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MTV Awards at ATP Anzac Day The Review Coloured Diggers March Page 12 Page 7 Frasers Broadway plan greener, bigger

Paddy Gibson revisits the place of his arrest Photo: Ali Blogg APEC powers permanent? Aerial view of green development showing tallest building (same size as UTS) and surrounding area in outline Photo: Supplied Sarah Malik list was also created which made entry excluded persons list before APEC. into any of the excluded areas by listed “I was never told why I was on the list. Geoff Turnbull those visiting the new Kensington Street A review tabled in Parliament on persons a criminal offence. I can only assume why. I have not been strip during the night. It also allows for March 11 proposes to make increased Dale Mills, Co-ordinator of the convicted of any offence. My inclusion Frasers Property announced on April car share spaces to be adjusted to meet police powers under the temporary Human Rights Monitors group, is on the list is purely because of my part 8 that it proposes to alter the approved future needs as well as for car charging APEC laws permanent. In the review worried about the effect these laws in protest activity,” said Mr Gibson. concept plan for the former CUB points and possible conversion of parking of the APEC Meeting (Police Powers) will have on civil liberties. “I think “It is a legislative attempt to intimi- brewery site. Central to the proposed to other uses as car usage changes. Act 2007, the Police Minister David it’s a bit nutty and not consistent with date people.” change is to build Australia’s first Removing the car-dominated street Campbell, and the Attorney-General transparent government,” said Mr Mills. Mr Gibson also cited the lack of trans- six-star green precinct with a target of layout has enabled Frasers to open up the John Hatzistergos commend the “The abuses that occurred under the parency under which a person could be 100% carbon neutrality. site to greater pedestrian use. A decision latitude the APEC powers brought APEC police powers act will continue declared a “serious risk to public order” to reallocate floor space has removed to policing. on a regular basis.” by the Police Commissioner. Initiatives include tri-generation which one building near the old brewery to “There have been multiple situations “People who are organised on a produces electricity on-site and uses create a new square and increase public The APEC laws passed for opera- where police officers did overreact community level to mobilise opposi- excess energy to produce heating and accessible space by one third. tion during the Asia-Pacific Economic [during APEC] by throwing journalists tion against policies are targeted,” said cooling for the entire site. Rain water By the time the development is Co-operation summit in September last to the ground,” said Mr Mills. “Here we Mr Gibson. “They don’t need to make capture and sewerage harvesting are also completed there will be a much stronger year allowed police greater powers to have police clearly using unlawful force public or even inform the people on the among the green initiatives proposed and demand for green offices and units which deal with demonstrators. like sitting on someone and punching list why they are on the list.” it is expected the project will be able to Frasers hope to service with this devel- Under the laws the police were given them – the evidence is there on YouTube Mr Gibson was arrested during APEC supply some services to its neighbours. opment. Frasers green announcement extraordinary search and arrest powers, – but nothing has happened about it.” and held for an hour. He is currently Not only will the site have strong dovetails nicely with council’s strategy with parts of the city declared no-access Paddy Gibson, a local activist, pursuing a wrongful arrest claim against green credentials it will also look green, for a green global and connected city “security” zones. An “excluded persons” was one of the 60 people put on the NSW Police. with rooftop gardens and hanging so it came as no surprise that Frasers gardens a feature of what was unveiled project was given a prominent place at in front of the media and the Minister the City of Sydney’s Sustainable Sydney for Planning. 2030 launch. site. So they were not impressed that old brewery chimney. The public will get its say when the new To help future-proof the develop- Since purchasing the site Frasers Frasers used the opportunity to also ask Councillor John McInerney has plans go on exhibition in the near future. ment parking is concentrated rather has been in discussion with residents, for a further 6.38% floor space on the site already gone on record opposing the More information on the development can than under each building with entry council and other stake holders about in addition to increasing the proportion of proposed increase in floor space as have be found at www.frasersbroadway.com.au near the site boundary. Parking will be its concerns and what it would like to commercial space from 40% to 50%. the Combined Chippendale Community Geoff Turnbull is spokesperson for owned and administered as part of the see on the site. Many suggestions made The increased floor space when added Groups who have written to Minister REDWatch and has been involved in development rather than sold with floor in these discussions have been taken with floor space reallocated from the Sartor arguing that “the amended plan’s meetings between Frasers and community space. This lowers building costs and has up by Frasers and its international and removed building results in much greater proposed increase in massing and scale is representatives as well as attending the reduced the number of car spaces needed Australian architects. density going into the commercial part contrary to the findings from the Design media conference. to service the development. During discussions resident repre- of the development near the corner Competition, independent expert opinion The same spot can be used by busi- sentatives expressed concern about the of Abercrombie Street and Broadway and the previous community consulta- North Eveleigh development update – page 5 nesses during the day and residents and density that had been approved for the which now exceeds the height of the tion process.” 2 The South Sydney Herald – May 2008

PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo News Telephone 0400 008 338 Phone/fax 02 9698 8949 The views expressed in this newspaper are those of the author and the article and are not necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. ADVERTISING Local resident wants ATP to turn it down [email protected] 0400 139 710 Reem Al-Gharabally cally treated. MAILING ADDRESS: Robert Domm, Managing Director of PO Box 2360 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 Bill Sheridan, a long-term resident the ATP says he will do what he can to of Darlington, has an axe to grind get to the truth of the matter and has LETTERS with the Australian Technology Park employed engineers to conduct further Please send letters and emails to: The South Sydney Herald. in Redfern: he says noise from parties testing during the MTV music awards. Email: [email protected] held there has been keeping him up “I am engaging some new people to Supply sender name and suburb. at night. conduct further testing in recommended Size: 150 words or less. We may edit for legal or other reasons. locations around the area and on the path The Australian Technology Park - a and I will be assessing the outcome,” he research and development precinct with says. “I acknowledge that there is prob- an entertainment venue - is located in the ably a noise that we are hearing, but the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops and issue is if that noise is excessive.” EDITORIAL COMMITTEE has held a number of big events [most “We are going to do proper testing recently the MTV music awards]. Mr and this is going to be the biggest Sheridan has written numerous letters event that the park has ever had so it to council, police and the management is a good event to test on,” he adds. of the ATP over the years notifying them “We are going to adopt an impartial and that noise from such events is unaccept- Bill Sheridan Photo: Ali Blogg scientific approach.” ably loud. And if the tests show that the events “It is this high amplified music coming him for noise to be measured from his Mr Sheridan wrote recently in a letter exceed legal noise limits: “We will act out of these buildings that were built residence have been rejected. to the police. responsibly and in accordance with our during the days of the railway,” he says. “The current ATP until recently “Why has the ATP refused to monitor legal obligations and therefore if we “If it was once in a blue moon we could retained the services of the Acoustic where persistent noise complains are find we have an issue we have to find Managing Editor Andrew Collis tolerate it but they seem to be having a Group with its engineers advising me brought to his attention?” he adds. a solution.” lot more functions.” that they were under strict instructions Mr Sheridan has proposed that The ATP has employed acoustic only to take noise readings from the events at the Redfern site that may If you are hearing what you believe is engineers to monitor the noise but footway outside 499 Wilson Street, where exceed the legal noise limits should be excessive noise from this area please Mr Sheridan says invitations made by in many cases the noise was inaudible,” cancelled until the building is acousti- email us at [email protected]

also took place at the Seymour Centre the republic to centre on Indigenous Mini summits, many ideas last month with a forum of contributors rights, stating that the Constitution needs to the book Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a to discern the inhabitants of Australia The 2020 Summit has been labelled Better Australia. Edited by Melbourne’s before European settlement. Co-Editor Nicholas McCallum Dorothy McRae-McMahon an ideal visionary triumph by some, La Trobe University Professor of Politics, “With the removal of the Crown’s a gab-fest of the leftist elite by others. Robert Manne, the collection of short sovereignty, [Australia] will have to Federal member for Sydney Tanya Whilst the ideas that will get Prime essays on visions for Australia’s future recognise the original inhabitants of this Plibersek hosted a prelude to Can- Minister Rudd and his Labor Cabinet’s was brought to life and moderated nation,” he said, “And that needs to be berra’s 2020 Summit on Saturday April approval won’t be revealed entirely until by ABC TV’s Talking Heads host in the Constitution.” 5, at the Union NSW auditorium on year’s end, it can be safe to say that a Peter Thompson [see book review on Whether that prospect is pursued in Sussex Street. It was just one of many few topics will soon gather the pace of page 8]. the republic debate will be a matter for mini summits that were held across the an avalanche on Everest. Climate change, the economy and the the Australian people. state to discuss local matters. One such topic is the republic, an issue housing crisis were some of the topics There are other positive ideas that that the previous federal government had that were discussed, but the issue of the have arisen from the Canberra summit in Local community members were pronounced dead 10 years ago. And with republic was raised time after time. regards to Indigenous Australians, includ- Co-Editor Trevor Davies welcome to attend and join in with Ms that debate comes other amendments to One panel guest, Associate Professor of ing better funding for higher education, a Plibersek and other representatives of the Constitution that would recognise the Australian History at Sydney University, future fund for housing and an National the Sydney community who would be original owners of this land. Mark Mckenna, expressed the view that Indigenous Knowledge centre to provide present at the Canberra meet. A lead-up to the Canberra summit it was necessary for the debate around support for rural communities.

