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VOLUME ONE NUMBER SIXTY-SEVEN DECEMBER ’08 CIRCULATION 22,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE GLEBE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND Leasing ATP – hERITAGE LOST?

Benjamin Ball and if the innovation activities which were initiated when it was a technology In its recent mini-budget, the NSW park will continue long-term under a more Government announced its plans to general business park model. privatise the Australian Technology Park Geoff Turnbull of REDWatch, and (ATP) – 13.9 hectares of industrial space Guido Gouverneur of Wrought Artworks within cooee of the city centre. (a blacksmithing business at ATP) are saddened to see examples of rare Like Sydney’s dams, the state coffers are Victorian-era steam technology left in deep need of liquidity, but in light of the out to rust in the grounds of the park. unprecedented public purchases of private “Other cities would surely treasure this debt around the world, it is perhaps time stuff,” says Mr Gouverneur. “It can still to question governments’ privatisation be restored.” reflexes. The global financial crisis is much “If this is how government is treating more than monetary. It is a crisis of values. protected heritage equipment under its The history of the ATP is a lesson in how control what will it do to stop a private society’s values have changed. operator scrapping the remaining ATP In the 1880s original thought and heritage equipment after privatisation?” knowledge were valued for their inherit Mr Turnbull asked. worth, and Eveleigh was an important Local Councillor, John McInerney, is centre of steam technology transfer. concerned that ATP will be sold without Universities established the ATP to promote defined development restrictions, putting innovation and excellence in the fields of the area’s heritage value at risk. Regardless science and technology. In more recent of whether ATP is sold to Sydney decades, since knowledge has often been University or to other private hands, forced to justify itself in economic terms, McInerney wants an agreed-upon master the site has become a publicly-owned plan for development. business park and, now, it will soon be a Sydney City Council has objected to privately-owned investment. the current draft plan on the grounds ATP will be a business park. There is that it makes a mockery of the heritage a valid question about what happens to buildings. The privatisation itself has not the University’s involvement on the site come into question. Geoff Turnbull and Guido Gouverneur with examples of Victorian-era steam technology at ATP Photo: Andrew Collis Café owners stung by new Council fees

Kate Lamb & Andrew Collis it would be good to have some support. could understand that, but it’s a new When the street fair was imminent, fee on top of the inspection costs.” Café and restaurant owners in suddenly the work in the street was Up the road at Tripod Cafe, James South Sydney are feeling disgruntled completed. Fifty additional workers Rebbeck is also feeling the crunch about the introduction of new food were employed. The rest of the time, of the steep increase. “It’s obviously administration fees by the City of it’s been so slow. The road has been money we do need. $240 is a lot Sydney Council. The Council has ripped up four times!” when you are paying lots of other announced an annual fee of $240 Owner of Café Ella on Abercrombie fees.” Although he admitted it would on top of the pre-existing $85 fee for Street, Darlington, Peter Borbilas, is not drastically affect his business, health inspections. fed up with the multitude of Council Rebbeck was quick to add that the charges. These include Council fee was “making it harder to make Martin Sheiban, owner-operator rates four times that of a residence, any money”. of Badde Manors, an historic café on compulsory insurance to cover potential A spokesperson from the City Glebe Point Road, has endured the footpath injuries and the privatisation of Sydney explained that the new inconvenience of recent road-works, of outdoor seating. The café currently charge was part of a NSW government and would like to know what the new pays a private company a monthly fee mandate. “Under amendments made by fee is actually for. “Ninety per cent of of $100 to have tables on the footpath. the State Government to the Food Act the time, the health inspectors say the The latest food administration charges 2003 (NSW) this year, all NSW local same thing. It’s very repetitive,” Mr are, for Mr Borbilas, another link in the councils can now charge an annual Martin Sheiban at Badde Manors in Glebe Photo: Andrew Collis Sheiban explains. “If we’re breaking chain of over-regulated and unjustified administration fee for inspections of the law, then fine us,” he says. Council costs. food premises.” it because they would probably make assured the City of Sydney takes health Of particular concern is the “It’s for nothing,” says Borbilas of The recommended fee of $240 has it sound like it was for your own inspections and cleanliness seriously confrontational nature of health the new costs. “It is an arbitrary fee been set under the Food Act 2003 and good,” said Mr Borbilas. The Council and has a comprehensive program inspections. “We contend with dirt and that came out of nowhere. If they just is charged at the time of inspection. responded to the criticism, suggesting to educate, inspect and enforce Food dust as a result of the road-works, and jacked up the health inspection fee, I “I would like to see the excuse for that, “People dining in Sydney can be Safety Standards.” 2 The South Sydney Herald – December 2008

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LETTERS It seems that xeveryone wants a Please send letters and emails to: The South Sydney Herald. piece of Chippendale at the moment Email: [email protected] and the historic suburb’s residents are Supply sender name and suburb. worried that Notre Dame University is Size: 150 words or less. We may edit for legal or other reasons. being greedy.

The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) was established EDITORIAL COMMITTEE in Western Australia in 1990, with campuses in Fremantle and Broome. It takes its name and mission statement from its United States founding partner (NDUS), one of the world’s great Catholic universities, and offers courses in the arts and science, teaching, business, law and medicine. The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, invited UNDA to set up a Managing Editor Campus in Sydney, and the Broadway site Andrew Collis was opened in 2006. The Darlinghurst Schools of Medicine and Nursing followed in 2008. The universities in both States receive significant public funding. On November 3, 2008, the City of Sydney Council approved a Development Site of proposed expasion Photo: Andrew Collis Application by UNDA to convert a warehouse at 1 Grafton Street into Street campus, will merge with other As a result of objections lodged to 450 in 2006. The webpage adds: “A additional lecture and student facilities, potential sites on Broadway to create Council by the residents, the DA has major capital development program is Co-Editor operating from 8am to 9pm Monday to an educational complex which will be been granted subject to conditions, one planned to take enrolment to 5,000 by Dorothy McRae-McMahon Saturday. The warehouse is located in too dense for the area. David Polkington of which is the preparation of a Master 2018, at the latest.” a back street immediately opposite and from the CCCG said: “We are opposed Plan by UNDA. This will allow the local The residents’ group supports Notre alongside a large residential area. to a slow incremental expansion which community to access the University’s Dame’s policy of adaptive reuse of The Combined Chippendale could gradually and subtly take over plans for future expansion. disused buildings, particularly the Community Groups (CCCG) fear this parts of the suburb to the detriment of The concerns about traffic congestion restoration of schools and churches new site, and the adjoining Buckland residents.” have been partly met with the proposed which are of cultural and historical loading zone in Grafton Street and there significance, but objects to a “creeping are to be discussions with the RTA about takeover of nearby properties. It would safety improvements to the Mountain have been preferable that the Master Plan Street crossing on Broadway. issue had been addressed before they Co-Editor Caritas – from public Trevor Davies A spokesperson from the University’s started [acquiring properties].” Community Relations Department said: Dr Meredith Burgmann, the ALP “The University actively discourages Councillor on the City Council, agrees. health centre to gated student parking in the neighbourhood “I asked the questions about ongoing and would welcome any initiative by expansion and traffic problems when the the Council to deter student parking, for application [DA] was in Committee but community example, half hour parking.” the reality is that the ‘Clover Party’ has Currently there is one hour restricted the overall majority. The Lord Mayor’s Jo Holder storeys; plus 1,085 square metres of parking in the area and major bus routes group votes as a block and, while I commercial floorspace. Development and Central Station are nearby. There is am sympathetic to the Chippendale Caritas has been a public mental on the scale that is proposed should also a condition requiring the provision residents, they have to convince the Lord Photography Ali Blogg health centre since the 1860s. This trigger all heritage alarm bells. of 26 bicycle spaces on the premises. Mayor of their case.” beautiful Crown Land site was The site and its legal and penal Nevertheless, even if students and staff The UNDA is holding a public meeting quietly privatised by Department of surrounds are one of Sydney’s great are only being dropped off and picked on December 2. Its media department Health using St Vincent’s hospital Colonial Civic Precincts. The precinct up, there will be an inevitable increase says: “The purpose of the evening to warehouse the transfer of Crown contains some of Sydney’s oldest in traffic flow in the already congested is to show residents the University’s Land in 2006. colonial buildings, notably the Gaol area. The DA states anticipated student immediate and long-term plans, explain and Courthouse precinct, Caritas House enrolment of 520 at Grafton Street but anticipated growth of student numbers, Simultaneously, St Vincent’s and and Caritas Cottage and their grounds, the Notre Dame website (www.nd.edu. the university’s parking policy and public Mater Health applied to the Minister parklands, views and vistas to and from au) gives the current combined Sydney transport subsidy policy.” for Planning for listing as a State these remarkable buildings, laid out Campus numbers as already at 1,700, Chippendale residents may think this significant site under Schedule 3 and designed by the Colonial Architect. having grown from an initial intake of is a case of “too little too late”. ADVERTISING Chris Fischer of State Environmental Planning Locals have long been warning Policy (Major Projects). Caritas was Council that heritage controls rezoned for mixed use, which allows in Darlinghurst are dangerously Minister for Planning and Council. a combination of commercial and inadequate. Caritas House and Caritas Council needs encouragement to Father Brian Stoney residential development. Public debate Cottage are on the State Heritage undertake a vigorous defense of this (Sept 7, 1939 – Nov 12, 2008) ASSISTANT-EDITOR on the transfer and open market sale Register and the site is listed on the heritage site. There needs to be an Our heartfelt love to friends in the Jessica Moore was limited to vigorous objections South Sydney Local Environmental increased set-back and for the restful Cana Communities at the passing of DESIGNER from resident action groups. Plan as a contributory item to East gardens designed for mental health Father Brian Stoney, whose life with Robert Young On the other hand, the local member, Sydney and Darlinghurst Conservation to remain in public use with full God and the “poorest of the poor” Clover Moore, and other opinion Area. However, stronger controls could access from Forbes Street. The RAG was celebrated at St Canice’s Church PRINTER in Elizabeth Bay on November 18. MPD makers strongly supported the sale. have ensured the entire site, including will encourage Council to argue for a 46-62 Maddox St, Alexandria 2015 They argued the sale and development its gardens, were of state heritage mixed community development that The Church was full to overflowing, was justified to consolidate drug significance and protected residents in builds social inclusion The Department and many shared stories of Brian’s REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS care and genuine respect, even “We gratefully acknowledge the many and alcohol services on the O’Brien Forbes, Bourke and Burton Streets by of Housing’s Ultimo project and volunteer contributors and distributors site on Burton Street. Many others declaring these heritage streetscapes. City West are good models. reverence, for all people. Mourners who make this publication possible.” noted, however, that Department Now the developers want an A portion of heritage housing stock remembered his faith and integrity, Reem Al-Gharabally Eve Gibson of Health’s model of co-locating amendment to put the site under should be transferred to Council, the his good humour, and support of a Benjamin Ball norrie mAy-welby mental health and drug and alcohol near total lock down. This is a gated RAG will argue, and a Community great many sporting teams (usually Jane Barton Nicholas McCallum services was a questionable model. community development with zero Housing Association and/or Co-op “underdogs”) throughout the world. Anna Christie Sarah Malik Caritas developers, St Hilliers mixed income and public housing Housing Organisation should manage Brian will be sorely missed, and his Lindsay Cohen Ellice Mol (trading as Forbes Street Darlinghurst in the proposal. Is an economic the site for low-income housing giving life will continue to inspire the good Lee Conley Susannah Palk Pty Limited), has permission to monoculture desirable in the inner city? priority to mental health housing. work of the Cana Communities. The Wendy Collis Andre Rangiah SSH gives thanks for his life and Linda Daniele Vanessa Watson excavate for new basement car Most planners think this is an utterly At the very least, this would Phillip Fernandez Scott Winter parking for up to 142 vehicles, to inappropriate and regressive model. recognise and respect the witness. We are blessed to have build up to 112 residential units The Residents’ Action Group (RAG) importance of Caritas to the lives known him as a friend. in new buildings of five to seven will make representations to the of so many Sydney residents. The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 3 News

