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It has been four years in the making, but the Sydney Alliance was finally launched at the Sydney Town Hall on Thursday September 15. Two thousand people from 45 partner organisations gathered at its inaugural assembly. Together, they represented the voices of half a million Sydneysiders.

A coalition of community organisations, religious groups and workers’ unions, the Alliance is dedicated to a “greater” Sydney in two senses, referring to a better society, and also an integrated understanding of the wider city that transcends local and state electoral boundaries. In the audience was Monique Perusco from Good Beginnings Australia, a charity that helps families by providing Parenting and Early Childhood programs. She said, “The Alliance is about normal Sydneysiders having their say. It’s coming from the grass roots.” Partners in the Alliance include such diverse groups as the Cancer Council, the Climate Action Network, the CFMEU, the Jewish Board of Deputies and the United Muslim Women’s Association. Each group’s leader took to the microphone and proclaimed the organisation’s vision and values. Cumulatively they invoked: social justice, fairness, uniting for a common good, Sydney Alliance Founding Assembly, Town Hall Photos: Andrew Hill tolerance, sustainability, cooperation, trust, access, equity, harmony, democracy, inclusion, understanding, change, hope, compassion, rights, dialogue, empowerment, equal opportunity and People have the power strong communities. Phew. While the launch generated buzzwords some of the city’s lowest-paid workers, Vincent Dominello and Charles Casuscelli, hang out in public. He expressed his who were all but drowned out by the and demonstrated goodwill, the challenge while in Chicago, the Industrial Areas State Members for Parramatta, Ryde desire to be seen as a young person audience. During the half hour that will be to implement practical strategies in Foundation has expanded the city’s stock and Strathfield respectively. Each gave rather than a “male of Middle Eastern costumed and choreographed Aboriginal the months and years ahead. Thousands of affordable housing. a pledge to attend people’s assemblies appearance”. and migrant groups sang and danced of citizen-representatives will train in The increase in individualism and in the coming year. Sydney Lord Mayor, Among attendees, there was a hint of onstage, participants entered late, made community organising, then delve deep weakening of social institutions in the Clover Moore, was also present. surprise and relief that such a disparate lots of noise finding their seats, greeted into their communities to discover what West has created voids that newer social But the crowd didn’t warm to the group of organisations, including some their friends and associates, talked loudly, change is needed. and political movements are emerging politicians like they did to the real stars of highly unlikely bedfellows, had managed remained standing and even turned their Three items already on the Alliance’s to fill. Electronic-based social media, the evening, a handful of ordinary citizens to forge an association at all. The Alliance backs to the performers. For an Alliance agenda are: community support citizens’ assemblies, and even populist who shared their personal stories. Anne has been long in the making because that claims to give people a voice, and health, social inclusion, and movements like the Tea Party alliance in Robertson spoke of her mother’s terrible hammering out a structure that unions, few present seemed to put much of a transportation. the USA link individuals together and give experiences in an aged care facility and faith-based organisations and community premium on the voices of those singers. Sydney Alliance is based on overseas them a voice. lamented that “the system is broken and groups all agreed on was a challenge. The Sydneysiders may be committed to models that have had tangible outcomes. A statement of support by Marie Bashir needs to be fixed”. Teenager Izzy Hadife mood of the night was one of pride and building a better civil society, but Sydney A group called London Citizens has was read aloud at the launch. Politicians described the constant police harassment jubilation. audiences are likely to remain uncivil for fought for, and won, a living wage for who spoke in person included Geoff Lee, he endures whenever he and his friends The only losers were the performers a while longer yet. S

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PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Blind love Raglan Street, Waterloo Phone/fax 02 9319 1373 Ross Smith the community over the years, some The views expressed in this newspaper are of which reduced their membership, those of the author and the article and are not ® necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. WATERLOO: South Sydney Blind whilst others became a barrier to NILS NSW Community and Friends ceased membership. They saw the advances in NEWS operating on Tuesday August 30. The Macula Degeneration technology which [email protected] Phone Lyn 0400 008 338 “Blindies”, as they were colloquially preserved sight, and thus reduced the known, started in 1977. Throughout numbers of people needing assistance No Interest ADVERTISING their lifetime they maintained the close due to failing vision. They saw the [email protected] Phone/fax 02 9319 1373 links with the Royal Blind Society that increasing numbers of grandparents were established when they started. becoming full time babysitters due to MAILING ADDRESS: both parents having to go to work. Loans Scheme PO Box 3288 Redfern NSW 2016 Their founder, Marj Barton, gained For over 20 years they were looked assistance from the Anglican Church after by Diana Whitworth. There are not ® LETTERS through the local Anglican vicar, the many groups with such a low turnover in NILS is a community managed small loan Please send letters and emails to: The South Sydney Herald. Reverend Geoff Huard, in the formation workers. Throughout their 34 years the Email: [email protected] of the Blindies. This support was Blindies remained a community-based program developed by the Good Shepherd Supply sender name and suburb. continued by the Reverend John McIntyre and community-operated organisation Size: 150 words or less. Youth & Family Service designed to assist low We may edit for legal or other reasons. throughout his tenure. Eventually Father that was service delivery oriented. They Doyle of the Roman Catholic Church and fiercely guarded their independence, income people, i.e., receiving income support FOUNDING EDITOR the Reverend Harold Smart of the Uniting both as an organisation and as Trevor Davies (25/5/1956—14/6/2011) Church were brought into the Blindies individuals. Their demise marked the from Centrelink. Loans for approx. $1,000 are fold. This led to an ongoing competition end of an era in community development as to who was going to say grace at the and community support. Their departure for new essential household items, medical Christmas parties! will leave a hole in the fabric of the local Other friends of the Blindies included community. goods and other worthwhile purposes. Rachel Forster Hospital, South Sydney At the closing lunch there were Council, City of Sydney Council, The memories galore and a few wet eyes as Factory Community Centre, South the photos and reminiscences circulated. Managing Editor FEATURES EDITOR Sydney Community Transport, other The NGOs who were friends of the Phone 1800 509 994 – 9:30am to 4:30pm Andrew Collis Dorothy McRae-McMahon local Non-Government Organisations Blindies were well represented. One of (NGOs), Service Groups, plus individual the Community Development workers Monday to Friday (except public holidays) members of the local community. present was heard to say, “I never had for information/eligibility/schemes in your The Blindies saw many changes in so many grandmothers!” S local area.

NEWS EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR Lyn Turnbull Ali Blogg Pets in the park NILS® is not for emergency relief, bond or rent, Jess Hunt valuable experience.” living expenses or debt repayment. For help Product give-aways were on offer SURRY HILLS: It was a bright and throughout the day from a diverse range with credit & debt difficulties, please call the sunny day as residents of the Inner of animal care organisations, ranging Assistant EDITOR NEWS CONSULTANT West gathered with their four-legged from the RSPCA to Advance Dog Food. Credit & Debt Hotline: Freecall 1800 808 488 Esther Turnbull Jonathan Bogais friends at Ward Park in Surry Hills to Members of the Australian Veterinary mark the fourth annual Pet Day on Association (AVA) were also there on the Saturday September 10. day to give advice to animal owners about vets, what they should expect from www.nilsnsw.org.au Pet Day is a community event that their vet, in addition to other information aims to provide information for locals about having a pet. Alena Felkai, a about healthy pet care and nutrition, representative of the AVA, says the day ASSISTANT EDITOR Advertising Kate Williamson John Lanzky while also raising awareness about the is fantastic for the community. “It’s great responsibilities of owning companion from an animal advocacy point of view; DISTRIBUTION animals. it promotes awareness and educates the Pat Clarke The event is arranged by various public about pet care.” [email protected] organisations, including the Surry Hills Residents enjoyed the day, and were

DESIGNER Public Tenants Association and the City treated to a free barbecue lunch, as well Robert Young of Sydney, and would not be possible as Wildlife Shows to entertain the family. without the time and effort of community Tom Alvisio and his dog Snooky, PRINTER volunteers. Student veterinarians from locals of Redfern, have attended each Spotpress PTY LTD 24-26 Lilian Fowler Place the University of Sydney gave their time and every annual Pet Day and find it Marrickville, NSW 2204 on the day to provide free health checks to be a fun day for everyone in the www.spotpress.com and micro-chipping for dogs and cats community. “I come along for the Send us your story ideas living in the area. atmosphere, the vibe’s just great. And The SSH welcomes story ideas and community notices. REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS Jennie Churchill, coordinator of the to get her [Snooky] checked.” “We gratefully acknowledge the many event, said the day is beneficial for all The friendly community feeling was Please email [email protected] or phone Lyn on 0400 008 338 volunteer contributors and distributors involved. in the air, and clearly visible in the faces who make this publication possible.” “It’s a win-win situation. The of smiling people and their pets who Jane Barton Rebecca LeMay Sandra Beeston norrie mAy-welby community might not be able to afford shared the space that is Ward Park for Winnie Choo Nicholas McCallum pet health and the vet students gain Pet Day 2011. S Lindsay Cohen Barrie McMahon Pam Dagwell Reece Meredith Douglas Dingwall Christine Morrow Melanie Fiedler Olivia Nigro Alex Fleming Michael Page Steph Gesling Support for memorial to Trevor Davies Chloe Potvin Mathew Gilliland Patricia Tellis Jemima Hall SSH but after being filled in on suggestions 1 Marg Vazey Libby Hogan already made by readers in the September Jess Hunt Angelique Watkins JOSEPH MEDCALF Kristy Johnson Peter Whitehead Heffron MP, Kristina Keneally, edition of the SSH, the former premier Perry Johnstone Neil Whitfield has expressed her support for the agreed a memorial bench and plaque Sarah Kelly Kate Williamson establishment of a permanent would make a fitting addition to the local FUNERAL SERVICES Kelly Lane Brendan Wong memorial to Trevor Davies at Redfern landscape and was worthy of support. Lisa Lerkenfeldt Nina Young 2 Family owned & operated 2 or Chippendale. On August 30, Ms Keneally spoke at an ALP Ethics Forum, arranged by local 2 100% Australian & fully independent 2 DISTRIBUTORS On September 15, a former SSH branches and held at Redfern Town Hall Jackie Dettman Gai Smith 2 Pre-Paid & Pre-Arrange Funeral Plans 2 Melissa McMahon Sue Dahl journalist interviewed Ms Keneally about in honour of Trevor, the founding editor Georgina Abrahams Adrian Spry an unrelated matter before asking her of the SSH. Trevor was a longstanding Anthony Kable Di Everingham whether she’d heard of moves to get the Labor Party man and secretary of the Joseph Medcalf has been serving Sydney since 1880 Susan Kable Pepsee Trev memorial ball rolling. She hadn’t, Darlington branch. S Rosemary Tyler Steph Gesling and is a long-standing part of the local community. Miriam Pepper Gabby Briene Nicole Fleming Anne Jordan Eve Gibson John Lanzky We offer personal attention 24 hours a day, Lyn Turnbull Neil Whitfield CORRECTION norrie mAy-welby Peter Lonergan The article 'Governor calls for Aboriginal Cultural Centre' (SSH Sep. 2011) 7 days a week, and cover all Sydney suburbs. Sam Choy Nick McCallum incorrectly stated that the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) "evicted" Barrie McMahon Rita Mu John Berry Julie McCrossin the Syrons from the premises where the art was stored. The RWA and 172 Redfern Street, Redfern Ross Smith Melissa Gibson the Syrons reached an agreement about the relocation of the collection, 9698 2644 Mark McPherson Brian Vazey with the RWA providing financial assistance and administrative support Chelsea Reid Margaret Vazey Gaylene Smith Heather Robinson in the process. Don Crowley Alex Warner October 2011 News 3

