rejected) white steel beds. There are no personal effects. Send to [email protected] Children lived in this room. How? Parramatta crafts stalls (if you’d like to exhibit works we’d like to hear from you – send us an Girls gently takes our hand and shows us. email: [email protected]) More information next issue. The Review April 2007  Billy Thorpe The man that rocked the Cross

I met a young surf band called the Aztecs who were playing “at an old converted picture theatre in the red light district of Kings Cross in Sydney and became their lead singer. Vince Maloney, Tony Barber, John ‘Bluey’ Watson, Col Baigent and Billy Thorpe became Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs and the rest is Australian .” Billy Thorpe 1947–2007 Peter Whitehead the eulogy. “One thing we all recognise is love and, God knows, we suffer heaps when In front of the Gold Fish Bowl – the to-be- we don’t get it, or we don’t get enough of it. developed Crest Hotel site – there is a plaque Billy Thorpe gave and shared and received in the pavement, boldly brazen: Surf City & more of that love than a great many of us.” Billy Thorpe. To old habitués of the Cross “If love could bring us back to physical life, those names evoke a great time when eager Billy would be jumping around the stage today.” young groovers would do the stomp on that Many readers will have their own dear strangely raked dance floor and press inevitably memories of Thorpie jumping around on down tow ards the stage where, on the best of stage at the Whiskey Au Go Go or even nights, a bloke who had to show fake ID to be earlier at Surf City. Between 1964 and 1965 served at the bar sang like a free-falling angel. Billy and the Aztecs became the biggest On his website Billy Thorpe recalled: pop act the country had ever seen with “If a professional life is measured in hits like ‘Poison Ivy,’ ‘,’ terms of milestones then walking into ‘Mashed Potato’ and ‘Sick And Tired.’ Surf City in Kings Cross in April 1963 “In late 1967 through 1968 when 10,000 US was the milestone of my life.” service-men a week were coming through the “Billy Thorpe was a great talent and a legend in the music industry. He built the road that Australian rock n roll drives on and has been an inspiration for our younger musicians and a major supporter of his peers

– both on and off stage.” – Michael and Sue Gudinski Photo: Rina Ferris

In the 60s the Cross attracted live-wires Cross on R and R from Vietnam to party hard, houses. Entertainment has transformed mellow over time but its essence cannot be lost. like the gifted young Pommy from Brisbane. when I wasn’t touring as a solo artist, I enjoyed in pursuit of the modern tastes. Council Billy Thorpe is part of the legend of the Now, on the other side of the street from the some of the best times of my life performing boundaries are moved. The pavement is Cross. We honour his life by never forgetting strangely stocked Fish Bowl, For Lease signs in a semi residency downstairs in the Den more flash. There is more regulation and how important is the delightful energy of stand patrol over empty premises. These days at Sydney’s infamous Whiskey Au Go Go... greater surveillance. Different persons of music making. Because he was so good so the pubs up here draw patrons with the sweet Three floors of music, -go go girls, partying interest are running different businesses young he seemed to have lived a long life. But sounds of pokies playing the percentages. and mania, dusk to dawn 7 nights a week.” these days alongside, of course, some of the it was cut too short. We offer our condolences When an icon of an age passes we have cause Mary Hopkins was on top of the charts with usual suspects up to the same old tricks. to his wife, Lynne, and his daughters, Rusty to pause and reflect on what we have lost. ‘Those Were the Days’ – and it seems they were. The permanent population of the Cross is and Lauren. We note that the Thorpe family More than 7,000 fans, friends and family Now, of course, so much is not what it was. growing against the tradition of transience. requested mourners at the Memorial Service, flocked to the memorial service for Billy Thorpe Licensing Laws have changed and changed People who care where they live are choosing in lieu of flowers, to make contributions at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Sunday, and changed again. Tourist trade hotels have to take a place in the inner city. They are drawn to Support Act Limited (SAL), a charity 4 March. The Reverend Bill Crews delivered been developed into high-end apartment to a surviving spirit. A precinct of character can providing relief to music industry participants.

Synesthetic artists deliver in new Performance Space

Ben Falkenmire a packed theatre. his deep digital exploration of signals, aptly Western Sydney based artist, Andrew buffered by fluid and water drunk images. In a A collaboration of Sydney’s finest synesthetic Gadow, “abused” technological equipment well structured piece taking the audience into artists launched their new label demux at the from the analogue era enlisting jagged shapes his void, Marynowsky was in control of his Performance Space at the beginning of March. and primal colours to explore the textual movements, while the audience’s ears filtered The label is the brain child of Sydney-based feel of rudimentary buzzes, whoops, glitches bubbling high-pitched signals and subtle artists, Wade Marynowsky and Peter Newman, and whirs. Gadow’s primal version of this syncopated beats. who are seeking to fill a gap in the support of contemporary medium was refreshing and Sydney musician and artist Peter Newman “live audio-visual events, documentation and laudable, given the constraints he indirectly peeled back the theatre’s screen in the final experimental events for screen.” imposes on himself. performance to exhibit on the coarse and Synesthesia art productions such as demux Samuel Bruce emitted a wash of “dirty” antique Eveleigh railyard wall. In cinematic and the likes of fluxus, expanded cinema and noise as the backdrop for twist and turns style, Newman cast an apocalyptic setting glitch, play on the modalities of audio and of a labyrinth of noodle arms and legs all – trees and the sky moving in fast frames with vision and how these two interplay to deliver stemming from an unidentifiable nucleus. In the wind in what seemed to be an endless night the audience member an insight into both the contrast to the other artists, Bruce’s emphasis – before taking the audience on his crescendo artist’s and their own understanding of the was clearly on the image at the expense of the of shaving and grating sounds offset by elemental truths of the sounds and images. audience’s ears. splinters of light in his projection. Set in the Performance Space’s new home The two stand-out performers were Keep your eyes and ears peeled for an additional in Redfern’s CarriageWorks, after moving incidentally the co-creators of the demux label, two releases by demux (www.demux.org) later across from Cleveland Street, the four demux Wade Marynowksy and Peter Newman. in the year with the support of the Australia Photo: Craig Bender performers lined their ‘work stations’ in front of Marynowksy lunged the audience into Council of the Arts. 10 The Review April 2007

