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NUMBER NINEty-three may ’11 CIRCULATION 22,000 aLEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE EVELEIGH GLEBE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND Development plans raise ire of residents

Nicholas McCallum

ERSKINEVILLE: A battle between developers and residents has flared over the Ashmore Estate. In the dying days of the Keneally Government the Department of Planning pushed through a massive increase in the floor space ratio. The FSR increase of 1.75:1m to 2.75:1m has raised the ire of local residents and business owners as well as City councillors.

The former industrial estate, which covers 17 hectares between Mitchell Road and the railway line, was flagged for urban renewal in 1998 and has been in the possession of the Goodman Group since 1989. The new plan would increase the number of dwellings on the site by more than 500 units, meaning an additional 1,100 residents could be squeezed into the site. Greens Councillor Irene Doutney has derided the demands of the DoP as the deplorable final orders of Labor. Anne Eastman and David Atkins Photo: Esther Turnbull “I believe that the DoP, under the last Labor Government, decided to pass as met with the requirements of the South many large-scale developments as they Sydney SCP Urban Design 1997. It could before they were dumped,” she Solar eclipse of the ’hood further stated that though deferred said. “I think that their commitment commencement consent was granted it to overdevelopment was part of their Patricia Tellis (perhaps the only one) with photovoltaic also affect the daylight to their living, was subject to some design changes that sub-regional strategy to push as many cells on the roof to harness solar energy. dining and kitchen areas. the applicant needed to fulfil. dwellings as possible into brownfield ALEXANDRIA: “Our application was The house uses solar panels to heat An architect and planner by profession, “The City of Sydney Council and sites in urban areas.” snowjob-ed. The staff at the City of the water, recycles water from the roof Mr Atkins is frustrated at how easily Mayor Moore are hypocrites”, exclaims Cr Dourtney added that the DoP Sydney has concocted stuff, botched onto the garden and uses whirly-gigs the City of Sydney has passed the a disappointed Ms Eastman. “Moore directive was proof that the former up the assessment of the proposed (ventilators) on the roof that draw hot alterations and additions. “The proposed is constantly talking about sustainable Labor Government was doing the development next door and brazenly air up and out thus cutting down the use modifications are not compliant with energy and encouraging residents to bidding of developers ahead of residents, flaunted the DCP (Development Control of air conditioners in summer and heaters the City of Sydney’s Heritage DCP. The go green. There was so much publicity which only reinforced public cynicism. Plan) of 1997”, exclaims an irate and in winter. structure is a contributory building within and hype surrounding the council’s A letter issued to residents in March dejected David Atkins, a resident of Today, the couple’s energy efficient the Copper Estate conservation area,” announcement of the largest non- by Lord Mayor Clover Moore highlighted Lawrence Street, Alexandria. home is in danger of losing its single he asserts. residential solar energy project, the the impacts that the increase would source of energy. Their neighbour’s plan Approving the modifications and papers were full of Cate Blanchett have on the area including traffic Mr Atkins and his partner, Anne to renovate and make additions to the alterations, Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s switching on Sydney Theatre Company’s congestion, overshadowing from the Eastman, moved to Alexandria 18 years structure will have a direct impact on office reiterated that the City of Sydney solar powered roof but when it comes high-density towers and a loss of ago when they purchased their single- their amenities, especially the shared staff considered the proposal’s compliance down to the common man’s [sic] regional views. storey terrace house with a vision to light well. The first-floor additions to the with relevant planning controls in their effort, not much is done to appreciate The new proposal allows for a height convert it into a green and sustainable rear of the main roof will result in loss of assessment. The panel assessed the or encourage individual initiatives. increase of 60 metres. This means that home. Investing years in remodelling their solar access. This in turn will also directly potential impacts of the proposal and I am very disappointed by the way we the total amount of storeys allowed place, they created a dream home that impact the solar hot water panels and concluded that the solar and daylight were treated. I expected more out of will increase from the nine originally is one of the only houses on the street photovoltaic cells. The alterations will access in the development application the council.” S proposed in the continued on page 2

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PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Have You Heard? Raglan Street, Waterloo Development plans Telephone 0400 008 338 Phone/fax 02 9698 8949 The views expressed in this newspaper are THE FAST NEWS those of the author and the article and are not WITH TREVOR DAVIES raise ire of residents necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. continued from page 1 the O’Farrell Government. ADVERTISING group where residents gather and [email protected] Resistance on the move council plan to a mean height of 19 Neither Joel nor Erin was dismissive inevitably talk about day-to-day 9319 1373 Chippendale will never be the same storeys. This, however, is only a median of the city’s housing population – they things while doing whatever they MAILING ADDRESS: again. The Resistance centre, home height. In the new plan, the ceiling asked only for a more measured PO Box 3288 of the Green Left Weekly and the do. Groundswell wants to involve height has been lowered which could response. “People don’t bother me”, Redfern NSW 2016 Socialist Alliance has been there for as many residents as possible. We allow for up to 24 storeys according to said Joel, when confronted with the LETTERS years. It’s also been the centre of want people to know about what is one council estimate. fact that he could have 5,000 new Please send letters and emails to: other radical activities ­– from the old happening now, or in the future, and The President of Friends of neighbours, “as long as they don’t The South Sydney Herald. days of the anti-apartheid and Anti- to hear what residents think. We want Erskineville, Brett Mason, declared the impact on everything”. In particular, Email: [email protected] Supply sender name and suburb. Vietnam war demos, and the more what happens in the discussion to plan an overdevelopment that would be public transport. Size: 150 words or less. recent campaign against the Iraq war, be fed back into the community. We “completely out of place” in a suburb Cr Doutney was also concerned We may edit for legal or other reasons. as well as having one of Sydney’s can’t get thousands of people in one that has an average building height about the population effect on public of two storeys and five storeys as a transport. “Public transport is very light best collections of “left” books in room for a discussion, but we can get current maximum. “It sets a dangerous in the Ashmore Estate area,” she said. its bookshop. Fast News remembers the people who, together, talk with with fondness one state election, precedent”, he said, adding, “It’s “Residents complain consistently of thousands of people in one room and decades ago. A friend and I were too dense a construction on top of a not being able to get onto the trains at in that way give thousands of people chased down the street after pasting suburb”. Other residents in the area Erskineville station during peak hours a voice. Before the first community two election posters on the building shared this sentiment. and the bus service is non-existent. The about midnight. Going to hear John discussion we encourage you to talk Erin and Joel, a young couple that traffic problems related to an increase with your friends, neighbours, local has lived in Erskineville for nearly two of 1,000 people [on top of Council’s Managing Editor FEATURES EDITOR Pilger speak. Yeah, the building Andrew Collis Dorothy McRae-McMahon holds good memories. I understand agencies and your groups about years, expressed concerns over the existing plans] will be dramatic. For the folks are moving to Pyrmont. Groundswell and the issues they potential impact that the new DoP plan an area already under transport siege think are important in Redfern and would have on the area. “I don’t like new and innovative solutions will Waterloo. Ask what information, the idea of these massive buildings be needed to support the growing training or support would people when everything else is so little”, said number of residents whichever plan is Some workers at find useful in understanding Erin, expressing her displeasure at the implemented in the area.” out-of-place Zenix Building, which juts Cr Doutney reflected that the DoP ATP say that Redfern and responding to their issues? from the landscape adjacent to Sydney plans failed to provide a real account NEWS EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR is one of the most What actions do people think the Trevor Davies Ali Blogg Park. Joel’s main concern was with the of the amount of private vehicles that community and agencies should take? unsafe suburbs impact an extra 5,000 people would would flood the area. “It would be The group criticised its employers for Finally, we encourage you to consider have on transport. “It’s going to be a fanciful to think that new residents in moving them to a site that required coming to the first Groundswell major increase in the population,” he the Ashmore Estate will not own cars taking public transport to “one of discussion as a representative of said. “The infrastructure needs to be and add to the existing problems,” the most unsafe areas of Sydney”. your group or finding someone increased to cope with the influx.” she said. The Greens Councillor drew Winnie Choo quotes from a letter who can come from your group.”To The inadequate infrastructure attention to the fact that one of the Assistant EDITOR NEWS CONSULTANT sent by employees of Channel 7 and be part of the Groundswell talk was also a factor for Mr Mason who doners to Kristina Keneally’s initial Esther Turnbull Jonathan Bogais Global TV who are both within the to your community worker or underlined the fact that nearest railway election campaign was the Goodman ATP. “The group also criticised their Community/Neighbourhood Centre, stations, Erskineville and St Peters, Group, but stopped short of suggesting employers for moving them to a site or email your contact details and already operate at capacity. “How do all that this had influenced any of the that required taking public transport the group(s) you are talking to these people get where they’re going to former planning minister’s decisions. to ‘one of the most unsafe areas of [email protected]/. need to go?” he asked. But even with “It is always interesting to note the past Sydney’ and expensive parking fees.” the change in government, the FOE government’s support for its donors What a cheek! I’ve been at the Corso President possessed no illusions about but I have no proof that in this case the Advertising in Manly on a Friday night – not a any immediate changes. “We don’t donation had any effect on the decision John Lanzky safe place. I’ve caught a bus from Controversy in Glebe know what the new administration’s made late last year. It is always worth Narabeen Lagoon to Wynyard on a over redevelopment intentions will be”, Mr Mason said of noting though.” S DESIGNER Friday night. That was scary! I would Robert Young never move to the Northern Beaches. Leichhardt Labor Councillor Not one Redfern-Waterloo pub has and former Glebe Youth Service PRINTER been on the list of Sydney’s most Spotpress PTY LTD Coordinator, Darcy Byrne, 24-26 Lilian Fowler Place violent pubs. To say that Redfern is has spoken out in support of Marrickville, NSW 2204 unsafe is crap. Perhaps they should the planned affordable housing www.spotpress.com look for work on the North Shore. project in Glebe that will increase the number of social and affordable REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS properties in Cowper Street Glebe “We gratefully acknowledge the many from 134 to 240. This comes in volunteer contributors and distributors What is Groundswell? response to Leichhardt Mayor, Jamie who make this publication possible.” Groundswell came to a meeting Parker, running a scare campaign Jane Barton Rebecca LeMay of REDWatch and community against the affordable housing Winnie Choo norrie mAy-welby groups. Read the flyer below and development. “Despite the ever Lindsay Cohen Nicholas McCallum get involved: “GROUNDSWELL is a increasing cost of housing in the inner Pam Dagwell Barrie McMahon community empowerment process west, in the last two years the Greens Douglas Dingwall Olivia Nigro facilitated by a coalition of Redfern and Waterloo non-government Party controlled Leichhardt Council Melanie Fiedler Michael Page agencies. The Government is has taken a ‘do nothing’ approach Alex Fleming Patricia Tellis consulting about the future of the to affordable housing,” said Cr Steph Gesling Marg Vazey area without residents understanding Byrne. “Council’s affordable housing Mathew Gilliland Angelique Watkins the issues needed to make informed taskforce, which is chaired by Mayor Kristy Johnson Peter Whitehead decisions. Groundswell aims to Parker, has only ever met twice in Perry Johnstone Neil Whitfield identify the problems of most more than two years and there hasn’t Sarah Kelly Kate Williamson concern to residents, what support been a single new affordable housing Kelly Lane Brendan Wong and information residents need to dwelling created in that time.” Read Lisa Lerkenfeldt Nina Young understand the issues and then RedWater Markets to explore options for resourcing Melanie Fiedler’s full story on page 7. residents and addressing the DISTRIBUTORS problems residents identify. In May, at Redfern Park Jackie Dettman Gai Smith the non-government agency coalition Melissa McMahon Sue Dahl will initiate a process of community Our friend Corner Elizabeth & Redfern Streets, Redfern Georgina Abrahams Adrian Spry discussions for both public and Ningenah is gone 3rd Saturday of every month Anthony Kable Di Everingham private residents which will be You will remember last month we run independent of Government. (next market 21/05/11) 8am-4pm Rosemary Tyler Pepsee profiled Redfern Block identity, Miriam Pepper We are hoping Groundswell will Steph Gesling Ningenah (Sam Hookey). It is Stallholders selling an eclectic range of handmade, Nicole Fleming include representatives (maybe more Gabby Briene with sadness that we hear he recycled, secondhand goods, plants, books, sausage sizzle. Eve Gibson than one) from the wide range of John Lanzky concerned individual residents and has passed away at the young Lyn Turnbull Stall bookings/enquiries: 0434 197 527 Neil Whitfield formal/informal groups in the area age of 42. Ningenah, you will norrie mAy-welby Peter Lonergan including: Neighbourhood Advisory be missed, my friend. or email [email protected] Sam Choy Nick McCallum Boards (NABs), Precincts, and other Barrie McMahon Fundraiser for the Factory Community Centre. Rita Mu resident groups; carer and self-help Supported by City of Sydney Council. John Berry groups; recreation and social groups; Julie McCrossin Good election news Ross Smith Aboriginal groups; culturally and Melissa Gibson Mark McPherson linguistically diverse groups; special Pauline never made it. She has asked "Come and be part of this new inner-city market Brian Vazey Chelsea Reid interest groups; religious groups; for a recount at the time of writing. under the shady trees of beautiful Redfern Park" Gaylene Smith Margaret Vazey community gardeners or any other Let’s hope she never makes it. Don Crowley Heather Robinson May 2011 N e w s 3

