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The Sorry State of Public Housing - What's Going On? Appetite for success The art of Miriam Cabello A triumph for small business – Page 13 Feature – Page 14 VOLUME ONE NUMBER SIXTY-FOUR SEPTEMBER ’08 CIRCULATION 22,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN PADDINGTON REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND It’s been one year since NSW Minister for Housing Matt Brown witnessed the state of public housing in the Redfern/Waterloo area, and nothing has changed. The sorry state of public housing - What's going on? Nicholas McCallum ment of land in the area, but the existing housing is now coming close Residents of Waterloo Green are to condemnation. The lack of action once again feeling ignored. Their from the RWA has stirred feelings of requests for even basic repairs have uncertainty within the tenant body. fallen upon the deaf ears of the The Government’s plan to combine Minister and Housing NSW. public and private housing in the area has multiplied doubts in the minds of Monthly pleas for basic repairs residents. have continually been overlooked The situation in the area is cause for or ignored. The State Government’s many tenants to question the worth of neglect and failure to act has only their dwellings, asking themselves how fuelled the anger of residents. A letter they can possess any sense of pride or from Housing NSW dated November belonging where they live. 21, 2002 acknowledged the need for Ross Smith has raised the issue of fences, among numerous other things, housing in the area numerous times to be mended. To this day, nothing with Housing NSW. “How, in reality, has happened and in most cases the does the government expect its tenants fencing structures have been reduced to react to them when they treat the An example of neglect Photo: Ali Blogg to piles of wood only suitable for a tenants with such blatant disrespect?” bonfire. In 2006, Housing NSW identi- Mr Smith asks. Furthering the feelings of disem- The lack of concern shown by intention of reducing public housing in fied the situation for a Special Project Successive Housing Ministers have powerment are the claims that the Housing NSW raises questions as to the area, it is evident that it is happy to Proposal, but there has still been no taken the same stance. They have Client Service Officers, that once the State Government’s commitment let public housing self-diminish. action taken, and no further informa- maintained that “Social housing is a frequented the residence in six-month to some of Sydney’s most desperate tion provided to the tenants. privilege, not a right” and, whilst Hous- intervals, have all but evaporated. It is people, with many asking why Matt STOP PRESS: The Minister has announced a second Simultaneously, the Redfern- ing Minister Brown sits on his hands, also claimed that some CSOs will no Brown is not performing his duties version of a Plan to address the maintenance backlog Waterloo Authority has drummed up the tenants of the Waterloo Green are longer make visits to tenants unless as Housing Minister. And while the – now estimated at $1.6 billion – with a five-year time frame for implementation and/or completion. support for the release and redevelop- feeling ever more disadvantaged. accompanied by another officer. Government once stated that it had no City of Sydney Sartor visits North Eveleigh Geoff Turnbull Residents will be pleased to hear that One of the issues explored at length the DoP has been looking at the traffic was the feasibility of moving the west- Council Elections ’08 On August 20, Planning Minister study and further work is being done ern entrance to the site further east to Frank Sartor made a walk around on this. The issues raised in the sub- avoid problems with cars cutting into the North Eveleigh site with repre- missions go back to the RWA for their Queen Street but this is difficult given City of Sydney ratepayers will go to the polls to sentatives from the Redfern-Waterloo response. The RWA revealed that it is the drop into the site from Golden Authority, the Department of Plan- already working on changes to accom- Grove or Forbes Street. elect a new council on Saturday September 13. ning, consultants and a selection modate some of the objections. Hopefully, there will be an oppor- Voting is compulsory. of local residents who have made The RWA is looking at the possibility tunity for some further discussion objections to the North Eveleigh of a park at the western end of the site between the RWA and objectors on ■ Concept Plan. This followed a project and redistributing that floor space else- their revised plans prior to them going Candidate profiles – page 4 presentation to the Minister by the where. It is also looking at re-orienting back to the DoP for further considera- ■ Polling booth locations – page 12 RWA and its consultants, and discus- the building to the east of the paint