Game Reviews by Tom Yoo

Rayman Raving Rabbids Marvel Ultimate Alliance Reviewed on Nintendo Wii Reviewed on Xbox 360 Players: 1-4 Players: 1-4 Rating: PG Rating: M

When you hear ‘Rayman’, Marvel fans of the world unite! I’m sure, like most people, you Following the success of their think ‘platformer.’ How times have previous X-men Legends games, changed. Nowadays, when you Raven Software has bought us Tim Brunero calls bingo Photo: Ali Blogg hear ‘Rayman,’ think ‘mini-games.’ a new and expanded Marvel In his latest adventure from universe adventure. legendary games developer Ultimate Alliance follows Bingo bonanza! Ubisoft, Rayman has been closely on X-men Legends’ kidnapped by what we can only successful formula of hack ’n slash SSH have students and locals dancing to the presume to be a hoard of mutant gameplay and RPG-lite system of jukebox at 11.30pm,” says Brunero. rabbits on crack. He is then tasked character upgrading. Bingo is back! The game kept alive by thermos- “What I love about it is the communal feel of it. with having to complete a series The opening cinematic sequence swigging diggers at mid-morning sessions in RSLs Unlike trivia where you’re all in teams pitted against of ludicrously insane tasks to be will send you into geekgasms as around the nation has returned from the wilderness. each other at bingo you’re really just a big group awarded a plunger. Seriously. Captain America, Spiderman, A rule shake-up, a few modern enjoying a few drinks and a fun night together.” The game sets out to present Thor and Wolverine (the first modifications, and a focus on comedy have Down the road at The Imperial Hotel in players with 75 different mini- four characters you’ll control) go all helped to freshen up the concept. Erskineville is another bingo night called ‘Bingay.’ games, showcasing the versatility up against an attacking force of The game’s new popularity with ‘youf’ is being Hosted by Drag Queen Mitzi Macintosh and of the Wii’s unique control robots. (Where would superhero compared to the lawn bowls craze that swept the her offsider Naomi the night has been going for scheme. To say there are 75 videogames be without robots?) nation after Mick Molloy’s film CrackerJack. eight years and is a fundraiser for ACON. mini-games though is a bit of a We learn that Dr. Doom At least two South Sydney venues are catering to the Over the years the weekly queer institution stretch, seeing as the majority of has formed an evil alliance of trend, and they are struggling to deal with the interest. has raised well over $400,000. mini-games are simply variants on super-villains under the Masters Darlington’s Royal Hotel began its free Monday Mitzi puts the show’s success down to the same thing. of Evil banner and only you and bingo night this year and host Tim Brunero says the ownership regulars feel they have of the The mini-games themselves your band of 20+ superheroes can the venue has trouble fitting everyone in. night, but also the way the hotel caters to range from having to swing the bring them down. You’ll be able to “Last week we had strangers cheek by jowl, birthdays, backpackers and the just curious. Wiimote wildly above your head assemble your team of four from it was hilarious, people were really hitting “Now and again I’ll tell a story that regulars in order to toss a cow, to using the fan favourites such as Daredevil, it off, I felt like I was comp aring Perfect have heard five times, but they get great delight Wiimote to aim and Nunchuk Ironman and the Fantastic Four, Match or something,” says Brunero. in seeing Bingay virgins reactions,” she says. to reload for some on-rails as well as some more obscure The Royal Hotel mixes bingo with trivia, comedy, “Basically, Bingay is a bit silly and a bit first-person shooting action. characters like Luke Cage audience participation, political commentary, saucy with some comedy thrown in.” (Keep an eye out for the Sam and Deadpool. weird rules, big prizes (like $50 bar vouchers and Fisher Rabbid!) The graphics are decent enough $100 meat trays) but also a touch of the bizarre. The game offers a story and for a next-gen title and the music Amongst the stranger prizes are ‘The Money WHERE TO PLAY BINGO: multiplayer mode but both present works well in setting the right or the Box,’ signed laminated photos of bar staff, problems. Firstly, the Story Mode mood. Level design is also done and accommodation vouchers for the Royal’s Royal Hotel, Darlington, Monday Nights, doesn’t feel like a real story, but well but the gameplay can get a six bed dorms. The night finishes with fifteen 7pm-9pm, 370 Abercrombie St rather a lame excuse to throw little repetitive, as can the constant minutes of ‘Toss the Boss’ where punters can together a bunch of unrelated remarks from your loudmouthed win their drinks with a flip of the coin. Imperial Hotel, Erskineville, Tuesday Nights, mini-games. And second, the characters. Iceman in particular “Monday can be a slow night, but we 8.30pm-11pm, 35 Erskineville Rd multiplayer aspect doesn’t really stood out as having some of the exist, with most ‘multiplayer’ most annoying remarks I can games simply being people taking recall in recent videogame history. turns to beat each other’s scores. Ultimately, Ultimate Alliance’s That having been said, the game ultimate flaw (heh) is one of can still be an absolute riot to balance. To Raven’s credit, play through. Try playing with a they’ve done well in giving each " L>À friend controlling the Wiimote character their individual quirks and you the Nunchuk. I guarantee that become apparent over time. it will have you both in stitches. Unfortunately, it’s still a bit (Or wanting to rip each other’s disappointing that Elektra can throats out.) bring down the same opponent Praise must go to Ubisoft as effectively as Thor. Flyers also for creating the oddly lovable appear to have little advantage Rabbids, with their wacky humour, over grounded characters. addictive charm and that awesome Those things aside, Ultimate Rabbid yell! Rest assured, play Alliance is a must have for any this game enough and you will be self-respecting Marvel fan who’s ޜÕÀÊ«>ÀÌÞÊÛi˜ÕiʇʫiÀviVÌÊvœÀÊÌÜi˜ÌއwÀÃÌÃ]Êiˆ} ̈iÌ ÃÊ>˜`Ê>˜ÞÌ ˆ˜}ÊiÃiÊޜÕÊV>ÀiÊ̜ÊViiLÀ>Ìi walking up to your friends and ever thought to herself, “It would yelling, “GAAHHHHH!!!!!!” be so cool if Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Blade and Deadpool got ÀÌÃʜ˜Ê œÕÀŽi œ«i˜ÊvÀˆ`>ÞÊEÊÃ>ÌÕÀ`>ÞÊvÀœ“ÊÈ«“Ê Score: 7.5/10 together.” Get the game and do it! ˆ˜ÊÌ iÊ i>ÀÌʜvÊÃÕÀÀÞÊ ˆÃÊ {È{Ê œÕÀŽiÊ-ÌÀiiÌ]Ê-ÕÀÀÞʈÃÊ Ì>«>Ãʓi˜ÕÊEʏˆVi˜Vi`ÊL>ÀÊ * œ˜iÊäÓʙÈÈÇÊ{ÎÓ£Ê Score: 8/10 }>iÀÞÊë>ViÊ “>ˆÊ>“iÃJÃÃ}>V°Vœ“°>Õ «ÀˆÛ>ÌiÊv՘V̈œ˜Ã ÜÜÜ°ÃÃ}>V°Vœ“°>Õ The South Sydney Herald – April 2007 11 News Locals lend a hand to clean up the Block On Sunday 4th March more than 50 local volunteers helped pick up rubbish at the Block as part of Clean Up Australia Day. Members from both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community came together to give the Block a much needed cleansing. This year’s attendance was a large increase on previous years. In 2005, there were only four volunteers and in 2006 only eight people people volunteered to help. Clean Up Australia area volunteer, Bob Macoun, has been organising the day for many years and was thrilled with the turn-out. Tegan Richardson, Lisa Simon and Toni Wright from the Redfern Community Centre helped organise the day and provided a breakfast BBQ to reward the hard-working volunteers.