Mr Grech knows that turning his vision into The youth of today reality depends on funding. He is currently in the process of preparing a business proposal to present Kool Purple Kookas to PaCE (Parental and Community Engagement) funded by the Australian Government. “Success for Kool Purple Kookas will depend a lot on funding. It is very critical for us as the funds we receive will define the course of the program,” Mr Grech said. Internationally, Jamie Oliver’s crusade to change eating habits of school children in the UK is revolutionising school menus across the country. We wish the same for Corey Grech’s Kool Purple Kookas. After all, who says bush tucker ain’t cool? S Popular Outback Cuisine Macadamia Nuts and Oil – delicious crunchy textured nuts is the first Indigenous plant to be used Bush tucker is kool – commercially across the globe. Kangaroo meat – delicious, virtually fat-free meat that is popular smoked, preserved or as steaks. Youth of today is a regular article on local youth and related issues Emu – richly flavoured red meat belonging to the APPETITE kindly sponsored by: Appetite Cafe, ood cafe : redfern Ostrich family that is growing in popularity across and healthy + 82 Regent St, Redfern, Tel 9699 4069 eople North America. Corey Grech with enthusiastic students Photo: Supplied Crocodile – low in fat and high in omega 3, is slowly Patricia Tellis experience, re-introducing families to what our seeking to bring families together by teaching growing in popularity. ancestors ate 1,000 years ago,” said Mr Grech. them about the nutritional benefits of bush food, REDFERN: Corey Grech is 28, and a proud Each workshop will last eight weeks, targeting where to shop and how to cook easy recipes. Witchetty Grubs – one of the most nutritious grubs in member of Redfern’s Aboriginal community. primary school children between the ages of 8 and Involving parents in this workshop will ensure the outback that taste like almonds or peanut butter. He is currently in the midst of planning his 10. It will provide a safe cooking environment for that they provide the necessary supervision in the Bugs and Yabbies – sweet-flavoured, firm-textured ambitious after-school program called Kool the children and encourage them to take charge kitchen at home. As for the children, he hopes Purple Kookas. This part educational and of their nutritional intake. the workshops will help them gain self-confidence crustaceans from the Australian bays belonging to the part experiential program aims to introduce “Too many kids in my neighbourhood [Redfern] and empowerment. family of crayfish and lobsters. healthy food options to Aboriginal kids and do not eat healthy meals, either because they do The idea to launch Kool Purple Kookas came Eucalyptus Oil – high grade oil from the famous gum their parents. not like it, or do not know any better. For their from Mr Grech’s experience working in his sister’s tree is used sparingly to flavour some foods. parents, the fastest and cheapest option is the café, Purple Goanna, which is an exclusive “Kool Purple Kookas is an early intervention McDonald’s next door or a takeaway down the bush cuisine restaurant. “This program is my Lemon Myrtle – leaves and stems of the rain forest program that will educate Indigenous Australian street. This has to stop. The first step in changing contribution to the Indigenous community. The tree that exhibits a wonderful citrus flavour and children and their parents to cook and eat healthy this vicious cycle is education,” Mr Grech said. participating children and their families do not aroma. bush tucker. This program will be a cultural He said that Kool Purple Kookas is unique, pay a single cent,” he said. Support Independent

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an accumulation of things. It just seems ADVERTISEMENT like there is not a lot of forethought put into the state, in almost every area. By the 2007 state election I was really concerned Tanya Plibersek MP and paying attention, I wanted a change then. NSW didn’t agree.” Mr Whawell was unhappy with issues Member for Sydney such as the state’s controversial sale of electricity assets, as well as Labor’s refusal to commit to an improvement of Tackling Problem traffic congestion by widening the M5 East Motorway. He went on to say: “The roads weren’t getting any better, the tolls Gambling were going up, the taxes were going up, and then it got to a point where I was, like, that’s it, I’m one hundred per cent “As a result of all of this, I’ve lost my 14 year finished with you.” old’s trust in me because I have gone through Mr Whawell explained that the decision to vote for Barry O’Farrell her bank account and cleared it out… and I in March wasn’t difficult to make. He was impressed by Mr O’Farrell’s have lost my own self respect. I want those straightforward decision making and things back” – Josephine. his ability to make his points clearly Michael Whawell Photo: Supplied and concisely. Mr Whawell had also been concerned Studies have shown that problem gamblers spend about the Part 3A assessment system an average of $21,000 a year on gambling. That’s a that commenced in 2005 and allowed “Why I voted Liberal” the Minister for Planning to determine lot of money by anyone’s standards – money that planning applications that are of “regional Nina Young voters. He is a 36-year-old father of four or state significance”, overriding local isn’t being spent on food, the mortgage or paying who has fond memories of his time government control. Mr O’Farrell had off bills. On March 26, Kristina Keneally growing up in Erskineville. He has been made an election pledge to repeal the act and the Labor Government suffered a a long-time Labor supporter and recalls and took action towards doing so within record-breaking loss to Barry O’Farrell’s casting his first ever vote for Bob Carr in two weeks of being elected. The actions of one problem gambler negatively Liberal-Nationals in the state elections. the 1995 state elections. So what would it take for Labor to win NSW has operated under a Labor In recent years, however, Mr Whawell’s back the vote of people like Michael? impacts the lives of between five and 10 government for the past 16 years support for Labor has waned and in the He explains: “It would take a significant others. This means there are up to five million but it seems as if NSW voters have two most recent state elections he cast his reduction in overall arrogance across the had a change of heart, and are more vote for Liberal, voting for Barry O’Farrell party. I also don’t think there is enough Australians who could be affected by problem than ready for a change in government. over Kristina Keneally in March. consultation with the voters, it seems a gambling each year, including friends, family and What was the straw that broke the lot of the decisions are what the party Michael Whawell is one of those proverbial camel’s back? “I think it was wants, not what the people want.” S employers of people with a gambling problem.