factors must be considered, such as believes “Imagine” is a strong theme, how to design the moves so they can which means everything is possible. pick it up quickly and stay engaged, Each year, some kids get through the whilst also creating various stories for audition to enter into the finale in a them to learn their culture. unique way to express and represent To build up kids’ knowledge about many facets of their lives and beliefs. their culture, Karlie choreographs the This year is no exception. dance by telling kids different stories When designing the choreography, about the community, the land and Karlie asked the kids to imagine there their culture. She sometimes uses is a desert, and they are dancing in materials from storybooks. the desert. To give kids more direct “Now I am doing a dance called experience, she went to Vibe Alive ‘Gapu Sea Life’. It is about the sea festival with the dancing group in creature, the sand up in the country, Moree NSW (Aug. 31–Sep. 1). and the tide, and how the foam gathers “Vibe Alive is a festival for young along the shoreline.” Australians of all backgrounds to Music is intimately linked with the celebrate Indigenous and Torres Strait choreography. A variety of distinctive Islander cultures. When our kids get traditional music styles are reflected involved with Vibe Alive, they are in dance movements. Yothu Yindi’s offered a great chance to express The youth of today “Gapu” is featured. In addition, with themselves. The festival also could the help of an electric didgeridoo, take the kids back to their roots, and which could modify the sounds in the at the end of the day, I believe they can middle of a performance, these songs see the difference in the way elders are made sacred and powerful. live up in the Northern Territory,” she From shy to shining Kids are always invited to be in explained. the performing group. They have The kids are not shy any more. Teacher Karlie Chalker with dance students Photo: Esther Turnbull showcased at regional and state Today, they are confident kids dancing festivals, and Schools who shine on the stage in front of Malcolm Weihao Luo to connect with their family roots The kids’ participation is crucial for Spectacular and other high-profile thousands of people. Through the through stories, which are presented the dancing group to identify ways events, including a prestigious event smooth movements, their confidence DARLINGTON: Darlington Indigenous through dance. in which heritage and traditions are at Parliament House. Also they are and self-esteem has benefited greatly. Dance Ensemble, from Darlington passed on through stories, music and offered plenty of opportunities to When asked how it makes you feel Public School, is proving to play a Eight years ago, Karlie Chalker clothes. audition for different events. Karlie when you are dancing, a little girl vital role in strengthening the bond joined the Ensemble as a teacher and “Basically, we encourage everyone believes that these performances shape answered, “I feel cool, ’coz everyone between Indigenous kids and their choreographer and breathed new life to be involved, all Indigenous students, the kids’ personalities and build them is focusing on us”. S elders. The dancing ensemble has into the group. She saw dance as a but they have the choice whether into strong people. “If they can shine been active in the school for many way to showcase Indigenous culture they want to participate. We also talk in front of thousands of people, they years, with the aim of retaining and and pass it on to younger generations. to their parents and tell them how can certainly shine in everything that Youth of today, a regular article performing the traditional dances “Teaching them about dance will important it is for them to learn their they do,” she said. “And that’s the on local youth and related issues, of Indigenous peoples. The 18 help them establish strong bonds culture and participate,” she said. message I always tell them: follow is kindly sponsored by Appetite Cafe students, between the ages of 7 and and help them get back to their roots The choreography in the dancing your dream.” Appetite Cafe 12, perform traditional and modern and learn about their culture,” she ensemble is part of the core structure The theme of the 2011 Schools APPETITE ood cafe : redfern 82 Regent St, Redfern dances from all over New South said. “Dancing is an important part to engage students. When designing Spectacular is “Imagine”. “Imagine … + eople Tel 9699 4069 Wales. The kids are also encouraged of culture.” the choreography, some important the world’s a big classroom.” Karlie

As many of you will be aware, the University is planning a number of changes on the Darlington side of the campus. Work has commenced on phase one of the upgrade for the Sports and Aquatic Centre. This involves the demolition of an existing building used for the storage of chemicals and the construction of a sports hall will include two basketball courts, a group fitness studio, a boxing gym and an area for combat sports. The other major project involves a new facility for our Business School. After a period of extensive consultation about the initial building plans, the University is reconsidering the concept. We have asked for the plans to be redrawn taking into consideration the scale and height of the building, the need for set back from the street and more open public space. The University has listened to community concerns and we will continue to consult with you when we have more detailed plans to discuss. The University has joined forces with the Sydney City Council and a number of major business groups to work together to cut carbon emissions and improve the sustainability of buildings in the CBD. The Sydney Better Buildings Partnership is an alliance of 14 major organisations, which collectively own nearly 60 percent of Sydney’s CBD office space. As a founding member we have signed a memorandum of understanding with the City of Sydney to reduce carbon emissions form our buildings, helping the City cut 70percent of carbon emissions by 2030. Our planned new research centre for obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, scheduled completion at the end of 2013, will be groundbreaking in its sustainable design and function. Michael Spence Vice-Chancellor Community contact details Security and after hours: 1800 063 487 (free call) 24hrs a day, 7 days a week Enquiries: 9114 0523 Email: [email protected] 4 News October 2011

ADVERTISEMENT TanyaTanya Plibersek Plibersek MP MP MemberMember for for SydneySydney StrengtheningStrengthening ourour Human Rights Framework AustraliansHuman have Rights an innate Framework sense of fairness, but for decades we have also Australians have an innate sense of fairness, relied on the law to ensure individuals arebut protected for decades wefrom have discriminationalso relied on the on thelaw basis to ensure of their individuals sex, are age, protected race from or disability.discrimination on the basis of their sex, age, race or disability. These four key pieces of legislation haveThese been four draftedkey pieces of over legislation a period have been of forty years. Over the years, the drafted over a period of forty years. Over protections afforded by them have becomethe years, complex the protections and afforded inconsistent, by them withhave differences become complex in and the inconsistent, definitions with and Recreated aged-care room at Martin Place (image reversed) Photo: Libby Hogan testsdifferences for discrimination. in the definitions and tests for discrimination. Accommodating young people There are still notable gaps in this frameworkThere are still - suchnotable as gaps prohibiting in this framework – discriminationsuch as prohibiting on discrimination the basis on ofthe sexualbasis of with disabilities orientation and gender identity. Libby Hogan government recommitted its funding for Dr Morkham said: “Although people sexual orientation and gender identity. half of the program, this is only enough are frustrated with the timetable of The Federal Labor Government has National Charity organisation, to continue supporting those already in seven years before the NDIS would be The Federal Labor Government has just YoungCare, is planning to build the the program, rather than expanding and in operation, one has to ask, if it came just launched a public discussion first housing in Sydney for young helping more young people stay out of in tomorrow, without the workforce, how launched a public discussion paper seeking disabled people. nursing homes. would the support be delivered?” paper seeking your views on “Government can’t sit back and Ms Vit said funding needs to continue theyour consolidation views on the consolidation of Federal of Federal A young disabled man was placed think the proposed National Disability until the NDIS is implemented. In the in a perspex box with two elderly Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will be enough seven-year waiting period, they need antidiscriminationantidiscrimination laws. laws. people at Martin Place on September 5 to solve the problems of the disability to encourage government and decision to illustrate why aged care is no place sector”, said Dr Bronwyn Morkham, makers to develop pathways out of aged- for a young person. CEO of YoungCare, National Director of the Young People’s care and hospitals. I amI am proud proud thatthat Labor Labor has committed has committed to Marina Vit said: “Young people do not Nursing Home Alliance. The proposed The predominant preference for to introduceintroduce prohibitions prohibitions on discrimination on on the belong in nursing homes. They do not NDIS is not projected to begin for another accommodation to support young discrimination on the basis of sexual have the resources or trained staff, and seven years. disabled people under YPIRAC was basis of sexual orientation and gender identity more importantly, it’s not healthy to be Multiple Sclerosis Australia, Public the shared group homes which is the orientation and gender identity surrounded by people who are dying.” Relations Manager, Prue Guillaume said: standard disability model. Mixing with through this consolidation process. YoungCare plans to build self- “We need the state governments to come people of similar age is a critical element through this consolidation process. contained units with 24-hour care on board in order to grow the YPIRAC for brain injury recovery as it provides but needs support from the Sydney program because every year there are interaction and stimulation. Yet another This kind of legislation doesn’t just give individuals community and businesses to help still thousands of young people with group are those parents of young children This kind of legislation doesn’t just raise funds. disabilities such as MS going into aged- who prefer to remain in their homes and giveconcrete individuals protection concrete against discriminations protection in Since 2006, YoungCare has been care facilities.” community. Ms Vit said that government lobbying government to provide There are currently 6,500 young needs to recognise the need to build more againsttheir workplace, discriminations school or sport in – theiralthough that accommodation for young disabled Australians living in nursing homes. accommodation but also a diverse range workplace,protection is school vitally important. or sport - although people but no national service has The biggest problem is finding a service catering for differing needs. been provided. provider for the new accommodation Ms Guillaume said: “People think the that protection is vitally important. State government backed out of proposal in Sydney. There are great right thing gets done in this country. We Antidiscrimination law also allows government to funding for the Younger People in shortages in the workforce because it’s are supposed to be the country of equal Antidiscrimination law also allows Residential Aged Care (YPIRAC) program poorly paid, hard work and relies on opportunity and fairness. We can’t let young enshrine in legislation their commitment to the on June 30. Although the federal largely transient labour. people sit in aged-care homes.” S government to enshrine in legislation values of egalitarianism and respect for others. their commitment to the values of egalitarianism and respect for others. To find out more visitwww.ag.gov.au Afraid in our own homes To find out more visit www.ag.gov.au. David Sullivan violence, the Department of Housing has a flawed system; a melting pot for a duty to give you priority. ex-criminals and society’s forgotten Craig Charles Pitts, 28, appeared via Due to these factors one might assume and downtrodden. But considering video link at Sydney Central’s Local that this array of diverse people put into the increasing rates of mental illness Court last month over the charge of the an environment together could elicit in Australia, the rising average age stabbing murder of boxing champion hostile situations. of Australians and the economic gap John Marceta. An anonymous housing worker experienced by Aboriginal communities, commented on the idea that despite a solution to any problems within the The incident occurred on August 2 in these factors, the issues in public and current system will only come from a the public housing block on Morehead private housing are all relative. “If you review of the greater pressures it receives Street, Redfern, and has once again raised feel threatened in your home, you just and research into how these dilemmas questions about the safety of residents in have to live your life, spend some money can be overcome. the public housing system. on security and don’t get involved with “The burden is on financial and social But what can be done about this your neighbours, just like anywhere else.” issues, not housing itself. There has to be concern? Is violence in housing blocks The worker was unperturbed by the a whole government approach and there more common than in the average private news of the stabbing, explaining instances has to be real money behind it.” S home? of violence and domestic disturbances Authorised by Tanya Plibersek MP The base requirement to get onto the in housing blocks are not surprising Magistrate Lee Gilmour granted Mr Pitts Labor Member for Sydney waiting list for public housing is to prove considering the circumstances. She said: bail on the terms that he stay away Authorised by Tanya Plibersek MP, Labor Member for Sydney that you are earning less than $540 per “This is not an isolated incident. Housing from Redfern and arrange alternative 150 Broadway, Broadway NSW 2007 week. If you have just come out of gaol, deals with complex issues and people accommodation. The matter was 150 Broadway, Broadway NSW 2007 have a mental disability, are a senior, or because that is how our society works.” adjourned to the Downing Centre 9379 T0700 9379 0700 | [email protected] F 9379 0701 | [email protected] can prove you are experiencing domestic Some may see public housing as Local Court on October 6. October 2011 News 5 Remembering Michelle

Ann Miranda

I came to Redfern in 2006 and met Michelle Griffiths at the St Vincent’s Catholic Church. One Sunday after Mass we got to talking over a cuppa. Michelle told me she was at school, was finding it a bit difficult and had a case-worker. She had a lovely easygoing disposition, full of warmth, a dazzling smile that reached her eyes and a knack for making you feel you were the most important person at that moment. In time, over a number of weekly cuppas, Michelle shared stories about her week, how she didn’t really like reading, loved looking after her nieces and nephews and liked hanging out with her sisters.