Koori clean up Photo: SSH On the air: radio for workers SSH a Workers Radio campaign. “The thing about our audience Sydney has long endured right- is that they don’t just listen to the wing shock jocks taking cash for stories, them turn up at pickets, comment from corporate sponsors, they call and email bad bosses, but a new radio program is and their support actually gives providing a refreshing change with the show some real bite.” a focus on working families, strong Workers Radio is different to communities and industrial rights. commercial radio programs. It Workers Radio Sydney, is funded by donations from launched by Unions NSW individual supporters, community secretary John Robertson in clubs, legal firms, super funds, August 2005 in response to the educational providers and trade Howard Government’s radical new unions. Most importantly it doesn’t workplace laws, has built a devoted accept corporate advertising. audience of socially aware people However the show is not just concerned about rights at work. about pointing the finger at bad The program has broadcast the bosses, it works closely with Unions latest information about mistreated NSW and the newly formed Fair workers, community protests Employer Scheme to encourage and local Your Rights At Work businesses that do the right thing. groups. It has supported sacked “This show is about highlighting meatworkers, underpaid cleaners, the power that people taking exploited guest workers, striking direct action have in making their storemen, asbestos victims, and workplaces, and the world, a fought to prevent cuts to public farer, safer, and more sustainable services, health, education and the place,” said Mr Bulley. Doug Smith of the Salvation Army thanks Chris Tippett from the IGA Photo: Ali Blogg ailing public transport system. “There is a growing realisation In 2007 the program is taking that working rights are human a new leap, and will begin rights, and that the attacks on podcasting stories on the internet the rights of working families by Waterloo generosity gets to allow workers to listen in big business and conservative whenever and wherever they are. government that we are facing Presenter Craig Bulley spends are happening to millions of food service up and running his time chasing the latest stories people around the world.” impacting on working people, Workers Radio Sydney provides Bill Birtles the centre for three years, said So far, the money from IGA many of which get ignored a voice for working people to tell the money allows people to Waterloo and the Australian by the mainstream press, and our stories. It provides an avenue The generosity of two local choose $25 worth of food items Technology Park is enough for joins them all together with an to talk about workplace issues, businesses is helping a vital food from the range they provide. “My six months worth of food packs. eclectic mix of music to cover the legal rights and entitlements, service get up and running in estimate is that we get up to 700 “We would hope that some other audience which has an estimated health and safety and industrial Waterloo. The Salvation Army people coming to the centre each local businesses may follow suit. listening age of 15 to 85. relations laws. It promotes debate on Neighbourhood Centre, on the week”, he told the SSH. “Most The benefit of it is that the money “We have a diverse and growing broader issues affecting Australians, corner of Cope and Phillip Street of them are over 50 but we also is being spent in the local area group of listeners whose only including the environment and in Waterloo, has started providing get younger people with drug, where it’s donated, instead of common link is a shared concern the provision of community food packages to people strug- gambling or alcohol problems”, going somewhere else”, he said. for the treatment of workers and services. If you have a story gling to fill their cupboards. This he said. Chris Tippett, the Store Manager a desire to work together to make contact Craig on 0431 392 160 or is made possible because of dona- The donations are significant of IGA Waterloo, said the dona- the world a better place,” he said. [email protected] tions from IGA Waterloo and the because the Centre hasn’t tion is part of being in the local “But it isn’t just activists Australian Technology Park. The traditionally received funding community. “It’s a good cause listening in, the CEO of a high Workers Radio Sydney broadcasts on money has allowed the Centre to from business and organisations. because, particularly around here, profile company made it known expand its services to the com- “We’re funded by the Elizabeth there are some tough conditions that he tuned in to hear things 88.9FM between 6am and 9am Monday munity, which already include Street Church but we don’t get for people”, he said. “These food “from the workers’ perspective” – Friday. To listen online, get more info subsidised meals and markets. direct funding from things like items are certainly not luxury and an adviser to NSW Minister to become a member, visit Doug Smith, who along with the Red Shield Appeal”, Mr goods, they are real necessities”, for Industrial Relations John Della www.workersradiosydney.com his wife Jackie has been running Smith said. he said. Bosca rang to ask for mercy after 12 The South Sydney Herald – April 2007 News On a beach in a far distant country Kristina JP Collis The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli from April 1915 Keneally MP to December 1915 during World War I. A joint British and French MEMBER operation was mounted in an effort FOR HEFFRON to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (Istanbul). The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides. No one has ever asked me to cut The first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word Gallipoli, is services. Over the past 4 years I held “cannon fodder.” Read in some high school history mobile offices throughout Heffron and text book many years ago, this description of the role of ANZAC responded to thousands of letters and troops reminds me always of the emails – and never once has anyone sheer stoicism of the soldiers, and also of the blind belief and asked me to reduce the services State misguided trust those men had in their British Commanders. Alana Valentine Photo: Ali Blogg Government provides. And yet, an increasing number of Australians and New Zealanders She is the author of Run Rabbit to be Australian in a way that cannot travel to Anzac Cove each year to Run, an hilarious and moving be explained simply in terms of commemorate the sacrifice made by stage play about the struggle of battles, war and mateship.” That simple fact came home to me when I the ANZACs, and Alana Valentine is the to among those making the trip to the get back into the NRL, which was considered the result of the NSW election. Turkish peninsula this year. Alana performed at Belvoir Street Theatre Alana would be interested to hear One side of politics promised to improve has been funded by the Literature in January 2004 and won the from South Sydney residents Fund of the Australian Council to Premier’s Literary Award who have made the pilgrimage to services, one side promised to cut them. travel to Gallipoli to interview those for best play and is published by Anzac Cove, or who are planning to making the pilgrimage, as research Currency Press. make it in the near future. for her next play. “The diversity of motivations Much of Alana’s work, including of those Australians who attend You can contact Alana via the South All of us rely on State Government services from Parramatta Girls which is currently [dawn services at Anzac Cove] is Sydney Herald at [email protected] playing at the Belvoir Street Theatre, intriguing,” Alana explains, “and the and put Alana Valentine in the subject the moment we wake up and turn on the lights, is based on oral history interviews play will be an insight into the magic and local history research, which that happens every year at dawn, on heading, or write to Alana c/o South have a shower, take the bus to work or send our she then transforms into compelling, a beach in a far distant country, but Sydney Herald at PO Box 2360 and kids to school. Sometimes we rely on services humorous and engaging works for which, nevertheless, continues to we will pass on any letters. the stage. draw together and define what it is more intensely – like the local hospital or police – or in a ‘big picture’ sense, such as managing climate change. Redfern and Regent Streets open for business