not accommodate questionable farming Perhaps by growing their own products, practices out of some warm nostalgia students in urban areas will feel a little Maybe you have some good ideas for the My idea for the bush. But the fact is, primary more “connected” to the world in which formation of a responsible, ethical and producers manage some 70% of Aus- they live… in a way that their ipod, laptop just Australia in the 21st century. Send Stuart Higgins tralia’s water and 65% of Australia’s or Blackberry fails to deliver. them in to us at [email protected] Photography Ali Blogg land mass. So if young people really Stuart Higgins was one of the wish to improve the environment by people selected to be part of the 2020, they may well be better off choos- Federal Government’s initiative for the ing a career as an agriculturalist rather discussing of ideas about our nation’s than an environmentalist. Encouraging future. Stuart is a young farmer from students to grow their own product may outside Toowoomba who now lives help to demonstrate – as they choose a fair bit of his time in Sydney. He their career paths – that the two are not Is housing on is a graduate of the Fairfax Ethics mutually exclusive. Course, a context in which he met his now wife, Fiona. He has done Secondly, I am often a proponent of your mind? ADVERTISING & CONTENT work overseas in sharing his farming using market forces to address problems Ben Falkenmire skills with people in need and intends rather than government intervention. Are you a renter? to do more of that before too long. But this doesn’t always work: markets His little son Oliver will be named don’t function properly unless they Do you have a mortgage? and blessed in the Uniting Church are fully informed. Consumers must How does housing affect your life? ASSISTANT-EDITOR in Waterloo. In other words, he is a be informed of what it takes to create Jessica Moore man of many places, interests, skills a primary product, if all the impacts Do you have any recent stories about renting or DESIGNER and concerns. of their choices are to be factored into purchasing a home? Robert Young the final value paid to the producer. What was my idea presented at the By encouraging students to actually PRINTER MPD 2020 Summit? It’s a simple idea attempt- grow something themselves, they will Volunteers are needed to take part in a 1 hour taped 46-62 Maddox St, Alexandria 2015 ing to address a complex problem. become more aware of the means of discussion with the researcher about their experiences That every child at some time during production of the items they demand REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS their education will produce a real-life from rural Australia. Ultimately, this will of either renting or mortgaging a property. Reem Al-Gharabally Nicholas McCallum Jane Barton Sarah Malik product assisted by an Australian develop a generation of better-informed Anna Christie Ellice Mol primary producer. consumers and may even deliver greater For more information about this research, please Ben Falkenmire Susannah Palk value to growers. Phillip Fernandez Carissa Simons contact Adrian Emilsen at (mb) 0405 358 253 Michele Freeman Claire Thompson My rationale was threefold: Katherine Keefe Ben Walker Firstly, Australian agriculture by 2020 Thirdly, learning by doing is a power- or email: [email protected] norrie mAy-welby Peter Whitehead will be assessed by urban consumers ful tool. To produce any product from “We gratefully acknowledge the many nationally and internationally on its sun, water and earth is a miraculous volunteer contributors and distributors ability to minimise its environmental process that people shouldn’t distance who make this publication possible.” footprint while maintaining optimum themselves from, no matter how tech- AUSTRALIA’S INNOVATIVE UNIVERSITY production. In 2020, city-dwellers will nologically advanced society becomes. The South Sydney Herald – May 2008 3 News Council barking mad, say park users

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Sydney City Council has approved 30 new full-time off-leash dog parks, with another 15 to be given further consideration. Residents and com- munity groups have been angered by the decision which would see 10% of Sydney’s parks, but 40% of Sydney’s parkland, become off-leash areas for dogs and their owners.

Michaela Boland, Surry Hills parent, says that Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s park plan only speaks to responsible dog owners, and far too many are not. During a visit by Moore to one of her local parks, Ms Boland raised her concerns about the behaviour of some unleashed dogs towards cyclists, chil- dren and the elderly. She says Moore’s response was to suggest that she tell her two-year-old son not to approach dogs. In Ms Boland’s view, the Lord Mayor believes that “humans are the problem, not dogs”. Sydney City councillors have also been infuriated by Lord Mayor Moore’s refusal to have a standard 12-month trial and evaluation of the new policy. Deputy Lord Mayor Tony Pooley says that “this is clearly one of the most contentious policies the City of Sydney has put in place, and it should be properly evaluated”. He questions why “the Lord Mayor consistently seeks trials for extending pub trading hours but will not consider a similar approach to this Running loose Photo: Ali Blogg radical plan”. Mr Pooley also argues that these their dogs whilst 38% were accompanied responsible pet ownership education to sport fields under the State Government groups are doubtful that these rules can be changes do not strike a fair balance by children. help dog owners and other park users Companion Animals Act. City rangers are enforced across 40% of Sydney’s parkland between dog owners and other park A media release from Sydney City share the space amicably. Furthermore, also to increase enforcement action where when park users already report that there users. A 2007 survey found that 18% Council says that it will investigate a dogs are prohibited from going within 10 owners are irresponsible. is little enforcement by rangers across the of park users visited parks to exercise program for volunteers to carry out metres of playgrounds, BBQ areas and However, residents and community current off-leash parkland area. Union warns: check payslip for super

Nicholas McCallum $200,000 that should have been paid the widow,” Secretary Ferguson said, and members of the Maori community the need for workers to check their from his superannuation fund, were “So Sheree and her five children have held a protest on March 4 at another payslips to clarify that they are receiv- On November 11, 2007, 40-year-old never passed onto his grieving wife been left destitute.” Built Construction refurbishment in ing their entitlements. “No one plans form worker Chris Poumale suffered and children. He also stated that it was the duty Darling Harbour. to die,” he said. “And if there is no a heart attack and died at Potts of Built Corp to make certain that Chris Poumale’s death has high- [superannuation] being paid, then there Point building site, leaving his wife, CFMEU NSW Secretary Andrew its contractors befittingly pay their lighted some of the dirty tricks and is no money.” Sheree, widowed with five children. Ferguson stated that there was a moral workers. “The CFMEU is demanding negligence that employers across the Mr Vollmer said that the CFMEU Mr Poumale was working for a obligation on the part of the builder to Built not only fulfil its moral obligation nation have been getting away with. would soon be running a campaign to sub-contractor that was employed at provide that support to the Poumale to support this family, but that the For many working Australians the check up on all the major building sites the site of a Built Corp Construction family after Chris’ death. Because Built company also ensure all workers on its super contributions of their employers in Sydney, to ensure that employers are development. Unbeknownst to Chris Corp had employed a dishonest contrac- other building sites are paid correctly,” are the only form of life insurance that adhering to their legal obligations and and his wife, the Chippendale based tor, the moral responsibility should have he said. they have. If employers are not paying paying their workers’ super. sub-contractor was not paying Chris’s fallen upon it. The quick reaction of the CFMEU to their employee’s superannuation, it Although the Poumale family has superannuation, as stipulated by “Because Chris’ employer failed to this great injustice has made certain can have drastic effects in the case of now received a settlement from Built federal law. After his death on the pay superannuation as required by that Ms Poumale has now received a sudden death. Corp, there was no legal requirement for site, the entitlements of $100,000 to law, there is no insurance benefit for settlement, but not before 100 workers The CFMEU’s Tim Vollmer expressed the company to pay Chris’ family.