colours of red, white and blue. Every most earnestly: “I love it! It’s going commercial break would bring a great to say something to the rest of the rush to the toilet. Australian election world when we elect a black man parties culminate around a barbecue with a Muslim name,” he said, with a and a few beers. This party, however, large and sincere smile on his face. was characteristically American. “Everyone gives America shit for Being born in the US, I jumped at the being partisan and always going with a opportunity to vote for the Democratic middle-aged white guy, but I think this candidate, Barack Hussein Obama, up time there’s going to be a change.” against the Republican “maverick,” Like the atmosphere that John McCain. Having faxed my absentee disseminated throughout Manning Bar, ballot to the state of California only Hussein was filled with the message days before, I was in with the special of positivity and hope that was so few who had actually voted, though electrifying for the Obama campaign, everyone was emotionally unanimous and we were all dreaming that it would as we anticipated the results. We all materialise in his Administration. hoped, as far as I could tell, that “I think [Obama’s] Administration Obama, the African-American senator would be more open, and foreign from Illinois, would be the victor. relations are going to improve,” Hussein A brief conversation with a woman in said. “I think America’s changed, a yellow t-shirt with a succinct message and we’ve set a new course.” brandished across it, told me how an I certainly shared Hussein’s optimistic Obama Presidency offers hope and appraisal, as one CNN commentator change to America’s political system, put forward a hypothetical of the but she highlighted the possibility impossibility of McCain victory, of an abrupt end that has plagued and they hadn’t even started on so many reformists before him. California. The Manning Bar went “I think his biggest challenge hysterical with cheers as the election will be to stay alive,” she said. Our was called for Obama. At this feelings of hope in Obama, however, moment my vote didn’t even count, overwhelmed any macabre notions. though I was overcome with joy. I continued to make my way around Unfortunately, in the midst of that Shout Obamalama! the bar, taking stock of the differing joy there was one not-so-merry thought Scene of celebration at the Manning Bar Photo: Courtesy of American Studies Centre views on why Obama was the best that brought my party back to earth. choice to lead the US, and the world. The comment from the lady in the Nicholas McCallum I had the pleasure of attending an the event, broadcasting live video to It was then that I met Hussein, an yellow tee swelled in my mind for a Election Party at Sydney University’s CNN Election Head Quarters in the American exchange student who moment, but it was swiftly quelled On Tuesday, November 4, 2008, Manning Bar along with 1,500 students, United States, but it was the size of the shared more than a common name by the monumental feelings for the America voted for its 44th President. journalists and politically-savvy crowd that really made me wonder. with the soon-to-be President-elect, for prospect of change in the world, On Wednesday, November 5, people as we awaited the results of The event could best be described he was also a homeboy from Illinois. spurred by the one thing that united 2008, Australia, and the world, who would be crowned “leader of as an intellectual’s Grand Final: a room When I asked him about how he felt the US, the world and Manning Bar: celebrated in a festive spirit. the free world”. The University’s new of joyous people downing myriad about the possibility of an America the hope we had placed in a great man, American Studies Centre was hosting alcoholic beverages wearing the team electing a black President he told me President-elect Barack Hussein Obama.

Amens and high fives Politics and religion in the US

Clive Pearson town which is home to one of the best- endowed universities in the world, and Here in the States people are more which likes to collect Nobel Prizewinners. religious – at least in a more obvious Sunday 10am. The service begins. way than back in Sydney. It can matter Reference to Obama’s win. Amens mix in which church you go to. George W. Bush with a chorus of hand-claps, high fives reckons Jesus is his favourite philosopher and whoops of delight. This election has (why someone never asked him how been different. For the few days leading his foreign policy and his obsession up to the election there had been a rising with an axis of evil stand in relation sense of anticipation. For the Black African to this “philosopher’s” teaching is a Americans the story is captured in the tears Hospitality student, Alan, with Kevin Rudd, Barbara Ryan, Tanya Plibersek and Eric Ellem Photo: Andrew Collis matter which eludes me!). Sarah Palin of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the story is leaving whether or not she stands of a 106-year-old woman from Atlanta for the top job in 2012 in God’s hands. born a generation after slavery. They have Hillary Rodham Clinton could have longed for this day – the day when an PM launches new Vinnies service been a preacher, they say. She is very African American can become President. familiar with biblical teachings to do Maybe Colin Powell puts things into SSH Project Manager, Ozanam become more excluded if with social justice in a way that would perspective. Some people have been playing Learning Centre, the Prime they do not have access to embarrass politicians and others of around with Obama’s name. His middle On November 6, Prime Minister posed for photographs opportunities to learn.” the religious right back in Australia. name is Hussein. It sounds ominous when Minister Kevin Rudd opened with one of the Society’s clients Recently released Census emphasised and said loudly on the campaign the Sydney Ozanam Learning in the facility’s new kitchen. data from the ABS shows And then there is President-elect trail and where there is suspicion that he Centre in Forbes Street, Alan, a formerly homeless that the number of homeless Barack Obama. Have you noticed? might be a Muslim. Powell wonders what’s Woolloomooloo, a facility that client who is currently Australians has increased. He laces his oratory with biblical the problem. Are people wanting to say will provide new opportunities undertaking a Certificate in Every night there are now allusions that would not escape the to a seven-year-old Muslim boy and girl for homeless people. Hospitality showed the PM 105,000 people in Australia are attention of an American constituency. that they cannot be President of the US? some of the tricks of the homeless. This is an increase of And so on the first Sunday after the This is a different America from the The St Vincent de Paul trade in the state-of-the-art 5,000 from Census night 2001. election I headed off to the Black African one we have become used to under Society facility will enable kitchen that will be used The Rudd Government American church in Princeton. Of course Bush. The day before the election I was homeless people, and people for regular cooking classes has declared reducing the music is great – you would expect that in Chicago staying opposite Grant Park at risk of homelessness, to and hospitality courses. homelessness a major priority. in a church which has connections with where Obama’s victory rally was held. participate in educational and The opening of Ozanam The Government’s first White the great spiritual singer from yesteryear, Those getting their tickets on-line in recreational activities. The marks a significant new Paper will set an agenda for Paul Robeson. And its politics are to the advance were a mix of ages, ethnicities, largest facility of its kind in direction for the Society’s reducing homelessness over the left – which is not too surprising given faiths. I was surprised at myself. In the Australia, the Centre will utilise Matthew Talbot Homeless next decade. The White Paper the fact that one of its first ministers, a unusual warmth of a November day in learning programs to empower Services. “The time for will include a national action Scotsman, a bit of a firebrand, was the Chicago (it’s snowing now!) I found myself and equip homeless persons providing just a hot meal and a plan to reduce homelessness. only clergyman to sign the Declaration proud of America and able to see past the to successfully navigate the bed is well and truly over. We “We have had consultations of Independence way back in 1776. usual constraints and question marks. challenging transition back to need to tackle the underlying on the White Paper and we To get there I needed to go through sustainable independent living. causes of homelessness,” are discussing the White Paper that part of Princeton that, these days, is The Rev. Dr Clive Pearson is the Principal Following the official tour Ms Plibersek said. with the States and Territories,” the home of the Hispanics. Before them of United Theological College in Sydney, of the new facility with Tanya “Education is critical for Ms Plibersek said. “The White it was Black African Americans. This presently studying in America. Plibersek MP, Minister for people to begin participating Paper is a once in a generation church is not in the wealthiest part of a Housing; Barbara Ryan, State again – in their community opportunity to drastically President of the St Vincent de and in the economy. People reduce the unacceptable rates Paul Society; and Eric Ellem, who are homeless will only of homelessness in Australia.” 4 The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 News

HOUSING IN NEW SOUTH WALES Housing affordability and the First Home Saver Account

John August

Housing affordability is diminishing by many measures – it’s not just a perception, or those rose-coloured glasses we tend to develop about the past. One important measure is the “deposit gap”, the difference between average house prices and the amount people are able to borrow, which is now at a record high.

To help more people enter the property HNSW volunteers Diana Whitworth, Dianne Rogers and Ross Smith Photo: Ali Blogg merry-go-round, the Commonwealth Government has regulated for First Home Saver Accounts to be administered by the Questions to the Minister different banks. While all coming under government regulations, these accounts do vary – Choice magazine made a SSH Housing NSW’s Redfern redevelopment comparison between them. site, the answer was that responses to The idea is that, if you are saving The NSW Minister for Housing, David a select tender call were currently being for a deposit, you get taxed less and Nick McCallum Photo: Ali Blogg Borger, recently granted the SSH an assessed with a projected construction the Government tops up your savings. interview. This followed on from recent work commencement in early 2009. Your “effective” interest rate is much point in time, I’m lucky if there is enough overall prices would have gone up and SSH articles seeking accountability from Accordingly, the name of the contractor higher, so ideally you’ll get the necessary money to cover my existing overheads. things would have been a little easier Housing NSW around the manner in is not known. deposit sooner. If the government wants to contribute a for those with a First Home Buyer’s which it administers its properties. The Elizabeth Street site properties, Nicholas McCallum, a student at few dollars into my account at the end of Grant but a little more difficult for those currently vacant and boarded up, will be Sydney University, recently told the SSH: the fortnightly pay cycle they are more without. It could well be that giving The Minister said that the new put on the open market when DA approval “At this point in time, I feel as though than welcome.” more people the opportunity to save for maintenance contract system started on has been granted by City of Sydney I’m completely priced out of the property You could ask why it’s become so a deposit will have the same negative October 27, 2008, and the new contractor Council. There is no fixed date for this. market. The average price of a house in difficult to get onto it in the first place, effect – and act to push the “deposit is Spotless P&F Pty Ltd. There was no In regards to when will Housing Sydney would mean that I’d be paying rather than just trying to get more people gap” that bit higher. mention of why Rapid Constructions, NSW formally give recognition of the a mortgage for the rest of my life - and onto the property merry-go-round. Ideally, the increasing price of housing the tender winner according to Housing fact that Housing NSW tenants do that doesn’t make sense. The First Home Playing around at the margins can have should prompt investment of a type that NSW’s website, is not the contract holder. perform volunteer work that benefits Saver Account is a step in the right a pernicious effect. Many people are acts to bring those prices down, or at The property condition audit is 65 per cent Housing NSW, the Minister responded: direction. It means that people my age cynical about the First Home Buyer’s least stop them from rocketing further completed. There was no mention of the “The General Manager of the Central are better placed financially when they Grant. Didn’t it just increase the price skywards, but that does not seem to outcome of the previous audit process Sydney division is a senior executive of do decide to take the plunge, but at this of housing by the same amount? Maybe be happening. initiated approximately two years ago. Housing NSW. Recognition from her for The Minister’s response with respect volunteer’s efforts is recognition from to the checking of work carried out was Housing NSW.” that the contractor is responsible for On the issue of staffing levels it was checking the standard of work carried pointed out that on April 16, 2008, there Wayside speaks out on public housing policy out by its staff prior to submitting a claim were 27 Client Service Officers positions for payment to Housing NSW. In the case in zones CS1, CS2 and CS3 filled by SSH “And then to top it off, if that person With public housing making up of vacant properties and major planned temporary staff, and 3 vacant positions. finds their feet and begins earning money only five per cent of the residential maintenance programmed work Housing The question put was: “Are these figures Thursday November 20 saw the again, they could get evicted.” market, compared with countries like NSW technical staff may, in some cases, still current (and if not, what are the Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross host a Vivienne also pointed out how the the Netherlands where it is a staggering conduct joint inspections on completion current figures) and how many CSOs public lecture on the condition of public stigma attached to public housing was 35 per cent of the market, and housing of the work. For other categories of in total are there for these areas?” The housing in New South Wales. Vivienne creating problems in terms of social affordability being at record lows, it is work there may be random or planned answer was: “There are 99 CSO positions Milligan from the University of NSW, cohesion, acknowledging that change will obvious that change is needed. Many inspections at Housing NSW’s discretion. in these areas. The amount of temporary and Dick Nichols from the Socialist need to happen in people’s attitudes, as housing policy experts agree that There is provision for annual audits of staff fluctuates on a regular basis. There Alliance, both presented passionate well as policy, before long lasting positive equipping non-government organisations the individual contractor’s systems and are six positions vacant, all are undergoing and compelling arguments for the need outcomes can be achieved for public to be able to take on a larger role in public processes for quality control. recruitment now.” That the percentage of for a radical re-examination of public housing in Australia. housing not only takes the pressure off There was no information supplied temporary staff is so high raises concerns housing policy. Dick Nichols agreed with the argument government spending in the long run, concerning the lowering of the hourly rate as to the ability to deliver a consistently that public housing was desperately but allows for a range of new options to paid to the subcontractors who actually high standard of service to the tenant base Vivienne was quick to point out the under-funded in NSW, and that you only be considered. perform the work. The rates are well and to administer the government asset in failings of past governments to fully deal need look at the Community Housing Both speakers were clear that public below prevailing industry standards. If a fit and proper manner. with the shortcomings of the current initiatives in Victoria to get an idea of momentum will be essential for these you, as a member of the public, expected The SSH appreciated the Minister’s housing allocation system, with recent what is possible. He also gave examples proposed changes to get the attention they a plumber to work at the same hourly rate granting of an interview and his figures showing that the waiting list for of housing projects in places like San deserve, and become national issues. as the contract provides for, you would be willingness to take questions on notice. affordable housing had hit 70,000. “In Francisco and Spain, where affordable, yet well advised to learn how to do the work We will continue to monitor Housing the current situation, people need to be well designed, housing projects were being Next Month at the Wayside Chapel: yourself. A similar situation exists in the NSW’s performance, and hopefully considered absolutely desperate before implemented. “In these buildings you can December 4 – Urban Neighbours of Hope: other trades. will soon be able to report on more they are even considered for access to have both people on low incomes and Jon Owen will discuss why he sees the When asked about the progress on positive outcomes. public housing.” medium incomes sharing the space.” need for a radical response to poverty. The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 5 News