In 2008, the Federal Labor Government asked Labor in opposition – What went wrong? the Productivity Commission to conduct a full inquiry into gambling in Australia. Now we will Opinion – Timothy Ayers and Marrickville. implement their recommendations to introduce We are seeing the same issues play out This state government should have in similar politics across the developed full precommitment schemes for poker machines been put down a year ago. Even among world, with mainstream progressive Labor diehards, it would be hard to find parties – like British Labour and the US and $250 ATM cash withdrawal limits for venues more than a handful who believed the Democrats – struggling to hold ground as with poker machines other than casinos. cause of Labor was assisted by the last minor parties to the right and left erode term of failure and malaise. previously reliable bases of support. The irony for critics of unions is that, Some opponents have called this reform Now comes the inevitable debate if Labor is to rebuild, it will be through about what went wrong and who’s to structures that represent the reforms “un- Australian”. I refuse to believe that it’s blame, and already some within the the Australian union movement has “Australian” to leave people like Josephine and movement are taking aim at unions and undergone in recent years. A community their influence. organising approach here could galvanise her daughter struggling against machines which Trying to narrow down the reasons for the thousands of union and community are raking in profits from their misery. this disaster raises some key factors. activists engaged by the Your Rights At First, if a week is a long time in politics, Timothy Ayers Photo: Supplied Work Campaign in 2007. But there is a 16 years is a millennium; the simple long way to go to rebuild the confidence 40% of poker machine profits come from truth is that the public rarely gives any None of this should diminish the fact of these true believers. government four terms, and five terms that Labor needs now to get its house That’s the agenda driving creative problem gamblers. Any business model that relies was just a bridge too far. in order. efforts to reclaim and rebuild similar on addiction and misery has to change. Of course, commentators will focus on Over the 16 years of Labor rule we political movements overseas. Obama’s the grotesque “fall of Rome” spectacle of a have witnessed the ossification of the legendary community organising government led by a cabal determined to party structure, with ALP branches, approach to the 2009 election Share your thoughts and stories on tear up Labor’s relationship with its base, particularly across regional and country was pioneered in the US labour which drove away a million Labor voters. areas, shutting their doors with depressing movement. Similarly in the UK, after Ed tackling problem gambling with me at And then there was the question of the regularity. In many electorates there are Milliband assumed the leadership of the [email protected]. government’s competence to manage a no branch meetings and scarcely a warm British Labour Party he called for a radical dynamic and complex economy. Eric body to hand out how-to-votes on election transformation of Party Roozendaal and Michael Costa managed day. organising, including a new army of To learn more about the Labor Government’s to convince too many people it was just A progressive political organisation 10,000 community organisers, again with not up to the task. can’t survive without a vibrant activist strong links into the union movement. plan to tackle problem gambling visit: Those who say the failure to privatise base that genuinely engages on policy, Could a similar approach work here? www.problemgambling.gov.au the power industry, as a means of funding supports quality community-based It could. If Labor is to survive as a infrastructure, misread the politics of candidates and provides a volunteer army viable political force, it must embrace an NSW completely. Power privatisation for organising and elections. agenda that puts grassroots organising was opposed by the NSW public, the Meanwhile, the arrival of the Greens and community relationships at its centre, ALP party membership and the union Party on the left ends Labor’s monopoly with a radical vision capable of uniting movement. When former Premier Morris of the progressive vote. a broad cross-section of the community Iemma attempted to reject the will of the Successful Labor governments have from our inner city to the suburbs and people, he was rightly rebuffed. always brought together Labor’s twin regions. That’s a worthwhile project The real damage for Labor was done bases – the suburban and regional for young progressives: engage with a when Costa, as treasurer, melted down in working class and the, mostly inner-city, program to rebuild social democratic public and released figures over-stating left progressives now bleeding to the politics that can really change Australia. the state of the NSW economy, creating Greens. Australian unions faced a similar the false impression things were falling The Greens project over the last decade crisis in the 1990s and early 2000s. By to pieces. has been a simple one – to jettison its re-orienting toward growth, challenging Put in context, Labor leaves NSW history as a single-issue environmentalist the shibboleths of the past and engaging in surplus, with low unemployment party and build an electoral base of left- with the community, unions have and functioning health and education wingers disillusioned with Labor. People emerged from the crisis strong and Authorised by Tanya Plibersek MP, Labor Member for Sydney systems. Yes, transport infrastructure is on the political left should reflect soberly growing. Labor must do the same. S needed, but the government’s failure to upon the consequences for progressive 150 Broadway, Broadway NSW 2007 invest was long-term and not the result politics of the all-out attack by the Greens Timothy Ayers is the State T 9379 0700 F 9379 0701 | [email protected] of union power. on ALP progressive women in Balmain Secretary of the AMWU. May 2011 N e w s 5 Workers demand changes Festival founders upbeat, 30 years on to parking Nina Young ULTIMO-PYRMONT: March 19 marked the Winnie Choo A Channel 7 spokesperson said that 30th anniversary of the Ultimo-Pyrmont although the parking rates were not under UPTown festival. ALEXANDRIA: Australian Technology the company’s control, it is aware of the Park (ATP) workers are demanding that concerns and is taking steps to address The festival began in 1980 when two the site’s management reduces on-site them. local residents, Debra Berryman and Olga parking rates to ease the daily battle for Locals who have been protesting about Reader, got together and decided to hold parking spots. the lack of availability of street parking an event to unite their local community. are encouraged by the new voice in the They were joined in organising the event In a letter addressed to the Australian matter. “We’ve known all along that the next year by Michael Matthews Technology Park Precinct Management it must be terribly difficult for [ATP and the three of them worked together Limited (ATPPML), a group identifying employees], but we just never knew how with the Harris Centre to bring in local itself as “Vehicle owners who work within to get in contact with them … we would businesses to support them in making the the ATP precinct Everleigh [sic]” said like to talk to the employees as long as festival a success. that they are victims of corporate greed. it doesn’t get them into trouble,” said Since those humble beginnings, the Enjoying the festival Photo: Supplied A copy of the letter has also been sent to Desley Haas, a member of the Alexandria event has grown dramatically in size community group, REDWatch. Residents Action Group. and has become an integral part of the the Harris Centre, along with sponsorship three original event organisers back According to the group, if ATPPML ATPPML has held public meetings, Ultimo-Pyrmont community. The event by the Sydney City Council. Star City together, with Debra Berryman, Olga were concerned about the impact the commissioned a study to look at parking runs annually and admission is free to Casino has also been a sponsor for the Reader and Michael Matthews all on site had on locals, on-site parking would strategies for Alexandria, and undertaken everyone. It features music, food, fun past few years but was unable to do so hand to celebrate the third decade of the not cost “hundreds of dollars per month”. strategies including the letter drop to activities for children and adults alike, this year, meaning that the staff at the festival they created. Olga and Debra still The letter from the group was a response help minimise the impact of parking on as well as local businesses, craftspeople Harris Centre had to make do without a live in the area and are very active within to a letter drop by ATPPML last month. locals. The parking study, released last and designers showcasing and promoting festival coordinator. the community. A spokesperson for the ATP said: “The November, recommended no stopping their products. Lorraine Findlay of the Harris Centre Thirty years on, the festival remains aim of the letter drop was to encourage restrictions, angle parking and a permit The Ultimo-Pyrmont district has explains why the UPTown festival has very much an event for the community ATP tenants and visitors to catch public parking system. undergone huge social change over remained a valuable community event: and by the community, with more than transport … and to also inform people Residents, however, do not necessarily the past few decades, from a small “It’s a really good way for people to 50 local volunteers helping out each year who need to drive that competitive think that parking permits will help as working-class population of just 3,000 get to know what their area is about, to make the festival happen. It remains discount parking rates at ATP are available they do not all own cars. to a thriving and diverse community of while having fun. It breaks done a lot a not-for-profit event, with any money for the staff and companies at the Park.” “I choose not to own a car because of over 20,000 people. The UPTown festival of barriers and it gets people mixing raised being put back into the festival the On-site parking costs $150 per month environmental and financial implications. has embraced the changes and provides together and makes them feel a part of following year. for outdoor parking and $280 per month So, I won’t get a parking spot,” said Kyran a place for everyone in the community to their community.” Any local businesses interested in for underground secure parking. Lynch, an Alexandria resident of 21 years. feel supported and included. The celebrations for the 30 th participating in next year’s festival should The group also criticised its employers She said that tradespeople have refused to The festival is organised and run by Anniversary of the festival brought the contact the Harris Centre in Ultimo. S for moving them to a site that required come to her home because it is difficult taking public transport to “one of the to find a park and her friends can’t visit most unsafe areas of Sydney”, also a her anymore. The ATP development was approved recommending any approval include will consult with residents on proposed site attracting expensive parking fees. It A City of Sydney spokesperson by the Redfern-Waterloo Authority, conditions to discourage ATP tenants parking changes on a street-by-street appears that many of the workers involved said: “We’re aware of the parking not the City of Sydney. We made a using local streets to park.” basis before any decisions are made. are employed by Global Television and situation in Alexandria, especially submission to the Minister of Planning “The City of Sydney is considering Community consultation is expected to Channel 7. in streets surrounding the ATP … before the development was approved, the report recommendation and we start in May,” said the spokesperson. S 6 N e w s May 2011