The Next Generation - A Blueprint for Aged Services and Facilities Invitation to comment

The City of Sydney is committed The draft plan is available at neighbourhood service centres, activity centres, libraries and online at www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/cityimprovements to providing the best services It is also available in alternative formats on request. and facilities for older people. For more information, call 9246 7822. You can lodge your views by: The City of Sydney has recently completed a draft plan MAIL: CEO, City of Sydney, GPO Box 1591, Sydney NSW 2001 Submissions must be received noThe later Next than Generation MONDAY – 2 A JUNE Blueprint 2008 for Aged FAX: (02) 8512 4233 Services and Facilities 2008 – 2018. EMAIL: [email protected] 4 The South Sydney Herald – May 2008 The South Sydney Herald – May 2008 5 News

HAVE YOU HEARD? THE FAST NEWS WITH TREVOR DAVIES Crossing at Elizabeth & Randle Sts, Surry Hills – Be careful! The Surry Hills Business Alliance and the Nichols Street Community Group are running a strong local campaign to make the City Council and RTA put a pedestrian crossing at the corner of Elizabeth and Randle Streets, Surry Hills. The Surry Hills Business Alliance, in its email newsletter, reports spokesperson Brian Adams as saying: “Taxis are a big problem as they often ignore pedestrians while turning into Randle Street to go to their ranks at Central Station. Sydney Buses, driving too fast, sometimes use Randle Street to pick up passengers when trains don’t run due to track work, particularly on weekends.” Nichols Street Community Group spokesperson Brian Noad said: “Pedestrians here are late-night patrons in the many hotels. A lot come from the suburbs. Residents want police to have zero tolerance for alcohol-fuelled violence, with bans on late-night hotel entry to slash crime and violence and to increase pedestrian safety.” The Community wrote to the CEO to ask if Council would paint a crossing on the road. City of Sydney CEO Monica Barone, wrote to the Nichols Street Community Group saying: “I would like to make the general comment that the City is committed to providing a safe and pleasant environment for local residents to live and do business. To improve our City’s environmental outcomes, priority is Artist’s impression Picture: Supplied increasingly being given to improving facilities for pedestrians and cyclists as part of our Local Area Traffic Management schemes.” Some concerns over plans for North Eveleigh

Our friends at Fairfax are having a hard time Ben Falkenmire five- and four-storey residential buildings consultation by the RWA could have As Fast News reported last month, Fairfax recently apologised to newsagents for planned near the train tracks. been better. the constant late delivery of the Herald and its other papers, as well as apologising Sweeping developments proposed Arch planning scrutineer Mr Turnbull “Certainly the RWA has improved to a senior journalist whom management accused of leaking a story to their rivals by the Redfern Waterloo Authority to said there were some concerns about the some of the stuff that was in the BEP,” at News Ltd. Now perhaps they need to apologise to Redfern. Michael Englert transform the North Eveleigh rail yards plans, mainly around parking, heritage Mr Turnbull said. “But we have this e-mailed Fast News and asked: “Did you see the SMH’s Good Living supplement have been met with tepid approval and green credentials. process where the exhibition is the today? The cover says, ‘HOT SPOTS – A foodie guide to Redfern and beyond’. from local community inspectors “How parking will be handled in consultation. Quite often the stuff has The story by Helen Greenwood includes a ‘cutesy’ map of the 15 selected food REDWatch. relation to CarriageWorks, which is been signed off before community gets eateries - mentioning two in Redfern and other cafes in Waterloo, Alexandria, currently an issue, is a point of concern,” a look at it.” Mascot and Rosebery.” Michael points out that the Zensation Teahouse is The RWA’s Concept Plan for North he said. “There are also no indications CEO of the RWA Robert Domm said actually in Surry Hills and the Saint Germain Patisserie looks like Darlington or Eveleigh, which will see 2,400 new the RWA is going for best practice for the local community has had “at least Chippendale on the Fairfax map which doesn’t even include Redfern Street. residents and 3,270 employees enter the green credentials like Frasers are on three significant opportunities to provide They’ve forgotten Redfern, haven’t they? Here’s a newspaper trying to sound area, went on public exhibition May 1 the CUB site. We are hoping for some their input over North Eveleigh”. trendy by mentioning Redfern but not actually covering the real Redfern eateries. with an extended community consulta- improvement on that.” “This is in addition to CarriageWorks, “A true foodies guide to Redfern should include the cafes, restaurants and free tion window. Of the 181,000 square metres of floor Yaama Dhiyaan and the Blacksmiths’ food services or subsidised food outlets e.g. Café Cana.” Why not do a real Commenting on an earlier version of space planned, more than half will workshop community markets which Redfern foodies guide in response to the Fairfax effort, Michael suggested - the RWA’s plan, REDWatch said plan be residential (92,000 square metres) have all undergone consultative proc- especially with the Survival Expresso Bar just opening up again? density and building height could have and there will be on-site reuse of esses,” he said. been a lot worse for residents. stormwater. Mr Domm said the RWA had sought “I think it’s great these buildings will Just under 30% of floor space will extra time for the community to digest Balfour Park at last retain some space and some vistas for comprise the adaptive reuse of heritage the plans, including eight information The Chippendale Resident Group in its recent email newsletter wrote: “Sunday surrounding residents,” REDWatch’s buildings including the Paint Shop in sessions for the public up to the final March 30 is an auspicious date for Chippendale. It marks the formal closure of Geoff Turnbull said. “It could be seven the east where four- and five-storey date for submissions on June 12. a part of Balfour Street (between Kensington and O’Connor Streets) to make our or 10 times worse. It may well be that residential blocks and retail space are Proceeds of the sale of North Eveleigh latest small park. Chippendale has the lowest open space per person of all Sydney people will end up happy with what to be created. are to be used for a million-dollar upgrade suburbs. So, every additional green space we can gain is valuable. Even tiny ends up there.” “It really is early days for the heritage of Redfern train station and the building “pocket parks” (like the street closures on Balfour at Cleveland, and at Shepherd Building heights in the eastern part of side of things,” Mr Turnbull said. “The of a pedestrian and cyclist bridge linking at Broadway) have a positive benefit for us in a number of ways. “But there’s the plans are to be four to five storeys Paint Shop is potentially at risk with the ATP with Wilson Street. an important community lesson with the new Balfour Street Park (yet to have near existing residences on Cornwallis larger heights planned than the existing an official name). Moves to have this street closure and park started many and Garden Streets, and eight storeys building height.” The Concept Plan for North Eveleigh can years ago when a small group of residents approached Council. Despite getting closer to the train tracks. Welcoming the extension of com- be viewed at www.redfernwaterloo.com. rejected, deferred numerous times, being buried in municipal bureaucracy, Over on the west eight- and 12-storey munity consultation by the RWA from au or in person at the City of Sydney and becoming sidelined through Council amalgamations, the idea simply was buildings will line Wilson Street, with four to six weeks, Mr Turnbull said Centre, 158 Redfern Street, Redfern. not allowed to die. We salute the residents who kept persisting and nagging on the matter. They never gave up. Eventually, the park will be properly landscaped. It will link across O’Connor Street with the main park intended for the brewery site redevelopment and with the strip park to be created down the side of Wellington Street. It will also become part of the long-advocated ‘green Newtown’s homeless in focus link’ pedestrian and cycle-friendly way going from Eveleigh through Redfern, Chippendale, and Ultimo into Darling Harbor.” Linda Daniele used to be.” health issues as well. Effectively it means Speakers at the forum are repre- homeless people can’t participate in An increasing number of homeless sentatives from some of the Centre’s society,” she said. Cheeky Sydney people seeking help in Newtown has key partner service providers in the The NNC has developed some good A colleague on this paper, Dorothy McRae-McMahon, upon noting the recent prompted the establishment of a com- inner-city area, including the Homeless partnerships, according to Ms Burns, unveiling of the Kiwi soldier at the north-western end of the Anzac Bridge, munity forum to address the growing Persons’ Legal Service and the Inner City but what’s really needed is a dedicated remembers: “A few years ago, I was walking across the Anzac Bridge from the problem. Overcoming homelessness Homelessness Outreach and Support housing worker, counseling services and fishmarket when I realised that I was about to pass the unveiling ceremony for in Newtown is the focus of a forum Service, established by the Department of increased access to affordable long-term the newly finished statue of the Australian soldier. A small crowd had gathered being held at the Newtown Neighbour- Housing’s Homelessness Unit for people housing for the area. “It often feels like around the foot of the statue and the guards told me that it was due to be hood Centre on May 14. The Centre’s across the City of Sydney area. The we have to go from crisis to crisis before unveiled at 2.30. I decided to wait to see what it looked like. We chatted with executive officer, Lisa Burns, said the Centre’s Boarding House Project will also we can support people, with nothing each other in anticipation and, at about 2.20, a couple of guys in bright t-shirts forum will allow for the development be represented, and one of the Centre’s done about maintaining wellness,” arrived and loosened the ropes which held down the covering on the statue. of critical new strategies. clients will share a personal story. she said. They stood back and waited, looking over the edge of the bridge to see if the Figures from the 2001 Census showing The Centre will be launching a direc- Premier was in sight. Nothing happened and 2.30 passed. At 2.45 they looked Staff at the NNC have reported more that 100,000 people a night are homeless tory of services at the forum and hope at their watches, conferred with each other and then, as we watched and before than 1,200 accommodation requests and in Australia with 14,000 sleeping rough to establish a working party to raise the the guards realised what was about to happen, they moved to the statute and over 450 tenancy-issue queries in the are already over six years old. “The profile of homelessness in the area in unveiled it! We all laughed, cheered and clapped. The one or two media people past year alone, and expect the number earliest evidence from the new [2006] response to the Federal Government’s who were there with microphones asked us what we thought of the statue and to grow. “We’re finding that a lot more Census data is that it’s getting worse,” discussion paper on homelessness, being we replied enthusiastically. We duly admired the statue and then trickled away. Some of us, including myself, were crossing to the other side of the bridge to people are turning up to our front counter Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said earlier issued for consultation during May. the footway. As we went under the bridge to do that, there was Premier Bob who are homeless and it’s one of our in the year. The Sydney Street Choir, whose mem- Carr, followed by a number of robed chaplains puffing up the steps from below, biggest unmet needs,” Ms Burns said. “Homelessness services can only meet bers are homeless or disadvantaged men obviously arriving to unveil the statue. We said loudly to him, ‘Too late! We’ve According to Ms Burns, the face of 14% of the accommodation needs and I and women, sponsored by NNC, will be already done it!’ He took no notice of us and kept onward and upward. To this homelessness in the area has changed. know some people are sleeping rough,” singing in a closing performance. day, I always wonder why I didn’t follow to see what happened. I also wonder “Traditionally we would be seeing older said Ms Burns. why nobody seemed to report our ‘people’s unveiling’. What I thought to myself men, but that’s changing and now we Finding a home is a basic need and Homelessness in Newtown Forum was that, only in Sydney would a couple of guys in t-shirts have the cheek to see single women and families too. the first that must be met for anything Newtown Neighbourhood Centre unveil a formal statue because a Premier kept them waiting. Somehow, I felt and It really is a mix of people,” she said. else to follow. “Without housing, people 1 Bedford Street, Newtown still feel that many Anzac soldiers would be delighted that it happened and that it “We’ve got a good community, a vibrant can’t find work, health issues arise and Wednesday, May 14 from 9am to 1.30pm may even have reflected their spirit more than the planned formalities!” community, but as the area has evolved they are prone to becoming victims Ph: 9516 4755 for bookings there is a lot more of a divide than there of crime. There are significant mental www.newtowncentre.org 6 The South Sydney Herald – May 2008 News Aikido in Alexandria