HAVE YOU HEARD? Tenants left in the dark THE FAST NEWS WITH TREVOR DAVIES Vanessa Watson fire escape stairwell were also largely “inadequate for the purposes they were missing, presenting a further hazard installed for”. Kings Cross cleric calls for Hicks control order to In the light of Housing NSW’s to tenants when required to exit Newly appointed housing minister, be lifted recent commitment to address the the building quickly in the case of David Borger, told the SSH that the maintenance backlog for public emergency. new maintenance program will address Rev. Graham Long from Wayside Chapel in the Cross writes in his weekly email housing properties in NSW, the Public housing tenant and activist, all outstanding maintenance issues newsletter to Chapel supporters: “I am David Hicks’ pastor. David’s control SSH conducted its own inspection Ross Smith, described the overall across every property in NSW within order is coming up for review in just a few weeks. The mere mention of his of Waterloo’s Solander building to condition of the building as “disgusting”, five to seven years and that money for determine the current condition of the and said the numerous maintenance achieving this task has already been name strikes fear and hatred in the hearts of many but that is because he has public housing estate. problems together constitute a security set aside. been relentlessly demonised in our press. Because I know him to be a decent issue that affects the overall morale of “We’re implementing probably one of human being, it has shown me how easy it is to manipulate the public by fear Areas identified in need of repair the community. the biggest reforms in housing certainly which is what our media and some politicians have been doing for some time. include interior and external lighting, “It’s run-down and showing signs in the last decade. We’re trying to really several broken doors and windows, fire of long-term neglect. The state of this resolve the maintenance backlog in My dear brothers and sisters in the inner circle, we have done a great wrong to escape stairs, landscaping, common area building also indicates a lack of concern housing, to get works programmed and a man who never got a trial, who never had access to whatever evidence was carpets and graffiti-covered walls. for the welfare and safety of the tenants,” done much quicker than they have in being used against him, who suffered torture and imprisonment without charge On November 14, interior lighting he said. “I saw signs that components the past,” he said. for six years and now there is an industry that has grown up in this country on each floor of the 16-storey building of the fire safety regime for the whole Though there is hope that buildings with a vested interest in believing that David is a danger. David is no danger was not functioning, leaving most of building were defective.” such as Solander will eventually benefit the building in darkness. On Level 16, Mr Smith claims that multiple under the new maintenance system, to anyone. He would like to get married but does not want to have security a non-functioning fire alarm was located security lights in surrounding outdoor many repairs may not be completed agents with him on his honeymoon. He would like to be able to visit friends; and photographed, along with a broken areas have also been broken for years, for another seven years, leaving he would like to stay up late or even overnight somewhere; he would like to be window that presented a risk of falling contributing to many residents’ fears some tenants claiming the plan is able to talk on a telephone without the threat of instant additional gaol time. shards of glass into the car park below. for their personal safety after dark, and merely buying more time for inaction Non-slip metal stair edges in the that the building’s security doors are in Waterloo. He is not a bitter person but just an ordinary bloke who wants to put the past behind him and get on with life. I hope all those Australians who believe in a fair go will give this man a break. I hope there are some journalists somewhere who are game enough to concede that David got a bad deal and that we all sat silent while the foundational and most important conditions for our system of justice were ignored and offended against. I desperately want to believe that a country that grew to greatness from a British prison, will be fair enough and great enough to stop hounding this man and let him get on with life.” The good news is that it seems that the Australian Federal Police agree with Graham and the control order will be lifted!

Do we need an International Year of the Disabled 2010? Some Fast News readers may be old enough to remember the International Year of the Disabled, way back in 1981. I can remember it as a time when the issue of access was on the agenda. Governments around the world made promises to rectify the problem. Sadly, you could be forgiven if you thought not enough has happened. The SSH has covered the issue of lack of access at Redfern and Erskineville Stations. We published a very sad picture of a an 18-year-old man climbing up the stairs at Erko Station, dragging his wheelchair behind him. That was about three years ago and nothing has happened at either Redfern or Erskineville. What a shame. Access costs money and after that mini-budget there’s not much money for access at railway stations. One East Sydney resident stated in an email seen by Fast News that “there is no handicapped access from East Sydney up to Oxford Street at Oxford Square. The $100,000+ stair upgrade was done last year and more stairs were put in front of what was then a medical centre, but is now empty. One would have thought a ramp would have been appropriate. The other side has a tree with protruding roots and two bollards, presumably to stop cars that could never fit there anyway.” Perhaps we do need another International Year of the Disabled in 2010.

Ray Minniecon and Damien Minton Photo: Supplied Something about homeless people that makes some people feel uncomfortable Coloured Digger Project thanks The Central Courier reported last month that residents of the St Margaret’s Village apartments, opposite Edward Eagar Lodge, are considering hiring extra security guards because of antisocial behaviour caused by alcohol. Locals, Damien Minton Gallery the Courier says, have complained about the large number of homeless people hanging around outside the Lodge. They blame the homeless for SSH “The Redfern ANZAC Day events The Redfern ANZAC Day march has disturbances rather than the crowds of people who flock to the late-night allow the local community to properly also prompted calls by NSW Aboriginal premises which serve alcohol on Oxford Street. Homeless people are easier On November 12, the Damien honour, recognise and pay respect to and Torres Strait Islander Diggers and Minton Gallery in Redfern presented the service and sacrifice of Aboriginal their families for a commemorative to blame. The Manager of Edward Eager Lodge, David Polkington, told the a cheque for $4,000 to the Coloured and Torres Strait Islander Diggers,” said sculpture or memorial recognising their Central Courier: “If anything goes wrong in the area the homeless always get Digger Project Steering Committee. Redfern ANZAC Day march Coordinator, service and sacrifice. A sculpture design the blame.” It was only a few years ago in Surry Hills that residents adjacent Pastor Ray Minniecon. prepared by renowned bronze sculptor to a small park complained about homeless men and some women sitting and “It is an honour and privilege to bring “The coming together of Aboriginal, Antony Symons and supported by the great contemporary Australian artists Torres Strait Islander and non-indigenous Steering Committee can be viewed at the drinking and talking to each other. Occasionally they would urinate in public, together with the local community as people through the Redfern ANZAC Day Redfern Community Centre. as there were no public toilets. The then South Sydney Council tried to put in a part of the Coloured Digger Project march, service and other events is an Ray Minniecon is seeking the public toilet but residents objected. People can be heartless! and to make this contribution to future affirmation of community, family and community’s advice on both the sculpture ANZAC Day events in Redfern,” Damien mateship. It is not a celebration of war proposal and whether the Redfern march Minton said. and violence. should continue to be held on ANZAC In this, the final Fast News for 2008 (what a year!), I wanna wish you all peace The Damien Minton Gallery raised “We are enormously grateful to the Day or whether it should be moved to and happiness for the holidays and 2009. Also, I hope Australia/Survival Day the $4,000 donation from its own Damien Minton Gallery for this generous another day to avoid conflict with the is a meaningful day for you. If, like me, you find some of the flag waving commission on sales of work by the 42 contribution. main Sydney ANZAC Day events. artists who exhibited in the Coloured “The Redfern ANZAC Day march The Coloured Digger Project takes and other jingoistic stuff a bit much, why not join the SSH team aboard the Digger II exhibition held at the gallery Steering Committee relies on donations its name from a WWII poem, ‘The Deerubbun with the good people of the Tribal Warrior. Join us for an authentic from April 23 to May 10 this year as and in-kind support every year. It is Coloured Digger’, written about an Aboriginal cultural cruise on Sydney Harbour. See page 15 for details. part of the Redfern ANZAC Day program always a big struggle to find funding,” Aboriginal soldier by one of his non- of events. Pastor Ray Minniecon said. indigenous comrades. 6 The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 News DA no longer by the wayside