ENVIRONMENT Barangaroo opposition continues to grow

Anna Christie its long industrial history. Some of these chemicals will have long-term effects Three kilometres on the ecosystem, especially if they are north of Redfern released into Sydney Harbour. Others s t a t i o n i s E a s t have immediate impacts when they are Darling Harbour, released, potentially causing odours and renamed Barangaroo. health problems for people exposed by This is where the living near or working on the project. recently departed A 10,000-person petition is NSW Labor government and its asking Premier O’Farrell to initiate a preferred developer, Lend Lease, Special Commission of Enquiry into have provoked the biggest community Barangaroo, to investigate possible outcry about redevelopment since the misfeasance by the former government. Green Bans of the 1970s. One of the most serious and suspicious actions of former Planning When I first heard former Prime Minister Tony Kelly was to issue an Minister Paul Keating spruiking the new order exempting the first stage of the bigger, better Barangaroo development Barangaroo development from the State last year, I must admit I was very Environmental Planning Policy No. 55 excited about what I heard. Whatever – Remediation of Land, thus freeing it one might think about his politics, from having to consider all the risks of Local Redfern residents enjoying free wireless internet Photo: Supplied Paul Keating is an elegant man with a the excavation and treatment proposed reputation for good taste and respect for for the underground car park. There is heritage. He described the rebuilding no precedent for such an exemption. of a “natural shoreline” with … little In his judgment of 10 March 2011, Free wi-fi project coves … and inlets” (?). I thought – Judge Peter Biscoe of the NSW Land how visionary! How sympathetic to the and Environment Court observed that SSH monthly bandwidth to it. Residents close company that provides hardware environment! a site auditor has not audited the car to the mesh enjoy free internet and and software for building large- I am a fan of industrial heritage, but park Remediation Action Plan, an REDFERN: A community initiative are encouraged to make small regular scale wireless networks. Its platform the great concrete slab at the cruise indispensable step in all remediation to create a wireless internet mesh donations to cover the costs incurred by allows communities to start small-to- liner passenger terminal is entirely projects – except Barangaroo. The promises to attract a lot of interest. bandwidth contributors. medium scale wireless mesh projects characterless. As an alternative to that, requirement was dumped because – as No Worries Wireless Internet is a free Local residents who most benefit from at relatively low cost. However, there the Keating vision was seductive – but revealed in a Lend Lease email to the wireless network started by local web No Worries are those residents in short- are many similar devices available in illusory. Department of Environment Climate designer Brad Pollard. Over 16,000 users term or share housing. But it’s more than the marketplace. While Mr Pollard What he didn’t tell the public is that Change and Water – “timing constraints have transferred over 2,000 gigabytes just providing access to the internet for has started to build No Worries using the landscaping, which will include for planning submission” would “make since the mesh was created and it is all, it’s also about building a community Merakis, he foresees a day where the the building of Headland Park, canals, it difficult to achieve a full site audit”. currently available on Chalmers and online. The mesh has a broadcasting tool Merakis are replaced with their lower and a new shoreline, will be done using Greens MLC David Shoebridge Lawson Streets in Redfern. or message bar that sits at the top of the cost equivalent, Open Mesh. contaminated excavation materials believes “complying with SEPP 55 web browser. The message bar can be He has personally funded the project – remediated using an untested would require Lend Lease to adequately The wireless mesh is made up of used to broadcast community messages to this stage and is now inviting residents clean-up technology – from a five-level deal with the risk of contamination local residents and businesses wanting and links to community meetings or and businesses to help expand it to other underground car park. flowing into the Harbour” and “they access to free internet. Importantly, the events. It can also be used by businesses areas of Redfern. S The soil in and around the car park have failed to consider all the risks”. network survives on participation from to advertise special offers. and the headland is, by everyone’s A Special Commission of bandwidth contributors, local residents The mesh uses a device known as a If you would like to find out more admission, contaminated with an Enquiry is without doubt needed. S and businesses who donate their unused Meraki. This is a wireless networking please visit www.noworries.net.au array of toxic chemical residues from Danger in the streets The tenant that sued Trevor’s opinion – L. Chanin arriving at work so coiled up with rage that I have left teeth Sandra Beeston many similar stories from tenants about Health I love young people. Well I used marks on my own desk? the lack of action by Housing NSW in to be one myself, and a lovely one Lately, I have developed a very A court has ordered Housing NSW to addressing their complaints. Challenge at that. But now that university has unattractive suite of hand gestures, compensate a tenant whose complaints He says that the occurrence of started again, these warm feelings which I would be ashamed to had been ignored for two years. such neighbour disputes is likely to Trevor Davies have disappeared. They have use anywhere else. With these increase under the BEP2 (a plan for the instead been replaced by thoughts I could get employment as a A Housing tenant sued the Department redevelopment of Housing sites in Redfern Staying healthy is a challenge. Being a of mayhem and physical violence. parking attendant if I were ever for failing to act on the numerous and Waterloo), as “there will be living single man and turning 55 seem to make to lose my job. I have also taken complaints about her neighbour for very close to each other public housing it very difficult. Let me explain. I walk from to chanting, “move over, move the past two years and breaching the tenants who may have complex needs, Darlington to Redfern every day over”, or the more instructive, Residential Tenancy Act. with people who have just come in and I’ve always eaten out and that has tended to catch a train to work and for “you have to move over”. To keep Ms K, a Housing tenant for 14 years, bought million dollar houses, and so the to make it very hard to resist hamburgers, the next few months, my life will from getting bored I usually vary said: “I want to empower other tenants social disparity between those two groups toasted cheese sandwhiches, meat pies, and be hell. I’ll arrive at work with my pitch on alternate days. out there, who have put up with noisy is going to be so much greater”. it goes on and on, all those fat-laden foods shoulder, hip and elbow bumps, I have also thought of carrying a neighbours [making] their lives hell.” Mr Turnbull says: “Hopefully Housing that made me overweight and slow. lumps and bruises; blood in my large sign with “CAREFUL” written She says that Housing NSW didn’t need NSW will take greater responsibility for Since starting the challenge I think I’ve heart and murder on my mind. on it in bold, or even wearing a suit reforms to solve such cases: “They just the support services, but unless that proven the saying, “You can’t teach an old The footpath to Redfern Station of armour. I’ve considered writing need to enact the policies they already happens, there is likely to be more social dog new tricks”, to be wrong. I’ve lost 10 is only wide enough for two. In the to the Vice-Chancellor or submitting have.” tension because of the extremes of the kilos – not much, it’s not a dramatic loss, British Isles that would be one line an article for the University’s student The neighbour, after leaving a trashed population.” but it’s a loss. going east, one going west. Easy? newspaper but somehow I can’t house and a $5,000 cleanup bill, was Ms K received her rent refund from I’m quite often (about once a week, Yes. Well not for Sydney University see a good result from any of these allocated a new house in the area. Ms Housing NSW three weeks late, after sometimes more – that’s a change) walking students and staff; all, of course, tactics. Mediation groups, similar K says that this illustrates the general threatening the department with more from Darlington through the streets of who are carrying backpacks that to those held in restorative justice, attitude of Housing NSW, which displaces legal action. She already knows of several Chippendale, up Myrtle Street and across donkeys would buckle under; or could be the answer, but I’d need problems rather than address them other tenants in NSW and QLD who were City Road and on into the Park. Mostly in heavy briefcases that can be used compliance and I don’t think those and lets situations escalate until they inspired by her story and want to sue the past I wouldn’t make it to Cleveland as weapons of mass destruction. pack-lugging, mobile-wielding, become DoCS, the Police or the Health the department: “I don’t think my one Street without an asthma attack. And the one I pass every morning jostling, footpath hoggers would department’s problems. single case will change [Housing’s] way I’m drinking copius amounts of water, who reads a book as he walks attend. I have only one solution left, The Principal Solicitor of the Tenants’ of thinking; if another 10, 20, 50 [tenants] no soft drinks, and as someone who would along; I’d kill him first; followed by I’m afraid. I’ll be laying landmines Union, Grant Arbuthnot, commented use my case as a precedent and file in eat a sausage as a snack every day from the ones messaging, then the ones tomorrow night. If you too, have that transferring the offending tenant the tribunal, then they might start to act.” the Chippendale take-away, my unhealthy chatting on their mobiles, then the to walk to Redfern Station in the was a better solution than eviction, as Ms T from Toowoomba, QLD was days are over. ones in large groups that won’t mornings, join me. S “homelessness is never a remedy for harassed by her neighbour since she It’s possible to change if you’re over 50. move out of the way. But I guess anything”. moved into her unit in November 2009 You don’t have to have a huge stomach. killing them all is not the answer, PS: I’d like to see State Rail A spokesperson for Housing NSW and her complaints have also been ignored It’s unfair on your heart. To all those who as then their bodies would really and the Council get together and denied that Housing NSW has failed to by the Department of Housing, who told are struggling with weight it’s possible to block the path to the station! open the exit overpass from the take the appropriate measures to remedy her she had to put up with it. She said change. In a small way my journey may I have thought about a poisoned back of Redfern Station to Wilson the situation. He said that it worked closely when asked about the impact Ms K’s story give you hope. It’s tough and it won’t tipped umbrella that I can lightly Street that was closed a few years with other agencies and the community in had on her own decision to sue Housing: happen overnight. S brush against the miscreants but ago. This would allow staff and addressing antisocial behaviour problems “It has given me hope that there exists a I’ll have to keep that for winter students to get to university without in public housing areas. system where I can obtain natural justice Go to the Trevor’s Health Challenge semester. How to get through making it impossible for locals Geoff Turnbull, from the community even if I am too poor to get help from a website to read about the struggle to lose the next few months without to use their own footpaths. group REDWatch, says that he has heard lawyer.” S weight: www.trevorshealthchallenge.com May 2011 N e w s 7

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I am also meeting with Mr Mick Mundine and representatives of the Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) this month to discuss the progress of the Pemulwuy Project, the AHC's plan to revitalise The Block. Earlier this year, the NSW Labor Government approved a grant of $2 million to the AHC to help the Project proceed to the next planning phase. For many years, The Block has played an important role in the local community as well as the wider Indigenous community. Its renewal and redevelopment will ensure that it continues to play just as an important role in the future. The $2 million grant will allow the Aboriginal Housing Company to complete the Development Application process and demolish all remaining properties on The Block, in preparation for redevelopment. This is an exciting step in the revitalisation of the Block and of Housing in the Redfern area. Light rail a complement to heavy rail in Green Square? Photo: Ali Blogg

