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Peace VOLUME ONE NUMBER FIFTY-SIX DEC/JAN’08 CIRCULATION 22,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN PADDINGTON REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOOfor ZETLAND christmas and the Thered Turnbull new year! sunBand Why I voted for cD GIVEaWaYs the Greens The Review PAGE 10 ElEction rEporTs pages 13-14 Housing Minister “No to Northern Territory intervention!” avoids questions SSH The NSW Housing Minister’s media adviser appears to have misinformed the SSH about a meeting between the Minister and property developers in Waterloo, amid residents’ concerns for the future of public housing in the area. On learning that Matt Brown, Minister for Housing, was to tour Waterloo with members of the Redfern Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, the SSH approached the Minister’s department for information. The Department denied plans for the meeting, only to then concede it would take place. A request for a photo of the Minister and his hosts was met with resistance. Arriving at Waterloo Green at a time confirmed by the RWCC, the SSH learned that, at the Minister’s behest, the meeting had taken place some two hours earlier. In a briefing paper leaked to the SSH the RWCC said it was concerned to “minimise the negative impact of the area” that has resulted from the Government’s location of a large number of “high needs people in Redfern Waterloo public housing”. The brief details a need to improve administration of estates in the area and for the RWCC to take an active role in redevelopment plans. Local residents are concerned the Government’s long-term plan to mix public and private housing will polarise the community and undermine public housing in the area Photo: Jack Carnegie despite Planning Minister Frank Sartor stating at a recent estimates committee Demonstrators took to the streets in Redfern address child neglect and abuse, and that adequate of Indigenous communities under the Land Rights meeting that “there is no intention at all to reduce the amount of public to protest the intervention into Aboriginal long-term support is needed to assist Indigenous Act in the Northern Territory to be upheld, including housing in Redfern-Waterloo”. The Housing Minister failed to communities in the Northern Territory. communities overcome deep-rooted problems such the permit system. They also called for an end to respond to questions issued by the Demonstrators believe that Aboriginal control as alcohol supply, overcrowding and inadequate income management of Centrelink benefits for SSH which asked the Minister to guarantee that no part of the estate of country is key to strong and healthy Aboriginal housing, the high cost of nutritious foods and Indigenous recipients, and the reinstatement of would be sold or leased to fund any culture and community, that consultation is access to quality education. CDEP to restore the capacity of Indigenous people redevelopment, and to explain why he had not yet met with public housing crucial for designing initiatives appropriate to In particular, demonstrators called for the rights to control their own lives. tenants to hear their concerns. See page 8 for more. from all at the 2 The South Sydney Herald – December 2007 / January 2008 pUBlIsHEr South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo News Telephone 0400 008 338 Phone/fax 02 9698 8949 The views expressed in this newspaper are those of the author and the article and are not necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. aDVErTIsInG [email protected] 0400 139 710 MaIlInG aDDrESS: Drug bust raises concerns PO Box 2360 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 lETTErs Please send letters and emails to: The South Sydney Herald. for health and safety Email: [email protected] Supply sender name and suburb. Size: 150 words or less. We may edit for legal or other reasons. Susannah Palk one and all. However, the fact that it is seen as Euston Road, Alexandria, was a risk-free drug, and is shown to be the scene of a police drug bust last popular amongst role models is of EDITorIal COMMITTEE month with the seizure of over concern to both health professionals 3,500 ecstasy tablets estimated to and police. have a street value of $105,000. “One of our greatest concerns, especially among young people, is A 26-year-old man was arrested that it is regarded as a relatively and charged with a supply of com- benign drug. People believe it is mercial quantities of speed and of an not so dangerous”, says Paul Dillon indictable quantity of ecstasy. from Drug and Alcohol Research and This comes at a time when ecstasy Training Australia. or MDMA has made its way back Taking too much ecstasy can result into media headlines. Along with in high blood pressure, breathing ManaginG