Nicholas McCallum for the innovative plan that will utilise solar energy and rainwater. On October 20 a Sydney City Council “It’ll be a most note-worthy building,” Special Committee approved the Wayside the pastor says. “To rebuild an old building Chapel’s long-awaited Development that’s ‘green’ is a bit of an achievement, Application to redevelop the current especially one as old as the Wayside,” he tired and overwhelmed site on Hughes adds. “I think just after Noah landed the Street in Kings Cross. In total, the ark [the Wayside] got built,” he says, before redevelopment is expected to exceed $7 re-assessing its age to shortly after Captain million, though the Chapel hasn’t yet Cook’s landing. reached that amount. The plan is to redevelop the existing four-storey building, which was an The Chapel’s Pastor, Reverend Graham apartment block in a former life and now Long, conveys a positive outlook on the serves as the Chapel’s main office, whilst Wayside’s future and its funding, even demolishing the adjacent two-storey Lyn Tomlinson, who coordinates the Multicultural Bus Trips, thanks local businesses, the IGA, the Waterloo Butcher and the Waterloo Bakery for providing after some of the Wayside’s biggest buildings that are currently hosting Wayside free food for the passengers. She is pictured presenting a certificate of appreciation to Brenda and Tim of tahe Waterloo Bakery. Photo: Ali Blogg supporters have gone “belly-up”. Replete Youth and an op-shop. Behind the Chapel with a subtle sense of humour, Mr Long is the precariously designed Little Theatre, has taken a realistic approach to funding which has become not much more than Community aid, thanks to volunteers the development when compared to the derelict shells, not even usable for storage. previous astors, some of whom, he jokes, Originally built in 1965, the theatre has Tara Clifford by Wesley Uniting Employment. He also adds that, while volunteers may were essentially waiting for funds to fall been condemned, due to a leaking asbestos Jhan Leach, Manager of the be initially unsure about the program, from the sky. roof, and its interestingly constructed stalls Contributing skills, giving assistance Community Aid centre, says: “It is a this appears to change after they start to The Campaign Committee, or the ‘Go that leaves Mr Long wondering about how and sharing experiences among diversity reciprocal relationship. They get to help experience the benefits. Get the Money Committee’ as Mr Long Sydney’s building codes have changed over are what makes a neighbourhood a disadvantaged people and get help Mark Mosby, 28, and Aunofo Tupou, has nicknamed it, refuses to yield in its the last four decades. community. themselves in the program.” While 36, are two volunteers who proudly efforts to raise funds for the development, It’s a long and strenuous road ahead, volunteers did work for the centre, accepted their certificates at the centre. By even in the current economic climate. but there will be a soft start to construction South Sydney Community Aid is a participating in hospitality, cleaning and participating in the program they had free He recognises that the committee would with an amenities block being built so multicultural neighbourhood centre that administration, they were also able to computer access to look for work, and Mr be one of the best in Sydney, with such the city’s homeless are able to shower provides free services to individuals who participate in classes and programs offered Mosby has just been notified of an offer prominent individuals as Lucy Turnbull on and clean. are culturally and linguistically diverse by the centre. to work in the mines in Queensland. “It board. He also expresses his gratitude for “If we can just do that one chunk, in my such as advice, facilities and classes that According to Mick Kurwin, the Team is actually good, it helps to put on your the architect of the plan, who, after nearly view, that is a significant achievement,” range from learning to speak English to Leader for the Work for the Dole Program, resume to gain employment and interact 10 years service, is yet to issue one invoice Mr Long says. knitting. it is a policy of mutual obligation where with non-English speaking people,” says Last month this community was the volunteers give something and get Mr Mosby. celebrated as members of the weekly something back.” Not only are the The variety of people who go to the speak English.” It’s just like a happy hour, is also seen in their cooking teacher, Monday cooking class hosted a thank-you volunteers helping the community but centre is reflected by husband and wife, we can make friends here and can also Ahbah Oh, better known as Baba, who morning tea for the volunteers of the Work they are also learning skills and getting Memphis and Agnes Sun, who are the only learn foreign cooking,” says Mrs Sun. speaks seven languages. “It doesn’t matter for the Dole Program, which is sponsored social contact,” says Mr Kurwin. members of the cooking class that can This feeling of embracing other cultures where you are from,” says Mr Oh. 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“One placard in a picket line of urban Indigenous activism”

Ka t e La m b our people suffered as a result of colonisation. I want to expose how Redfern artist, Adam Hill, has blind white material society can be in been creating storms of controversy terms of understanding our history.” in his latest exhibition held in The exhibition showcases Melbourne. Entitled, This is Why Hill’s signature bold urban style. We Don’t Stand for the National His subversive use of Australian Anthem, the show features a icons, songlines and signature provocative image of an Aboriginal flat-lined clouds, he says, serve as boy kneeling before a white metaphors for injustices traversing priest with cruciform phallus. religion, sport and mainstream society. The clouds, for example, The image, entitled, ‘Altered that feature in all his paintings, Boys’, draws attention to the issue represent the “Westminster system of Indigenous sexual abuse by and religion that cast an ominous representatives of the church. Hill shadow on the landscape.” denies he intended to attack any From his studio in Redfern, particular religious denomination in Adam is busy working on his latest the painting. For him the artwork canvas. His art, he humbly admits, is symbolic of a broader criticism is “just one placard in a picket line of Aboriginal dispossession, white of urban Indigenous activism”. ignorance and xenophobia. “The least I can do,” he says, The exhibition held at Arc One “is push the harsh message onto Gallery in Melbourne, was opened a canvas and get it out there.” Adam Hill in his Redfern studio Photo: Alex Mackenzie by Julian Burnside QC, and Uncle Larry Walsh, a Taunarong Elder. The work, ‘Altered Boys’, is not shown here due According to Hill, Arc One Gallery surrounding the image was standard alterations in viewpoints occur. The and inequality. For the artist, the to its depiction of sexual abuse. In agreement was initially reluctant to hang procedure and helped strengthen truth is confronting,” said Amore. corporeal shock experienced by with Arc One Gallery which notifies viewers the ‘Altered Boys’ piece due to its the gallery’s understanding of Hill’s Hill’s paintings are deliberately people viewing his work offers only a of “adult” content, the SSH, while regarding controversial depiction of sexual relationship to the challenging confrontational. His art pushes to glimpse of Aboriginal injustice. Hill this work of artistic and social significance/ abuse. Melissa Amore, manager of subject matter. “These stories the fore uncomfortable truths about explains: “I’m trying to give people importance, regards it inappropriate for general Arc One Gallery, said the dialogue need to be told and retold, until Indigenous issues of social justice a taste of the shock and horror that viewing (especially in the case of children). “We’re all a little mad …” Celebration of talent and struggle

Sa r a h Ma l i k and fun healing forces. “I think we’re all a little mad and it’s great The Factory theatre in Enmore to celebrate creativity, community, was buzzing with creativity on the film and art,” says Valencia. night of November 3, as poets, Valencia believes it’s important musicians, actors and dancers not to stereotype sufferers of mental came together for the Mad Pride health issues, as many people talent quest held by South Sydney experienced some form of mental Youth Services. The event was stress in their lives. “We think of aimed at showcasing the talents mental health as a continuum and of young people experiencing all of us somewhere in the middle. mental health and substance use People come to us and they don’t issues, as well as allowing for a have to be having a psychotic celebration of their struggles. episode. They need an understanding of their stresses they’re going through A wild bacchanalian fest of poetry, … Our role is to support people rap, hip-hop and dance followed as within that spectrum,” he says. eight highly talented contestants For Josh Cringle, a 20-year-old battled for audience votes. Miss who has lived on the streets, suffered Forever Tupou won the event substance abuse and been in and out with her modern dance routine. of prison, the journey has been a long Phillipa Mayes was runner-up one. “I went to rehab in 2006. They for her mesmerisng rendition of [South Sydney Youth Services] are Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’. helping me with courses at school, Sixteen-year-old Christopher TAFE, getting into counseling.” Spence was also a stand-out with For Cringle, the wake-up call an energetic break-dancing routine came when he realised he didn’t want that had the house roaring. The show to repeat the cycle of abuse he had finished up with rapper Candy B witnessed growing up in a family who had the room rollicking with with domestic violence. “I just wanted her streetwise rhymes that infused to make a change – to be a role political commentary with cultural model for my brother”. His advice for pride, and had the audience bopping anyone experiencing mental health along to her “booty dance” routine. or substance abuse problems is to get Ronald Valencia, a counselor help immediately and maintain hope. at the South Sydney Youth “A day at a time – keep it simple, Services, believes that creativity go into rehab, get support – it The Seabellies at the Newtown Festival Photo: Eve Gibson and community can be important does get better, it does pass.” 8 The Review December ’08

pedigree needs to be promoted this much for a Hat (1985), then you will love this barely commented on. you’re better off seeing something else. book. Once again Sachs has blended his The cast is fantastic and could But not Australia, a triumph of deep scientific knowledge of the brain and make an episode of Home and Away The Reviews incessant product flogging, artificial central nervous system with his heartfelt look like Broadway. Judy Farr is quite hype, unlikely passionless love interests, empathy, to produce a wonderful book. extraordinary. But Craig Ilott’s direction Film Reviews that I didn’t get? wooden acting, wooden actors, and more The text, although requiring some effort is unresolved, as if he couldn’t quite by Lindsay Cohen Whatever (and that’s so 90s, and stereotypes and clichés than The Paul on the part of the reader, explains the marry the absurd caricatures of the older maybe that’s the point). Hogan Show and Neighbours combined. details of scientific research and detailed generation with the passion and “truth” Rating: Full price admission, one choc Still, Baz Luhrman can’t be accused case histories in plain English, making it of the younger generation. This is a flaw top, small popcorn, large drink and of cramming it all in. At around three accessible to a broad range of adults. in the writing as well. Doyle savages the a lengthy period of contemplation. hours there’s plenty of time for wide Musicophilia is about the ordering politics of social conservatives by creating brown land shots brought to you from and disordering of the human mind and the worst possible versions – but reserves the Tourism Australia handbook. The body. It narrows this focus to discuss, humane portraits for the characters he mere fact that the film is centrepiece of specifically, all things that involve music approves of. It felt like Doyle’s alter ego, an advertising campaign for something and neuro-science. Sachs has a seemingly Rampaging Roy Slaven, had done the The Wackness other than itself should ring alarm bells. endless supply of case histories and final edit on the script. Director: Jonathan Levine If ever an Australian film was not made anecdotes from people and patients both The Pig Iron People’s billing as “a Starring: Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck for Australians then, perhaps ironically, in our time and in times past. The book Patrick White like suburban satire” is Genre: Generation Why? Australia is it. explores the profound effect that music both accurate and a weirdly reversed And I shouldn’t know! has on us. Sachs explores these effects backhanded compliment: it is well The Wackness is set in 1994. It’s very Rating: Ham, turkey, Christmas in healthy people and in ill people and known that White’s weakest works important that you know that. I don’t Quantum of Solace pudding, seafood and eggnog in succeeds in crafting a picture of our were, for much the same reason Doyle know why it is, but Jonathan Levine, Director: Marc Forster the comfort of your own home. relationship to music. falters, his “suburban satires”. A different who wrote and directed The Wackness, Starring: Daniel Craig’s chest [email protected] I found this book heavy going at times, production, with less of the heaving glare doesn’t fail to make reference to 1994 Genre: Wannabe James Bond and I needed to take breaks to absorb the of publicity and the obsessive narcissism at every opportunity, from Kurt Cobain huge amount of information contained that of late has consumed the STC (on multiple occasions), to the movies, Australia within its pages. The book rewarded may result in a richer production – the music, TV shows (especially Beverly Director: Baz Luhrman Book Reviews me for my effort and concentration themes are fascinating and resonate Hills 90210), and to white Adidas shoes Starring: Hugh Jackman’s by Anthony Radford a hundredfold by deepening my with much of the canon of Australian (though that may have been product chest, Nicole Kidman’s nose understanding of people, their minds, drama: intergenerational change, public placement). Genre: Wannabe epic and the relationship we all have with politics vs private beliefs, left vs right, the I thought The Wackness was an music. Highly recommended. changing role of gender. entertaining, high-quality film about The great thing about really big films [email protected] difficult subjects including suicide, – and by really big I mean a really big coming of age (of the teen and senior budget, massive sets on location, very varieties) and drugs (of all varieties). But expensive stars, limited plot and about as what would I know? I missed the 1990s. much depth as Lake Eyre in mid-summer Theatre Reviews It’s not that I wasn’t there. I occasionally – is that you don’t need to actually see Junk Town Lemmings by Jane Barton wore an open, untucked, collared shirt the films to know what they’re all about. Dougall Parker over a t-shirt with my acid-wash jeans, Quantum of Solace and Australia are cases Onaventure and even had a Pearl Jam tape (admittedly in point. I haven’t seen either of them. only a “best of ” compilation). But I spent I don’t need to. Quantum of Solace is a If you like your books traditional, your Gay Conversion School Drop Out much of the 90s working in the mines of Bond film. So there are explosions, a narratives linear and your laws of thermo- Written and performed by Western Australia or backpacking. You super villain, chase scenes and gadgets, dynamics intact and functioning, then Anthony Menchetti could say I grew up in the other 90s (the and a pointless love interest where there this is not the book for you. If, however, The Factory Theatre, Enmore non-angsty one). should be gratuitous flirtation and bed like me, you enjoy a book not afraid to I didn’t even know until after seeing hopping (alas, it’s Bond for the 21st take the scenic route down random and The Pig Iron People Stand-up comedian, Anthony The Wackness that in hip-hop lingo “wack” Century). With so much cliché and only twisted cognitive side trails then you Written by John Doyle Menchetti, is an endearing performer means bad and “dope” means good, so I a little over an hour and a half running will have an absolute ball reading Junk Sydney Theatre Company who has generously chosen to share his possibly missed a crucial insight into time there can’t be much room left for Town Lemmings. Director: Craig Ilott experience of one of the weirdest aspects the film. plot or character development, so it’s no This first novel by Sydney author With: Judy Farr, Jackie of the Christian church with a broad So, is The Wackness a generic surprise the production company was Dougall Parker is like taking a trip Weaver and Max Cullen audience. This show has done the rounds exploration of issues not particularly intent on flogging its dubious merits (the on a roller coaster called Adventures on Australian and International comedy limited to any particular genre or era, or explosions, the villain, etc.) mercilessly. in Experimental Postmodern Fiction. John Doyle’s Pig Iron People has been circuits and is tight, funny and enjoyable. was there something special about 1994 So don’t bother. If a film with this much Shifts in location and narrative voice, an eagerly anticipated offering from the Choosing to see a show entitled Gay and countless simultaneous plots left STC. It ticks all the right boxes: much Conversion School Drop Out gives some me gasping in surprise and chortling loved (left-wing) writer with strong track hint as to the themes and content. It with glee. record, richly resourced production from doesn’t prepare you for Menchetti’s warm Parker plays with space and time premier state theatre company, bumper and cute onstage personality. Menchetti and the generic constraints of modern cast of Australia’s finest actors. Why then introduces the audience to the group Australian fiction, while in the story the limp applause and the grumbling in members, and takes us through the five the gods play with the inhabitants of a the foyer as the audience streamed out? major steps to “quitting being gay”. As he small outback Australian town called Set on “Liberal Street” on the eve points out, even in AA you get 12. The Nowhere. While all this is going on a of Howard’s victory in 1996, Doyle show is short, sharp and shiny – designed small population of lemmings is having juxtaposes the foibles of an older Menzies for the comedy circuit – and an original an existential crisis and looking for “pig iron” generation with the hopes and take on a coming-out story. something high to jump off in an almost dreams of the younger. A young writer, Menchetti at times waits for the featureless desert plain. Nick, moves into their street, as Howard audience to catch up because he knows I would recommend this book to is about to take power. Nick (Glenn his material so well and delivers it like anyone that is open to a little friendly Haldane) and his new love (Caroline he’s done numerous times before. fun, poking at “capital L Literature” Craig) are intruded upon by their old pig Good to see the Factory Theatre (the and who isn’t afraid of a little weirdness. iron neighbors with their conservative best venue in the Inner West) embracing Junk Town Lemmings is an impressive an values and small-minded concerns. The diversity and offering opportunities entertaining romp. ongoing squabble about car parking space for audience and actors in its purpose- in the tiny street is laughable, but more built theatre. disturbing is the entrenched domestic [email protected] violence and homophobic abuse that is