Pam Dagwell called Heart Fashions has similar Dr Mualla Akinci who has concerns. She and her customers recently moved into her own newer, Morris Iemma has committed his Government to In November 2005 Sydney – when she has any – have had bigger pharmacy says, “It really is improving services. That’s why he is introducing Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, to endure jackhammers outside wonderful what is happening to invited residents to a public the shop door for over a month; Redfern. I’ve been here for 18 years innovative programs like after hours GP Clinics meeting at Redfern Town Hall she has often had to keep the and Redfern Street is starting to to discuss the plans to upgrade door closed during trading hours look really beautiful.” The owner at hospitals – including Prince of Wales – and Redfern and Regent Streets. because of the noise and dust. of Markson Sparks, Max Markson, This project was part of the $50 is equally impressed. Mr Markson Trade Schools so our students can get a head million investment planned for has moved his publicity, celebrity the inner city, and all work was management and events agency start in achieving trade qualifications. to be carried out in consultation into the Clock Tower at the heritage with the local community. Post Office building. “ Since that time footpaths is investing in Redfern. Channel have been improved and power 7 is moving here. I love being in Morris Iemma has already made public lines buried. There is new street Redfern. It’s tremendous now but transport his top priority, with the Clearways furniture, paving, lighting and it will grow and grow,” he said. trees, and the work on Redfern Labor Party Councillor, Tony Project to untangle our rail system and a fleet Park is well under way. As Pooley, agrees there have been Ms Moore said, “Redfern will problems. “I think Council was of new buses. be restored to a beautiful and slow in responding to requests historic inner-city village.” for signage advising that the However, with every renewal of street was still open for business this nature, there is a downside. and directing shoppers to the Car As much as this election was about services it At a time when independent, local Park but these have now been business owners are struggling delivered,” he said. Councillor was also about protecting our rights at work. to survive against the might of Pooley believes the work on the Over the next four years Morris Iemma and the multinationals and shopping area has been a long time coming centres that resemble miniature – since 1995 in fact, when the the Labor State Government will stand up for cities, the inevitable interruption upgrade was first talked about. to trade that results from “All street upgrades result in working families in NSW against the harsh upgrades can be the last straw. some inconvenience,” he said, Marie Moraindinis, who owns Present landscape in Redfern Street Photo: Ali Blogg “but I’m not sure there is an realities of ’s WorkChoices. Labels on Sale in Redfern Street, alternative.” The Councillor says the roadworks development “The City,” she says, “is promoting understands the latest estimate of the area is a “fiasco.” Redfern-Waterloo as the next big for completion is May. She complains that Council is thing.” In the meantime she is Lord Mayor Moore says the $20 unsympathetic to local business battling to make ends meet and million upgrade of the streetscape Kristina Keneally MP owners and that, “It’s all about her dream of turning her fashion on Redfern Street is nearing Member for Heffron raising property values, not helping label, Akraada, into a thriving completion but some of the the businesses.” She has been business on Redfern Street is business owners are growing weary. Shop 117, 747 Botany Road, Rosebery NSW 2018 told to “hold on” until September, receding into the distance. Who will compensate them for the Phone: (02) 9699 8166 Fax: (02) 9699 8222 six months later than the date in For some business owners, loss of revenue, they ask, and what March she was previously given. however, Council’s commitment kind of opening will take place Email: [email protected] Her neighbour, Ely Crouch, who to re-vitalising Redfern is later in the year if many businesses operates a pattern-making service beginning to pay off. have been forced to close? The South Sydney Herald – April 2007 13 Comment & Opinion

SOUTH SYDNEY ENVIRONMENT Baby, it’s cold inside

Anna Christie

ntil about three or four years ago, peak electricity loads in UAustralian cities occurred in winter when (inefficient) electric heaters were in peak usage to warm our homes. Then a funny thing happened. Peak electricity loads now occur in summer. The amount of power used to cool buildings on the hottest summer days is now an alarming trend, putting pressure on electricity network operators and retailers to avoid power blackouts.