Tom Seeto is the epitome of a Budo (martial way) teacher and is highly regarded in the Aikido Yoshinkai NSW (AYNSW) martial arts world as one who has truly recently hosted a public demon- mastered his art”, said Darren Friend stration of the Japanese martial Sensei (teacher), 5th Dan and Chief art, Aikido, at its dojo (training Instructor of AYNSW. hall) in the inner-Sydney suburb Yoshinkan Aikido instructors and of Alexandria. students demonstrated a wide and impressive range of advanced tech- Yoshinkan Aikido is known for its niques. In particular, Friend Sensei dynamic yet non-aggressive approach to gave an astonishing demonstration of subdue an attacker. It uses the attacker’s a “secret” technique. oncoming power to apply techniques Two people manhandled Friend through balance breaking, locks, pins Sensei by grabbing him on either side and throws. Yoshinkan is also the Aikido and lifting him over 1.5 metres off the style in which the Tokyo Metropolitan ground. Then Friend Sensei somehow Riot police are trained in Japan. became dead weight, landed on his feet The occasion was one of several and at the same time, flipped the two activities to honour the visit to Sydney assailants over on their backs! Karl Schubert looking forward to July Photo: Ali Blogg of a master Aikido instructor, Inoue Kyoichi Hanshi, 9th Dan black belt in For more information on Yoshinkan the Yoshinkan style of Aikido. “Inoue Aikido and AYNSW, please visit: World Youth Day, Zetland Hanshi is a teacher of rare quality. He www.aikido-sydney.com

Linda Daniele co-ordinator role for World Youth Day in the Pacific Ocean,” he said. the cost of World Youth Day finally he said. “I was looking to take another with great gusto. The parish is hoping Raising around $200,000 is the goal made public on April 21, hosting the step, with a group of Australians who Zetland is not usually the hot to be able to fund the trips of around 80 and having reached around $170,000 Catholic Church’s largest youth event all had different ideas. Standing in St source of breaking news but a dedi- pilgrims from island nations including so far, Mr Schubert said support and is certainly requiring an Olympian Peter’s Square with tens of thousands cated resident is drawing attention Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Papua donations across five Missionaries of financial effort. of others was unbelievable. It really for his sterling efforts in helping to New Guinea, Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. Sacred Heart affiliated parishes had For those working hard behind the brought home the fact that I was part raise funds for young people from the Mr Schubert explained the special been outstanding. “It really is a lot scenes, like Karl Schubert, providing of many more who share faith, a love of Oceania region to visit Australia for connection with the Oceania region for when you are asking small parishes pilgrims with a once-in-a-lifetime faith, and it puts you in touch with the World Youth Day, in between a busy Our Lady of the Rosary parishes that like Erskineville with only 75 to 150 chance to experience their faith through person you want to be,” he said. job in radio and ironing shirts. are under the care of the Missionaries parishioners to help,” he said. an international event such as World For many of the pilgrims from the of the Sacred Heart. “This group of World Youth Day is the largest event Youth Day is the focus. Mr Schubert Oceania region, Mr Schubert said, the Karl Schubert, 25, operations man- missionaries first came into being in in Sydney since the Olympics, with recalls the impact of his own experi- cost involved in attending World Youth ager at radio station 2SM, is an active France in the mid-1800s but following more than 125,000 Catholics expected ence, invited as part of a delegation Day is money they wouldn’t see in a parish member at Our Lady of the persecution, had to leave. Apparently, to travel from overseas to Sydney, where of young Australians to visit Rome in lifetime. “Some of these people are the Rosary Catholic Church in Kensington they got an atlas and spun it and that’s they will join an estimated 100,000 2006. “Experiencing my faith in that poorest of the poor and to see their who has taken on his fundraising where it landed, on the region of islands Australians for the week’s events. With way was so refreshing and humbling,” excitement will be amazing.”

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The Redfern-Waterloo Authority Public Exhibition Details Information Sessions Venue (RWA) has prepared a Concept The Department of Planning (DoP) is To coincide with the DoP’s public Yaama Dhiyaan, 255 Wilson Street, Plan for the redevelopment placing the Concept Plan on public exhibition the RWA is holding 8 Eveleigh (next to the CarriageWorks of the North Eveleigh site. exhibition from 1 May to 12 June 2008. Information Sessions to provide you viewing platform and entrance) with the opportunity to ask questions All submissions must be sent to North Eveleigh will provide for a to RWA staff about the proposal Date/times the Department of Planning by the mix of residential, commercial, retail and the planning and submission Tues 6 May 4 - 6 pm 12 June 2008 Addressed to: and cultural uses, adaptive reuse process. The information sessions Sat 10 May 2 - 4 pm of heritage items, open space, and are informal and will last 2 hours. Tues 13 May 4 - 6 pm The Director, Tues 20 May 4 - 6 pm vehicular and pedestrian access. Urban Assessments, You can attend the session at any time Wed 28 May 4 - 6 pm Department of Planning, during the 2 hours. At the information Wed 4 June 4 - 6 pm The Concept Plan will be determined GPO Box 39, session you will be able to view: Sat 7 June 2 - 4 pm by the Minister for Planning under Sydney NSW 2001 Part 3A of the Environmental Planning  the Environmental Assessment Wed 11 June 4 - 6 pm and Assessment Act 1979. or email prepared for the Concept Plan, [email protected] Questions The Concept Plan provides an overall  drawings and plans detailing If you have any questions regarding plan for the site detailing building The Concept Plan may be viewed at what is proposed on the site, these sessions or require further foot prints, height, adaptive reuse of  www.redfernwaterloo.com.au information, please contact Redfern Neighbourhood Service heritage buildings, open space and    a model of the plan, and Mohini Nair or Yolanda Gil by Centre, 158 Redfern St, Redfern the road and pedestrian network. phoning 9202 9100 or by email  DoP Information Centre,  a 3-D animated computer [email protected] 23-33 Bridge St, Sydney model allowing the viewer  City of Sydney Council, Level 2, to travel through the site. Town Hall House, 456 Kent St, Sydney Man of the moment