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• Shakespeare • Audition & Call-Backs • HSC Another fantastic work from author and neurologist, Oliver Sachs. If you have 9799 2002 read and enjoyed any of his other books [email protected] www.rpworkshops.com.au such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife The Review December ’08 9

Works on film, online Artist Profile: Curious Works

Ev e Gi b s o n Festival, displaying an art installation. The artwork, ‘Overflow’, was a project Shakthi Sivanathan is the creator about what the world would look like of Curious Works, an independ- if we were living underwater due to ent education and technology arts the effects of climate change. Shakthi program that collaborates with says that Curious Works likes to communities using digital media share art in public spaces rather than and the arts. The programs offer theatres. Through having the works communities ways of sharing and “out and about, we own our cities”. connecting with other people, as Curious Works is in the process they present the projects online of creating an ‘All Around You’ through the medium of film. model which involves “digital media and the arts that blend with Curious Works collaborates with everyday life”. Shakthi talks about a variety of communities, working how ‘All Around You’ is a platform with elders and children in remote for under-resourced communities Indigenous communities like to stand on, that in the long-term Roebourne right through to assist- enables them to represent themselves ing kids to make their own short independently and sustainably. films in Redfern. Curious Works The model will be launched as is based in Surry Hills. Recently both an online resource kit and spending a month in Roebourne, physical toolkit in early 2010. Curious Works assisted the local Indigenous residents to docu- If you would like to take part in helping out with ment the Ngarluma language and any of the projects of Curious Works you can traditional practices through film. find out more at www.curiousworks.com.au . Curious Works has also worked in Curious Works on location Photo: Supplied Melbourne at the Melbourne Fringe

Rebecca Jacka, ‘Don’t Throw The Bird Out With The Bathwater’ (2008) Photo: Supplied Studio for artists and passers-by

Ev e Gi b s o n with the community in such a K i d s C lu b ! direct fashion and create a dynamic K i d s C lu b ! Shopfront Studio is located relationship with the public.” New Theatre’s ever-popular Kids’ Club season is Sunday 14 December @ 1pm at 152 Redfern Street. The The vision for the art space is to shopfront is a studio/gallery space share ideas and techniques among wrapping up 2008 with some Christmas cheer! Tickets: $12 where local artists can create and artists. “I am trying to create a place Christmas Kids’ Club features magic, fun and Bookings: 9519 3403 display their art. People passing that is a bridge between university games, music from the acoustic ensemble New Theatre by get to witness the creative and a commercial gallery where Loosely Woven, audience participation and an 542 King Street Newtown process of the artists at work. people can create together.” The studio is designed for five exciting Christmas story filled with magical www.newtheatre.org.au This venture is a first for Rebecca artists to come together (beginners elves and marvelous toys! And who knows, Jacka, who decided to open the or experienced) for 10 weeks, all there may even be a visit from Santa! Suitable Shopfront Studio to support working independently in the one local artists who are trying to space. This enables the artists to for kids aged 4-10 and the young at heart. pave their way in the Sydney art share ideas, skills and knowledge. scene. Rebecca says she wants to The artist can choose to have “make a difference in the Redfern an exhibition at the end of their Christmas Kids’ Club will be followed by Sunday 14 December @ 4pm community and bring a bit of 10-week tenure or to display colour and joy to people’s lives”. their works as they are created. Curoo Curoo, Loosely Woven’s Christmas Tickets: $15/$10 “The studio gives artists the Concert for 2008. The program will include Bookings: 9519 3403 or at the door opportunity to sell their work. If you wish to use Shopfront Studio the cost beautiful arrangements of some lesser known New Theatre is $250 for a 10-week session and $250 – $400 Every artist who has painted in the Christmas carols together with the usual wide 542 King Street Newtown space has sold at least one of their for exhibition space. works. Thus, the cost of $25 per For more information contact Rebecca: variety of material that you expect from a www.newtheatre.org.au week is a small price to pay to have [email protected] Loosely Woven concert. that exposure and your own shop or 0413 681 875. front to sell your art. It’s not often the case that artists can engage 10 The Review December ’08

electro-comedy band Punk Bunny; photo shoots with naked adolescent So, you wanna be a boys holding baseball bats and hotdogs dripping with ketchup; music, parties, lights … fashion photographer? Two coffees later, we eventually make it to the shoot location. It’s pitch black. We walk on rubble, careful to avoid An d r e Ra n g i a h image is precise, softly evocative. and too “in his own mind”, at a young the randomly placed barbed wire and Turning each page I witness a age he was plagued by anxiety. “I’m glad corrugated iron fencing. The concept I’m sitting in an office. The window masquerade based on an eclectic range that I was a bit [pause] left-of-centre. is ‘The Girl from Nowhere’. is cracked. A pile of jeans, T-shirts, of cinematic reference points. With each You need to go through some shit Stylists, make-up artists and tags and brown paper bags lie neatly image, various types of masculinity and in your life. It makes you see things hairdressers scurry around the gaunt, on bottle-green carpet. I’m waiting for femininity unfold. As a collection it differently,” he explains. tall, wide-eyed, oddly beautiful model. Elvis Di Fazio. E-Di-Faz. Designer. tells a story of gamblers, bootleggers, Finding his niche, life is now different. Clipping. Brushing. Fitting. Fussing. Photo: Elvis Di Fazio Artist. Fashion photographer. sailors and gang warfare in New York Elvis rolls with designers, artists and Primping her as close to perfection City during the Prohibition era. those post-collegiate bohemian “cool as possible. Slouching into the room, he hands Elvis is all about characters. At first intellectual types”. As he and his designer … and now there is like this Once ready, Elvis demands to be over a mug of hazelnut-flavoured glance, with his mobile baseball cap, posse stroll through Darlinghurst on entourage of like, you know, wannabe alone while he shoots his subject. He instant coffee. “Two sugars mate?” he oversized T-shirt and Hoganesque “mo” a Saturday night, hopeful starry-eyed photographers.” allows me to watch at a distance. A asks, in-between yawns. (It’s two in he looks like the menacing offspring of photographers approach and ask for Fashion photography is a baffling bolt of light from the camera’s flash the afternoon). 50 cent, MC Hammer and an 80s porn advice, or a contact, or an email address profession. Despite its almost century- electrifies the scene. Gusts of wind act Elvis begins showing me his folio. star. Growing up in Sydney’s western … every half hour. “What’s the go with long history and clichéd image of as a blow-fan and bring the garments It opens with emotive, old world, fictional suburbs (not particularly an environment that?” Elvis asks, perplexed. glamour, sex, drugs and money (think to life. Elvis dances around the model. portraits from his first solo exhibition at that encouraged difference), Elvis kept He rails on about lemming mentality. Blow Up, 1966), there is no clear From below, behind and above. She the Chauvel, in Paddington (18 months an eye out for those fellow oddities “If you jump … they will. I was the only route to scaling the heights. How did faces camera then turns away, strides ago). Reminiscent of Mark Lewis’ pivotal who would paddle with him against one, the ONLY one, doing hand-made, Patrick Demarchelier become Patrick forward then falls back, smiles then spread, ‘Guys N Dolls’, for the July/ the stream. hand-printed T-shirts, then all of a Demarchelier? Steven Meisel started as pouts. She crouches, then kneels … is August (1988) issue of The Face, each Too socially aware, too perceptive sudden everyone wanted to be a T-shirt an illustrator. Mario Testino studied at a standstill. Economics, Law and International Between wardrobe changes, I ask Relations at three different universities. Elvis why he needs to photograph Where is the line between layperson and his model alone. “It’s just easier to be photographer? Is it about composition? instinctual. I try and imagine what I South Sydney Crossword Lighting? Camera skills? would do I if I were that character, V T P O ( ) * + , - . / Last month’s solution Elvis is shooting a fashion spread for and get the model to do that … I just ( ) * + , - . an independent fashion magazine later get them to copy my facial expressions. A LL E G O R I C A L T U E R 0 (' / N R I O E R A R O H I N C E A tonight. I jump at the opportunity to If she’s a good model she’ll do it in a 0 (' C R E A T U RE S I B I A M I watch him work. super-hot way. When there’re people I E G R B G E L T U R L N T N (( () With time to burn, Elvis leads me around it’s just harder,” he says. (( () EEEL V N A C AAT C O M B from the office to kitchen, jumping Elvis’ strength is his ability to direct N H O T R GE L A T I N I O (* (+ (, (- T R A I T S R M O O N G L O W over a mattress that hides a recovering and inspire his subjects. He relates (. B UKL E T I N T E O I A L S roommate and his dog, Buster. He to them. It far supersedes the skills (* (+ (, (- (/ (0 )' L I T E R A R Y A S C O W L S tears opens another sachet of instant he possesses with a camera. After E A H D E A O R EE T O T E )( )) )* )+ G L O A M I N G L N U M B E R coffee and begins telling me about his four years of studying fine arts, Elvis ), (. (/ (0 )' )( E IIU O S C H B T R S E O P encounter with celebrity photographer rebelled against formulaic approaches to ). N I G H T M L O U D N O I S E Tony Duran in Los Angeles last year, pictures. He began taking spur-of-the- D I H L I B A N R I A H N S N )/ who has shot covers with Hollywood’s moment snapshots of street nomads. S I E P F A D I N G L IGH T )) )* )+ ), elite – Lindsay Lohan, J. Lo, Tom He was drawn to characters that were Crossword by D.P. Cruise, Terri Hatcher … interesting, but not necessarily attractive. Living in luxury and right under Very rarely models. )- ). )/ )0 the HOLLYWOOD sign, Tony used After months of social photographing, to be struggling in Sydney before Elvis developed into a documentary- First correct entry received by making millions by taking photographs style photographer, mastering the *' *( December 31 will win a mystery prize. Send completed puzzle to: of celebrities. “He spoke about how aesthetics of realism and appropriating South Sydney Crossword PO Box he had these inner demons of being them into a fashion context. It has 2360 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012. someone that wanted to be seen as become his signature. “My absolute really down-to-earth, but also wanted dream is to take photographs of amazing ACROSS DOWN to be seen as someone that the world people from different corners of the 9 Greetings from Honolulu (5) 1 Powder swallowed up by nomenclature (4) should bow down to ’coz he had gotten earth … People who aren’t, like, ‘famous 10 We’re all in it together (9) 2 Dreadful hole devouring b-bone (8) so far. He was like … Tony Duran!” famous’, but are just doing their own 11 Change place once or twice for spiritual antithesis (9) 3 9 across manifests a glowing symbol of sanctity (4) Elvis whispered in efforts to not wake thing, who are just like … proper-cool,” 12 Prerequisite to the solution (1,4) 4 Tongue twisted snake faux quite out of place in 10 at 30 across (4,4) Buster’s owner. says Elvis. 13 All white; no yolk! (7) 5 Uneasy lump harbours a safe haven (6) His face glowed as he described what Fashion photography, like 15 I am thrice enthralled by the musical (4,3) 6 Spurious tales of the city perhaps (5,5) a “character” Tony was, comparing him contemporary art, aims to communicate 17 Canoe makes it between continents (5) 7 Obstacle race spelt with a sort of small O (6) to Miranda Priestly, the infamous editor notions, subtleties and complexities 18 Eensy-weensy’s internet (3) 8 Possess as in shaved (4) from The Devil Wears Prada (2006). “He that have not been formulated before. 20 Unacceptable to express disapproval after simple thanks (5) 13 Swears apprehended violence order was unsubstantiated (5) was great. The same way that character Elvis’ photography is about capturing 22 Indication of somptym wrong! (7) 14 It’s the moon making a believer of one (10) [Miranda Priestly] is, know what I moments. He befriends his subject, 25 Earns a living initially supplying armoury (7) 16 A hip locomotion (1,4) mean? It’s like you’re thinking, ‘You’re strips away apprehensions, then inspires 26 Mostly escape turmoil… (5) 19 Defiantly wave a bowl of roughage? (8) just so rude’, but like, you’re just loving him or her to become the character 27 … marry Edna in a whirlwind … (3,1,5) 21 Succinctly advise Benjamin or Malcolm to avoid attention (2,6) it at the same time.” in his mind – bootleggers in New 30 … puzzling art schism … (9) 23 Wanting part time agreement (5) Elvis continues rehashing material York City, girls from nowhere, horny 31 … allot differently (2,4) 24 First part of 15 across is involved in foul fog (6) from his trip: James St James, one of boys in their bedrooms. The result the original club kids of the early 80s, is photographs with deep emotional 26 Select choice harvest (4) notorious for his excessive lifestyle that dialogue. They are “in the moment”. 28 Dull diminutive disciple (4) included heavy drug use, and bizarre Natural. Instinctive. In other words … 29 My bullies even have a holiday (4) costumes; Luigi, a musician from “proper-cool”.