According to a report by economist Dr Jeff Washusan, based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, in 2006 there were 4,600,000 residential air-conditioners in Australia and $360 million being invested in “low-efficiency” air conditioning demand annually across the land. I admit my home office has one of these millions of air conditioners but, in my defence, it is never used and is now concealed behind an artwork. You see, I inherited the said home office from my husband, who used to spend many hot afternoons sweltering before he went out and purchased the hated appliance ( hated by me, that is). I chose to manage the afternoon heat in a different way. One of the first things I did was to install a curtain with ‘triple pass” lining, which effectively blocks out heat – and cold, in winter. I am also very fond of open windows and try to create cross-currents throughout the house. As a result, my office is extremely comfortable and does not cause such nuisances as noise (noticeable to people outside the room being cooled because the motor is on the outside of the wall) and Editorial condensation (which causes constant dripping onto the ground The Greens raised some outside). Nor does it make me a carbon glutton. worthy questions recently with It is frequently remarked that the phenomenal rise in air conditioning is a result of global climate change, but I disagree. Introducing respect to drugs. Naturally, it’s I think it has more to do with aggressive marketing by the retailers a complicated and emotional who flog these ever more cheap electrical appliances. Flashy matter. But it’s a great pity advertising, “no deposit 2 years interest free”, “even less for cash” the Daily Telegraph chose to all contribute to pumping up sales of this electrojunk, which is mental tomorrow’s landfill (and tomorrow’s debt, if you’ve borrowed money sensationalise the issues and to buy it – note, I avoid the use of the word credit where possible as it misrepresent the policy which masks the fact that it is really “debt”). called for clearer distinctions Once installed, as everyone knows they never work as ideally as health between drug-use and drug- the marketing promises. The nirvana of a perfect indoor ambience is replaced by uneven cooling, where you freeze in one corner of the dealing. We’ve come to expect room, while others receive no cool air. And it’s not just domestic air fearful sensationalism from the conditioners that are a problem. chaplains Telegraph. Still, it’s disappointing. Offices, shops, cinemas, bars and other public places are often so chilly that the wise take an extra layer to keep them warm against the To put it simply, if the use of a substance is a criminal assault of air con. SSH need, either as a sufferer or as a The Australian Greenhouse Office says summer air con temperatures neighbour. We need to know where offence then users are likely to should be between 24-25 degrees Celsius, or 18-20 degrees Celsius in “How are you?” – is a question we can go for help. There are places be reluctant to seek medical winter. At a recent gathering at a well-known Redfern establishment we often ask, even if we don’t know to go to and people who care. We treatment. patrons had to beg management to turn down the ferocious air con, the person at all. What answer need to know what is going on and as many of us were freezing despite the summer warmth outside. do we expect – if any? “Good”; that speaking about our weaknesses The South Sydney Herald I went back later with my thermometer, and the temperature was “Well, thank you”, or something and vulnerability can be a strength argues that if more of the money a far more comfortable 21 degrees, still a lot colder than the AGO like that. When someone asks us and not a weakness. currently spent on policing recommendations. that question we probably feel we As mental health chaplains Due to the “set and forget” mindset of most air con users, there is can’t give a real answer because we working in the area we know that (and the prison system) were little monitoring of temperatures. Nor is there any monitoring of the don’t usually go around saying, “I people can feel they fall between the to go toward education and feel awful”, or “I’m really down at cracks of officialdom and that failure additional cost burden that air con places on users. You would think the moment”; “I could hardly get just compounds itself. We hope to rehabilitation it would be a better any business would like to shave its overheads, and they do, but air out of bed” – or whatever. We all begin to able to contribute to the life use of tax payers’ money. It could con seems remarkably immune. have our down times and may feel of the community as people who also help to save lives. The perceived need for air con can be overcome by climate-friendly quite frightened for our own health come with no agenda other than to building design and appropriate low-tech measures that help us control and wellbeing. We may have really listen, to learn and to help to share We congratulate the Greens the flow of cooling air, and the heat of the sun. Don’t let the pushers wondered if we are losing the plot. one another’s burdens. for daring to think outside tempt you, air con is nothing but a bad habit. And that is scary. It’s also very hard This is the season of Easter, the square, and call on the to talk about. where the real symbol is the If you would like to suggest environmental issues in South Sydney The statistics tell us that 1 in 5 cross, not chocolate eggs or Easter recently re-elected State Labor that need investigation, please contact Anna Christie by email: people suffer from a mental illness bunnies. For Christians it tells us government to convene another [email protected] at some stage of their life. That that God suffers with the whole drug summit to look into: the means that there are few people of humanity and is not sitting in who have not been affected in uncaring judgement on anyone. decriminalisation of drug use; the some way. People who suffer from The belief is that darkness was extension of the Kings Cross self- mental illness often feel they will not the end, but that God brought be labelled or stigmatised. Meeting life and light out of injustice, pain injecting room model throughout someone whose illness is a problem and deathliness. Whoever we are, the inner city; and the suitability “Celebrating the lives of the diverse people of South Sydney, inviting discussion on at the moment can feel scary or healthy or struggling, we are called of “wet centres” for those issues of concern and interest, adding encouragement to possibilities for community.” threatening. It can be very hard to together in that light and hope have a neighbour or someone close to journey not in isolation but as battling alcohol addiction. Partner with the SSH and 21,000 readers who are: who is disturbed and disruptive. neighbours who want to affirm Perhaps the Telegraph can - savvy on a diverse range of issues Too often everyone involved can one another. help the debate by not engaging - passionate about the area in which they live feel stuck. - looking to support community businesses and people So, what can we do? We all in constant beat-ups with want to live in communities where Mary Pearson, Frank Vavasour respect to important social [email protected] we can be safe and where people Mental Health Chaplains, Sydney issues. Let the debate begin. get the care and support they South West Area Health Service 14 The South Sydney Herald – April 2007 Features