In other news, I have donated two computers from my Light rail a delight for Green Square Electorate Office to The Factory Community Centre at 67 Raglan Street, Waterloo. The Factory is a long-established Graeme Grace occurring in Green Square – there’s commuter confidence – the rail lines are community centre that offers many services to the residents an estimated extra 20,000 flats yet to permanent, meaning routes cannot be In 1902 an argument erupted at a come – transport is the one major issue changed at the whim of a Sydney Transit of Waterloo, in particular those who live in the surrounding special public meeting in Waterloo affecting all Green Square suburbs. bureaucrat. Any new line would also be public housing and high rise and precinct dwellings. Should Town Hall over how the borough Private car use is obviously not the pre-paid only, saving government the should celebrate the extension of the answer. Besides the lack of car parking awkward transitional problems it now you be interested in improving your computer skills or tram service from Sydney town to spaces in town, the roads are simply has with the buses, trains and ferries. using any of the other support and recreation services that Zetland. Would it be Alderman Parry’s not big enough to handle peak hour A light rail loop around Green Square suggested banquet, or Alderman demand. Nor are cycling or walking should have regularly spaced stops The Factory offers, please call The Factory on 9698 9569 Anderson’s preferred garden party? practical solutions; Sydney is hilly, throughout Waterloo, Victoria Park, or look at their website, www.the-factory.org.au/ That there was actually a special hot and humid. Car-share schemes Zetland, north Rosebery and Green meeting over such a short tramline can play a part, as can working from Square town centre. Depending on emphasises just how important home or staggering working hours, but how it links with the existing Central Yours sincerely, public transport infrastructure has it is really only the all-weather mass light rail and the promised CBD light always been. transit systems that can genuinely meet rail, it may also service the people of the challenge. Redfern and Surry Hills. Unfortunately, Kristina Keneally More than a century later, you can The Eastern Suburbs railway, these plans rely on government funding. still see the old Zetland tram terminus originally intended to arc from Bondi The CBD light rail, if approved this year, Member for Heffron building on the corner of Elizabeth Junction to Redfern with stops at won’t be in operation until 2015. How Street and Bourke Street but you won’t Randwick and Kensington, could be long for Green Square? see any tram lines. They were all dug completed with an added stop in east On Wednesday February 11, 1903, up or paved over in the 1950s and 1960s Zetland. However, this option may come the Zetland tramline extension was and the trams replaced by buses. While at prohibitive cost and anyway would officially opened with ribbon cutting Kristina Keneally MP it is true that buses are more flexible, not assist the people of Waterloo and and a brass band playing. Alderman Member for Heffron they also have their limits. Witness the Victoria Park. Parry won the argument and a banquet dropping of the Elizabeth Bay loop from So we come back to trams, or “light was held in the Waterloo Town Hall. Phone: 0487 336 021 the 311 service because of the increased rail” as it is now known. Light rail The old town hall still exists and is now size of the latest buses. Witness, too, is cheaper than heavy rail, and has a branch library. Perhaps, if we get our Email: [email protected] the daily “conga lines” of buses in the more frequent “stations” than trains. light rail one day soon, locals can push Mail: PO Box 7104, Alexandria NSW 2015 CBD clogging up the roads, getting in It can move more people than buses the bookshelves to the side for a day, each other’s way. and move them faster. And there are and again celebrate the coming of the Address: Shop A, 1 Shirley Street Alexandria, NSW 2015 With massive population growth other advantages. Light rail engenders trams to Zetland. S 8 N e w s May 2011

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Timothy Lay flamboyant orange, would often lead me to the local warung (the Indonesian A university exchange is an equivalent of a roadside diner or kebab experience rarely afforded and shop) with all the brute force of 100cc. definitely not one to be missed. It If my first semester was an was on such an exchange that I introduction to the urban workings of relocated from Sydney University Indonesian life, my second semester and my spiritual home in Newtown was a crash-course in its rural to Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) counterpart. A two-month live-in in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The trip, development program found me though educational in purpose, located in a rural Indonesian town, challenged my understanding of life’s indulged by timeless hospitality. Tim Lay in Newtown Photo: Ali Blogg necessities gathered in the sheltered Thirty-three of us, Indonesian and workshop that is inner Sydney. Australian students, were able to however, it was the eruption of Mount inflicted on their neighbours showing embracing diversity in culture and interact with the local community, Merapi that caught my attention. the importance of even the smallest religion. I never felt anything but In Indonesia, amongst the everyday be it over a cup of tea or a game The once vibrant colours of my local of actions in effecting change. welcomed. My exchange gave me a ritual of university life, I truly of soccer with the village youth. kampung had been transformed into My experience of Indonesia was new appreciation of the luxuries so discovered the two staples of life: rice We exchanged the lecture hall a winter wonderland of white ash nothing like the pictures of religious often taken for granted and gave me with anything, and a motorbike. A for real hands-on experience in streaming into the city’s every nook extremism, which are all too often the the stimulus to actively participate in motorbike is a must-have, a personal community development. and cranny, making mask-wearing the only source of information presented a way I could never previously have transport device crucial to navigating During the last months, we sat order of the day. The most amazing in the Australian media. Instead, I imagined. I have now commenced a the chaos of Indonesian roads, and in a and watched the images of flooded and ever-present aspect of this was privy to exceptional hospitality volunteering position in the Oxfam country often slim on the luxury front Queensland and the powerful disaster, however, was the response in which people were all too ready Sydney office and am seeing social provides an outlet for expression. My earthquakes that have rocked both and outpouring generosity of the local to help a foreigner in their nation; justice and the world around me in own motorbike, a provocative shade of New Zealand and Japan. Last year, people reacting to the devastation a society accepting and openly a new light. S Remembering life on The Block

Mary Trujillo this falls back to the government because of lack of funding. But when The Block in Redfern will undergo you come to look at it, the reason a slow transformation. In concert why I think the government wasn’t with Redfern Oral History, the SSH giving funding to us, they wanted this continues a series of interviews company to fail. They didn’t want with people who have lived on The to see people prosper. They didn’t Block. This month: Mick Mundine. want to see people move towards self-determination, I think they always I think I came out here in Sydney wanted to keep our people down in 43, 45 years ago, and that was where the gutter, in the welfare mentality. I grew up with all the early sort of But I think now, a lot of people apathy. I was playing football with are starting to feel and realise that the Redfern All Blacks. I started in the their hope is coming to a reality mid-1960s, so I was with an Aboriginal with this new project. It has been mob right from the beginning but a hard battle but as you know, I didn’t get involved with the very ministers come and go ... activist sort of side ... I worked in this We have got assets at the present place and then realised the injustice moment of $45 million but cash-flow that was making them protest. is like, nothing, so at the present I started on the Block in 1975. My moment we are surviving picking brother was working in 1974. I got up the crumbs from the table. But a job as a painter. Now at the time … we’ve got a strong belief that the there were about six houses getting loaf of bread is coming. I really feel renovated. As you know, the company if you don’t experience the bad side was registered in 1973 and the reason of life, you are never ever going to why the company was set up was a experience the good side of life … lot of Aboriginal people found it very The last house we bought was hard to get into private real estate. 1994, and that is when we owned It was very racist. So a group of the Block. We had to buy every “goomies” [heavy drinkers] squatted individual house. This land is private, in these three houses. Now at the time, it belongs to the Aboriginal Housing Father Ted Kennedy used to help a lot Company and the members ... Frank of people up at the Catholic Church Sartor did a bad thing of cutting our Mick Mundine Photo: Ali Blogg in Redfern in conjunction with Bob funding. We used to get $77,000 off Bellear and his wife, Kaye. They were ATSIC and when ATSIC closed down, in a very powerful position, and I think black face is no good for business. platform. When the next generation the ones who really got together, all the housing funding went over to that is a blessing – that an Aboriginal We own a piece of land here, grow up to be adults, at least they got a good mob of people from the Aboriginal Housing Office (AHO). organisation can stand up on their very prime real estate that the can start with self-esteem, respect in community and got the company We were given administration funds own, sock it to them, and say, “Hey, government wanted … themselves, and be proud of who we registered and it carried on from there. there until Frank Sartor came along. you can’t come and tell us what to do. My heart is in this place … People are, who they are. So I think we have In the early 1980s, this place was When he became the Minister for We are going to tell us what to do”. say, I am big noting myself. No got a future, you know, it is going to be so beautiful; it was the caring and Redfern-Waterloo, he stopped our The federal government was the way, I am merely doing what has a beautiful future for our people, and it sharing. Our people used to sit around funding. He thought by stopping first government that gave funding been endorsed by the Board and the is going to happen, trust me, it is going together of a night time, go to sleep our funding, we would fail … towards this project, this is in the members. Once we start redeveloping to happen. S with their doors open. But as you It has made us stronger. We went Gough Whitlam days, and over the last this complex, we will change the image know since the 1990s, the drugs right back to the financial side of three decades, the state government of this place, and I believe as I said Michael Mundine was interviewed in started creeping into the community the company, and we are in a better never ever put any money into this before, it is like that burning city – out 2006 by Dr Mary Trujillo. This extract and we ended up with this vicious position. At the present moment, when community. The predicament we are of the ashes comes that phoenix bird. was edited by Maggie Roche and cycle of drug-related issues, crime- you are funded by the government, in now ... and the reason why they Our main vision, our main goal, is Andrew Collis. Read the full interview related issues. I suppose in some they pull strings. We are pulling our were trying to undermine and degrade to make sure that we build this for the on the Redfern Oral History website: sort of way, too, a lot of blame for own strings at the moment so we are us and make us look bad is because next generation, pave the way, set the www.redfernoralhistory.org 10 c o MM E N T & O P I N i o N May 2011