She was very caring, and when asked what she would like to be, her response was a nurse. There was a time, actually every Sunday after Mass, when my friend Helen and I were visiting a gravely ill Aboriginal brother in a nursing home. I asked Michelle if she would like to accompany us and without hesitation she agreed. During each visit she was very attentive and gentle to one who was ailing. Michelle loved to sing. After the visit to the nursing home, Helen would turn up the volume of her car radio and Michelle could be heard singing loudly to her heart’s content. It was such joy listening to her. One Christmas, Michelle overheard me saying I would be on my own. She expressed her shock. “Christmas should be spent with family,” said Michelle. It was Michelle who “adopted” me and made me feel like family. At her memorial I saw so many whom Michelle had “adopted”. Michelle lived in Wells Street, and the memorial poster was on the front window of her family’s house, announcing the memorial service to be held at St Vincent’s church on Friday August 23. Michelle died August 13 from a heart attack – she was only 22. She was buried in her country at Condoblin. Photo: Gai Smith RIP Michelle. S

Lies, damn Baseline study Master Plan Urbanest Minister lies and missing part of October focus – student promises greater statistics – and the base streets housing transparency consultation SSH SSH SSH SSH

SSH In 2010, in preparation for Housing NSW kicked off its It looks like the Aboriginal The promise of greater transparency the Master Planning process, Master Planning in September Housing Company (AHC) under the new State Government was During the BEP2 consultation Housing NSW undertook a with bus tours of Council might not be the only made at a recent meeting between the RWA produced a feedback form baseline study of its public community centres and supplier of commercial REDWatch Co-ord Members Michael and Question 4 read: “The highest tenants in Redfern and Waterloo. held community workshops student accommodation to Shreenan, Irene Doutney and Geoff buildings in Waterloo (Matavai and Figures from the 2006 census on Connections, Shops the west of Redfern Station. Turnbull and the Planning and Turanga) are 30 storeys. The highest supplied by Housing NSW about and Community Services. Student accommodation Infrastructure Minister Brad Hazzard, buildings in Redfern (Poets Corner) their tenants showed that around The October focus is on streets, company Urbanest, which who has oversight of the RWA/SMDA. are 17 storeys. Draft BEP 2 proposes 22 per cent of the public tenants November on parks and January recently completed student heights of 4-12 storeys. Do you have in Redfern and Waterloo were on building design – leading up accommodation in Quay REDWatch’s meeting with the any comments on this?” born overseas with around 45 per to a community design workshop Street Ultimo, is lining up Minister followed meetings with RWA/ cent speaking a language other in March 2012. for a new development at SMDA CEO Roy Wakelin-King and According to the Mediate Today than English at home. About 65 157 Cleveland Street. Housing NSW CEO Mike Allen to Report on the RWA’s BEP2, the vast per cent of units in 2006 were These are the areas set down for discuss REDWatch’s concerns about the majority of respondents (37 per single-person households. public sessions but issues other Urbanest both owns government plans for the area’s public cent) simply answered “OK” to this than just these four areas are being and operates the student housing redevelopment. In particular statement of fact. Another 18 per Given these demographics it studied for the Master Plan. accommodation, so it was REDWatch is concerned that Housing cent said they liked 4-12 storeys, and was staggering to see that, for the REDWatch has asked Housing encouraging to see it leaflet NSW is only doing a Preliminary 17 per cent made no comment. In survey of Redfern and Waterloo NSW to make public the details the area and invite potential Master Plan. This is much less that the the analysis, what is potentially just tenants, Housing NSW did not of all the studies being prepared neighbours to an information comprehensive Masterplan promised people’s agreement with the statement provide any translation services to and ways for the community to session at Redfern Community in the RWA BEP2 which remains to of fact in the question is reported as ensure input from this least heard make comment. S Centre about the project while it is be finalised and will set the planning showing overwhelming support for part of the tenant community. The in its early stages. controls within which the Master Plan the RWA 4-12 storey proposal. instructions for the HNSW study For more information you can call It is not clear if student housing is supposed to be constructed. More worryingly, the report says read: “If the respondent speaks Martin Clark on 9268 3443 or email is zoned residential or commercial REDWatch is also concerned that that this question established a set of a language other than English HNSW at [email protected]. and whether the residential- Housing NSW seems not to be planning categories for analysing the responses and requires the assistance of gov.au/. As Housing NSW is not placing commercial mix is allowable on the for the cost of the refurbishment of the “based on RWA and Housing NSW’s an interpreter to complete the information on its website keep an site, so Urbanest may need to seek high rises and for purchasing the 700 need to understand stakeholders’ questionnaire ask for another eye on a zoning change. S units of public housing elsewhere in specific height preferences”. If this member of the household who www.goundswellcoalition.org.au the City Council area. In addition to was the aim surely it only needed to may be able to answer the survey and www.redwatch.org.au/issues/ You can see what is proposed at making it clear that he had instructed be a multiple-choice answer. Height in English. If … no other person … public-housing/redevelopment/hnsw www.urbanest.com.au/157cleveland the SMDA to deal transparently with is only one part of the equation. The thank and terminate.” S the community and that if this did question omitted anything about not happen then REDWatch should density. As all the examples in You can find the results on the get back to him, the Minister also Question 4 propose the same number Housing NSW website’s Redfern supported REDWatch’s argument that of units, taller buildings would result Waterloo Redevelopment page. Government should find funds to do a in more open space! S full Master Plan. S 6 News October 2011

A tale of vegan pregnancy

by Angelique Watkins eat plenty of all the goodies containing vitamins B12, D, There once was a vegan calcium and iron that can mama to be, who was be found in fruits, veggies, brewing a vegan baby to be … beans, legumes and fortified foods. If in doubt as to what Yes, it is possible. It is contains what, read labels healthy and it is a good choice carefully (easily recognisable for yourself and your baby, for the fortified foods), do a provided, of course, that you little further research and, of be extra vigilant (as should course, at this time in your life, any expectant mother) in this it may be worth a trip to the time when your little one is nutritionist to ensure you’re relying upon you to eat well on the right track. Folate and exercise regularly. deficiencies, rarely a problem It seems (from a lay person’s in vegans and vegetarians, is Norrie receives hir new passport marked "X" for gender not specified (September 30). Full story next month. Photo: Andrew Collis perspective such as myself) still something to watch out that recommended foods by for, and if your health care nutritionists for pregnancy provider recommends a consist predominantly of supplement as part of their vegan/vegetarian foods. This general advice, it doesn’t hurt is a plus for vegetarians, as to follow that advice. Vegan it doesn’t involve a whole pre-natal vitamins are readily lifestyle change. Generally available. speaking, we tend to avoid Although many may a lot of processed, sugary question your vegan or and fatty foods and consume vegetarian choices at this a lot more fresh fruit and time, it is not only possible, vegetables than your average but optimal to have a healthy meat-eating mama. pregnancy without animal At seven months pregnant, products. If you have been things are going well – baby a good eating vegan, you is healthy and gaining weight may very well find that your at a good pace and mama, doctor is pleasantly surprised well, she’s doing pretty well that you are in better health too – happy, healthy, with no than most of their expectant deficiencies to speak of, and mamas. none of the more nasty side- And the mama taught the effects commonly associated baby from the outset of life, with pregnancy. that health and happiness A pregnant vegan or do not involve harm to our vegetarian should be sure to fellow creatures.

Serving the community at the Wild Cockatoo Bakery Photo: Ali Blogg Column sponsored by BADDE MANORS CAFE The Cockatoo has landed Vegetarian (and vegan), multicultural and eclectic Open 7am to midnight • Open late on weekends 1/37 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW 2037 Sandra Beeston reliable business and they are extremely as possible locally to support Australian appreciative of the products you are farmers. Tel 9660 3797 • baddemanorscafe.com REDFERN: Last April an exotic bird producing. The regularity of custom by As a result their food cost is fairly high, established its residence in Regent local people has been fantastic!” says “but even the simplest product and the Street, and has won the hearts of Ray. most nondescript of them have a flavour many locals, who are now flocking en He has also noticed that the bakery has that you don’t forget”. masse every day to visit it. Despite its brought more foot traffic to this end of Ray cites the example of a lady who knew that if we got the flavours right, a case of training as we go and seeing unusual name, this Wild Cockatoo is the street: “A lot of people didn’t realise bought one of their croissants one day people would come back for them.” how they develop, and perhaps it will in fact a bakery run by confectionary- there was a fantastic butcher here, a and returned the next to buy a dozen Since they have opened, the demand just help them move on to something trained Ray and his wife Pip, who after fantastic Vietnamese restaurant, a Thai more! “She said she could quite distinctly for their bread has increased and they else. You know, give them a bit of love working in England for more than 20 restaurant using fresh vegetable and taste just wheat and butter. To me that have had many requests to create a of making bread or something.” years and loving it, decided to come produce.” was a great compliment, not so much to wholesale division to supply restaurants While they are happy for their back to our shores for a change of Quality is the key word for the me but to the ingredients that we use.” and shops as well. But Ray is not customers to have a coffee and a chat lifestyle. philosophy behind Wild Cockatoo. The same principle applies to their interested in developing that aspect of in the shop, they don’t wish the bakery Their artisan bread is made purely sausage rolls and meat pies: “We take their business: “I will make what I can to become a café either: “It’s not what Ray and Pip chose to open their bakery in the European tradition, using only enormous trouble to source quality meat and that’s that.” a bakery is about.” Ray and Pip prefer in Redfern, rather than a busy high street premium ingredients, like organic flour, only for them, to the point where the Ray is currently looking on taking focussing on what they do best: selling with mainly transient customers: “Here not so much for environmental reasons profit margin is extremely small.” But is it apprentices to teach them the art of beautiful products that their customers you have a local population who shop as for the better flavour! Ray also makes worth it? “Yes, because they’re something making bread, as well as get help with take home to consume, in the French every day or every second day. It’s very a point of sourcing as many ingredients that are a feature of the bakery and I his ever-increasing workload: “It will be tradition. S October 2011 News 7

ADVERTISEMENT Young people Kristina & the law Keneally MP Making a genuine difference MEMBER FOR HEFFRON SSH incarcerated or were currently incarcerated, and a high proportion of young people who had been placed in The NSW Attorney-General, the Hon. Greg Smith care as a child. Most had disengaged from school and SC MP, made the following statement on key issues faced the prospect of long term unemployment. It is concerning juvenile justice (July 2011). These issues I am pleased the successful Community Building Partnership clear that most young people involved in the criminal include the need to have a whole of community justice system come from the most disadvantaged Program started by the NSW Labor Government is continuing. approach, implementing early intervention and reforms to the Bail Act. backgrounds. Another significant issue that must be addressed This Program provides funds to local community groups and The area of juvenile justice is one where input from is the number of young people on remand. I have the whole community is needed to make a genuine ordered the NSW Law Reform Commission to conduct councils to build vital community infrastructure. difference in young people’s lives. a comprehensive review of the Bail Act, amid concerns As a former Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions about the impact it has on juveniles. The review will and someone who has prosecuted hundreds of criminal examine, amongst other things, whether the Bail Act I am disappointed, however, that the O’Farrell Government has trials, I understand the importance of early intervention should make a distinction between young offenders and to turn around the lives of young offenders. Hardened adults and if so, what special provisions should apply to dropped the amount of funding available per electorate. Last adult offenders often have had substantial interaction young offenders. S with the juvenile justice system. If these offenders year the Keneally Government made a minimum of $500,000 Changes to the State’s juvenile justice system will require had access to effective services when they first available to each electorate. This year, a total of $300,000 is came into contact with the justice system, or even political will and community support. The South Sydney before, a number of subsequent offences may have Uniting Church will host a public forum on November 1 available in each electorate district. been avoided. to build community consensus on the way forward. The We need to address the issues that lead to young Hon. Greg Smith SC MP will present his “Vision for the people becoming involved with the justice system. Future” at The Factory Community Centre (67 Raglan Nonetheless, I encourage community organisations and local The latest Young People in Custody Health Survey St, Waterloo) from 6.45pm. The forum will be chaired by shows us that young offenders have high levels of Karen Bevan from UnitingCare Burnside. For information councils to apply for funding to build and improve community mental illness, intellectual disability, drug and alcohol on UnitingCare Burnside and its Because Children abuse and poor physical health. Multiple areas of Matter campaign, visit www.becausechildrenmatter.org.au facilities in our local area. social disadvantage were also found, including a large For more information about the forum contact proportion of young people with parents who had been Heather Robinson on 0400 378 319 Information for applicants is available from my office, or can be downloaded from: www.communitybuildingpartnership.nwe.gov.au Building bridges, not walls Also with the warmer weather just around the corner I recently met with the NSW Fire Brigade to discuss initiatives on fire