I would also want to own that, if South Africa and the African Union are slow to criticize the ruthless Sekai Holland President Mugabe, it is likely to be because, after the racist history of the “Christian” European powers as Living an Easter life they extended their empires all over Africa, Africans are now reluctant hose of us who know Sekai Holland were, to some to join with them in their condem- Tdegree, not surprised to hear that she was lying nation of activities of any African states. We do not always reap what in hospital under guard, seriously bashed and injured we sow – others sometimes pay the price, yet again. by Robert Mugabe’s troops. Sekai has always lived, These are some extracts of what I would describe, as an “Easter life” – that which the account of Jim Holland, her husband, as he writes of her ordeal: firmly walks towards the oppressive powers of the day, “My wife, Sekai Holland, is a 64-year old grandmother. For the regardless of the personal costs. crime of being a member of the opposition MDC in Zimbabwe Dorothy McRae-McMahon who were involved in movements she has suffered one of the most for justice in the early 1970’s also brutal attacks imaginable at the I suspect that people like this are have strong and fond memories of hands of the ZANU-PF regime’s mostly not so much earnest, pious, Sekai. She was a staunch supporter sadistic thugs. preachy people but those who of the Aboriginal Land Rights “Sekai was first hit in the face, spread marvellous life all around Movement and the 1972 Aboriginal her glasses being smashed. Then them. Like Sekai, they laugh and Embassy. Naomi Mayer’s of the she was hit with a variety of SekaiHolland cry, they are gentle with love and Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service weapons, including clubs and they shout in indignation. Their said that Sekai was and is a strong batons. They kept accusing her can hospital for treatment. When decisions for life or death which lives sing with vivid sounds of but gentle person of principle and of being United Kingdom PM asked whether she regrets opposing people like Sekai face. We can, both joy and grief and are coloured great integrity and that it was Tony Blair’s girlfriend – to which President Robert Mugabe’s brutal however, support them on their bright with brave action. They outrageous for a grandmother to be she responded, ‘No – he is my regime, in the light of her injuries, tough and costly journeys towards sound with the rhythmic drums of brutalized in this manner. Naomi son – how can you call me his Sekai said, “No, we have lived our justice. We can support Sekai determination. They do not to col- said that both the Redfern Legal girlfriend?’ That naturally didn’t lives for this.” Holland and her friends in at least lude with the forces they challenge Centre and the Redfern Aboriginal go down well. The beatings went Most of us will never face the three ways: as they refuse to become filled Medical Service have written to the on and on over a period of hours. with violence and hate. Their lives South African High Commission A woman repeatedly jumped on dance on before us, inviting in us (the major international sponsor her with booted feet – fracturing Please send letters / emails today to Foreign Minister Alexander all a different view of reality and a of the Mugabe regime) expressing or breaking three of her ribs. Her Downer, South African President Thabo Mbeki, to more forcefully new understanding of the purpose concern for the safety of Sekai Hol- clothes were covered in blood to which we are called as human land and other opposition leaders – both her own and that of others condemn the repression and make clearer demands of the Mugabe beings. I am not suggesting that in Zimbabwe. suffering the same brutality. She regime. Send your strongest condemnation and demand for the they are saints – on the contrary, Whether she is religious or passed out several times. release of all prisoners and a return to democracy to President they remind us of their humanness not, she reminds me again of the “At one stage one of the torturers and ours as they look destructive paradigm of the life of a Christ who left the room and was then called Mugabe via the Zimbabwe Embassy in Canberra. power in the face. It is not that they walked towards Jerusalem - the back by another who said, ‘What have no fear, but that the greater seat of oppressive powers in his about her legs?’ He then used some Hon Alexander Downer MHR Mrs Florence Chitauro fear for them is that they will give place and day. With palm branches instrument to break her leg, after Minister for Foreign Affairs Ambassador for the ground to those who trample the encouraging him on one week and which they forced her to stand up Parliament House Republic of Zimbabwe freedom of the people. betrayed and alone on the next, and hobble around on it. When CANBERRA ACT 2600 11 Culgoa Circuit That was the Sekai I knew when the Christ walked towards death, satisfied that they had indeed Fax: 02 6273 4112 O’MALLEY ACT 2606 she lived in Sydney in the 1970’s certain that this is the way towards broken it, they left. Later she was Email: [email protected] Fax: 6290 1680 and 80’s and who was, even then, authentic and victorious life. I am pushed out of a high prison truck. Ph: 6286 2281 challenging the forces of apartheid not suggesting that the Sekai Hol- She fell and landed hard on her President Thabo Mbeki of Email: [email protected] and injustice, especially in South lands of this world are Jesus Christ. head, adding to the injuries she Africa. I will never forget her laugh- I am suggesting that their lives, too, already had and spent two full days South Africa ing, larger than life presence and I are lived in ways which challenge in detention in filthy conditions P h: 0011 27 12 300 5200 am not surprised that she has taken death and which invite us to think without medical treatment.” Fax: 0015 27 12 323 8246 her stand in Zimbabwe. again what it means to live life to After international outcries, Sekai Email: [email protected] Many the full. was finally air-lifted to a South Afri-