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Dorothy McRae-McMahon confront us, they can bring alive a new possibility. For people of faith, it hen we are faced with life and may open a doorway to the profound Wdeath issues, in ourselves or in realities which connect us with a God relation to those we love, it sometimes who has walked this way and who is feels as though time stands still. the centre of eternal being. God is always surrounding us with a Within each moment, there is a vision of life lived with depth, breadth surge of conflicting emotions. Will this and height in which we are invited to moment be one of our last? What is it make real and significant choices. This that we hold most precious and want is not just about doing or being “good”. to sustain? Is there something which It is related to becoming people who we have unintentionally lost or missed? live more fully and try to connect with How will we spend this moment – in things which have eternal value. grieving the future or celebrating the When we make a habit of pausing past and present? What will we do to and allowing ourselves to enter this cherish all that lies here? Should we eternal space, rather than rushing from be spending the moment in a sharing one thing to the next, we give ourselves with others, or hold the focus on those the chance of becoming those who who are beside us? embrace timeless visions for the world You could call this an “eternal and each other. We have the chance moment” – one which seems set to see what really matters and what cartoon: norrie mAy-welby in another reality and which holds is superficial. within it all that matters, instead of the At Easter, we may imagine a Christ distractions, agendas and self-interests who walks firmly on the human which usually occupy us. journey with us, showing us by editorial Maybe our best experiences of example how each footstep may take life and faith are contained in those us towards issues and choices which eternal moments. Perhaps we could are significant and never turning away Road-runners for running water ask ourselves whether we could enter from life and death decisions. This them more often than we usually do, Christ also reminds us that to enter ssh bring a warm commitment to the It will make a real difference. You can rather than having them forced upon the deathly and costly moments is task, a dignity. It's not that guests of support this project by sponsoring the us by events and crises. What if we often the pathway into stronger and ach Wednesday Cana our Garden Shelter lack dignity. Not road-running Ravens in the Sydney regularly stopped and asked ourselves rising life. E Communities volunteers host at all. Volunteers enjoy the company Half Marathon on May 15. Visit: ultimate questions about what is really Our eyes see a dream for a different overnight accommodation in our of many colourful and confident www.everydayhero.com.au/ravenandrew important and what is not? Could it day when life and death decisions are Uniting Church hall. The floor is characters. The community formed in be that our lives would become more made for us all. Whether we believe swept, the mattresses laid out and such a short space of time is genuine. ur next issue will feature a report on significant and aware? that this connects us with our God, made up. A light supper is prepared. Installing a hot-water system and O homelessness – the official numbers Obviously most of us couldn’t cope or whether we see the hopes simply What the volunteers aim at is the shower in the hall will affirm and have fallen – and homelessness services with trying to live with total awareness coming from within human life, it can creation of a community space. They protect the dignity of our guests. in the city. in every minute, or even every day. be a time of reconsidering life in all its However, when issues of life and death beauty and all its challenges. S

comment readers letters ascertained is that two of these attacks ’ might have been on cleaners and the third is anonymous. As far as we know Big changes not small change Darlington dogs foster these attacks are not documented. The social interaction Darlington dogs provide a link with Eva Cox approach is the big issue we need to Government reopened the national wage home for the students. It has been the tackle. case, under pressure from the women’s The University of Sydney’s crackdown experience of many dog owners that wore my 1973 T-shirt The market model that arrived in the movement, and we had the first clear on the traditional off-leash area around students often approach them to talk I to the International 80s stuffed up the changes we fought for statement about equal pay for the same the Old Darlington School, an area about their own sorely missed pets and Women’s Day march in the 70s. These last decades have created jobs. The same basic wage in 1974 was the which was public property before the appreciate giving a pat to a friendly to remind myself of more macho workplaces, longer working next step to closing the wage gap. university bought it, demonstrates dog. This type of interaction should what we were hoping hours and cultures of politics that ignore But by the 80s the changes stalled through its actions an institution which be fostered and encouraged as it is one to do. It had been or trash the “soft” areas of life, ie, those and the gap has been sitting somewhere has little regard for the needs of the local of the rare social connections between printed by Canberra associated with women. Community around 18 per cent ever since. Why? Part community, in complete contrast to the the invading student body and local Women’s Liberation for the women who needs, care, social issues, relationships, of the problem came from a belief the gap public statements made by the Vice- community. Personally, I have always were short-listed for the first ever Prime sexuality, disabilities, culture and feelings was closing and prejudices that affected Chancellor at public meetings. Reasons enjoyed conversations with students Ministerial Women’s Adviser’s job with were ignored or put into money equations. deciding what was work of equal value. given for this crackdown are that over from various countries and states where Gough Whitlam. It has the clenched fist And this was all disguised by selling Basically, the problem came down to deeply an eight-year period three people have my dogs have acted as mediums of women’s symbol on the front and the people, including women, the idea that gendered judgements by those in power. been bitten by dogs. Attempts to find international exchange. word “superwoman” on the back. The they had choices and if things went wrong The jobs mainly done by women are out the exact nature of these attacks Mirjana Kos-Noskovic latter was the tag the media gave us to it was their fault. still seen as less skilled and valuable than has been impossible. All that can be Darlington criticise the appointment, the fist was to remind us of our role in radical change. And there is still much to do! “The most serious barrier to big

The next hundred years starts from changes is the way major politicians Why do human resource executives get of valuing what we do in ways that are now, with us! And what we still have paid less than similar financial executives? not predetermined by gender or related to do will be more difficult than what and parties assume we live in an The answer is gender! The argument characteristics. we have already done. We did the more for these differences is that the market We need to offer leadership, and work obvious bits: the law reform that stopped determines their pay. But who runs this out why this concept is often a scary word open discrimination against women, the economy and not a society.” market? Not us, so that is why we need for too many women. We need to lead funding of services for women run by big changes not small change. on our terms and not be co-opted into women, the right to make most choices This change smothered many of the jobs mainly done by men. It is not the Economic models don’t work well and being good, nice women in the current about our fertility and acknowledgement radical changes that we foreshadowed in content of the job, the levels of skills or create inequality and unfairness. The structures. Nice women don’t make that violence against women was to be the 70s when we talked about women’s the value of the job to the community global financial crisis shows the market changes. We can’t just rely on having taken seriously. liberation. This was freedom from that is counted, but whether it was done model’s serious flaws and it’s time we more women in top positions to make Now comes the hard stuff: changing gendered assumptions about what women mainly or only by women. pushed social issues back on the agenda. the changes, because too many get there attitudes, culture and the power games. could do and should do. It was not just The current equal pay case includes This means changing both public and because they are not seen as a threat to We need to do this, not just to advance about being equal on male terms. We some feminised areas of care work political attitudes and the ways that our the status quo. women but society in general because saw futures where both social rewards covered in limited awards, and will, we social and political lives are defined and We need ideas, spaces to talk, on-line current beliefs are damaging our social and responsibilities were fair. We wanted hope, create an important precedent. controlled. contacts to explore ideas and put up fabric by (often unspoken) assumptions to live in communities and nations that Other cases will follow, so some Feminists need to act: to put up new alternatives to what is on offer. So think about what we value and how. Locally, respect and value the diverse ways people employers are panicked. If the case ideas, devise new policies and do much about what you can do, what you will nationally and beyond, politics and policy connect, care and relate. We wanted a succeeds, it will also set up funding more than just criticise the status quo. We contribute to create the big changes we reflect narrow dysfunctional versions of good society to be funded by fair economic problems because these organisations need to counter the current biases in the still need. Over to you! S masculinity. means, but none of that has occurred. are not market driven but offer essential way paid and unpaid work is valued. We The most serious barrier to big changes Take equal pay, the theme for IWD. publicly funded services. We need a clear need to look at how we allocate our time Eva Cox is, among other things, a lecturer is the way major politicians and parties There is a case currently underway commitment to a pickup of the full costs to different types of work and sort out new at UTS, and this is an edited version of the assume we live in an economy and not a that hopefully will move us on, but is it and not over five years. ways of combining the responsibilities and speech she gave at the recent celebration society. This means the needs of society enough? Let’s look at what has happened However, there are many other gender pleasures of caring, parenting, community of the 100th year of the International are not on the agenda. This unbalanced so far. In 1972, the new Whitlam anomalies in pay, even within industries. and paid jobs. We need to devise ways Women’s Movement. The Review May ’11 11

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Food Connect Sydney is a social enterprise that aims to make ethically grown food from local farmers accessible to any household in Sydney. Food Connect Sydney buys direct from local organic and chemical free farmers and packs it into three sized boxes – $35-$65. These are then delivered to a local host or “City Cousin” where subscribers come once a week to Adios, Excelsior! pick up their pre-paid box. Food Connect Sydney also offers a wholesale service. Reviewed by Sarah Kelly The night began with the ear- Fruit and Veg from Food Connect supports farming and local communities as it is: Fair: 40c in every dollar goes back to The Holy Soul splitting sounds of Dead China Doll, the farmer. Organic: 100% of the produce is certified organic or chemical free. Local: average food miles of around Kim Salmon and Leanne Cowie a popular Sydney band that play a 250km. Direct: over 90% of the produce is bought direct from the farme. Community driven: Local communities Dead China Doll brand of music known as “Doom”. come together at their City Cousin. The Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills Very slow drums, high volumes, 29/4/11 Food Connect Sydney is based on award-winning Food Connect Brisbane who have been trading for over six years. dense end-of-the-universe keyboard Food Connect Sydney’s Enterprise Coordinator was recently recognised as the Sydney Social Entrepreneur of the Year. sounds, and heavy bass. The occasional Tonight’s show was a rollicking trumpet solo from singer Eddie. Sign up at www.foodconnect.com.au affair and a great way to farewell Highly entertaining. another of Surry Hills’ music venues. Next up were Kim Salmon and The Excelsior has been bought by Leanne Cowie. Salmon is the lead Justin Hemmes’ Merivale Group and singer from influential ’80s grunge viewing and listening, Salmon for at least ten years now, hailing numbers like “I’m Spent”, “River” will soon no longer host live music, band The Scientists, and played a taking everything in his stride as he variously from Bowral, Penrith and and “Train”. Marden was in fine the band room being transformed into number of songs from the band’s played old songs with his trademark Ryde. This was to be their last show form (despite having a cold that led a Mexican restaurant. In many ways, repertoire, backed by Cowie on drums. blistering heavily-distorted guitar. for a while as they commence work him at one point to pull out a giant The Excelsior filled the gap left by the It was a strange set. Cowie seems a The tension created by the slightly on their third album, following handkerchief), as were the other closure of the much-loved Hotetoun little new to drumming, and while her off-the-mark drumbeats in some 2009’s very likeable Damn You, Ra. three, and they blessed us with a Hotel. It’s a small room with good sound was amazing, she seemed to songs actually helped the set. They sounded great, and there was precise, loud and good fun set. sound that will be sorely missed by get a little lost, and lose the beat, the Headlining tonight were Sydney’s never a dull moment as they played Very enjoyable show and a great Sydney’s musicians and punters. tempo or her way. It made for riveting The Holy Soul who’ve been around new, impressive songs as well as older rock’n’roll farewell to a good venue.