Peter Whitehead and done time. Let us explore ways to stand crowded and understaffed gaols. Our Reece Meredith alongside those who have and continue prisons have become finishing schools safety and prevention for elderly residents in Heffron. The NSW to suffer disadvantage, abuse, violence for a criminal class created by righteous Fire Brigade has the SABRE (Smoke Alarm Battery Replacement With our Federal Government and mental illness. Let us consider citizens standing in judgement, without and Opposition drowning in a death how to support those leaving prison taking responsibility for effective for the Elderly) Program. embrace of mean-minded policy to reintegrate into the community and behavioural remedies. on processing refugees, it is scant reduce recidivism.” On Social Justice Sunday, September surprise that no-one at any level of This is a worthy cause. Many of 25, the Australian Catholic Bishops government will seriously address those present had honourable histories, released “Building Bridges, Not Walls: SABRE is designed to help frail aged and disabled people reform of our primitive prison system. working with people returning to their Prisons and the Justice System”. The maintain their smoke alarms. If you are unable to maintain your And so the massive task of mopping communities from prison. Most told of National Council of Churches in Australia up the overflow of social ills that spills being overwhelmed by bureaucracy and also issued a Social Justice Statement, “I smoke alarm and do not have access to someone to help you from our corrective institutions is left the intransigence of a system geared to was in prison and you visited me”, to to stout-hearted volunteers. punishment, not rehabilitation. assist congregations and the community can call your local NSW Fire Brigade Fire Station and ask them For 223 years, the most vexing social discuss, reflect and consider actions to On Monday September 12 a score problem for Australian society has been advocate for a just society. “It is of great for help. For further information and assistance, brochures are of concerned citizens met above the the assimilation of ex-prisoners into concern to see that the number of people Library at the Surry Hills Community the community. It is past time to get in prison is increasing faster than the available by calling The NSW Fire Brigade on (02)9265 2999 or Centre. The Cana* Communities flyer this right. But the first step must be to population growth, whilst the crime rate for the meeting was headed: “Building acknowledge the cruelty of our prison is decreasing”, said the Reverend Tara www.fire.nsw.gov.au Bridges, Not Walls: Prisons and the system. Curlewis, NCCA General Secretary. S Justice System.” A quarter of the 10,000 souls The invitation proposed: “Let us incarcerated in NSW (at a cost well *At the wedding feast at Cana Jesus If you wish to discuss your application with me or the NSW Fire hear the stories, share the stories and over $1,000 per week) have not been performed his first miracle, turning water connect with the stories of inmates, charged. They languish, unable to make into wine. Brigade initiative, please do not hesitate to contact my office on victims, families and those who have bail before trial, in brutalising, over- 9699 8166. I am happy to help.

Kind regards Waterloo Community Centre update Kristina Keneally

Reece Meredith Here locals can help develop and share classes also form part of these new transferable skills in creating their initiatives enabling local residents of WATERLOO: The newly refurbished own home deck gardens and learn all abilities and ages to gain extra help Waterloo Community Centre located sustainability principles and practices. in job seeking, resume preparation plus at the corner of Cope and Phillip Trial Cooking Classes began on Internet and computer skills. S streets, reopened in August with a Monday mornings in September, as fresh initiative for providing local well as the regular Financial Planning Kids Drama Club afternoon classes Kristina Keneally MP residents with a coordinated range counselling services with the Salvation occur from 3.30-4.30pm daily and Member for Heffron of activities, programs and referral Army’s MoneyCare outreach program. artist’s spaces can be rented for services. The Centre is open between An Alcoholics Anonymous group meets creative projects. Just drop by during Phone: 9699 8166 Monday and Friday each week. on Tuesdays, and on Thursdays there’s the day when it suits you and chat Email: [email protected] a $6.50 Big Breakfast! with the many friendly volunteers, A new garden project, named Music lessons are available and a or the resident caseworker Jo (9698 Mail: Shop 117/747 Botany Road, Rosebery NSW 2018 S.A.V.E, is planned in the Market Stall Card-making Club, with a resident 3586), or the program coordinator area where people flock on Fridays, as artist, happens on Wednesdays. English Lauren (0478 302 429). well as space for the rooftop garden. Language Conversational support 8 features October 2011 Victim of domestic violence

Patricia Tellis by everything she said and did. Away joined an English language course at from the shadow of his family, he took TAFE and started legal proceedings to “Imagine for a moment what it on the role of an aggressor. Without divorce her husband. Irked, Najum’s would feel like to board a plane for the slightest provocation he started husband immediately went to the the first time in your life, land in a abusing and beating her. She was immigration office and cancelled tripod cafe foreign country where everything physically battered, sustained burn her visa and filed a police complaint 262 Abercrombie St, Darlington is new and alien. You can barely injuries, was starved for two days and that she had robbed him of $200 and Ph: 9698 8677 Open 7 days speak the language or navigate your repeatedly abused by her husband. He was living illegally in the country. 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fiona thompson “a cuppa tea and a quiet chat” kind of attitude, have the little black bag I am slowly but surely losing my to hand, with the psyche nurses on hearing. I once passed a hearing standby, and immediately you’ve test, as part of a recruiting process, begun to diffuse the setting into that I felt I had no reason to pass. clinical, not criminal. Simple, really. So I had another test done, at a I have come to believe that our centre for deafness, where it was apathy about the often brutal outcomes recommended that I be fitted for for patients, via sections of the Act, are hearing aids. I refused to wear them a mirror to our own bias against the after six weeks of trying them out. psychiatrically and mentally ill person. It’s insane when you stop to consider Ugly. Plug ugly. Fugly, even. that those of us in the most acute Plus they didn’t seem to make a stages of distress and illness are often decibel of difference. At the time my treated more harshly by the health mother asked if I had any theories system than people who run foul of about my encroaching deafness the law. I refer, of course, to plod, and, ever the wit, I replied that it to paddy wagons and to handcuffs. is because I’ve heard enough. To being taken down and to literally So with that thought in mind, it is feeling the full weight of the law. my opinion that meditation will fail To the locked wards and me and I will fulfill my destiny as a practices of enforced medication. cummudgenly old woman. I find the To the magistrate hearings and modern world a beautiful desolate reviews held on hospital grounds, manic frenetic savage little place with the first review of the recently Mental Health Month is a campaign organised by to be – and I wouldn’t be dead for scheduled patient by a psychiatrist quids. Except on the days I daydream now done via video link in some the Mental Health Association NSW to raise public suicide. Escape. Death. Fini. NSW hospitals. What price the dignity If you’ve ever had your life of a face-to-face consultation? awareness of mental health and to promote social torn apart again and again and This process of review leads again through forces beyond your eventually to a tribunal hearing where control you’ll have a sense of how the patient, the doctors, nurses, social and emotional wellbeing in the community. deeply personal calamity can be. workers and family members meet, Calamity brought about by madness discuss the patient’s progress, and if Mental Health Month activities will be held throughout the month of October. has consumed far too much of my release from hospital is granted then See www.mentalhealth.asn.au/well-being/campaigns/mental-health-month-nsw.html life, with all the attendant disarray an officer of the court, a magistrate, and dishevelment of episodic makes a community treatment order madness and mandatory detention. (CTO) that compels the patient to Doctors used to make house calls. comply with treatment upon release. Shrinkola, my long-time specialist tells The mental person’s bail conditions. me it was so. He also says that people The staggering loss of freedom Tremendous courage grumbled and I suspect the politically and autonomy can be terrifying. I expedient happened. In this modern, understand that sometimes when we sophisticated, more civilised era we are sick, people can become anxious Kate Williamson distraction is not so easy, particularly instead legislate to send in the long arm and scared of our behaviour. So we when there are voices in your of the law. Poor old Plod. Of whom legislate to send in the police to what Waterloo resident, Heather head! They have to live with it. we ask the most dreadful of things. end? To scare and startle us in return? Robinson, is a volunteer Chaplain In the work that I do at the at Macquarie Hospital. Macquarie hospital, I hope the patients feel a Hospital is a 195-bed specialised sense of acceptance and importantly mental health residential facility love – self-worth. There is usually a “Calamity brought about by madness has for adults with a serious mental great stigma to their illness. When illness or disorder. Heather spoke we visit people we spend time and consumed far too much of my life...” to the SSH about the value of her find that value. We see the good regular visits to the hospital. points and give encouragement. Whereas doctors and nurses Police men and women, with Is it to teach us a lesson? Getting to know the patients in the provide essential treatment, the visits no specialist medical training, are That it’s for our own good? hospital, and also knowing people offer something different. There is routinely sent in to secure and contain I think it’s wonderful that all in the community who struggle with no need to ask questions or make the situation. By fair means or foul. these years after closing one of the mental illness, I have come to realise assessments. Instead we [various Heather Robinson Photo: Andrew Collis Sick people are routinely taken down, finest teaching hospitals in Australia, the tremendous courage these people chaplains representing different handcuffed and brutalised by serving located on the site of the colony’s have. It is the courage in facing all faith traditions] just be with people. it then you wouldn’t be open to love. members of the force. We allow first asylum, agreement sees the the difficulties they have, whether it’s It is treating them as equals. I hope to be able to continue legislation that supports this level of masterplan for Callan Park-Rozelle the fear of going crazy, being isolated I get a joy from helping someone with the program. I visit Macquarie sanctioned violence against really Hospital adopted by local council. from family when admitted to and they are so grateful. It is a circle Hospital one day a week. If I had quite sick, afraid, vulnerable people. What appalls me is that the land is hospital or feeling out of control. You of giving and receiving and I learn another day free I could go there The heck of it is none of us care or to be split between many competing see people who are struggling and yet about myself and I learn about another day. Through the clinical know enough to care long enough, needs, with the psychiatrically ill they are still alive, they have survived other people. It might seem odd that pastoral education program there is a to lobby for changes to the Mental barely getting a look-in. Residential and are continuing to survive. where there is suffering there is also continual process of learning where Health Act. Patient-focused and care beds look unlikely to return For some people it takes courage joy. But we certainly don’t ignore we support each other and share compassionate medical care need to the site. A shame really, when just to exist. When I am feeling the suffering. You are really facing our experiences. This is important to be written back into the Act. you consider the purpose built and down it is much easier to carry on. the reality and you are not doing it because every day there is a different All I did was go mental in the therapeutic nature of the grounds and I can distract myself, play piano, alone. You are doing it in a group, so experience with something new privacy of my own home. Imagine the foreshore that is Callan Park. read a novel and I am okay. When I guess when it comes down to it, it’s to learn. S my surprise and horror, when instead If you loved the love in the a person is ill it is hard because because love is present. If you ignored of a doctor, a nurse, a paramedic federal government’s Mental or an ambulance officer, I got the Health Strategy and Budget that police and a dizzying ride, locked Getup! cheekily claimed victory in the back of a paddy wagon, to for recently, well good on you. Free class on Maintaining Mental Health Through Exercise the nearest public hospital with We need more than money. We an acute care bed to spare. need an end to police intervention In support of Mental Health Month the Qi Gong & Tai Chi Institute Australia will hold a free class Go directly to gaol. Which is via the Mental Health Act. for anyone interested in learning how the exercises of Tai Chi and Qi Gong can be used to promote exactly what the acute care ward is. If you want to make a real and It’s a locked ward. A gaol for sick lasting difference, have a think about physical and emotional wellbeing. The class will be held from 9-10am on Saturday October 8 in people. People like me. Psychiatric writing to a politician or three and illnesses are biological. Located asking why we still legislate to treat Belmore Park (opposite Central Railway Station). Those who would like to know more may attend in the body. Genuine pathology the most vulnerable and acutely ill practical workshops demonstrating how Tai Chi and Qi Gong can help maintain mental health. across a very serious range of people in our society in ways that illnesses. Not issues. Illnesses. diminish, illegitimise, stigmatise, For more information visit www.traditionalqi.com Remove the police from the criminalise and punish us. situation, send in a psychiatrist with For having a medical condition. S 10 COMMENT & OPINION October 2011