Retirement dreams for bank executive: A conversation with Bill Moss

Dorothy McRae-McMahon and an initial grant, but self-sufficiency was In relation to just and creative relationships the goal for the project. with the Indigenous community, Bill believes etiring Macquarie Bank Executive, Over a period, Bill observed that, as adult that our history is an endless learning by RBill Moss, has not always moved in Aboriginal people successfully engaged in experience and then starting over again as the arena of big business. His father was a these projects, their children were more though nobody has tried anything before. gardener and cleaner and the family lived likely to have a vision for their own future He considers that no-one will take ideas in a small fibro house in Guilford West. and to begin going to school regularly. As it for change seriously unless you have done Bill attended Guilford West Public School and happens, his first engagement with Redfern something concrete yourself. then managed to earn a place in James Ruse was some years ago when he and Alan had In his retirement, Bill hopes to expand Agricultural High School. From there he went a relationship with the Cleveland Street what he has been doing and to try to on to do an Economics Degree at Sydney School. Kids were given a free ticket to see influence political and business leaders in University. After he finished his degree, he the if they turned up to school relation to social issues. He dreams of a really didn’t know what he wanted to do and every day. world where every business and corporation the only option he could see in front of him David and Bill helped set up a number of would adopt one area of need as a concern was banking. In terms of his career, the rest “Cottage industries” and at least 90 new jobs and carry out at least one project which is history, as they say. have been created through the self-respecting would bring in a change for good. His However, life for Bill developed another Bill Moss work of the Aboriginal communities principle in working with this is the idea focus when he met the Aboriginal leader, both city and rural areas. concerned. Bill intends to continue this work of a “Hand-up, rather than a hand-out”. He David Liddiard, then a leading rugby player Bill began to see that one creative way in his retirement. None of it, he emphasised, knows he is now a person of wealth, power and now CEO of the National Aboriginal to encourage change was to enable groups suggests that he now has all the answers to and high profile and that this can give him a Sports Corporation. Bill refers to David as of Aboriginal people to begin what he calls the development of struggling communities. voice for others and influence for change. his mentor. Early in their relationship David “Cottage industries” – projects which could He does not, for example, regard his venture As a person with Muscular Dystrophy, took Bill on a trip into the outback with a be any venture which a group planned into the hotel business in Redfern as a there is an issue for him in relation to how group of Aboriginal sporting stars who were together and decided they could do if given a successful effort. However, he has learned long he can do what he wants to do. He lives encouraging Aboriginal young people. They start. It might range from tourism to making some things and will shortly be putting out a with pain, but that makes every moment spent much time discussing problems and shoes and everything in between. People Green Paper with ideas for both governments more precious and the possibility of creating issues facing the Indigenous community in could need some guidance in getting going and business. things a special joy. The South Sydney Herald – April 2007 15 Features

Protecting your kidneys Light Up

Denise O’Shaughnessy the rib cage. Their main job is a hospital dialysis centre three is the only treatment available, Your Bicycle to filter wastes and excess fluid times a week takes up a great until another donor kidney Good quality headlights available The incidence of kidney disease from the blood. They also produce deal of time and energy. However, becomes available. for next to nothing in the community is growing at hormones to regulate blood treatment at home allows much In many cases, kidney disease the rate of 6% per year. Many pressure, produce red blood cells greater flexibility, so that people can be prevented. Make sure 4.30pm to 6.30pm of the people on dialysis are and help keep our bones healthy. can choose to dialyse when it suits you don’t risk the health of your Monday 30 April waiting for kidney transplants and For people whose kidneys are them, such as overnight, while precious kidneys. As advanced as Corner of Wilson and increasingly must wait several years working at less then 10% of normal they sleep. This way, many people dialysis and transplantation are for Forbes Sts Newtown before a suitably matched donor function, dialysis or a kidney are able to work fulltime and lead the treatment for kidney failure, kidney becomes available. This transplant is the only option for active social and sporting lives. prevention is a far better strategy to MASSBUG (Marrickville South is because there are not enough long term survival. Dialysis goes Currently in Australia, there are ensure you lead a long and healthy Sydney Bicycle Group) are deceased organ donors to meet part of the way in replacing normal around 8,600 people receiving life, free of the limitations these handing out top quality headlights the number of people requiring kidney function by cleansing the dialysis treatment and 6,500 people treatments inevitably create. for a small donation kidney transplants. blood of wastes and excess fluids. living with kidney transplants. So take the time when you next Be seen and be safe this winter. Unfortunately, many people are However, dialysis cannot perform People from all walks of life are visit your local doctor to ask about diagnosed with kidney disease all the other functions of the living well with dialysis and kidney your kidney function. Have your Conditions apply: Light must be when much of their kidney kidney. Taking regular medications, transplants. A kidney transplant blood pressure checked and a blood fitted on the bike at the event, one function has already been lost. This following special diets and limiting offers a new lease of life not only and urine test performed. Make light per bike owner, preference to is because without regular medical fluid intake can help to do this. to the person on dialysis but also to sure too, to lower your risk factors low income earners. screening of blood pressure, blood Fitting dialysis into an active his or her family. for diabetes, stroke, heart or kidney and urine, there are no symptoms lifestyle isn’t always easy. That is About 40% of all kidney disease. Don’t smoke, drink alcohol of kidney disease until only about why so many people look forward transplants performed are now in moderation (2 standard drinks 15% of kidney function remains. to a kidney transplant. Not only from living donors. These can be for men and 1 standard drink Domestic Violence The good news is that in many does a transplant provide a very related, as in the case of siblings or for women per day), avoid being cases, if early signs of kidney good replacement for lost kidney parents or other family members, overweight by eating a healthy should not be disease are detected, medications function it also frees people from to unrelated donors, such as diet and exercising regularly and suffered in silence. and lifestyle changes can help having to dialyse for several hours spouses or friends. Those who ensure your blood pressure is in prevent further damage. High blood every second day. have received a donated kidney the normal range. Good health is a The Police are often powerless and pressure and diabetes can lead to The most common form of say it is the greatest gift one could precious gift. Don’t lose it. heart disease, strokes and kidney dialysis is called haemodialysis. ever hope for. A kidney transplant ineffective, despite their desire to help. disease. In many cases, obesity has A special machine is used to filter certainly offers freedom from For further information on contributed to these conditions. the blood. Many people choose to dialysis and so a better lifestyle. kidney disease, dialysis and Come and talk about it with like- Healthy diets and regular exercise manage their own treatment by However, having a functioning transplantation, contact the Renal can help prevent obesity and using this machine at home. In transplant relies upon very strong Resource Centre 9362 3995 minded individuals. We are looking to consequently, the diseases caused Australia, the government provides anti-rejection medications, which www.renalresource.com meet regularly to discuss experiences. by obesity. all the equipment necessary to have must be taken for the life of the Kidneys are two little super dialysis at home. transplant. Unfortunately, the The above article is for your general Contact Jodie on organs, each only about the size Haemodialysis must be carried transplant may not last forever. information only. If you have any of a clenched fist. They sit neatly out three or four times each week It may be rejected over time by health concerns, you need to consult 0420 551 947 towards the back of the abdomen, for periods of five to eight hours the patient’s immune system. In your doctor just above the waist and beneath each time. Travelling to and from these cases, a return to dialysis for more information