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although on this recording he plays stories wanting to be told, there for example). Tie them together The Reviews keys to great effect. Another guest is the strong feeling that all the with the unlikely coincidences is Peter Newman on electronics. rules of engagement are about to (such as two science fiction fans The Holy Soul are Kate Wilson be smashed. Van Hout starts with coming across an alien). That will Music Reviews Current Suppression Ring. The on drums, the aforementioned a creation myth and subsequent probably do for a plot but add the by Sarah Kelly A-side, “Marilyn Monroe” is a Worrad on bass, and Trent Marden themes of gender roles, violence, love interest for “depth”. Sprinkle mid-tempo, sweet-natured, almost and Jon Hunter on guitars. survival, sexuality, drinking, city generously with the slapstick and There is something very pleasing silly song about the actress: “Where According to Marden, The Holy dreaming and meaning-making cheap laughs (alien burping, alien about 7” vinyl singles. It’s a did she go?/ She got taken away.” It Soul did very little preparation are layered carefully over the top. farting, alien swearing, etc.) and tactile and visual experience boasts 60s guitar, call and response before the show. He says of the Briwyant refers to the Yolgnu word add the stereotypes (country and as well as a musical one. The vocals and a disheveled little guitar arrangement, “Damo doesn’t “bir’yun” meaning brilliance or western hillbillies, bumbling secret following three vinyl 7” singles are solo. The B-side, “Holiday in practice with bands ... we worked shimmer. It describes the effect of agents or American fundamental available at Repressed Records America” is a bit more up-tempo. out a vague strategy to fall back traditional Top End cross-hatching Christians, for example) as a in Newtown (365 King Street). Again reminiscent of The Stone on if things weren’t working out. painting technique, where fine lines foil for your mildly recognisable Roses, it’s an irreverent little track: Damo calls it ‘instant composition’”. produce a shimmering movement comedians (such as Pegg and “It’s about time I had a holiday There are two tracks on the over the surface of the work, a Frost). Throw the mix into some in America.” A very light-hearted CD, each of which runs for manifestation of ancestral forces. recognisable landscapes (deep-south feel. The sound quality of this approximately half an hour. “A Throughout, Van Hout’s blunt, USA, mid-west USA) and run for release is far superior to the other Stone of Fortune” begins quite urban humour shimmers through approximately 90 minutes or until two (which are quite trebly and tentatively with a sliding guitar Briwyant. From the word play in the jokes run thin. Serve repeatedly distorted) thanks to the lo-fi after Damo’s quaint introduction, the title (pronounced “brilliant”) on late-night free-to-air TV. recording specialist, Kynan Lawler, “Hello! Nice to meet you again”. to the comic genius of Ghenoa Rating: Four letter-words. a musician and engineer from Then comes the voice. He starts Gela speedily embodying a happy Adelaide. The stand-out track from with a strange growl that is quite drinker at the Erskineville Hotel, all three releases is the Boomgates disconcerting on first listen, but the frenetic mixed media and dance Film Review B-side “Cameo” but the best gradually wanders off into a more creates a picture of the Inner West by Robert Goodman sound belongs to Bitch Prefect. standard voice. The thing that is and asks the big question: Can Boomgates striking about this song is that you you find your dreaming here and Boomgates is a Melbourne can practically hear all the musicians does local knowledge amount to group featuring a member of Eddy listening to each other and being a song cycle? It’s a question that Current Suppression Ring. They set off by what each other play. The isn’t answered but which offers, seem a pretty happy-go-lucky initial shock of Damo’s voice gives with a generous heart, a new way of bunch, playing upbeat pop songs way and he falls into some great looking at our daily reference points. influenced by 60s garage-rock and melodies and gradually all the other Beautifully realised and conceived, pop. The A-side, “Bright Idea”, is players join in. The song morphs Van Hout’s classical training with your standard garage rock affair with and builds throughout the half hour. NAISDA and contemporary studies a nice melodic bass line and catchy It never gets particularly heavy, and with Martha Graham School of boy/girl vocals. The B-side, “Cameo” the live sound, by John Hall, and the Dance in New York are perfectly is more immediately catchy. It mixing, by John Hunter, are good blended in Briwyant. The short reminds me of The Stone Roses enough to be able to distinguish run belies the importance of this Source Code with its lovely melody, and a little all the different elements. work and you can only hope it Dead Man Has No 2nd Chance Director: Duncan Jones of The Fall with its spoken word The second track, “Strangers finds a place in the sun on the Damo Suzuki and The Holy Soul Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal moments. It’s a nice, whimsical idea: in Blue” is a more up-beat and festival circuit and tours widely. Repressed Records, 2010 Genre: The great paradox “I’m just a cameo in your dreams.” frenetic song, with the drums and bass getting quite heavy »»[email protected] In his first film, Moon, Duncan This album is the culmination and one of the guitars doing a Jones had two actors, one set, a of many years of sporadic long feedback line, occasionally tiny budget and some hokey special collaboration between stalwart splattered with shrieking keys. Film Review effects. In Source Code he gets four Sydney band The Holy Soul and It’s rare these days to hear a by Lindsay Cohen actors, a train full of extras, a few former lead singer from seminal recording as pure as this. Usually more sets and only a slightly bigger ’70s experimental kraut-rock band songs are recorded over days or effects budget. Why studios don’t Can, Damo Suzuki. Back in 2003, perhaps weeks, all instruments trust him with too much cash is a bass player from The Holy Soul, recorded separately and drenched mystery, but what budget he does Sam Worrad, contacted Suzuki, in various effects. This is a get he uses to great effect, though in offering the services of his band recording of seven people playing Source Code he is helped by the fact should Suzuki ever decide to travel together, listening to each other, he only needs to use one explosion to Australia. Despite the fact the and making stuff up. Great. over and over again. Source Code 3-toed Sloth Suzuki has over the years put is a science-fiction concept film, This double 7” single by Sydney together Damo Suzuki’s Network, »»[email protected] the concept being that it’s possible band 3-toed Sloth originally made up of musicians from all to relive the last eight minutes of appeared through German label over the world with whom he another person’s life, multiple times Unwucht in 1991. This is a performs, Worrad must have been Theatre Review if need be, through something called re-release. The artwork pushed quite surprised when the legend By Jane Barton quantum parabolics (don’t ask). Paul all the right buttons with its took up his offer. The first show Captain Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) Director: Greg Mottola photocopied black-and-white cover, they played together was the 2004 has to keep repeating the last eight Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost seemingly hand-made, folded to Big Day Out. What makes this minutes of another man’s life to try Genre: More fiction than science hold the two seven inches. Also collaboration interesting, and and work out who bombed the train slipped in there is a little coloured this recording a bit of a rarity in he was on. If he can do it in time postcard. Very satisfying to open Australia, is that the music they Recipe to send-up a genre he might stop the bomber setting up and explore. Musically, it’s play together is improvised. Suzuki Ingredients off something bigger in downtown pretty abrasive post-punk. The has been improvising since the The best-known scenes from Chicago. This could have ended up three-piece band consists of trebly ’60s, and is well known for his famous iconic films and TV shows; being like Groundhog Day on speed. guitar, loud bass and simple drums, unusual lyrics that are not in any Generous helpings of slapstick But Jones and Gyllenhaal, with the topped with a very broad Australian particular language (Suzuki calls and cheap laughs; Recognisable help of a tight script and some great accent: “Are you so far above/ Are it “instant language”) as well as landscapes; Comedians not so acting, make it work. In the end you so fucken wonderful, man?” his vocal stylings that range from popular that you can’t afford them; the concept isn’t important. What growls and shouts to very gentle Stereotypes; Unlikely coincidences. is important are the same concerns Briwyant meanderings. The Holy Soul is that underlay Moon. Fundamental Performance Space a more conventional rock band Optional questions of identity, ends Bay 20 Carriageworks inspired by the blues (their own Acting ability; Story arcs; versus means, pragmatism versus April 13-16 and the musical genre). They are a Believability; Large budget; compassion and why they don’t Concept, choreographer, formidable live band in their own Laughs; Love interest. make sci-fi like they used to. This is director: Vicki Van Hout right and this album with Suzuki is drama, romance, and over-the-edge a very interesting listen. The album Directions quantum paradoxes but Source Code Dead Man Has No 2nd Chance is The broad sweep of Briwyant’s Pick a film genre from your also leaves you with something a recording of a live show that technical, conceptual and artistic childhood that you always enjoyed to contemplate. Not what you’d took place at the Toff in Town in complexity is a revelation. From (such as science-fiction). Extract normally expect from a Hollywood Melbourne back in 2008. Suzuki the opening moments, when Van and refer to the best-known scenes film with an explosion in it. and The Holy Soul were joined Hout casually states that the noise from the most famous films and Bitch Prefect for this show by Dan Luscombe, you can hear – a kind of meaty TV shows of your genre (the tavern Rating: Four Four Four Four … Another Melbourne band the guitarist from much-loved thud as dancers hurl themselves scene from Star Wars, “Ouch” as said featuring a member from Eddy Australian band The Drones, against canvas – is the sound of by ET or anything in the X-Files »»[email protected] The Review May ’11 13