faith A sacrament of the moment

Dorothy McRae-McMahon of the city where I worked and receive from what was there and, to this day, I n Hexam’s Concise Dictionary of look on the skyline of the city from our Religion a sacrament is defined as deck every night and feel its gifts flowing I“A rite in which God (or Gods) is/ towards me. are uniquely active”. As I worked with diverse people, I began to recognise that, if we will reflect Most of us have some idea of the on it, most of us have a “sacred place”. significance of the Sacraments in Some people are inspired by the awe of Christian and some other traditions the heights of mountains, others find of faith, for those who are believers. gifts in looking at the ocean, or spreading In sharing them, we believe that we plains and deserts. experience a profound connection with Some of us receive these gifts as we life-giving or life-enhancing resources move, others when they are still. Some beyond ourselves. Whatever we find them among sounds and others in believe, it is often helpful to develop the silences. Music, art and poetry can be habits and practices which add to our the resources for our healing and uplifting energy and life, especially when we are – surely the gifts of the Creator for our under pressure. well-being, not just luxurious “extras”. Several decades ago, my then Spiritual In all this, we are invited to connect cartoon: norrie mAy-welby Director, Sr Betty Kennedy, one of the with the “otherness” of life, however Sisters of Mercy, introduced me to we interpret and name that. It is all guest editorial what she called the “sacrament of the too easy to be consumed by work and moment”. When life felt overwhelming, other challenges of life, especially as we she taught me to stop for a moment and give people less and less time off. It is Welfare quarantining threatens tenant rights receive the gifts which lay around me, also common for us to demand that we ones which I may otherwise not see receive some obvious and large gift to Joel Pringle Orwellian turn of phrase distorts the metropolitan Sydney, changes are being or hear. solve our problems of creative survival, coercive nature of the program, and made to the program that promise to It could be the sun on a leaf, the when the multitudes of gifts may lie in he spread of income management the significant changes that income transform the relationship between sound of a bird, the smile on the face what is small and almost beyond our to communities across Australia, management will bear on the relationship Government agencies and the community. of a child, the beauty of a picture on noticing. Tincluding Bankstown in Sydney’s between the Government, service By explicitly stating that State housing my wall or the memory of a loving gift We may be surprised by what lies South West, looks set to have real providers and the community. providers will be empowered to refer from someone on my bookshelf. Always around us, waiting for busy or stressed impacts on the lives of residents of A recent report on the experience of tenants into income management for late there was something, if I would stop and people to pause, connect with it and Redfern and Waterloo. NT residents under income management rent payments, a message has been sent look. She taught me to walk in the streets receive from it. Try it and see! S has again shown that reducing a person’s to public housing residents that they are Income Management was first agency has negative impacts on their set to lose tenant rights enjoyed by the implemented by the Howard Government dignity and wellbeing. The survey by general community, and face inordinate in Aboriginal communities in NT in 2007. the Equality Rights Alliance spoke punishment when struggling to meet a The Australian Government is readers’ letters From the outset the discriminatory nature to more than 180 women currently rising cost of living. This gives powers to about to embark on a trial of income of the policy was acknowledged by an living under income management, and social housing providers far beyond those management in Bankstown, and the Zero tolerance for trash exemption from the Anti-Discrimination overwhelmingly the respondents reported available to private landlords, and comes Minister responsible has been shown When locals around Taylor Square wake Act 1975 (Cth). Under the Labor that the BasicsCard had not changed at a time when utility bills, rent (including to, at best, ignore the evidence of up on a Sunday morning, it’s urinating, Government, the exemption from the their spending patterns; they do not public housing rents) and other basic costs policy failure, and at worst to distort it’s vomiting, it’s trashing everywhere. Anti-Discrimination Act was dropped. feel safer because of the program; and are outstripping the incomes of those at the findings. This represents a threat It is one of the most disgusting aspects of As part of a new focus to extend the that the BasicsCard impacts negatively the lower end of the income scale. not only to the welfare but also the binge Oxford Street – the foul mess left by policy to the broader community, five on the respect that they receive from It is unclear whether these powers are dignity of the Redfern-Waterloo drunken revellers that scar the street in the trial sites, including Bankstown, will be other people. extended to community housing providers. community. The high number of social morning. We need to adopt a zero-tolerance implemented from 2012. Up to 70 per cent With a lack of evidence on positive The NT experience has shown that housing residents in this community approach to the problem by making of a recipient’s income may be controlled outcomes from income management, sole parents and aged pensioners caring makes the distorted relationship revellers clean up their vomit and trash. by the State in this program. and clear statements about the negative for grand-children will be the most between Housing bureaucracies and This is all about making the street a safer, The Government claims that income impacts of the policy’s implementation, vulnerable to be referred into the income tenants even more of a risk. S more pleasant place for everyone to enjoy. management is a budgeting tool to it is unclear what ideology is driving the management program, and therefore Brian Noad help people to meet ongoing needs for push to expand the program. the most likely to experience the loss of Joel Pringle is Chairperson of the Nichols St Community Group themselves and for their family. This As the trials are introduced to tenancy rights. Settlement Neighbourhood Centre. Surry Hills

Build it and they will come Anna Christie might benefit from jumping comment on a bike when looking at cyclist numbers in Prince Alfred Park (SSH Sept ’11). I’ve Does new evidence from NT women undermine supposed been an ongoing user of the park as part of my bike route both before and after its refurbishment, and since it re-opened there benefits of Income Management? are more bike riders than ever. I’ve even had to develop “queuing at the lights” etiquette, Eva Cox well-being, safety and purchasing. The and Darwin. program would work. Of the 20 per cent since I never wait alone to cross Cleveland results showed most of the respondents Most women said the quarantining who answered “I am happy with the Street any more. I always share the light he stated intentions of the felt they received no benefits from using of their income had had little or no BasicsCard and want to keep using it as change with several other bikes heading into Income Management program, the BasicsCard that controlled half their effect on what they bought, and said it is now”, most were aged pensioners. or out of the park – one day I counted 11. Tas part of the Northern Territory spending money. the card added to the difficulties and With respect to exemptions, 90 per Christie’s assertion that the bike lanes aren’t Emergency Response and the more There was a minority of women who costs of paying for goods and services. cent thought they would be too hard to being used is also hard to understand. I use recent revived program, were clearly felt comfortable with having and using Very significantly, nearly three quarters get. Their later responses on Centrelink the Bourke Street bike lane every working aimed at better family functioning. the card. These saw some benefits in the of women said they do not feel safer suggest relationship problems, with day and the College Street lane regularly, and Some surveys and statistics are quoted program, and obviously agree with those because of the card. As this was one of 85 per cent choosing the response “I they too are clearly filling up. (In the last few by the government to support the the Minister always quotes, but the much the aims, it seems to have failed, as there do not feel respected when I talk to months I’ve also attended large, joyful group program, and its various extensions, higher levels of distress and concern is also no independent evidence that they Centrelink”. Of the 163 respondents rides celebrating these lanes.) The bike lanes but these give no statistically valid described by other respondents suggests are in any way safer. who answered, 76 per cent chose do need to connect, and as they start to join indicators of recipient benefits. The that the program could be worse than The report’s summary described their “BasicsCard does not make it easier to up there’ll be another leap in the numbers minister, Jenny Macklin, and others, neutral in it effects. The following data feelings thus: “The discomfort many look after my family”. Only 24 per cent using them. An example of the work that often claim, as the justification for the from the survey suggests the levels of report about being seen to use the card said “BasicsCard helps me look after my needs doing: at the north end of Prince Alfred programs, that many women in the NT negative responses from this group could is also a matter of concern. The loss of a family better”. And they could be covered Park, people on bikes (and on foot) are spat have told them they want to retain the be widely reflected in other local women. sense of respect and dignity is damaging by a voluntary program! out into the motorised mayhem of Chalmers program and it does good. While most of the respondents were to women, and can impact on their The costs of delivery for this program Street’s four permanent one-way lanes plus Aboriginal, some were African and a few capacity to care for others.” And later it are substantial. Estimated administrative an uncontrolled railways driveway, all bang Now a new research report, which were white. The bulk were sole parents, said: “The perception of the majority of costs are about $80 per week per person. on a major bus stop and pedestrian exit has sought the views of more than 180 followed by age pensioners, who will women was that Centrelink and others The last budget announced another from Central Station. The RTA’s typically women in the NT, raises questions about often be caring for grandchildren. This is in their community do not respect them, five areas including Bankstown (NSW), car-focused failure to address the needs income management’s level of support or the target group of carers of children who and consider them to be not competent Shepparton (Victoria) and Logan of public transport users, pedestrians and perceptions of benefit. The survey was were identified as the main target in the with money or as parents.” (Queensland) to have a version of income cyclists alike demonstrates serious disrespect undertaken by a Canberra-based alliance original emergency program, designed to The views of this sample of management by July next year. Why? One for these groups and, despite what the RTA of women’s groups, funded by the protect children, and again in the current respondents are significant, as the would expect some serious evidence of its thinks, is neither desirable nor sustainable on government, which ran a series of focus push to ensure children get to schools. number involved is much larger than benefits before it is further extended. S practical or environmental levels. Build it and groups, interviews and surveys with The report, Women’s Experience of the other surveys that the government they will come. Well, Sydney is building its women in Alice Springs and Darwin. Income Management in the Northern uses to support its decisions. The report is available on decades-overdue cycling infrastructure and The questions and discussion covered Territory, is careful to state it is reporting Interestingly, aged pensioners are www.equalityrightsalliance.org.au/ they most definitely are coming. their feelings about using the BasicsCard on the views of the 180 women on most likely to want to stay on the projects/womens-experience-income- Rebecca Shanahan and the effects it had on their sense of income management in Alice Springs program, which suggests that a voluntary management-northern-territory Darlington The Review October ’11 11