towards the end of its hour and 40 minutes, but this shouldn’t be a deterrent from seeing the play. The idea is appealing, perhaps it’s the prosaic nature of sobriety that gets in the way of this being super stylish theatre. Ruben is an attractive witty characterization and vulnerable enough to be appealing. The other characters suffer in two dimensions. Not that the actors don’t try and the cast is mostly strong – although Lex Marinos struggled to find the measure of his character as Peter, Ruben’s drunken father. Cowell’s point isn’t that complex: alcoholism The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen and Julian Morrow awarded Best Television Moment Photo: Lisa Hogben is endemic and binge drinking its worst symptom. Each character takes up a position in Toby Schmitz as Ruben Guthrie Photo: Siobhan Robertson relation to Ruben’s new-found abstinence. If left Award 2008 was the Earth Hour initiative. to the characters to find more natural voices MTV at the ATP The initiative, which began in Sydney, is Ja n e Ba r t o n about the topic, I suspect their opinions might part of the fight against global warming. have been different, but Cowell has produced El l i c e Mo l Its aim is to reduce electrical consumption Ruben Guthrie (Toby Schmitz) is the man a piece that falls on the side of polemic and with the help of businesses and residents of the moment. With his advertising shtick, it becomes a little predictable to watch. The MTV Awards came to Sydney on April who switch off their lights for an hour on his Czech model girlfriend, his coke-snorting- Mainstream media has fallen about in delight 26, the location: The Australian Technology March 31. The initiative has since gathered vodka-skulling antics have taken him to a place at the playwright’s courage in tackling the issue. Park, Eveleigh. Stepping out in designer momentum in cities al over Australia and where his invincible ego might just prevail. Does it make good art? Go and see for yourself. outfits, stilettos or black leather was a mixed abroad, as far as Denmark and Israel. bunch of local and international talent. Of course, it wouldn’t be the MTV Awards Unfortunately, in a fit of madness, Ruben Ruben Guthrie without the bevy of stars. Local celebrities has leapt from a hotel roof, attempting to dive Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre Amid the variety of celebrities to dazzle the filing down the red carpet were Anthony into a kids’ wading pool. His symbolic downfall April 17 – May 11 red carpet was David Toovey, the 18-year-old Mundine and his daughter, Deni Hines in a is the starting point for Brendan Cowell’s tour Directed: Wayne Blair CEO of The Oak Tree Foundation. With a silver outfit by New Zealand designer Zambezi through Ruben’s subsequent 12-step program. Script: Brendan Cowell gleaming smile and twinkling eyes, he said – “I paid for it myself!” she bellowed – and Ruben’s strong and convincing start wavers With : Toby Schmitz, Tracey Mann, Lex Marinos he was delighted to be presenting The Good there was just enough room on the carpet for Karma Award for the 2008 MTV Awards. the five towering finalists from Australia’s “The Oak Tree Foundation is a youth-run Next Top Model. We also saw the debut aid and development agency,” he said. “Our appearance of five-piece Sydney pop group “Led Zeppelin jamming with mission is to empower developing communities Amy Meredith, head to toe in tight black through education in a way that is sustainable.” leather with studded embellishments, which Nominations for the Good Karma Award to the surprise of many have neither an Amy Nick Drake… in the Middle East” included hip hoppers, Bliss ’n Esso for nor a Meredith in the band. International their work in South Africa documenting stars included rappers 50 Cent, Dizzy An d r e Ra n g i a h extreme poverty, The Earth Hour initiative, Rascal, Wyclef Jean and Irish pop star Brian the Sea Shepherd crew of the Steve Irwin, McFadden who perhaps felt the slightest bit The Israel-born Sydney-bred and now Movember, and the young people of Australia out of his league alongside these Americans. Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Lior who believed in the National Apology. “There’s not much hip hop in Ireland,” he has this year released his second independent The winner of the MTV Good Karma said, with a flash of his pearly teeth. album, Corner of an Endless Road. Despite migrating over two decades ago, the musician’s middle-eastern heritage remains a strong feature behind the intensely mesmerising, Lotus & Phoenix II melodically smooth and enchanting record. SSH performed a traditional piece showcasing all The highly anticipated follow-up album the elements of the style – fast-paced pure marks a dramatic departure from Lior’s Lotus & Phoenix II, presented by Nayika dance sequences, a Sanskrit verse and expressive ARIA-nominated debut Autumn Flow. Indian Dance at the Redfern Community hand-gestures to the song ‘The goddess with Turning away from the deceptively simple Centre, showcased two great Asian cultures, lotus-petal eyes’ as well as a mimed narrative arrangements that catapulted him to the Indian and Chinese, without compromising sequence, while Shoko, displaying her training forefront of the Australian music scene, the quality or distinctive identity of either. both in ballet as well as classical Indian dance, Photo: Supplied Lior has this time around called in a musical performed a slow, exquisite piece showing the army with several tracks from the record Traditional Sizhu ensemble music, which poses of Shiva in the costume of a Brahmin featuring a 25-piece symphony orchestra. as he has literally done it all on his own. featured the fine operatic voice of Cheng Hong priest from the temple at Chidambaram. Corner of an Endless Road is musically more Choosing to remain record-contract free, Yu accompanied by Tony Wheeler on the ruan Vimala recently returned from India complex and adventurous drawing from his the Sydney local had to self-fund his first (Chinese string instrument), by itself was a treat after performing at the Music and Dance vast array of eastern and western musical EPs and album. Going gold it became one for an audience rarely exposed to this kind of Festival in India, where she won acclaim. influences. He spent the bulk of 2007 working of the most successful debut albums of any music. Tony also improvised in an Indian raga Two of the dance pieces were to live music on the album which he describes as “a true Australian artist and made way for the more to the complex drumming of the talented Bala with Aruna Parthiban’s singing, Bala Sankar representation of my musical landscape; think “comfortable” production of his second album. Sankar on the mridangam (South Indian drum). on the mridangam and Tony Wheeler on Led Zeppelin jamming with Nick Drake at “The songs had time to breathe during Dancers Vimala Sarma and Shoko the clarinet playing South Indian music. a teahouse somewhere in the Middle East.” the recording process and often took us to Nagafuchi, Vimala’s Japanese student, Vimala’s introductions to the pieces with hand Lior’s style is an amalgamation of unexpected and demanding places. These new performed a repertoire of classical Kuchipudi gestures made them instantly accessible and diverse and seemingly contradictory tracks are intensely personal and candid. They dances, again not usually seen. Vimala Sarma understandable to an appreciative audience. musical influences. He recalls being represent landmarks of the emotional journey inspired by Israel’s unique blend of eastern throughout the last two years,” explains Lior. and western culture, of pop music from “Retaining creative control is everything. enlisted internationally renowned musician lute) it is especially memorable. America and orchestras from Egypt. I don’t think I can be part of a machine. Sia to guest star on the album. The vocal Lior’s emotive voice has captured the “I remember growing up, every Friday I don’t have anything against record harmonising between Sia and Lior infuse to attention of audiences not only in Australia night they’d have an Arabic film on TV companies, but I don’t want to be involved create a lyrically beautiful and emotionally but in Japan, Europe, UK and the US. Corner with all these amazing Egyptian orchestras with someone who has an agenda or a intense break-up song, ‘I’ll Forget You’. of an Endless Road comprises fresh vocals playing,” he explains. “I remember hearing schedule ... It starts governing your own Another must-hear track is ‘April alongside a wide array of instrumentation that that as a kid and being so inspired by it. It agenda and creeping into everything – from Bloom’, a song about embracing growth makes for easy Sunday-afternoon listening must’ve enriched my ear growing up.” your song-writing to your deadlines.” through self-acceptance. Featuring that will undoubtedly appeal to all those who His successes are particularly remarkable With complete creative control Lior the “oud” (Arabic predecessor to the know beautiful, austere and sincere music. 8 The Review May ’08