Editor Andrew Collis a number of police operations to problems and even death. Because stem the supply of ecstasy in recent it acts as a dehydrator, mixing it months, the drug has been associ- with other drugs such as alcohol ated with a number of high-profile which is also a dehydrator, greatly sporting stars who have been caught increases risk. using it. Wendy Valois, spokesperson for Many perceive the drug to be the NSW Police agrees. “Taking illicit relatively harmless, due to its drugs can be extremely risky. We’ve “friendly” effects. The fact that very had two people from NSW and ACT few people become addicted to it and who have died thinking they have the low number of deaths associated taken MDMA when in fact PMA was co-EDITor Dorothy McRae-McMahon with it are other reasons the drug is detected in their system.” so popular. PMA or Para-methoxyamphetamine Known as the “love drug”, ecstasy is similar in effect to ecstasy, as it speeds up the nervous system and acts as a hallucinagent and a stimu- acts as a mood enhancer. Recent lant. However, it is far more potent research on rats at the University of and toxic. Sydney has shown that ecstasy causes One of the major concerns with Euston Road in Alexandria Photo: Angelique Watkins an increased supply of oxytocin in ecstasy is that, being illicit, it is the brain. This is the hormone that unregulated. Ingredients are hard to “PMA looks like MDMA but is in “All drugs, whether sold illegally or is used to help bond couples as well get and manufacturers of the drug fact more dangerous. When you buy prescribed have risks and all depend as mothers to their newborn babies. often use substitutes, mixing other illicit drugs you don’t know what on the person taking them,” says Paul co-EDITor Trevor Davies Hence those on the drug often feel an harmful additives with the already you’re getting and whose put what Dillon. “People have to be careful and overwhelming sense of love towards dangerous mix. in the pill,” said Wendy Valois. know the risks involved.” Free speech for those that can afford it Nicholas McCallum and a decision on their use deferred pHoToGrapHY Ali Blogg pending further investigation. Syd- By a vote of eight to two, Sydney ney’s few remaining independent City Council has added fuel to the newspapers, which have lobbied for fire of the Howard Government’s the news racks, have been dealt a cross-media laws by imposing a serious blow by the new regulations, profusion of charges and red tape making it harder for them to distribute upon the distribution of newspapers within the CBD. on our streets. The State Labor party Labor Councillor Tony Pooley, who was split on the decision to intro- voted in favour of the DA, is in favour duce the legislation. Only Labor’s of news racks, but did not share the Verity Firth and Deputy Lord Mayor view that the new legislation was an aDVErTIsInG & CONTEnT Chris Harris of the Greens opposed attack on free speech. Cr Pooley stated Ben Falkenmire the new measures for Distribution that there was no point in restricting Applications. the distribution of papers such as Mx while the proposal for news racks Councillor Harris has described the was explored. ASSIsTanT-EDITor legislation as an attack on free speech, Any newspaper distribution of Jessica Moore diversity and democracy, highlight- more than 40 days per year must sEnIor DEsIGnEr ing the breach in the principle of apply for a DA at a cost of $35 per Robert Young “freedom of political expression” site per day within the CBD and $18 established by the High Court. “I outside the CBD. Of course News Ltd prInTEr MPD think that it is outside [Sydney City will have no problem footing the bill 46-62 Maddox St, Alexandria 2015 Council’s] authority,” said Cr Harris, for its free newspaper Mx, but what stating: “This policy is objectionable hope is there for the few surviving rEGUlar CONTrIBUTors because it places unnecessary restric- independent rags like the City Hub Reem Al-Gharabally Ellice Mol Jessica Amos Susannah Palk tions on free speech and panders to and political publications like Green Caity Burridge John Stapleton the media giants. I will continue to Left Weekly? Anna Christie Claire Thompson campaign to overturn this policy.” The Council’s continued love affair Candice Chung Samantha Van While Sydney lays claim to being a with regulation does not extend to Ben Falkenmire Ben Walker norrie mAy-welby Peter Whitehead global city, its customarily progressive advertising and election handbills. Nicholas McCallum Scott Winter Lord Mayor, Clover Moore has taken a Charitable magazines like The Big step backward with regard to the new Issue are also exempt, but a battle “We gratefully acknowledge the many volunteer contributors and distributors Distribution Applications.

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