The phantom of Aboriginal country music Ars ti t Profile: Dougie Young

The Rug Cutters Photo: Andrew McNeill

Sarah Kelly released by Gary Shearston. The liner for the whites) and singing were the “lively community” in Wilcannia National Library and the National notes give a fair amount of attention the main sources of entertainment, and the songs that detail the rural Folk Festival, he chose to research ometimes songs that to Dougie: “Dougie Young is what but also the main source of trouble: Aboriginal life. He recorded Dougie Dougie Young and put a band are written to capture a anthropologists call a ‘fringe-dweller’; “Well they gossip in town and they Young in 1963 and Wattle Records together to perform his songs. He moment in time, to tell a he lives today in the ‘blackfellows’ run the boys down cause they live on released the six songs. Two further looked up Dougie Young’s grandson, Sstory, to entertain some camp’ outside Wilcannia in western wine and beer/ But if they stop and recording sessions in ’69 and ’79 James McLeod, a Redfern local, friends, can live on. This is a story NSW. He does not want to be think if the boys didn’t drink there’d complete the surviving songs. and formed a band around the two about a man who wrote songs assimilated into white Australian be no fun around here/ Why just the Sadly, Dougie’s experience of singing and guitar playing musicians: back in the 1950s and ’60s that society; he just wants white other day I heard the women all say the music industry was less than bass player Patrick Matthews (also were fortuitously recorded by a Australians to stop pushing him that we’re all a bunch of mugs/ Cause positive. He unfortunately sold the from Youth Group), skilled slide forward-thinking anthropologist, around, and leave him and his people we fight and drink and get in the copyright to “The Land Where guitarist Jason Walker, and Neville and have recently been performed to live their lives in their own way.” clink all because we cut those rugs.” the Crow Flies Backwards” to Anderson on drums. They called by a set of Sydney musicians. Another song, “I Don’t Want Other Dougie songs are about another folk singer, Athol McCoy, themselves The Rug Cutters. Your Money”, describes his lifestyle different aspects of drinking: for a small sum and consequently The band played a number Dougie Young was born to a in a romantic way. He tells of being getting locked up, vowing never to missed out on the future earnings. of shows, the centrepiece being white father and Gurnu mother in proud of inheriting his grandfather’s drink again, but getting back on it He would have made a decent performances at the National the mid-1930s in south-western boomerang and spear. He lives immediately upon release (“They amount as quite a few artists Folk Festival in Canberra. James Queensland. He settled down with a happy life in his hut, saying: “I Say it’s a Crime”); everyone getting covered the song. Young’s battle McLeod says, “It’s been a really his wife in the Darling River regions don’t want your money/ You can together to get up to no good at a with alcoholism and racist attitudes moving experience. Kind of of NSW and Victoria, predominantly spiritual.” McLeod, born in 1972, in Wilcannia, in the late ’50s. While was adopted out, against the wishes he’d spent much of his youth roving He does not want to be assimilated into white Australian society; of his birth mother. He grew up and working at cattle stations, a around Redfern, however, as his riding accident ended his wanderings he just wants white Australians to stop pushing him around, adoptive father worked as a medical and he spent a lot of time writing officer in the area. He first met his and singing songs, 13 of which were and leave him and his people to live their lives in their own way. birth mother at the age of 18, and recorded and survive to this day, that’s when he found out that his collected by the National Library take it all away/ With my spear and friend’s shack (“Victor Podham and made a career as a musician in the “Pop” was Dougie Young. This must of Australia under the simple boomerang/ I get three meals a day.” His Rusty Hut”); suffering from broader community an impossible have been a wonderful surprise for title The Songs of Dougie Young. Dougie’s specialty was the the night terrors that come from dream, though in “Old Wilcannia McLeod, who had been playing In his pre-eminent song, “Land drinking song. The best example is drinking too much, in particular Town” he sang of “Youngie Doug music since he was four years old. Where the Crow Flies Backwards”, his song, “They Call it Cut a Rug”. from drinking metho (“Scobie’s and his rock n roll band”. The Rug Cutters project has he describes his young life thus: To cut a rug is to do a lot of drinking, Dream” in which the protagonist Many years later, the songs of inspired both Martin and McLeod. “Well I was born in the scrub of some dancing and singing, maybe hallucinates: “Ten piebald frogs Dougie Young were re-imagined Martin is hoping to put together the outback/ On a river they called even get into a fight: “Well the boys sitting on the log and singing the in country-rock style by five an album of Australian musicians Barcoo/ My parents left me when and me we were having a spree in blackfella’s song/ Two big green Sydney-based musicians. Toby covering Dougie Young songs I was quite young/ To paddle my the mallee last Saturday night/ We snakes wrapped around his toes, pink Martin of Youth Group (widely (along the lines of the covers album own canoe/ They took me longa sang our songs as we joked along, elephants all night long/ There was known for their cover of “Forever Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs Yondama Station/ With a stock everything was goin alright/ We a big night owl, a turkey and a fowl Young”) came across Dougie Young of Kev Carmody). McLeod has a whip they tanned my hide/ They were doin fine drinkin beer and wine drinkin whiskey from a jug/ And the while researching his PhD in dream of putting on a country threw me in the saddle of a bucking til one bloke mentioned fight/ The porcupine had a flagon of wine”). Australian country music at Sydney music festival in Wilcannia, and horse/ That’s how I learnt to ride.” folks all said we went off our heads They are great songs with University. He became curious is also planning a solo record. He tells of travelling around the and made the mallee ring last night.” a wonderful sense of humour about the man described in Buried The Rug Cutters played a show outback, working as a drover, and At this time, in the ’60s, Wilcannia that show both sides of heavy Country: The Story of Aboriginal at Newtown’s Sandringham Hotel, he explains his love of the country had a population of only 800, drinking: the fun and the trouble. Country Music as “the great lost attended by the anthropologist and asks to be buried “In the land perhaps half of which were of These songs have survived phantom of Aboriginal country Jeremy Beckett. At the close of where the crow flies backwards/ Aboriginal descent. The government for posterity thanks to the field music, its first great anti-hero”. the show Beckett (now in his 80s) And the pelican builds his nest”. had built a row of houses along the recordings of anthropologist Jeremy When Martin was awarded excitedly proclaimed, “Dougie’s The song was first recorded and river. Drinking (which was legal only Beckett who became interested in the 2011 Folk Fellowship by the finally got his rock n roll band!” 12 The Review October ’11 The Reviews Theatre Review F oraging in the City characters they play. Maybe it’s just the by Jane Barton small budgets. But whatever the reason Christine Morrow English is one of the few languages grandmothers to heal sun-damaged their total is always greater than the sum that even have a word for “weed”. skin, and now clinically proven to be an of their parts. his Spring it’s open season on As well as fuelling his stomach, effective topical treatment for certain There’s something very Australian, weeds. Rather than eradicate weeds fuel Bonetto’s artwork. They skin cancers. But Bonetto focuses his too, about Irish actors. In Hollywood them,T artist Diego Bonetto wants you provide a powerful metaphor that he advice on which plants are edible, and they are valued for their work ethic, their to put them on your dinner plate. applies to migrant populations, since how to prepare and eat them. And, yes, ability, and initially at least, their value native and introduced species may refer there are plenty of tastings too. for money. But back home it often takes More than 40 species of common, to people as well as plants. Through One trend Bonetto wants to a big(ish) name American to justify a edible plants flourish on public land his work with weeds, he explores counteract is the historical narrowing film’s existence to American audiences along the banks of the Cooks River subtle and complex ideas relating to of our culinary range. There are 20,000 and the film’s producers looking to turn in a 500m Marrickville stretch alone. multiculturalism, postcolonialism, species of edible plants in the world but Loot a buck. As part of the Crave Sydney Food environmental guilt, politics and 90 per cent of human nutrition now By Joe Orton In Australia, Dennis Hopper, Tina Festival, Bonetto presents culinary sustainability. In 2008, his artwork comes from just 20 crops, including Drama Theatre Sydney Opera House Turner, John Goodman, and Willem tours to help people identify, prepare earned him NSW’s prestigious Helen wheat, soy, rice, corn and the like. Sep. 12–Oct. 23 Dafoe are just a few of Hollywood’s and eat them. Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. Bonetto can’t understand why we Director: Richard Cottrell finest to have lent their talents to While it is forbidden to harvest Bonetto makes no distinction would cheat ourselves by restricting With: Caroline Craig, Darren Gilshenan, Australian movies with mixed success those plants that form part of the between his amateur botany practice our diet so severely. When talking Robin Goldsworthy, Lee Jones, and reputations enhanced (good and local government’s official riverbank and his artwork. Neither would exist of fields under a single crop, he says, Josh MacConville, William Zappa bad). revegetation scheme, growing up without the other. “Monocultures are not healthy”, and In The Guard it’s Don Cheadle’s turn alongside them are numerous tasty One incarnation of Diego Bonetto’s you get the impression he’s not only Loot is a classic farce, burnished to try his hand in a “foreign” film. He’s delicacies, otherwise known as weeds, evolving Wild Stories series of works referring to botany. warmly by history’s hand. But this a CIA agent called in to investigate which are fair game. draws on oral history to record Asked about the possible dangers of production doesn’t spark in the way some Irish drug shenanigans. In comic Once you know what you’re looking different foraging experiences of consuming weeds, he says that some it might and the reasons are unclear: terms he’s the straight man to the for, food plants emerge from the most migrants, both in their places of plants are high in oxalic acid and while the actors are fabulous – any cast with sarcastic dead-pan local copper played unlikely places. When leading a Cooks origin and in Australia. It explores they’re fine in moderate quantities, you Caroline Craig and William Zappa has a by Brendan Gleeson. It’s a partnership River foraging tour in mid-September, the values and meanings that plants shouldn’t feast on them over a long certain magnificence – director Richard that for the most part works both Bonetto was pointing out a clump of have for people, especially when they period. But he quickly adds, “The same Cottrell has pedigree of the Goons cinematically and in terms of the plot. wild oats even before the group had move between cultures. The artist’s could be said of McDonalds”. calibre, the costume and set design is There’s something Bill Hunter about left the Tempe railway station car park. slow harvesting of these stories will People should only eat plants they lush. The problem seems to lie in timing. Brendan Gleeson. Highly accomplished Free food hides in plain view all over culminate in an exhibition at Casula know for certain are non-poisonous, The fact is, this script feels stale; or at and underrated, often found playing Sydney. In car parks and backyards, on Powerhouse in Sydney’s West in and forage in their own locale so they least so toweringly overshadowed by stereotypical rugged characters with a nature strips and footpaths, in council December of 2012. can rule out possible environmental recent events in London – you reckon heart of gold. Gleeson’s “guard” is no parks and greenbelts, you can find Bonetto was raised in a farming contaminants. Bonetto points out the ’60s was swinging, you should see exception. It’s a role perfect for Gleeson the African olive with its exploding family in Volvera, Piedmont – the that the weeds at CarriageWorks the 2010 riots, Joe – as to be rendered and his performance overshadows the berry sweetness, warrigal greens that same Italian region that is the (on the site of the old Eveleigh rail almost pastoral. Even the middle-aged Hollywood star. Bill Hunter would have beg to be stir-fried and the meaty- birthplace of Carlo Petrini, who yards) are relatively clean because train audience, who hummed along to the loved it. tasting salad leaves of fat hen. White founded the International Slow Food electrification began 85 years ago. In foyer music, The Beatles mostly, were Rating: Three-and-a-half leaf clovers clover, dandelion, wood sorrel, wattle Movement in 1986. fact, they are much safer than any largely unaffected. Orton’s “scandalous” blossoms and chick weed – they’re also In Italy, Bonetto learned to forage plants growing alongside motorways. events of 1966 are by comparison to the »»[email protected] readily available for snacking. for nettles, wild mushrooms, chestnuts, Bonetto’s approach is realistic: he’s recent mayhem wholly anaemic and only Even in the densely built-up dandelions and mulberries. It is a not suggesting Sydney’s residents minutely compelling. There is nothing in Book Review landscapes of Chippendale and practice he brought with him when should attempt to live off weeds, nor this production that emotionally draws by Margaret Vazey Eveleigh, you could fill a basket with he migrated to Australia. Jokingly, he that they would want to. Weeds won’t the audience in, but ironically this is what you harvest. On his website, compares himself to a weed when he provide day-to-day sustenance but by design. None of Orton’s characters Bonetto has posted self-guided tours describes himself as “non-native”. As are great for what he calls “gastro- are likeable; a deliberate ploy on his of these suburbs – as well as Harold an Italian-born man, he also comes entertainment”. Foraging is a sure- part to illustrate the “shocking” new Park in Glebe – detailing the weeds from the nation with the world’s fire way to stimulate your palate with paradigm of corruption, religious and that grow there and how to eat them. second-lowest reproduction rate new tastes, and expand your culinary sexual hypocrisy. But more might Building awareness of the edible after Japan, making him, he quips, repertoire with free foods that are right have been made of the very camp or medicinal plants that populate our an “endangered species”. under your nose. elements buried in the script. It seems city is part of a greater environmental On his tours, the artist not only Just now, when the shoots of the production was born and birthed argument for Bonetto. Nativism serves up an edible feast, but food for cobblers pegs are still young and without any sense of contemporary was an influential environmental thought as well. While exploring the tender, and the blue flax lilies are Life and Death in Eden: Pitcairn context. A couple more references to philosophy in the recent past. It is Cooks riverbank, he also leads foragers coming into fruit, the weeds of Sydney Island and the Bounty Mutineers modern sensibilities would have lifted the belief that plants introduced to on a journey of ideas that underpins are ripe for the picking. Trevor Lummis the irony to something more universal. Australia since colonisation should be past and present environmental Victor Gollanz, London (1997, 1999) Foraging in the City with As it stands, it’s like watching The removed and replaced with indigenous debates. Mousetrap or re-runs of Some Mothers Do species. An impossible task, it cannot He tactfully avoids telling people Diego Bonetto ’Ave ’Em; cosy but disappointingly not About halfway between Australia and replicate or restore any pre-contact what to think. Instead, he is content to every Saturday in October at all provocative, failing to re-capture Chile, just below the Equator, in the habitats in any case. disseminate information – especially 10am to 12 noon the cheeky anarchism that it unleashed vastness of the ocean lies a small island: Varieties of plants that were when it contradicts popular myth, or Departs from Tempe Station during its original run. Pitcairn Island. This is the story of its introduced to Australia in the last runs contrary to government policies car park, Richardsons Crescent, accidental, and eventually successful, two-and-a-quarter centuries are here – and let people make up their own Marrickville »»[email protected] settlement. to stay whether we like it or not. minds. Cost $80 In 1787 Captain Bligh sailed in his Bonetto says that while he would Along the way, Bonetto’s fellow- bookings essential Film Review small ship, the Bounty, away from the never want the introduced species foragers will discover interesting www.cravesydney.com/event. by Lindsay Cohen coast of England on an extraordinary to grow out of control, we should tidbits of information about some php?intid=2319 mission. The ship was to bring live accept that there’s no getting rid of of the plants they see: the innocent- Alternatively, you can download breadfruit plants to the Caribbean, them and get on with the business of looking weed that has led to large-scale a brochure to do your own free, where they would be planted and eating them. litigation against Monsanto, the native self-guided weed tours of Eveleigh, eventually harvested to provide food Besides, you could argue that the Australian plant that is commercially Chippendale, Harold Park (Glebe) and for the slaves who were being brought distinction between weed and non- cropped in Russia to provide a other Sydney locations here: to the West Indies from Africa. weed is artificial. Any plant at all may component of birth-control pills, www.weedyconnection.com/blog/ This ambitious scheme fell apart be a weed. Bonetto points out that and milkweed, long used by Greek self-guided-tours/ when the crew of the Bounty, after spending five glorious months on the islands of Tahiti, growing breadfruit and The Guard being feted by the friendly Tahitians, Master’s Mate could not take this After taking on board Tahitian men moral and just society which had Director: John Michael McDonagh had to leave Tahiti, saying goodbye treatment, and organised a mutiny. and women, the Bounty ended up on the evolved on Pitcairn Island. The King Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle forever to their Tahitian friends and Bligh and the men loyal to him were shores of Pitcairn Island where a unique James Bible and The Book of Common Genre: Irish but not about lovers. packed off in the Bounty’s 23-foot long community developed. It eventually Prayer had significant roles. the IRA (much) Bligh was a captain who cared very longboat, to face a 5,000-mile journey outgrew the island, and its people were This is a very interesting read, well for the health and exercise of his to the Indonesian island, Java. The resettled on Norfolk Island in 1856. obtainable from the Bowen Library. There’s something very Australian men. He was not a cruel disciplinarian, mutineers, and men loyal to Bligh for Trevor Lummis is an oral historian. (Try the Inter-library loan system if about Irish films. Maybe it’s the extreme but was, evidently, hot-tempered, whom there had been no room in Bligh’s His book records faithfully all the your library does not stock it.) weather, the quirky sense of humours abusive, and foul-mouthed. Fletcher boat, sailed back to Tahiti, where some reported events, both good and bad, »»[email protected] or the down-to-earth actors and the Christian, Acting Lieutenant and stayed. which led to the development of the The Review October ’11 13