they like to imagine they grew up in Australia’s leading intellectuals where Viola would take the tragic (if their life was a TV series set in to write a chapter each on their medieval tale of two lovers seemed the mid-west of the United States). specialty topics. This book ties in immense and we didn’t want to The Reviews Lars Lindstrom’s (Ryan Gosling) well with the recent ideas summit. miss out on seeing what we thought small town upbringing wasn’t as Dear Mr Rudd covers a range would be one of the most significant Theatre Review lurched side-wards, into a new moral ideal as in your imagination. His of topics from climate change works by this amazing artist. by Jane Barton parameter, the metaphor of a child mother died in childbirth and his to education to the arts to the Imagine, then, my surprise terrorist catapulting the intellect into father and brother couldn’t cope. economy to housing, with experts when I found that here in Redfern, 21st century unchartered territory His relationship with humanity imparting their knowledge of both from 6.30 to 10.30 every night we while flickering lighting, irrational has been strained ever since, to the the current system and how it would are able to walk into St Saviour’s actions and fragile attempts at extent that he can barely touch be good to change the system to church and experience a part of emotional connection plucked people. He purchases, and begins a make it run more effectively. this epic project. In the beautiful the anxieties of the audience like delusional relationship with, a plastic One of the most enlightening Romanesque revival building, Moving Target a badly strung harp. Powerful, doll – supposedly half-Brazilian, chapters was on health. Bill Bowtell two parts of Viola’s The Tristan Drama Studio Opera House challenging theatrical comment, with half-Danish – named Bianca. says that Australia has a world-class Project are presented as large, video Director: Benedict Andrews the audience dragged kicking and The odd part is not the relationship. system in spite of its atrocious installations. Shown in conjunction Script: Marius von Mayenburg screaming to the edge of the abyss. Most males at one time (potentially management rather than because with another work presented at the Direct from the Adelaide a very long time) of their lives of it, and suggests nationalising and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Festival, Moving Target is rarefied carry on delusional relationships coordinating the state and federal this installation has been brought theatre. For the casual theatre Film Review with women real and un-real (and systems. He also says that preventative to Sydney by Kaldor Art Projects goer it could be hard going. The by Lindsay Cohen unreal), but they tend to keep them health needs to be brought to the fore. (also responsible for the enormous disconcerting effect, an assault in their heads. That the town adopts The economy is another a key undertaking of Christo and Jeanne- on senses without prior warning, Bianca, treating her as if she were topic. Ozonomics writer Andrew Claude’s Wrapped Coast – One Million was intense. Benedict Andrews real, is the source of all the laughs. Charlton says that the Rudd Square Feet in Little Bay, 1969). is surely a director’s director. His It’s a good, cute, touching film government is in the unusual For people not in the area, The theatrical language is sophisticated, with lots of good, cute, touching position of taking the reins at a time Tristan Project is well worth the edgy and extreme. It traverses a performances, especially from Bianca. when the economy is starting to evening pilgrimage. Its spiritual range of intellectual concepts and Lars and the Real Girl Rating: Discount coupon, 1 choc slow, because usually governments setting gives the work an aura that is traffics in emotions that are more Director: Craig Gillespie top, medium popcorn, small coke change during recessions. Rudd quite unlike the rarefied confines of the territory of literary novels. Starring: A bunch of actors you can’t and hot shower afterwards (alas). and Swan will need to manage the an art gallery and the massive scale of Moving Target is an utterly quite place and a plastic love doll economy carefully to ensure the the vertical projection is a deceptively exhilarating theatrical experience. Genre: More corn than porn government’s electoral survival. simple device that dispels the sense But it was uncomfortable to You can imagine my Book Review Overall, a clever book that is of watching another “video”. It is an watch; the culinary equivalent disappointment that a film starring by Ben Walker intelligent and readable within exciting and significant project that of eating at Tetsuya’s when your an anatomically correct love doll a short space of time, to give the has the ability to be both profoundly usual is a sausage sanga. The actors featured no nudity (not even of the reader an indication of both the moving and engaging on many levels. worked around games of hide artificial variety) and not one sex current system and opportunities and seek, at each turn becoming scene. That the film isn’t R-rated to improve Australia. more extreme and frenetic in their should have been a giveaway but Music Review attempts to hide, until they were even Spiderman featured pert by Lee Conley practically exhausted and stripped nipples and that was G-rated. Dear Mr Rudd Art Review back to survival mode on stage. Fortunately, the deflating realisation Robert Manne (ed.) by Cecilia Huynh Strangely enough comic moments of the lack of copulation was more GLEEBOOKS $29.95 resided in Hamish Michael’s deft than compensated by quirky humour Now that Australia has changed physicality, Matthew Whittet’s weird (the film’s, though mine isn’t bad) government and is on a different restlessness and Julie Forsythe’s and a down-to-earth homeliness that trajectory, Robert Mann thought cartoon voice. Then the whole thing reminds everyone of the small town it would be apt to ask some of Circle Just Keep Swimming The Tristan Project Monday Records 2008 Bill Viola Circle oozes the charm of your St Saviour’s Church, Redfern cousin playing tunes on the family It felt like a particularly icy November piano while your Aunty chats to night to be standing around outdoors your Mum and asks to borrow a in Paris but I stayed firmly planted in baking tray for the Sunday roast. the queue, guarding my position, at It’s a sometimes-folksy affair last count, 50 people down from the not out of place alongside the closed doors to the Opéra Bastille. Whitlams or Ben Folds Five. That night I stood in line for one The guileless pop sensibilities are hour of the two-and-a-half that three working overtime – gorgeous fey friends and I had divided up among female backing vocals and naïve keys ourselves to secure standing-room play against rat-a-tat percussion seats to Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. hits and the occasional Casio I shouldn’t have been surprised to The album has not been without find that every other individual in its share of helping hands – J Walker the queue ahead of me represented (Machine Translations) mixes four the interests of a larger group, and of the tracks, infusing ‘Smartest so when I finally made it to the Girl’ with bonhomie and nostalgia, BEEN TO THE BUCKLAND automated ticketing machine it lending an open, organic feel that was marked COMPLET in bright almost enables the band to escape red lights. 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at times you’re in the hands of a character from the TV show Lost. Elsewhere, indie legend and Dreaming Man producer Tom Kazas brings a restrained muscularity to opening Ca ss y Co c h r a n e works range from oil and acrylic song ‘New Holidays’ with a blend paintings to sculpture, body of glitch electronica, sampled Housed in an unassuming paintings, bark paintings, and an beats and mellotron. The song is a Redfern warehouse is one of the extensive didgeridoo collection. highlight – drifting leeward from most remarkable art collections The collection features a moving the album’s confessional concerns you could ever hope to see. retrospective of Syron’s own to imagine a future where the last work, including his controversial blue whale has disappeared. If Gordon Syron is a soft-spoken ‘Judgement By His Peers’ in which there has been a plane crash, the man with a strong sense of a white defendant is convicted doubling vocals, tough guitar and dignity, an obvious work ethic by black judges and lawyers. inventive orchestrations chart a and persistence in his belief in Syron’s work deals with themes course somewhere fresh for Circle. the need for Aboriginal self- of freedom and reconciliation, They just need to keep swimming. respect and self-determination. and environmental issues are In 1972 he was jailed for also prominent. Many paintings killing a man over his family’s look starkly at the degradation land, and during that stretch in of Aboriginal people in custody. prison he taught himself to paint Gordon’s own prison experience as a way of voicing his political (where he was witness to terrible stance, hopes and dreams. beatings inflicted by prison guards Gordon’s name will be familiar on inmates), and his family stories to many. A well-known artist in (of uncles and cousins caught up his own right, with his satirical in war, fighting for Australia), paintings exhibited in Australia inform many of the works. Lately and overseas, he is also credited it’s these “coloured diggers” whose Gordon Syron Photo: Esther Turnbull with influencing the work stories he remembers: the thankless of many of Australia’s most fighting of Aboriginal soldiers who internationally recognised young returned to Australia only to suffer to the late ’80s, before terrorism One of the last works I look at is Indigenous artists, and he has, land loss and racial segregation. was so high on Australia’s political Gordon’s portrait of an Aboriginal since his release from prison, But it’s not all anger and agenda. “I like his straight-up man who comes from the country been instrumental in encouraging disappointment. The idea of messages. And Hookey uses to Redfern, seeking a better life. many new and struggling artists. reconciliation, of a time of bad language in his painting,” “Over the years,” Gordon says, “this Gordon and his photographer peace and a return to nature are Gordon says with a cheeky smile. same Dreaming Man turns up in Pivot plays to a sold-out Oxford Arts wife Elaine’s collection offers a recurrent themes, particularly “I thought that was brave.” many pictures. I always start with Factory before heading overseas Photo: Roanna Manlutac diverse snapshot of the changing in the beautiful Black Fairies As Gordon and Elaine look to his eyes.” I look at the painting culture of Indigenous Australia. series, in which Syron returns to retirement, what they now want is and see these sharp, perceptive Works have been sourced from his land in northern New South a dedicated “keeping place” for the eyes staring out, but the man looks as far and wide as Arnhem Land, Wales, and remembers the gum collection. The Syrons are calling on weary, overwhelmed. He wears a Western Australia, the Northern forests as they were before mining museums, art galleries, Indigenous T-shirt bearing the slogan: “New Territory and New South Wales. destroyed the flora and fauna. Here organisations, politicians, York, London, Redfern.” “No jobs, Gordon started the collection as are softer, hopeful, fairytales, in corporations and philanthropists, to no money, hard times,” Gordon a way of preserving an urban art which the flowers are returned to help. Gordon hopes that the new says. “Sometimes when he turns movement embodying Aboriginal the land and hidden among them government might just recognise up he looks defiant, sometimes protest, and the collection are tiny black fairies. “We’ve got the importance of such a keeping angry, sometimes sad.” Maybe in a contains examples of some of the to believe in magic,” Syron says. place. His dream would be to find few years time we’ll see him smile, most important contemporary When asked if he has a favourite, a big gallery space, somewhere I say. Gordon nods, “I hope so.” Aboriginal artists working today. Gordon finds it hard to choose, but prominent, and have the gallery run Among artists represented points out a large Gordon Hookey by Aboriginal people, employing The Syrons’ collection is available for are Gordon Hookey, Tracey that hangs prominently from the Aboriginal people. “It’s important viewing. Contact Gordon on 0421 031 392, Moffatt, Darren Cooper, Michael rafters, a painting that depicts that Aboriginal people tell the or if you are interested in being part of Spod a working committee to support this Aminals 7” vinyl released May 19 Riley, Bronwyn Bancroft, Emily Canberra’s Parliament House stories of these paintings. These are Hopetoun Hotel May 22 valuable historical resource, contact www.spod.com.au Kngwarreye and her family, and features a pun on the word stories that educate and keep our and Clifford Possum, and the terra-ism. The painting dates back political history alive,” he says. Elaine at [email protected]