Tapas heaven lounges with tables in the middle these little Crumbed Cheese Balls notice a giggly, relaxed, atmosphere of them, you would expect more. that were suggestible. We also of bed bound diners developing Still, the absolutely, unbelievably tried the delectable Duck Spring around us. I also noticed how Sc o t t Wi n t e r Bar and Restaurant. great cocktails soon coloured Rolls that you roll in a chocolate many of those diners were on It was a Wednesday, early evening, the atmosphere. Long live that salt before dipping into the plum dates. Bed Bar and Restaurant is Once you and we were slightly perturbed by the cocktail barman! An Amaretto sauce. The Miniature Wagu Steak perfect for making any night of establish exactly lack of patrons. The establishment Sour, made the right way, with Burgers rocked. In fact, we tried a the week seem like Valentine’s. where the St was fresh, if not a little bland. a real black cherry bite to it. little of everything on the menu, Margaret’s Village is – 415- Some sexy art on the walls would The dishes are small (tapas) shared and liked/loved everything. We 415–431 Bourke Street, Surry Hills 431 Bourke Street in Surry have filled the blank spaces and plates, but they were surprisingly were in tapas heaven. All small plates average at $10. Hills (head for Wooly’s) – you added character. After all, with a filling, and delicious. We had Wondering if lying down was good Phone (02) 9332 2883. won’t be disappointed by Bed name such as Bed, and actual bed the Seven Seed Salad which had for the digestion, I then began to The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 11

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ADVERTISEMENT Bust or boom, businesses adapt Kristina Nicholas McCallum downturn that’s seeping through to to adjust to the current market. The other industries, it will soak through to boom that occurred in the mid-90s The sleek designs of Darlington- hospitality and retail first. gave rise to numerous small businesses Keneally MP based Interprojects were a trait However, economic tough times in the industry that knew only MEMBER that placed them a cut above other need not only be times of woeful down- prosperous times. design and construction companies turns, says the Business Development “It’s easy to get on the band-wagon, FOR HEFFRON in Sydney. However, their elegant Director of another Darlington-based but these young guys didn’t see [the designs were not innovative enough to construction company, ICMG, Paul 1987 stock market crash],” Mr Attard protect them from the financial woes Attard. Mr Attard believes that it is in said. “There’s a whole generation who that are facing everyone else, as the the hard times that fertile and inventive haven’t seen bad times.” As we approach the end of 2008, I thought I would recap company went into receivership in minds prosper through having to adapt Although there may currently on some of the great things that have happened in the October this year. All but three of its to a new, liquidity-lacking environment. be a bleak outlook for many small staff have been let go. “A lot of creativity and innovation businesses, some will recognise the Heffron electorate over the year. comes of difficult markets,” he said, opportunities available and will strike Interprojects took pride in creating adding that it was through the economic accordingly. It is not necessarily certain a new building culture that specialised slumps that opportunities arise through that biggest fish will survive, but those In November, I officially opened the new pedestrian in hospitality and boutique retail stores the better management of current that adapt and evolve to meet the bridge at Eastlakes Golf Club over Wentworth Avenue and offices. Unfortunately, the bust in inefficiencies. challenges ahead. “Opportunities will with Michael Daley MP, Member for Maroubra. the construction industry had already Mr Attard is also anticipating more arise for the progressive and aggressive,” set in before September this year and closures of smaller construction Mr Attard said. “What it comes down to when that is coupled with the economic companies due, in part, to an inability is a focus on management.” Board members, club patrons and local residents have long petitioned for this infrastructure and I am pleased that golfers now have a safe option to cross the busy Wentworth Avenue.

I am also proud that two of our local councils, Botany Bay and The City of Sydney, will share almost $500,000 from the Rees Government as a reward for improving their recycling services and cutting waste.

51 local councils have shared $12.3 million this year as a part of the Rees Government’s Waste Service Improvement Performance Payments program that rewards local councils for improving their recycling services. I am pleased two of these councils are in our electorate.

In other good news, as of October 2008, new ‘Metro’ style buses have started operating in our local area, and the feedback so far has been very positive. These Metrobuses, similar to those used in Europe and the US, are connecting Sydney’s east and inner west with fast, efficient and regular bus services.

The $12 million, 12-month trial of the Metrobuses will see new types of bus connections provided between Protesters outside the Sydney Town Hall Photo: Neil Whitfield Leichhardt, the City and Kingsford - every 10 minutes in peak hour and every 15 minutes during off-peak times. The route is known as Route 10. Ban on bill posters an If you would like more information please visit www.sydneybuses.info/metrobus.htm

I encourage residents to come and visit my final mobile “attack on free speech” office for the year at the Summer on the Green event in Waterloo (between Raglan St and Phillip St) on December Phillip Fernandez year, we removed more than 340,000 of political and community information. 5th at 3pm. I look forward to seeing you there. bill posters, approximately five tonnes “This penalises those groups who do The City of Sydney has banned bill of paper. In the past four years removing not have the resources to take out paid posters from the inner city. Offending bill posters has cost City of Sydney advertising. It is unbelievable that there On a final note, I would like to take this opportunity to organisations will now face fines of up ratepayers more than $6 million.” are only eight small display poles for the to $1,500 per poster, and individuals According to the NSW Protection of whole city, none of which are south of wish South Sydney Herald readers and all residents of the charged $750 for putting up posters. the Environment Operations Act, bill Surry Hills,” said Cr Doutney. Heffron electorate a happy Christmas and New Year. I posting is considered an illegal form The Council claims that the main hope the festive season brings both a relaxing and joyous Commercial, political and community of pollution, giving councils the power targets of the new campaign are large- organisations will be targeted, as Sydney to issue fines directly to the venue scale commercial operations such period for you all. City Council promises to follow through responsible for producing the poster. as those promoting bands and other with prosecuting illegal postering under Fines include a “prevention notice” of events. However, the NSW Greens, the NSW Protection of the Environment $320 once Council seizes the bill posters, activist groups such as Resistance, Operations Act. Greens Councillors, with subsequent offences attracting fines and most small political and human Irene Doutney and Chris Harris, have of $750 for individuals and $1,500 for rights groups featured among the 130 Kristina Keneally MP expressed their disappointment, claiming organisations. organisations sent warning letters by the Council’s new campaign is a “gross The City of Sydney has installed eight Council in October. Member for Heffron attack on freedom of speech”. poster pillars on popular city streets as King Street, Newtown, and Glebe Shop 117, 747 Botany Road, Rosebery NSW 2018 The City of Sydney’s director of city part of a year-long trial to provide a Point Road in Glebe will not be targeted services, Garry Harding, said posters legitimate site for notices and posters, in the initial campaign as poster pillars Phone: (02) 9699 8166 Fax: (02) 9699 8222 wrapped around telegraph poles and which will be removed weekly. Irene are not in those precincts. Only posters Email: [email protected] plastered on walls was one of the most Doutney and Chris Harris believe the put up for garage sales, lost pets and significant urban pollution problems eight dedicated poles are completely community fetes will continue to be safe faced by the Council. “Last financial inadequate for the free dissemination from prosecution. 12 The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 November Wishing you a joyous Christmas We invite you to join our Australian 2008 Christmas. Churches, retailers, business groups, charities and community organisations, together with thousands of excited children and their families, will join our celebrations. The Martin Place tree lighting and Christmas on the Green in Hyde Park was held on 27 November. Street decorations will extend beyond the city centre to our villages and there will be family concerts at Reg Bartley Oval, Rushcutters Bay on 6 December; Turruwul Park, Rosebery on 7 December; Alexandria Park, Alexandria on 13 December; and Ward Park, Surry Hills on 14 December. RSPCA NSW is again our Christmas charity partner and you can support them by donating at City Christmas Concerts or www.rspcansw.org.au. On behalf of City of Sydney Clover with RSPCA staff, including CEO Steve Coleman Councillors and Staff, I wish you a happy Christmas and and the St Mary’s Cathedral College Choir a “Yes, we can” New Year. Visit the City’s new Christmas website for City events, competitions and activities at sydneychristmas.com.au Tackling alcohol-fuelled violence We welcome State Government action to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence, with at least half of all assaults in the city last year related to alcohol. About 50 venues recording the highest number of assaults will face conditions including a 2.00am lock-out and the use of reusable plastic cups to prevent glassings. We urge the State Government to freeze applications for new large late Clover Moore MP night licensed premises in known trouble spots and for planning criteria to prevent areas becoming Lord Mayor saturated. The late night economy is an integral part of our global city, but we need a new civilised drinking culture.