focused on melody and invites it a bit more. I personally enjoy the contrast between raps and melodies. But yeah, the production side definitely directed it to a more melodic focus. You guys have just hit your 10th year as a band. Is it hard to stay fresh? Yeah, that was definitely a big consideration on the album. We’ve laboured over it more than we have in past albums to take it in a bit different direction. But that’s a constant process of making music and art, that you want to stay fresh and tackle it from a different “Many Hands Make Light Work” Image: Gilbert Grace angle, and I think we’ve kind of done that with this album. It’s different to any of the other albums and I guess when we try to sit down and write another album we’ll see what happens then. R edfern artists Do you guys get involved politically or otherwise on a community level at all? Or The Herd Photo: Elefant Traks in Paddington is all your time taken up with The Herd and your various solo projects? Jo Tracy I’m very excited to announce that 15 No, we all work outside of music, of us will be exhibiting in RAGTIME, we all have jobs, and a few of us, most started redfern artists our first show as a group, to be held Herd instincts particularly Toe-fu and I, have done a bit Group (RAG) about two years at Global Gallery in Paddington from of community work. We’ve got behind ago.I We now have over 20 members, October 3 to 15. Layth Saeed Parliament”, “77%”, “I Was Only 19” and campaigns on a personal level and as a an eclectic group, each with various For this first exhibition as a group the ever-popular breakout hit of 2008, band, and it’s something we take pretty degrees of separation from each other the topic is deliberately broad. We are t’s saturday september 17, the “The King is Dead”, which got a nice seriously, we’re all involved at different and the Redfern area. considering how much of an influence lights dim, the surrounds go dark, reworking. The crowd certainly loved levels. Toe-fu and I have done a lot of is the moment in time that an artist Iand crowd members in the Metro every minute of The Herd’s powerful work with Aboriginal communities, A number of us were with PCL lives in and whether the end of a pop their heads up in unison. We’re brand of opinion-laden hip-hop. The and of course the refugees campaign is Exhibitionists in Redfern and belong century/millennium gives any special standing and waiting for eight people Herd delivered an adrenaline-filled live something we really get behind. But in to other artist-run initiatives and impetus. We are also looking at art to grace the stage, the legendary show, yet again. the end it’s really a personal decision, it’s collectives as well, such as the Orchard over the last century and examining Australian hip-hop act, The Herd. I caught up with Ozi Batla to pick not a prerequisite for being in the band. Gallery in Waterloo. those influences. his brain about the new album and all In regards to the deep lyrical content We aim to collaborate, celebrate, Sure enough, they don’t disappoint, things under the sun. of your music, does it ever get worrying infiltrate and communicate and to RAGTIME and after a somewhat staggered entrance The new album seems to be a bit more that people aren’t really taking it all in? exhibit as a group responding to Global Gallery set the room alight with “Spin Cycle” melodically focused. You and Urthboy I think we prefer to make more layered various ideas, issues and stimuli. 5 Comber St, Paddington and back it up with “2020” and “1000 seem to do a bit more singing. Is that music that benefits from repeat listens, RAG also aims to contribute NSW 2021 Lives”. The band, just hitting its 10th something you’ve had your minds on for rather than simplify it too much. You run in various ways to the Redfern Opening: Wed. Oct. 5, 6-8pm year, treated the audience to new album, a while? Or does it just seem to fit the the risk of underestimating the audience. community. We already have a market Closing drinks with the artists on Future Shade, not yet a month old. character of the album more? Stuff will go over people’s heads, but stall at RedWater Markets and have Sat. Oct. 15 Definite highlights of the show included It wasn’t really a conscious thing. hopefully after a few listens people get exciting plans for the future. We are For more info on RAG Jane Tyrrell’s heart-wrenching rendition Speaking for myself, it’s something it. We’ve never tried to dumb it down, still seeking long-term partners and [email protected] of “Grandma’s Song” and the always fun I’ve always enjoyed. I mean in various we’ve got a pretty high level of respect sponsors to put Redfern on the cultural Info on RAGTIME show and upbeat “Unpredictable”. The Herd is different projects I was probably singing for our listeners and we definitely prefer map and bring our plans to fruition. [email protected] not a band to forget its roots, however, before I was rapping, but with this album to say our piece and say it in a clever way playing classics such as “Burn Down the the production side was a bit more rather than simplify the message. CHARACTER OF THE CROSS People and Place / Past and Present I mages for Life Force Kings Cross Photography Prize 2011 SSH Exhibition October 5-24 wenty high profile, collectable and established contemporary photographersT have donated Mercure (Hotel) Potts Point superb works to be auctioned for Level 3 Reception, Victoria St, Potts Point this charity event! This will be a fabulous afternoon of art, music, wine, gourmet food and other OPENING Wednesday October 5, 6.30-9pm irresistible treasures! The highlight FREE Storytelling Event Sunday October 16, 3-5pm of the afternoon will be the live auction of photographic artworks With Kings Cross locals: writer, Mandy Sayer, and playwright, Louis Nowra by leading Sydney auctioneer, the An entertaining and fascinating visual celebration of Kings Cross life! charismatic Andrew Shapiro. There Kings Cross Photography Prize & Exhibition is part of the 2011 City of Sydney will also be an opportunity to bid on Art & About Program. An initiative of the Kings Cross Arts Guild. www.kxarts.com Burning with Curiosity 2004 Image: Polixeni Papapetrou a separate silent auction. You will be greeted by the sounds of Susan Hurley and Gabriella Di Nallo plus a one or more of the following national taste and price range. We really hope special performance by Sydney Choir, photographic competitions: The Head as many people as possible can join us The Elementals. On Portrait Prize, The National for a fabulous afternoon and to raise Portrait Prize, Art & About, William much-needed fund.” Images for Life Force is in its second Bowness Prize, The Blake Prize, The Please support those who support year. This is the one major annual Olive Cotton Award, to name a few. those with cancer. Life Force Cancer fundraising event for Life Force Katy Fitzgerald is one of the main Foundation is a not-for-profit Cancer Foundation. organisers of the event. She is a cancer organisation run totally on donations The photographic exhibition and survivor, former Assistant Director at from supporters and fund- raising artworks on auction include many well- Stills Gallery and now a counsellor events. Life Force is fully endorsed known and established artists, among for Life Force. “I have been greatly and supported by the Cancer Council them William Yang, Ben Ali Ong, moved by the generosity of these of NSW. Luke Hardy, Belinda Mason, Mayu photographers,” she said. “It is greatly Kanamori, Glenn Sloggett. Three of appreciated as their works are all Images for Life Force Fundraising the high-profile photographers are sought after and are included in many Event 2011 represented by Stills Gallery – Pat private and public gallery collections Sunday October 23, 2-5pm Brassington, Merilyn Fairskye and across the country. The gallery, too, Stills Gallery Polixeni Papapetrou – and all of the has been wonderful – it’s a fantastic 36 Gosbell Street, Paddington Jeff Duff Photo: Roslyn Sharp photographers have been exhibited in venue – and there are works for every www.lifeforce.org.au 14 The Review October ’11

Children’s author at work and play

Andrew Collis magical age.” The writer, it goes almost without saying, can readily ndy griffiths has been busy access the imaginative world of his attending writers’ festivals readers (primarily students in Grades throughoutA the country. On a sunny 3 and 4). “Kids appreciate an element afternoon at the Sebel Hotel in Walsh of danger, intrigue, even scariness. I Bay he takes time out to talk. think sometimes adults are overly risk averse. They underestimate young The former punk musician and people. I tell [sceptics and critics] that English teacher is in high demand kids know it’s a story, they know it’s as one of Australia’s most prolific pretend. They know, too, in their own and popular children’s authors. ways, that fictional characters are real With long-time collaborator, Terry – fictional characters are us.” Denton, Griffiths has just released Griffiths is also an Ambassador for The 13-Storey Treehouse – “the most the Indigenous Literacy Foundation amazing treehouse in the world!” (ILF). “All kids in Australia should The book presents an amazing tale have equal opportunity to learn to of Andy and Terry at work. The titular read and write,” he says. Only one treehouse is a fantasy work station. in five kids in remote Indigenous It’s got a bowling alley, a see-through communities learn to read to Grade The 13-storey treehouse Image: Terry Denton swimming pool, a tank full of man- 3 standard. One of the reasons for eating sharks, a giant catapult, a this is that there are no resources, no secret underground laboratory and a current books in the communities. familiarise themselves and their kids and they’ve been published by Pan of playing with friends, riding marshmallow machine that follows you ILF is a coalition of authors, with. Often the first time these kids Macmillan Australia as The Naked Boy motorbikes, picking berries and around and shoots marshmallows into publishers and booksellers who’ve see a book is at school. “At a grassroots and the Crocodile. The young authors hunting for emu eggs and wild pigs your mouth whenever you’re hungry. banded together to get books to level I go into a community two or have been paid and schools have sitting alongside tales of terrifying “I can remember being 10 years remote communities. Doing this has three times a year,” Griffiths says. “I received copies, some of which have turkeys, angry mamus, farcical old,” says Andy. He remembers the undeniable health outcomes and makes run workshops and we make picture been translated into local languages. football matches and crocodiles with delight he knew in the company it easier for young people to engage books.” All proceeds go to the ILF. an unfortunate – but completely of Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, A.A. with the wider world if they want to. Griffiths has collected 13 of the Andy says: “In this book there are understandable – preference for eating Milne and E.H. Shepherd. “It’s a Parents are given 12 board books to most successful of these picture books stories about the simple pleasures naked people.”