“We are all freakin’ brilliant” Artist Profile: Theresa Byrnes

Ka t h e r i n e Kee f e fuel, essentially, life – helping us express our modern existence – Theresa Byrnes likens the electricity and power – and warfare. abstract skeletal forms in her latest I watch the 25-minute series to road-kill: iconic kangaroo performance piece on Theresa’s laptop road-kill, she says. Painted in her – the intensity of her eyes floating in New York studio, the ink markings white, the intensity of the oil floating have reconnected the artist to her on canvas. I have trouble believing South Sydney home, where she that this fearless woman said to a now spends time with family and Daily Telegraph reporter in 1996 – friends, finishing off a portrait talking about the rare degenerative commission, and exhibiting her disorder, Friedreich’s Ataxia, recent work – Changelings – at which has her wheelchair bound the Satchi & Satchi gallery. –“Ultimately, I’ve got to look at the whole prognosis, that I’m going to be Like a Rorschach inkblot test I dead in 10 years, and the latter part, imagine we’re all going to see and I’m going to be a complete vegetable.” interpret differently the textural Twelve years on, Theresa continues markings in watercolour. For me to go to the edge, redefining life, it’s like being lost in the clouds. not just for herself but for everyone, Teresa Byrnes Photo: Supplied I see life moving fluidly, sometimes and you can feel the force of life captured in forms, sometimes in every creation she’s a part of. uncontained and more a suggestion. not shy to admit, “My work blows have on the painting is knowing when of crude oil. “I spilt out of the oil Theresa has experimented with me away when it pops out. I’m to stop but even then it’s because onto 30 feet of raw canvas, and then Changelings technique to make these marks, like, Shit, that’s faaabulous!” I listen to something inside me.” made a mark…” Theresa says. Recent paintings by Theresa Byrnes flooding the coloured inks with But this is not ego. She says with This inner voice guided her to Like all her performance pieces, Saatchi & Saatchi, 70 George Street, The Rocks water, using cloth. “It’s about conviction, “We are all freakin’ Arnhem Land at the age of 22 where it was an unrehearsed, unrepeated April 29 – May 16 the leap and not the land… the brilliant. A genius is just like the she was adopted by an Aboriginal and uncensored statement that You can see stills of her performance moments in flight to becoming…” spirit, the intuition, it’s all there for family, and in September last year it stirred viewers to feel the global. pieces, portrait and abstract painting Of the end product, Theresa is everyone… The only ownership I can had her submerged in 100 gallons ‘Trace’ contemplates oil – a fossil at: www.teresabyrnes.com 10 The Review May ’08 The Lion of Zimbabwe Turning Japanese

Mi c h e l e Fr eem a n clinics and public hospitals. Mapfumo’s early music Inflation is around 100, 000%, was informed by the fight for Sc o t t Wi n t e r You can now find Chicken It’s the 1970s and Rhodesia unemployment is up to 80%, and independence, and when asked what Schnitzel and Chips served with is under British rule. Thomas food shortages are so severe that 45% is important to talk about today he Good-looking a hot Tonkatsu sauce. Steaks and Mapfumo, a young singer, sees of the population is malnourished. simply answers, “A lot of things. venues in the South Sydney Bangers ’n Mash are served with that his people are oppressed and Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket The world is at loggerheads”. vicinity are hard to find. a savoury garlic and soy sauce. wants to stand by them. His people of Africa, is a country in ruins. “There are certain individuals”, Fortunately the Buckland Hotel The Fish of the Day was are fighting for freedom and he On top of this, Zimbabweans he says, “who think they are in Alexandria is leading the way. the barramundi with a bed of wants to give them support. face a tense wait following the above the law, or above God, that Asian veggies. The Teriyaki recent presidential elections, as they are gods of some sort”. The restaurant now boasts Chicken Skewers are tasty The liberation war breaks out, Mugabe, deeming the democratic “But I am not afraid for my a proud, new face-lift. As you and generally the menu is a and he starts to write “chimurenga” process virtually irrelevant, refuses life. I can die like anybody, we walk into it, you are instantly hit comforting one on a blustery, music, music for struggle. He sings to release the results. He is instead all die. So, you cannot fear for with the spacious “mock lounge” leaf-littered autumn evening. in his mother tongue and includes calling for a runoff, which many see your life. If you are fighting for a environment, popular with most I’m also told, the Buckland social and political messages. He as an opportunity to buy himself good cause, you stand by that.” plush hotels. The lit fireplace, the Hotel funks up and gets quite travels from township to township time to stuff ballot boxes in his By the end of the interview “cuddly” corners, comfy seating boisterous at the weekends playing to the people, and to the favour, and subject the population Mapfumo’s cool gives way to a and HD audio-visual systems with locals and visitors alike. guerrilla freedom fighters. to violence and intimidation. passionate plea: “You must people tell are all eye-pleasing. The colour Over 30 years later the British Mapfumo, on an international people there is a crisis in Zimbabwe.” scheme throughout is also Corner of Buckland and Mitchell Road, are long gone. It is Christmas Day. tour with his band, can be found “The Zimbabweans need impressive: striking red, black Alexandria. All meals average at $15-$20. Thomas Mapfumo, an old man, in a hotel room in Sydney’s west. outside help, the whole world and violet with neon floor lights learns that his mother has died. “Politics is just a game,” he should be listening, and the whole and art splashed here and there. Café of the Month The “free” Zimbabwe that his says. “Before they (the Zanu-PF) world should be watching.” And the menu has been Crema Cafe music so passionately called for has got into power, they were telling Thomas Mapfumo and his band modernised to the spicy and Crystal Street, Waterloo never come. Robert Mugabe, the people: you will have free medicine the Blacks Unlimited performed in savoury heights of Japanese- The Crema Cafe has only been so-called great African liberator, and education, things will be Sydney on April 19 to a jubilant, influenced cuisine. New chef open less than a year. Already it has run the country so far into free in your country. But when mostly African crowd at the Gaelic Kyochi Kai has taken a traditional has doubled its staff to cope with the ground that when Mapfumo’s they came into power, they just Club. They cheered when he came on “pub style” menu and made it the never-ending demand from mother went to a hospital with forgot about the people.” stage, went wild for the Zimbabwean his own. Although the chef locals for Bacon and Egg Rolls, high blood pressure, she died. When asked if he thought flag, and shouted and raised their wasn’t around, we assumed we Deluxe Salads, Sandwiches that There was no medicine for her. Mugabe ever had good intentions, fists to his messages. But most of were left in the good hands fill you up and don’t empty your Mapfumo, who had become a Mapfumo’s voice gains power, “I all, as a terrible crisis continues to of a second-in-charge. pocket. A dependable venue. target of government harassment don’t think a man like that ever unfold in their country, they danced. and had been forced into exile, was meant to do good,” he says forcefully. Every person in the room danced, unable to even attend her funeral. “As you can see…” but distressed, and proved Mapfumo to be right This was not an isolated case. he fails to even finish the sentence, when he said, “My music is very Blubberland & beyond The current doctor-to-patient before quietly adding, “I Iook at danceable, although there is that ratio in Zimbabwe is 1:12 000. him as the enemy. A man like that, message, that important message to Essential drugs are missing from you cannot say he was good”. listen to, people still like to dance”. Be n Fa l ke n m i r e What do you believe is the key to happiness? Redfern resident and Sydney If only I knew… but it Morning Herald opinion columnist seems to me that happiness is South Sydney Crossword Elizabeth Farrelly is earning more a by-product than a goal. herself a reputation for cutting Losing yourself in some greater ( ) * + , - Last month’s solution through the buttery bulge of enterprise is more likely to bring ( ) * + , - . bureaucracy with her hot-knife happiness than having – or even . / R E D F E R N P A R K RR O B / E EER X R O T S O O AA T U theories on modern-day living. achieving – everything you want. 0 (' 0 (' UQ E S T I O N S O O G R E S U H S R R S N A E U R G R R S (( () We caught up with her to talk In a perfect world how would I S S U E S E I MM I NNE T about her recent book Blubberland we all live at home? How would E N S O EM R G B D R Y S F O (( () (* (* (+ (, (- M Y S T I C Y C L I FF T O P and to hear some views that the modern Sydneysider live? (. (+ (, S H A R S T T Y I EE E A D will be canvassed by her at this Perfect worlds, bah humbug. A (/ (0 )' S P L O T C H Y P S T U D I O year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival. perfect world is a contradiction (- (. T R I A S B A A EE T C C R R )( )) )* )+ in terms, since imperfection is an R I V E T I N G R M I FF E D ), E C A F U S K I O T N M U C E Is Blubberland your first book? essential part of being human, )- ). E N T E R N Y O U N G S T E R No. My first book was a and staying interested. Even (/ (0 )' )( )) T EE R N T O H C I L T O A L )/ monograph on the architect Glenn thinking about perfection bores S EEN S O U T H S Y D N E Y Murcutt, before he won the Pritzker me. But I believe we will, all, Crossword by D.P. )* )+ ), Prize. It was called Glenn Murcutt: be happier and more fruitful if Three Houses, published in London we can find our way to wanting )- ). by Phaidon in 1993 and launched less and giving, doing more. )/ )0 First correct entry received by by then-Prime Minister Paul May 31 will win a mystery prize. Keating. Blubberland is my second What do you believe Sydney Send completed puzzle to: South book. Hopefully there won’t be a 2030 will look like? What *' Sydney Crossword PO Box 2360 15-year gap before the next one. would you like it to look like? Strawberry Hills NSW 2012. I think it’s less about how it What motivated you to looks than how it feels, which write the book Blubberland? in my imagination is tight, leafy, Curiosity, love, terror. highly textured and buzzing ACROSS DOWN with creative ferment. 1 Disorderly carry on about tempo of the present-day (12) 1 Makes things with set care (7) What is the central premise 9 Partially coincide above the knee (7) 2 Void immersing numskull (4) to Blubberland and what do You can catch Elizabeth at 10 Name one of Waterloo’s twin towers (7) 3 Take advantage of being polite about an unknown quantity (7) you suggest as a solution? the Sydney Writers’ Festival on 11 Vow kept by loathsome characters (4) 4 Mop up before spilt soup gets self-important (7) It’s probably less central Friday May 23 at 10am and 1pm, 12 Moon takes redhead for a fool (5) 5 Without her there’s no compassion (4) premise than core belief, and it’s and on Sunday May 25 at 1pm. 13 Enthusiastic diva does a back flip (4) 6 Faulty air valve missing a resuscitation (7) this: that humans are capable of extraordinary nobility, as well as Local SWF events include: 16 Sceptre commands its own anagram (7) 7 Acknowledge history mapping our honest path (6,3,4) Secrets of the Red Lantern with 17 Shake the salt to reveal secrecy (7) 8 Provision supplied by unthemed fruit (4,3,6) basic primate behaviour, and our tendency to settle for comfortable Pauline Nguyen, Luke Nguyen and Mark 18 Pick of the crop (7) 14 Point to freer arrangement (5) mediocrity instead is a cop-out that Jensen in Surry Hills. Monday May 19, 6:30pm. 21 Official adversary of Hood & Co. (7) 15 Either way it’s even (5) now threatens our very survival. Dinner at Danks Street Depot 23 Push up mains pressure initially with this (4) 19 Ply on cream for schmaltz (7) I’m not sure that solution is with Australian-Spanish chef Frank Camorra. 24 Fall in rate oddly to make advances (5) 20 Brand of cigarette paper (5-2) the word, but I reckon human Thursday May 22, 6:30pm. 25 Think back without first hesitating to bond (4) 21 Massacre almost provides for fierce criticism (7) creativity holds the key to our The Whiteley reading by Judy 28 Productive interaction over-supplied by Sydney’s energy (7) 22 Guts shown by innate cowards when gutted (7) survival and hinges on our capacity Johnson at Brett Whiteley’s gallery in Surry Hills. Sunday May 25, 2pm-4pm. 29 Fan could be married (7) 26 Semi-urgently encourage (4) to connect with the point where Check www.swf.com for prices, tickets and 30 Venom’s pelted possibly at such proceedings (12) 27 ‘So be it’ said at the end of a prayer (4) beauty, truth and love converge. further details. The South Sydney Herald – May 2008 11