Sydney Park Playground New separated Celebrate the opening of the City’s new All Abilities cycleways Playground at Sydney Park on Saturday 6 December. This The City has allocated $70 special family event will include children’s entertainment, musical million over four years to performances, free coffee or gelato (for the first 1,500 people). build an effective and safe The new playground is designed to include children and carers cycle network. Consultation of all abilities. It provides a range of interactive and sensory play is now underway for a opportunities, including a musical bridge, maze, swinging, spinning, separated cycleway on sliding and climbing equipment. The City has also completed work in Union Street, Pyrmont the Village Green area around the playground. The event runs from and for Missenden Road, 11.00am -1.00pm at Sydney Park in St Peters. Camperdown. The Union Street project includes footpath improvements, new trees Turruwul Park Christmas Concert and will link to the King Street CBD cycleway that is under To celebrate the re-opening of Turruwul Park, the City is holding construction. Future separated a special Christmas event for the local community. Enjoy a free routes are planned for the north Christmas concert, carols and a visit from Santa while exploring the and south of the City, including renewed park. Work includes a new playground, new paths, bicycle Bourke Street, from Green track, picnic shelter, improved park furniture, lighting and additional Square to Woolloomooloo and trees. Sunday 7 December from 6.30pm-8.30pm at Turruwul Park on the Missenden Road cycleway Rothschild Avenue, Rosebery. past Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Sydney University. Free Parking for Scooters and Motorbikes For more information on Motorcyclists can now park in the City Centre and inner city cycling in the City of Sydney go suburbs for free as part of a 12 month trial. The trial exempts to cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/ motorcycle and scooter riders from paying for parking but they cycling Community Gardens still need to park in designated areas and comply with any time restrictions. The Motorcycle and Scooter Strategy supports the City’s A new City proposal could see more community gardens commitment to sustainable transport options and the shift away from across the LGA. The plan, which addresses the City’s large, polluting vehicles to smaller vehicles to complement walking, Sustainable Sydney 2030 vision to develop local village cycling and public transport. hubs, would also provide a dedicated garden officer. The City is investigating expanding the successful Friday Farmer’s Market in Cooks + Philip Park to other areas to encourage sustainability in the production and sale of food by reducing “food miles”. Producing food locally and consuming local produce is an essential part of sustainability. A report is being prepared for Council.

cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au General enquiries and after hours assistance 9265 9333 TTY 9265 9276 [email protected] You can subscribe to a number of the City’s online publications at cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/subscribe The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 13 Comment & Opinion Setting kids up for success

Brendan Nelson Educationally impoverished families the school is underperforming and people where there are no books, poor teaching knew, wouldn’t they demand governments

A decade ago Bill Crews techniques, unrecognised medical fix it? Although hope is a fragile yet norrie mAy-welby Cartoon: decided he’d like to help disorders, entrenched prejudices… powerful emotion, shouldn’t kids go into kids who can’t read. Under You name it, there are lots of reasons high school also equipped to read?” the guidance of Macquarie Uni, a team why illiteracy still permeates much of What kids bring to school with them of educators and volunteers takes kids young Australia. determines where they start. What who’ve spent five years in the education All the propaganda (talk) from happens in the classroom determines how system and can’t read a word (“Is it the government about success in basic skills far they’re going to get. black stuff you read?” asked one) to tests masks the reality of dumbed-down There’s only so much a teacher can writing and reading a piece of poetry. standards and too many kids who go do. The Redfern Tutorial Centre is not Graduations at the Ashfield Uniting from school to the adult world set up only teaching children how to read. It is Church require a box of tissues. for failure. literally giving real hope to families and A Victorian primary school principal their children. When I was Education Minister, Bill once criticised me as Education Minister The 35 students in the current intake wanted to have a similar go at helping (nothing unusual) for demanding schools were on average three-and-a-half years kids in Redfern. A lot of hard work, a publish performance outcomes. She said: behind the eight ball in literacy. Twenty million dollars of Commonwealth money, “You’ve seen this community. It’s very poor. weeks later they have gained two years. generous donors, and the Exodus Tutorial If people had any idea how badly they’re Centre in Redfern was born (based at the going, we’d be shut down within a year. If you’ve got time, and want to make South Sydney Uniting Church premises in Our job is to offer hope.” a difference to a child’s life, give Belmont Street). Having gathered myself, I replied: “If Bill a call. Phone 8752 4600.

SOUTH SYDNEY ENVIRONMENT Potty training season is here

Anna Christie selling book Baby Love, told me “no train early.” healthy three-year-old should be in Today’s young parents are largely For many parents-to-be, nappies” during the day. Yet many are, unaware that most children can be the environmental impact and not only that, the booming market toilet trained very easily (for daytime of disposable nappies is a in so-called “trainer pants” seems to dryness, that is) by allowing them to big concern. They opt for the cloth be catering for a growing market of run around with no nappy, with a potty alternative. However, cloth nappies increasingly older children. very close by, letting them FEEL what it require hot water, detergents, and I have recently been researching is like to have the wee run down their sometimes the electric clothes this subject under the umbrella of legs. It usually takes a few days over the dryer, throughout their useful life. the University of New South Wales’ Christmas holidays. A few accidents to Comparing the environmental impacts “Restraint Project”, funded by the clean up is a small price to pay for a Born of a woman of disposables vs cloth nappies, the Australian Research Council. In toilet trained child, and think of the $$$ most definitive life cycle assessment the course of my research on “The savings – no more nappies! You – the Dorothy McRae-McMahon doubt that many people honour. study done to date has pronounced phenomenon of Extended Childhood parent – should take the initiative. It is possible to argue in different ways them more or less equal. Incontinence: Abandonment of toilet Just remember, there is no place for As Christmas approaches, Christians about the right relationship between training of today’s toddlers and infants”, punishment when toilet training. It is all over the world will be reflecting on women and men, but, in the end, you In a government-funded UK study, if I spoke to experts from around the world. part of their developmental process for the coming of the Child of God, born of come up against one major question. you look at the impacts of both types of There is a strong view emerging that children to WANT control, so you are the woman, Mary. It was, according to If women are to obey their husbands/ nappies over the entire life-cycle of the parents need to reclaim the initiative in working with nature when you help belief, in this woman’s body that the men, then does this absolve them from product – including their manufacture, potty training, and that you can’t expect them achieve it. Christ was conceived and nurtured and final responsibility for what they decide laundering and end-disposal – there is toddlers themselves to initiate it. Please ignore “how-to” guides that through her faithful labour and sighing, to do? When a woman faces her God, is little between them in the sum total, It also emerged that there is a tell you to wait until the child tells you emerged among humankind. she to say that she had to do that wrong although the impact occurs at different “window of opportunity” when it is best they are ready – over the past generation because she was told to do so? If so, she stages of the life cycle. to start toilet training, from around 18 this has been proven to be unsuccessful, The one who became the centre of really is just a cipher, not a responsible If parents are really serious about months to two years – in other words, and has driven the duration of childhood the Christian faith was presented to the adult, before others and her God. reducing their load on the environment, before the child learns the concept of incontinence higher and higher. church and the world by a woman. So Mary, the mother of Christ, according they should look at a third option: potty “NO”. And here’s another tip, one advantage why, one might ask, are women denied to Biblical stories, made her own decisions training their kiddies, rather than the US research has shown that the later of cloth nappies is that parents who leadership roles and, in some cases, and then stood by those choices. There preferred practice today of so-called you leave it to introduce the potty or use them also have less trouble toilet mutuality and equality in male-female is a sense in which she was ordained “child-centred potty training”. toilet, the longer it is likely to take for training. relationships by some parts of the to bring the life of Christ to the people. This well-intentioned philosophy the child to make the shift from nappy Summer is the best time to toilet train, church? So why should not women continue to of child-rearing, which came to being to knickers, with resultant obstinance so if your child is nearing the “window Of course, all the main religions have, do that? What is it about our hands and during the 1960s and 1970s was a and resistance from the child. of opportunity”, it is your time to strike. in their sacred writings, statements which lives which preclude our holding the reaction against what some psychologists It is a shame that over the past Think of the landfill you are saving! suggest that women should be subject to Eucharistic elements as a sacred trust and doctors thought to be overly severe generation, basic toilet training skills men. Even the Bhuddha wrote that wives alongside men? Why should not our lives toilet-training regimes. Together with have been lost. As one US expert, Dr should submit to their husbands. What have within them insights and wisdoms the availability of disposable nappies, it Ravenel, told me: “Parents in general all religions need to face is that these which open up the Scriptures for others? If you would like to suggest environmental has led to a generation of children being are not aware that it is desirable or ancient instructions lie alongside others Indeed, how can men hold all there is to in nappies for a year or longer, than good or even possible, to train children issues in South Sydney that need investigation, that could never be upheld today, which know about life and faith if they have had children of the previous generation. early, and the reason is that they have please contact Anna Christie by email: makes their sexism a deliberate choice, only a male experience of life? Australia’s own child care guru, been taught ... a complete myth that [email protected] rather than a faithfulness. Why should we not assume that both Robin Barker, the author of the best- psychological damage will occur if they Speaking for the Christian tradition, women and men have many and diverse the words which tell women to obey their gifts which they offer into every part husbands are alongside the instruction of life and in every role? As the Bible serious challenges in my life. So I who doesn't have a buzzer on his for slaves to obey their masters. So, why mentions, women and men are made in READERS’ react emotionally to these types of building; the good dedicated work of choose to uphold one and not the other? the image of God. The church’s ministry stories that to me seem to contribute a community worker/social worker If the Bible is a document in which will not be whole until it includes us LETTERS to the stigmatisation of people living would no doubt rectify his problem. every word is the word of God, then a both. As Christmas day approaches, let in DoH. I always felt the SSH made I don't feel it helps his situation in any woman should also be isolated from the us remember and celebrate the fact that Unhelpful depiction of a special effort not to follow the way to portray him as a victim on the household when she is menstruating, Jesus Christ, the Holy Child, was born public housing mainstream media approach of going front cover of the SSH. because she is unclean – something I of a woman. In the most recent issue and a for the negative angle; especially Name withheld previous issue of the SSH there were regarding the South Sydney area. Alexandria stories in "blackened blocks" that I I feel that the local DoH estates are Fuel Saver credit card. How dare BP saving seven cents per litre on a tank of feel were resorting to the techniques areas of great beauty and humanity. recruit these young ones who are either fuel? This recruit also confessed to being of tabloid journalism. Previously, a Of course there are issues and politically inept, or desperately hard up too young to drive! Shame on you BP for picture of a broken fence, and this challenges facing the people living No BP spruikers on for a wage. I asked one of the recruits your exploitation of the lesser informed time a picture of an elderly man in these areas; but there are some Redfern Street the other day whether they were familiar and for your exploiting/insulting my looking victimised because he doesn't fantastic programs/projects that aim I write in regards to the university with their employer's exploits in "sand fellow community members. have a buzzer in his building. I am to build communities and empower students recruited by BP to walk oil" on Indigenous lands in Canada? Adam a DoH tenant and have faced very people. For the gentleman in question Redfern Street selling BP's new Reply: "No." But would I be interested in Redfern 14 The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 Features Cycling, recycling

Adrian Emilsen of developing mechanical skills and enhancing people’s mobility. On November 14, the Waterloo “We replace or rebuild most parts Recycling Workshop (WRW), which on any bicycle. We often have whole provides furniture and non-electrical bicycles that we can give away for free,” household goods to low-income Mr Finger says. persons, was officially re-opened at the The Sydney Community Bike garages of the Turanga flats at 1 Phillip Workshop is looking for people who Street, Waterloo. The WRW was are willing to volunteer their time. re-opened by Greens Councillor Irene “We are fundamentally a volunteer- Doutney, and included stalls from run organisation, and so without Planet Ark and the City of Sydney. contributions from the community we cannot hope to do the work we intend A new addition to the WRW is its to,” Mr Finger says. The workshop partnership with the Sydney Community also welcomes the donation of bicycles Bike Workshop. The bike workshop, and bicycle parts that can be reused formerly located in Newtown, works or repaired. to repair and recycle bicycles for the community. The bike workshop is open from 5 to 9pm According to Mark Finger from the every Monday. For more information on how bike workshop, the new location at the to become involved, see the webpage: www. Waterloo Towers, “means that we can bikeclub.wordpress.com . Robert and Keith (the Luncheon Club) in the community garden Photo: Andrew Collis reach a lot of people who need bicycle repairs on the cheap”. The WRW is open, for donations, The bike workshop offers facilities restorations and business, between 8.30am “It is a radical act to garden …” to provide free bicycle repairs and and 12.30pm each Friday. Contact Naomi mechanical education for purposes Ward at the Factory on 9698 9569. It is a radical act to garden … We are afraid of being in deep relationship with each other … the earth … God. To plant a seed and begin that process is an act of hope” (Mural in the Eden Garden, South Sydney Uniting Church).