S outh Sydney Crossword Ballads for Father Ted 1 2 3 Across reviewed by and aiming at an ideal of justice and 1. *Ghetto blaster model has assumed character* (10) Malcolm Weihao Luo social equality, before moving on to 4. Odd (7) 4 5 “Molly of the Dwindle Town”, every 6. *Coder left crumb* (6) Peter Kearney Concert string plucked with powerful delicacy. 10. *Give it a boot around and it may St Joseph’s Church, Newtown 25/9/11 Kearney’s songs are effective, 6 7 8 go out of bounds* (5) well-crafted pieces of social and 9 11. *Great loss of shine* (5) This was the third time Kearney’s religious commentary that cleverly 13. *Scoot! A Time turned lawful* (10) 10 11 12 earthy songs in honour of Ted use the only instrument – guitar – to 17. Semolina (8) Kennedy (late beloved parish priest focus a message. His hymns, “Fill 18. *Nobleman declared sterile* (5) of St Vincent’s Church in Redfern) My House” and “The Beatitudes”, 13 14 had been heard at different churches distinguished themselves as worthy Down in the Inner City, and the “11 of on international stage. 1. See 16 Down musical stories” again provided a The second half of the evening 15 16 2. Male equivalent of a countess (4) perfect introduction to a distinctive found Kearney in a reflective 17 3. Follow (5) sound-world of crisp textures and mood. After a heartfelt tribute to 5. *Braniac dropped one class* (5) clean vocals. Kearney has a knack Ted Kennedy, he performed an 7. *Dip Dance* (5) for turning ordinary notes into appropriately vulnerable version of 8. *Cant walk when drunk* (7) something memorable and touching. “No Right to Crush God’s People”. 18 9. Stunner (5) Ted Kennedy-Australian Prophet He developed the motif when CROSSWORD BY D.W. 12. *English county drops drug in Sydney's hills?* (5) featured songs giving expression to he said that there was no right to 14. Curt (5) a Gospel message of liberation and take advantage of the poor, before Across Down First correct entry 15. Doomed one (5) social justice, and more importantly, performing a ballad for Father Ted, 1. *Ghetto blaster model has assumed character* 1. See 16 Down receives a prize. 16. ,1 Down. African sibling? (4,6) narrating a world of Father Ted “A King in Rags”. It was a powerful (10) Send to: 2. Male equivalent of a countess (4) 4. Odd (7) 3. Follow (5) Kennedy and stressing his strong moment but the whole evening was South Sydney Crossword 6. *Coder left crumb* (6) 5. *Braniac dropped one class* (5) compassion. It began with the packed with songs of emotional heft 10. *Give it a boot aroundPO andBox it3288 may go out of 7. *Dip Dance* (5) bounds* (5) Redfern NSW 2016 8. *Cant walk when drunk* (7) gentle “The Year of God’s Favour”, and resonance, lovingly interpreted. 11. *Great loss of shine* (5) 9. Stunner (5) celebrating Australia’s Bicentenary A tremendous concert. 13. *Scoot! A Time turned Denotes lawful* cryptic (10) clue 12. *English county drops drug in Sydney's hills?* 17. Semolina (8) * (5) 18. *Nobleman declared sterile* (5) 14. Curt (5) 15. Doomed one (5) 16. ,1 Down. African sibling? (4,6)Au Revoir, Jean Guichard Warned by the winking For weeks, then months of its angry eye, his turbulence became ourelement A calendar preserving we waited steeled and our nerves turned tostone. the patrimony of coastal Brittany, for the uninvited confidences Jumont, Ar-Men and bold Pierres Noires that flowed after thebeep. In the New Year took up the role of household god Yes, we had a stalker. he abandoned us. Poetry in post-colonial Carlton. Thetes was of his world swept It was hard letting go Each month declared thelonelylove across our island towash of our citadel of Jean Guichard for thewear against our sandbagged doors; to take on gauzy strips ofsea of wind and wave only our high, square windows opened between wind-cambered palms WORDPLAY – Creative Writing Group against towers of iron andstone. to the light. on Guadalupe, the Maldives Woolpack Hotel Redfern, 229 Chalmers Street, Redfern or Minorca above the windowpanes 6-8pm Wed, October 5 & 19. Birthdays plotted by stick-on stars, His rage rose, of our birthday months. Phone Andrew on 8399 3410 our calendar hung above and we waited immobilised asitbroke All welcome its companion god, the telephone. in bone-breaking waves aroundus. – Catherine Wood October 2011 COMMUNITY NOTICES 15

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Uniting Churches SATURDAY ART CLASS South Sydney Uniting Church South Sydney Uniting Church (56a Raglan St, Waterloo) 56a Raglan St Waterloo Worship (Eucharist) 10am Sunday 12-4pm Saturday October 8 & 22 Rev Andrew Collis 8399 3410 Welcoming people of all ages, More information phone 8399 3410. cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and identities. Peace with justice, integrity of creation.

Painting: Gabriel Azzi Glebe Cafe Church Cnr St Johns Rd & Colbourne Ave Glebe Worship Sun 6 for 6.15pm BABANA BABANA ‘Colbourne Ave’ intimate Aboriginal Men’s Group candlelit concerts Thu 8pm Next meeting Friday, October 28 REDWatch Huw Luscombe 9518 9413 12-2pm,PCYC, Redfern Love to sing? Redfern Meetings first Thursday Contact: Mark Spinks 9243 3546 Can hold a tune? of the month at The Factory Leichhardt University Church Always wanted to sing out loud but not on your own? Community Centre. 3 Wetherill St, Leichhardt Come and be one of the DarlingTones – an a cappella Phone Geoffrey Turnbull (near Norton St) choir based in Darlington. Soprano, alto, tenor and (02) 8004 1490. Worship 6.30pm Sunday bass singers wanted! Email [email protected] Rev. Dr John Hirt 0408 238 117 e D Th arli s Join in the song and have some fun. Be a part of our ngTone community and bring some harmony into your life! Newtown Mission Waterloo 280 King St Newtown For all enquiries please email: Worship 9.30am & 6pm Sunday [email protected] Recycling Rev Ps Doug Clements Workshop 9519 9000

Workshop and market open Fridays Qi Gong in the Evening for Women. The first of NNC’s Relaxation 9am-12pm. Paddington Uniting Church 395 Oxford St Paddington Evening Tasters! Come along after work and unwind to some Turungah Flats, 1 Phillip St, Waterloo Church Open 10am-2pm Moving Meditation with an experienced instructor! All welcome. (lower car park). 1st and 3rd Saturdays For more information contact Richelle 9564 7333. Affordable furniture and household goods. Worship Sunday 7.30pm Wednesdays Cost: $2.50 (unwaged) or $5.00 (waged) Donations gladly received (no white Office 9331 2646 Starting 5 October every Wednesday 6:30 – 7:30pm goods free or electrical apps). Newtown Neighbourhood Centre,1 Bedford Street, Newtown Pitt Street Uniting Church (opposite Newtown Station). Volunteers welcome shuttle bus services (phone Naomi on 0407 576 098) 264 Pitt St, Sydney Worship 10 am Sunday FREE shuttle bus services now run from Redfern to Broadway & 6 pm (2nd and 4th Sundays) shops via the RPA Hospital; and from Woolloomooloo to Redfern Rev Ian Pearson 9267 3614 via Paddy’s Market and St Vincent’s. The Bourbaki Ensemble The Bourbaki Ensemble is a chamber string orchestra which has been giving concerts These FREE buses are available to all City Of Sydney residents in Newtown for over a decade. The next Bourbaki Ensemble concert will take place at Wayside Chapel and operate: St Stephen’s Church, 189 Church St, Newtown, on Sunday November 6, beginning at 2.30pm, 29 Hughes St Potts Point Thursday and Friday of each week. and will include music by Mahler, Elgar, Enescu and Spiers. Admission free if you have not Worship 10am, Bible Study 5pm Sunday For more information and timetables please been to a Bourbaki concert before and mention the South Sydney Herald at the door Rev Graham Long 9358 6996 call 9319 4439 or visit www.ssct.org.au (regular prices $25/15). Further information www.bourbakiensemble.org

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David Sullivan designers’ work from 2011. It was taken night with the likes of Christine Anu, industry with Last Kinection named Band a high-achieving rep touch football and out by the solitary male model in the Karla Grant and Peter Garrett all gracing of the Year and Single Release of the Year netball player. The Indigenous community came field, Matt Webb, with a striking two- the carpet. Garrett, the Minister for while Northern Territory’s Iwantja Band Living Black presenter Karla Grant together for the 17th annual Deadly tone suit. School Education, Early Childhood and were ecstatic about taking out Promising and SBS were deemed Deadly for awards on Tuesday night (September Other standout awards for the Sunset Youth commented “there’s an incredible New Talent in Music. Television Show of the Year while 27). The evening began with an Ceremony were Gurrumul Yunupingu foundation of creativity that will be on Outstanding Achievement in NRL another important category, Outstanding intimate Sunset Ceremony held on for Album of the Year, Deborah Mailman display tonight”. went to the well deserving Cowboys Achievement in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Gadigal Land in the Northern Foyer of receiving the Female Actor gong and As the night continued in the festival co-captain Johnathan Thurston, and Islander Education, went to Victorian the Sydney Opera House. Anita Heiss taking out the pointed hall the accolades flowed as everyone Carlton’s Andrew Walker accepted the program The Deadly Ute Project, trophy for Outstanding Achievement celebrated; truly an awards night like prize for Outstanding Achievement developed by Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Stunning views of the harbour greeted in Literature. no other. in AFL. Co-operative through Wimmera Hub and the attendees as the Gondwana National After some amazing traditional dance Gurrumul Yunupingu picked up Tanisha Stanton was awarded Most Ballarat University. Children’s Choir sang an empowering a routines and hymns everyone proceeded another award for Male Artist of the Year Promising New Talent in Sport. A The entire evening was a rousing cappella to kick-start the night. to the downstairs lobby to see the red while Jessica Mauboy snared the Female talented all-round sportswoman, the 15 success and once again displayed the First up was the Deadly Dressed carpet in action. Artist top gong. year old from Newcastle, played hockey mass of talent the Indigenous community awards; a showcase of Indigenous Famous faces aplenty came for the Hip Hop got a solid nod from the and excelled in athletics before becoming has to offer. S

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