Master marksman SSH borrowing from past or future lives.” Hardy photographed this series “I am forever drawn to the downcast over a nine-year period, visiting the glance; it draws us in and holds us at annual tournaments of Yabusame – a an intimate distance.” luke hardy sacred form of Japanese martial arts and an equestrian form of kyudo Dragonfly is a ravishing series of (the Japanese art of archery). These autumn-toned images, inspired by photographs are strong as single Buddhist notions of incarnation images and a collective narrative. and reincarnation. The artist’s This impressive exhibition is the contemplation rests upon a singular artist’s second solo exhibition at figure: a handsome archer on Meyer Gallery, following the highly horseback in glorious feudal livery successful Yuki Onna (Woman of the and the dragonfly motif that guides Snow) series exhibited in 2009 his eye. The archer in these images is Luke Hardy lives in Surry Hills. a master marksman. Oblivious to the His images have been shortlisted camera and totally absorbed in his for the prestigious Blake Prize quest, as though born for one thing. and four times for Australia’s According to the artist, a dragonfly Head On portrait prize. symbolises power and poise; it represents living life in the moment; Dragonfly and is associated with maturity and Luke Hardy depth of character. Hardy sees the Opening Wed May 4, 6-8pm motif of the dragonfly as the key to May 5-22, 2011 the archer’s immersion in his art ... Meyer Gallery and makes it a touchstone for his own. 269 Bourke Street Darlinghurst Thur-Sat 11am-6pm “Dragonfly IX” Photo: Luke Hardy These dreamy images pair strength with simple beauty. They are Sun noon-4pm & by appointment mysterious, sensuous, evocative and Phone 9380 8014 exceptionally beautiful. Hardy says the [email protected] works “come out of a preoccupation www.meyergallery.com.au I have had with the way people, www.lukehardy.com particularly in the Buddhist world, This FREE exhibition is held in try to attain something of the divine conjunction with the 2011 Head On by invoking the bestial – on the face photo festival www.headon.com.au Life of it, a paradox … Perhaps they are Drawing The Orchard Gallery 56a Raglan St, Waterloo 1-3pm Saturday May 14 $5, all materials provided More info. ph. 0434 979 371

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Fr John Ford her in different ways. Personally, I have had the Marnie has surely been a great privilege of sharing some Uniting Churches person to whom we have all of her sufferings during the Tribute to John Smee looked up to for a whole host past months. To have been (December 17, 1941 – April 12, 2011) of reasons. Her spirituality in able to provide her with the directing those who sought her gift of the sacraments has Genovieve Glier dear friend and like a brother. wisdom of Spirit, her thirst for been very special for me. All through his life he justice, especially concerning To have anointed her and I attended the funeral of showed an incredible empathy our Indigenous sisters and ministered the Eucharist my brother-in-law and dearest and love, especially to those brothers but not exclusively, regularly has been a great friend, John Smee, last week. in need. My mother felt he her seeking of peace among source of inspiration; such I was impressed by the eulogy was like a son; he actively South Sydney Uniting Church people of all classes and was her peacefulness, her of his daughter, Rebecca. It was supported me and her through 56a Raglan St Waterloo in all circumstances and prayerfulness and her calm honouring, respectful, very real her recovery from five heart her great ability to relate to demeanour during those and moving. attacks (in which she clinically Worship (Eucharist) 10am Sunday everyone with gentleness difficult times of suffering. John was a very generous died each time). Then years Rev Andrew Collis 8399 3410 and humility. Marnie’s She also had a great and kind man, who had a later, after the death of my Welcoming people of all ages, greatest task, among others, sense of humour. On Ash passion for films, wonderful father, John again supported cultural backgrounds, since coming to Redfern in Wednesday, when she was food, music, science and the me in the care of my mother. sexual orientations and identities. 1987, was to be a bringer in the Hospice, I anointed bizarre humour of the Goons He was a loving and that cannot be filled. His life of peace and to support her for the last time, took her and Monty Python. supportive father himself was that of an intelligent, Peace with justice, integrity the Aboriginal community. communion, and when I went He meant a lot to me and and also the most loved and delightful eccentric with a of creation. She has surely been the to place the Ashes on her was in constant communication respected uncle of my children. wickedly inappropriate sense of Wisdom person of Redfern. forehead she simply said: “Oh, with me over many years; as a His passing leaves a hole humour and a big heart. Deborah, who lived about not the Ashes dearest!” – a Glebe Cafe Church 1150 BCE, is one of the great little too much to bear. She Crn St Johns Rd women of the Old Testament. loved a bit of news too. & Colbourne Ave, Glebe We read of her in only two She chose today’s readings. Worship Sun 7 for 7.15pm chapters, four and five, of the I believe it is true that what What is Book of Judges. She was the Paul tells the Ephesian people happening ‘Colbourne Ave’ Intimate only woman of the Hebrew she regarded as fact too. It food distribution network Candlelit Concerts Thu 8pm Bible who gained renown was through God that she was home delivery of low-cost fresh fruit & vegetables in Redfern- Steph Gesling 9518 9413 on her own merit and not EMPOWERED by the SPIRIT because of her relationship with Christ dwelling in her The Food Distribution Network is a not-for-profit organisation that Waterloo? to any man. 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The group is aimed such as SMART drug and alcohol recovery was her courage and wisdom her God that she might for men at men who are looking for support while and the Women’s Coming Out Group and will in calling up an army to break be with God where God coming to grips with issues such as coming be launching a social group later in the year. The Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service out, safer sex, relationships, homophobia, Telephone counselling and information is Wayside Chapel control of the Canaanites that might happen to be. (GLCS) of NSW is announcing a new service families and finding happiness. 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Eleventh hour for Souths

Adrian Spry We need to start a winning streak and we need to start now. Life is not all beer and skittles. A winning streak stretching all the There are times when you just have way to the final rounds. This is not to face up to the truth. And the truth beyond the Bunnies team and it is is … the Easter Bunny is not always still early enough in the season – Mr Nice Guy. Sometimes old Mr just – I mean, it’s the eleventh hour Bunny can be a real poo. … getting darker by the week … Freddie Fittler hit the nail on the Souths fans were hoping for lots head during the preamble to the of goodies from said Bunny this Souths-Wests Tigers game when he year, but instead it’s a bitter pill, said if the Tigers get up quickly off an unpalatable truth, a horrible their defensive line that will take realisation: the Bunnies might them a long way towards a victory. not make the eight this season. And that’s what the Bunnies need There, I’ve said it. I’ve said it and I to do – take a leaf out of the Tiger’s don’t care what anyone thinks. This book (that day) and get up off their season is down the gurgler! Sayonara line and be Tigerish in attitude. baby! Aufvidersein! Areva derci! The Mate, please! Johnny Sutton, arc Fat Lady is belting out a vocal loud up, fire up! You’re still the man! S and clear. It’s curtains! Unless … Unless, of course, a miracle! There’s Congratulations to Brenda Russell of always hope. A miracle always does Redfern, winner of our Easter Bunnies the trick … so please God, can we colour-in competition. A Souths John Sutton Photo: James Hooper (News Ltd) have one, a miracle, that is, please? supporter pack is on the way!

The Ravens meet each Saturday at 7am on the corner Déjà vu all over again of Botany Road and Raglan Street in Waterloo.

Michael Page But the euphoria of this comeback 13 minutes to go. With the game in New members (and beginners) welcome! was short-lived. Souths, seemingly their grasp Souths once again entered Phone Adrian on 9690 1427. Rex Mossop, the legendary overwhelmed by their revival, failed the “twilight zone”, and on the back sporting tautologist, would have been to anticipate a short kick-off and of some unforgiveable mistakes from proud to declare Souths’ season to within seconds Easts had extinguished Wesser and Talanoa St George piled on date as “déjà vu all over again”. any chance of a Souths victory. the points and like a champion Olympic The following week against the athlete sprinted away to win 16-0. It’s been a disheartening start to Bulldogs also featured a short-lived Souths coach Johnny Lang finally RAVENS the season. As we go to print the Souths comeback as Chris Sandow brought some accountability into Rabbitohs’ star-studded team has prematurely put Souths in front with the team dropping both Wesser and won just two of seven games. While 13 minutes to go only to see a superior Talanoa and giving the exciting 18 this is disappointing, the biggest Bulldogs team pile on 10 points in the year-old James Roberts his first taste letdown has been that things don’t last stanza of the game and win easily. of first grade against the Bulldogs. In RUNNING seem to have changed. The team’s A win next week against an a disappointing performance hooker propensity to switch off at crucial underperforming Eels was sweet Ennis and half Hodkinson exploited moments of the game is still there, as relief to Souths fans, highlighted by a the same holes in the middle of the are the customary defensive lapses. much-improved game from Greg Inglis. ruck as had appeared in previous GROUP And once again a number of The following week against Manly in games. Despite the customary games have been lost in the final 15 Gosford was an impressive display for short-lived rally from Souths the minutes, revealing a team unable the most part. Dylan Farrell’s hat trick Bulldogs won easily 36-24. to deliver when it matters most. led to a seemingly unbeatable 32-14 With seven games and only two Souths’ defense has leaked on score line with less than 10 minutes to wins, there is a consistent pattern of average 28 points per game, with go. Unfortunately, the headlines for the capitulation when it matters most as lapses at critical moments particularly game were all about an unbelievable well as gaping holes in the defense. in the middle of the ruck. collapse in the last 10 minutes in which The continued enigmatic approach of The other familiar pattern has been Manly piled on 16 points. Souths fans Sutton who seems unable to pass the Souths’ ability to play an incredibly who had travelled up a clogged highway ball to superstar centre Inglis, and the attractive ad-lib attacking style – but in Friday peak hour breathed a sigh of lacklustre form of Luke are of great only when the game is all but lost. relief when Manly’s conversion to level concern. Another major concern is The season began with the in the dying seconds drifted wide. a mounting injury toll, with what traditional clash with arch-rivals Easts Souths’ weakest performance of appears to be a major injury to Sam at the Sydney Football Stadium. the season followed, as a rampant Burgess, in addition to the loss of Souths fans, full of hope for the Benji Marshall toyed with the stalwarts Stuart, Geddes and Lowe. season, watched Easts romp over a defense and Farah found gaping In the immortal words of lacklustre Souths for 60 minutes to lead holes in the middle of the ruck Mossop, Souths fans will be hoping by 28-6. Just when all seemed lost they to give the Tigers a 30-6 win. the Rabbitohs stop “retreating witnessed an unlikely comeback. A The following week saw a backwards” and quickly begin spate of tries capped off by a 95-metre toughened-up performance against the “advancing forwards” and avoid Chris Sandow sprint saw the scores premiers, St George-Illawarra. In a gritty yet another unsatisfying season. draw level with seven minutes to go. game the score stood at 2-0 with just PS. Round 8: Souths 31 d. Cronulla 12 S

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