Opening the doors Brendan Wong which is part of the idea of the garden. as the Remembrance Garden, which It’s for the clients to come around, sit Robert says will soon be redone. If you visit the Eden Garden, and have a rest if they like, get involved Beside the garden is a mysterious – in both directions located in the grounds of the South if they like … and do your own thing,” storage shed humorously named the Sydney Uniting Church, on any given he says. Bomb Shelter. Keith explains: “Some prose and in poetry. John Walsh, who Thursday you will be sure to find The two men showed me around people believe it had been a bomb cared for both his friend with HIV/AIDS Robert Robinson and Keith Ferguson the garden, pointing out the work they shelter constructed during the early and his elderly mother, tried a different hard at work. have done in the past and tasks that parts of the war but its architecture approach, which is very challenging to they are planning to do. doesn’t lend itself to being a shelter the reader and, indeed, to the Australian The garden, a one-time recipient of Robert explains that the main and nobody seems to know any of the community and its governments. the Council’s community garden of the objective of the garden is to grow history of it, and we suspect that there Here is a taste of what he wrote: year prize (presented by the Governor, vegetables and provide food for the could be another level to it below.” “Career Opportunity: Carer … Marie Bashir), is currently tended by Luncheon Club. Keith adds: “For the Keith and Robert find that gardening Critical position for self-starter with volunteers from the Luncheon Club Inc. people who come along as volunteers at the Uniting Church has been a hands-on role … Experience in First (HIV/AIDS Support Group), alongside … if there’s stuff here that they want, fulfilling and therapeutic activity Aid, counselling, occupational health some individual community gardeners. they can take it.” despite the hard work involved, but and safety, pharmacology, cooking, I visited recently to see the work While the Uniting Church owns they also welcome any help from the cleaning, communication skills, that Robert and Keith have been doing. the garden, the Luncheon Club public. “Anyone can come. We have no stress management and be able to They are currently in the stages of offers oversight and helps to care problems with that,” says Robert. “Lots self‑medicate.” restoration and planting, and Keith for designated parts of it for groups of people keep saying that they are He goes on to further describe says: “Once we get on top of it, this like Buckingham House, a charity going [to help] but I haven’t seen many the role and then finishes: “You will place is going to look really nice.” organisation that assists people living of them.” be generously remunerated by the The two men have been hard at work with a psychiatric illness. “People like One potential gardener is theatre Dorothy McRae-McMahon Government of the day with a salary cleaning up the area, which involves to get a little piece of garden, so for practitioner, Leonie Tillman, who has package of around $13,000 per year plus plenty of weeding, trimming and different charity organisations we give been looking for a community garden It’s not often that a book launching some perks, with the opportunity that, if watering plants, as well as growing them a little plot,” Robert says. to get involved with. “I find being in carries so many lives within it, and you do not go mad and are able to find a new vegetables. Keith then points to Frog Haven, contact with the earth takes me out of not just in the stories which it contains part-time job, you will lose 50% to 70% Both men became involved with the located in the back corner of the the congestion of the city,” Leonie says. - in this case, stories by various sorts of what you earn from your pension.” garden project through membership garden. The main attraction is an old “Being in the garden makes me happy.” of carers in our community. The Debbie writes: “Here I am, sitting in of the Luncheon Club. Robert has bathtub that has been converted into a She says the popularity of existence of the book also carries a coffee shop – escaping for a few quiet only been helping out with the garden pond for frogs, shaded by a large tree. community gardens has grown within it an implicit invitation to moments of solitude to catch my breath for four years and had no prior “It’s a peaceful little corner for people with more people becoming more the community at large to be more and process my thoughts. But actually experience with gardening. “I’m not who just want to sit, do nothing and concerned about the environment compassionate and responsible. I am never alone as Yossi is always on a horticulturalist or anything like that, relax,” he says. “Five years ago, this and the economy. The only problem my mind. How does it feel to be a carer but you learn. After four years I know was just a dump and I came here one for Leonie is finding the time, but she In Opening the Doors – the Hidden of such an extraordinary and yet full-on what is going on,” he says. “And I’ve afternoon, rearranged the bathtubs hopes to make gardening a weekly to Life of Carers (Holdsworth Community young man? I am frustrated by his been doing it every Thursday since.” and dug holes and the result is that, bi-weekly activity. Centre and Services 2008), 18 people destructive behaviours – and then on the Keith started volunteering at the five years on, you’ve got quite a shared their experiences of being carers other hand, so happy when I can meet Luncheon Club 15 years ago after comfortable area, especially during the South Sydney Uniting Church is – some of children, some of other family his needs. I am chronically exhausted a friend was infected with HIV. He summer with the mulberry tree.” the publisher of the SSH. For more members who were older or with a from putting in such long hours as he became involved with the garden five We walk along a footpath made with information about getting involved contact disability. There were those who wrote can’t be left unattended. years ago. “It gets me out of the house, recycled rubble to a garden arch known Rev. Andrew Collis on 0438 719 470. under assumed names so that they “I am proud when he has achieved didn’t breach the privacy due to those something new, or without prompting, for whom they cared. goes out of his way for others. Very often the unbearable, to be enraged at the to put pressure on our elected full of love, laughter and tears, hope As part of its work with carers, when we go visiting friends he will pick hypocrisy and to be heard.” representatives. We will be diminished and pain. Holdsworth Community Centre and a flower and give it as a gift, handing This book should be compulsory if we do not do that. Read this book Congratulations to all who facilitated Services had been running writing it over with a big smile and genuine reading for all members of our and see what the life of some of our the writing of this book and participated workshops in which each person love in his eyes. Everybody is his parliaments. They need to be confronted neighbours is like. in its production. The writers have wrote the story of his or her personal best friend.” by the lack of real support of every sort This is a book which is sometimes opened the doors of their lives in honest experiences as a carer of a family Lindy Yoannidis, who facilitated the for the carers in this country. They need hard to read and always hard to and vulnerable sharing. They now wait member. The carers concerned found Carers’ Network, for the H.C.C.&S., to be respected by proper financial put down. Those of us who have for the community to open the doors that tapping into their creative sides and tells of the stress and emotion which support, by respite services and general experienced being a carer will feel as of its heart and respond with overdue working with professional writers helped she experienced when she first walked access to advice and care for themselves though, at last, someone is speaking compassion and justice. them to acknowledge the journeys they into the group. She sums up the life and those for whom they care. for us. It will carry other carers into had taken as carers and to connect with of the group when she says: “It was a People who need carers may be celebrating their survivals, courage and You can buy Opening the Doors – the the wide range of emotions every carer time for them to let down their defences limited in aspects of their lives. What strengths and a sense of affirmation and Hidden Life of Carers at Glebe Books or has to deal with, in a positive way. and say it as it was, without being they invite in us as their community, empathy and as we are taken into the via Holdsworth Community Centre and The writers wrote their personal judged, ridiculed or misunderstood. is deep gratitude and eternal respect, grief, the exhaustion and the despairs. Services. Email: [email protected] . stories in many and varied forms – in To laugh at the unthinkable, to cry at as well as our assuming responsibility When it was launched, the hall was It is being sold at a very reasonable price. The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 15 Community Notices & Advertising

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Subscribe to my free weekly Clover’s eNews, an email bulletin to inform the community about important issues, [email protected] events and campaigns. Check my website for more information: www.clovermoore.com 16 The South Sydney Herald – December 2008 Sport The future of the past at Souths Leagues

SSH showcase in the exhibition, we want to see it,” says Mr HIckey. The South Sydney Leagues Club The project will not just focus on redevelopment is well under way. the history of the football club and With a new look comes new ideas its players, but include the history of and old ones revisited and revived. the Leagues Club and its place in the community, as well as the suburb The Leagues Club values its heritage of Redfern. as it links the past with the vision set An important part of the project for its future. As part of the strategy is the identification of photographs, to embrace its heritage, it is now as well as objects and ephemera taking the steps towards developing (including letters, diaries, tickets, an enlightening ongoing exhibition menus, coasters, badges, jerseys, poker showing the past history of the Leagues machines and so on). Club, the Rabbitohs and Redfern. Part A series of community consultation of the exhibition will remain as an days are planned for early next year integral part of the Leagues Club décor when members will be invited to and part will be regular exhibitions attend with their photographs and highlighting selected eras. other items. The first of these open “Our rich history provides us with a days will be at the end of January and unique foundation for a great future,” will be announced in plenty of time for states Board Director, Kieran Hickey. everyone to be there. The materials are “Growing up in Redfern gave me a sought for display purposes only and first-hand view of the importance the not acquisition by the Leagues Club. Leagues Club and the football team In the meantime, start looking for play in our everyday lives. We need those rare items that might be buried to respect the importance of these somewhere at home. foundations and this exhibition will allow us to collectively celebrate Further information about the project our past.” can be found on the website or calling “If someone has a piece of Souths the club on (02) 9319 4156 or email: history they feel would be great to [email protected] .

Where are they now? ‘N Grade’ Grand Final, Redfern Oval, 1976. Jimmy Monta (La Perouse) and Brad Downes (Mascot Juniors) holding the ‘N Grade’ trophy. Mascot Juniors won the grand final that year. Photo: South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club “. . .such an up-tempo delivery of energy...” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“. . .a very, very good thing...” TWO THOUSAND .COM Jets to soar in new season “. . .a multi-headed, fire breathing hydra of pure Anthony Albanese MP title in their 101st year. include ace Queensland Cup centre rock-God awesomeness...” Several key players from last year’s Kyle Lodge, Parramatta winger Iwi WIRELESSBOLLINGER .COM The Newtown Jets, Australia’s line-up – tough lock-forward Jimmy Hauraki, classy Warrington (UK) foundation Rugby League football Andersen, experienced wingman utility back Anthony Jerram, ex-Natal club, are looking forward to the Byron Ford, Tongan World Cup Super 14’s back-rower David York and 2009 season with considerable representative Toshio Laiseni, skilful powerhouse Fijian prop Stanley Waqa. confidence. second-rower Daniel Green and will- The Jets are back in training at of-the-wisp fullback Donny Thompson Henson Park. I know that they are The Jets were runners-up in the – have all committed themselves to primed to make 2009 a season to 2008 NSW Cup competition, and are the upcoming campaign. remember. I wish them and their army determined to claim the premiership Probable new signings for the Jets of dedicated supporters all the best.