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The Settlement Neighbourhood Centre Please don’t hesitate to contact my office: tel: 02 9357 6366 17 Edward St, Darlington Contact: Mark Spinks Phone: Ellouise or Danielle: fax: 02 9357 6466 • 422 Crown St, Surry Hills NSW 2010 9698 3087 Office Hours: 9am -12:30pm & 1:30-5pm weekdays 9243 3546 16 The South Sydney Herald – April 2007 Sport Run, Rabbitohs Run! Ben Falkenmire Eels. In a punishing game for the Eels, Souths scored five The South Sydney Rabbitohs times and limited the opposition have cemented two wins in as to one cross of the line. Leading many starts in this year’s NRL season, suggesting the team by only a converted try at could be title contenders come the break, Souths packed on the end of the year. the points in the second half On the opening Monday night courtesy of steely winger of the NRL premiership the , David Fa’alogoa, Vagana and Williams in the goal Bunnies took on fellow founding Anthony Mundine Photo: Ali Blogg members of in kicking department. Australia, the , The Rabbitohs sit atop the on a rain-soaked Sydney night. NRL leaderboard after the two Former Canterbury player rounds, with only the North Michael Vagana and halfback Queensland Cowboys ahead of Mundine shows the world Joe Williams crossed the line them. They take on Sharks at in the first half to take the Toyota Park in Round Three, and Rabbitohs into the break with are back at home against the a 12 point lead. The Roosters Bulldogs for Round Four. scored one back in the second Established in 1908, Souths he is ‘The Man’ half, before Vagana crossed is one of only two foundation again to seal the win. Praising members of the NSW Rugby Ben Falkenmire and Torres Strait Island flags. In settled back into his swordsman contrast, Soliman chose to drape composure wining the sixth, seventh his improved maturity on the League Premiership, before it evolved into a national The South Sydney Herald himself in the Australian flag, and controversially the eighth field, Joe Williams was cited witnessed Anthony ‘The Man’ igniting the crowd’s vehement rounds according to the South as the stand-out performer on competition. Despite being the Mundine again reclaim the support for either boxer. Sydney Herald. a night considered by many most successful in the history of super From the sound of the bell Then came the decisive ninth to be the ideal opening to the with 20 title on Wednesday Mundine assumed an aura of when Mundine produced a NRL competition. premiership wins, the Rabbitohs the 7th of March, defeating Sam control, leading with his left jab and sizzling three-punch combination The Rabbitohs headed to have not won a title since 1971 Soliman convincingly in nine holding back on his right ‘power’ to knock Soliman to the floor. Telstra Stadium in their second and have not made the playoffs rounds. Redfern residents, including punch – copybook professional Soliman stumbled to his feet only round clash with the Parramatta since 1989. Alex Tui and Lionel Rose, were also boxing. Soliman, as expected, to be struck with another heavy ringside in a show of support. settled into a high punching rate to right – the referee stopping the The Redfern icon never looked try and unnerve his opponent. fight at two minutes and twenty- like relinquishing his command over The second round saw Mundine six seconds. Elouera est 1985 the awkward and rigid Soliman, who unleash his powerful and sleek right In an after-match interview failed to land hooks and uppercuts hand, with Soliman hitting the floor Mundine told the band of supporters GYM on the dashing and evasive head of and the crowd erupting to their feet. who remained in the Entertainment Anthony Mundine. To his credit Soliman regathered Centre that his critics could call him Community Gym ★ Boxing Mundine previously defeated himself and came out punching “two-time” and that he “was looking ★ Soliman in 2001 in a points decision, in the third, prompting Alex Tui to to reign” in the middle-weight Weight Training Cardio much to the consternation of the remark, “Soliman better keep that division. Kick Boxing ★ Fitness & Dance Studio crowd present who believed Soliman rate up if he wants to be in with Mundine held the WBA super was the better man on the night. a chance.” middleweight title in 2003 and 2004, Soliman had marked his man since In the fourth and fifth, Mundine before losing it to Manny Siaca. Open: Mon – Fri: 9am-2pm & 5pm-9pm that occasion, resulting in a fiery went looking for the knockout Denmark’s Michel Kessler is the Corner Eveleigh & Vine Streets Redfern but fair build-up to last month’s with the right hand, prompting undisputed belt holder of the WBA word-title fight. calls of “be patient” from Alex Tui. and WBA titles, On entry, Mundine was led by a As if he could hear the Mundine while England’s Joe Cazalghe has 9319 0316 swarm of his muscly cavalcade, and Gym Manager’s silent usherings held the WBO super middleweight more symbolically the Aboriginal from back in Row P, Mundine crown since 1997.

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