tion. It is not expected that the changes sion on the issues of concern. shop. A heritage interpretation strategy would go on public exhibition through is also being prepared. the DoP. 2 The South Sydney Herald – September 2008 PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo News Telephone 0400 008 338 Phone/fax 02 9698 8949 The views expressed in this newspaper are those of the author and the article and are not necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. ADVERTISING Blacksmithing sparks community interest [email protected] 0400 139 710 Wendy Collis Following speeches at midday, a MAILING ADDRESS: motion was presented to resolve the PO Box 2360 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 “Frank Sartor is a destroyer of issues affecting the site. This included history. If this goes, who else do we calls for the RWA/ATP to withdraw the LETTERS blame?” asked Colin Fenn, one of the Notice to Quit on the ATP Blacksmiths, Please send letters and emails to: The South Sydney Herald. estimated 2,000 people who attended discussions with NSW Premier Morris Email: [email protected] the Open Day of Wrought Artworks Iemma regarding the protection of herit- Supply sender name and suburb. and the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop age on the site, the consideration of a Size: 150 words or less. We may edit for legal or other reasons. on Sunday August 17, located in Bays National Heritage listing and an interim 1 and 2 of the Australian Technology Green Ban on the site. The motion was Park, Eveleigh. Guided tours were declared “unanimously carried” by provided of the operational heritage Geoff Turnbull, the spokesperson for blacksmiths’ shop, and a public meet- REDWatch. EDIToRIAL CoMMITTEE ing was held at midday to call for the Guido Gouverneur, co-owner of immediate withdrawal of the Notice Wrought Artworks said afterwards that to Quit and Threat of Eviction that has the Open Day was so successful that been served to Wrought Artworks. it may become an annual event. He added that it was really refreshing to Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney, see a lot of younger people come along, gave an overview of the history of the Guido Gouverneur conducts an Open Day tour Photo: Andrew Collis a clear indication that blacksmithing Eveleigh site, how at its peak it was one and locomotives spark interest in all of the largest industrial complexes in the urged all present to spread the word and “I would love to! You won’t get a shop age groups. Some people told him that world, and that the work done here had start lobbying. like this anywhere in the world - there is it had been a life-changing experience, helped both open up an entire continent “The people who built this place and no other place with the capability. The with one man commenting that: “He felt Managing EditoR Andrew Collis and build the vast NSW rail network. those who worked here thought for the first time I used that power hammer I he had never witnessed anything so real She commented that Eveleigh has been long-term,” she said. “They were building thought, ‘Wow!” – it is a privilege to and tangible.” designated by the Smithsonian Institute a nation, they were not looking for fast work here.’” The RWA has presented the owners of to be one of the world’s finest remaining profit. We need to bring back that kind of A second-year machinist, Emmanual Wrought Ironworks with a 12-year lease industrial precincts. thinking so that the legacy we leave for Hay, 18, shares the same view. He agreement that requires Guido to pay Clover Moore stated that the eviction future generations will be something more points to a 200-year-old drill press, and rent (based on commercial rates) for the notice to working blacksmith Guido substantial and meaningful than row tells the attentive audience that though blacksmithing workshop. He says that, Gouverneur is another example of the upon row of tacky apartment blocks.” it may have a few bumps in it, it still though they hadn’t really wanted to go continual erasing and diminishing of David Fleming, 24, is one of the works fine. He says that the opportunity down that road with the RWA, he feels heritage and cashing in on valuable public new generation at the workshop who to work with such heritage equipment, they now have negotiated a satisfactory land that is part of the State’s “brave has benefited from Guido’s years of state-of-the-art in its time, is “unique” and agreement. new world of dictatorial development”. blacksmithing knowledge. He has spent says it is satisfying to use this machinery This means he can “get on with his She expressed her concern that the three years studying the trade at TAFE to make heritage items such as furniture life” and focus his attention on campaign- Co-EDIToR Redfern-Waterloo Authority was going to and has been working fulltime at Wrought and security gates.
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