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The Botany Road saga – A timeline (Source: Residents Simm and Dolla Steel, Hudson Apartments on Botany Road) Photo: Andrew Collis Andrew Photo:

Nov, 2006: A letter of concern is sent to City of Sydney and the Heritage Department regarding the effect the site may have on the Yiu Ming Temple and the unacceptable vibrations felt on Wyndham Street.

Mid 2007: The footpath on Botany Road starts to fall away.

Nov, 2007: Subsiding footpath on Wyndham Street is cosmetically filled with tar.

Dec, 2007: Photographs are submitted to Council with suggestions the construction site may have subsidence issues.

Feb, 2008: Reply from Council stating a Council officer has inspected the site and the developer has carried out maintenance to the footpath. The Council officer is to monitor the footway and arrange for repairs as needed.

Mar 6, 2008: Water main bursts. Botany Road is closed.

Apr 16, 2008: South-bound lane reopened.

Apr 24, 2008: North-bound lane reopened. Botany Road reopens, saga continues

Ben Falkenmire struction site to stabilise the road. “As the repair works are still in After seven weeks of interrupting progress no estimate as to cost has You’re never too old in Kings Cross traffic, nearby businesses and in been finalized”, Minister for Commerce one case a spiritual temple, Botany Eric Roozendaal said before the north- Susannah Palk Road finally reopened the day before bound lane reopened. “The prime Anzac Day. focus of the government has been to You’re never too old to have a good ensure the safety of the residents and time! That seemed to be the theme While the relief for many will be businesses on Botany Road.” for the inaugural “fun and frivolities” palpable, for many of the premises Minister for Emergency Services afternoon, held as part of Senior’s Week surrounding the construction site the Nathan Rees said special legislation had last month. saga is anything but over. been called on to allow the government The SSH reported the consequences to enter and take control of the site. Local residents and guests, all proud for the Yiu Ming Temple in Retreat “The Bill will put beyond any doubt seniors, wined and dined at the Kings Street, Alexandria back in March that the Department of Commerce can Cross Community Centre, as they before the water main burst on Botany enter and undertake works at the site in celebrated life, the joys of ageing and Road. Botany Road…and recover the cost of the local community. A Yiu Ming spokesperson said that the work from the owner of the site,’’ Warren Faye and his Australian folk while the temple still operates, the ter- Mr Rees said. group, Larrikins, sang ditties and recited races that housed more than 15 elderly This is only the second time the Sate poems about the good (and the not-so- people remain evacuated because of Emergency and Rescue Management good) old days of Australia’s history. instability issues. “Because of what Act has been applied – the first time In between the fiddles playing, War- is happening next door the elderly being the Newcastle earthquake. ren and his audience reminisced about residents have been forced to find Up until the intervention, the Gov- the local area and the past it had been independent homes, and their absence ernment, NSW Police, Sydney Water through. The depression, good old- is not in keeping with the spirit of the and Baseline had battled it out for the fashioned railways pies, the not-so-good Larrikins entertain senior citizens Photo: Ali Blogg temple,” the spokesperson said. unenviable right to clean up the road conscription during the Vietnam War The temple society is currently in which erupted with a burst water main and the time when a young girl was the local market stall. topic of getting older, she said, laughing, negotiation with Baseline Constructions on March 6. ordered off Bondi Beach for wearing… “I can remember Kings Cross when “We don’t think we are old, do we?” to fix the large crack that appeared in The south-bound lane was opened a two-piece swimming costume! it was a real artists’ community… Robyn Grieves, who runs the commu- the terrace building around the time of six weeks later, and the north-bound Many a guest at the event was born they were great times… a lot has nity centre and who organised the event, the construction. lane the week after. and raised in the area. Rose Clement changed now!” said it was a great way to get together Baseline may also be liable for the Only now can nearby businesses, who lived in the area for most of her Pamela Meisel who now lives in and celebrate old age. And as Warren NSW Government’s repair work that like the Iron Duke Hotel, which has life, but has since moved to Byron Bay, Vienna, said it was always nice to come Faye said to much applause, “You don’t saw 364 trucks pile 4,732 tonnes of been closed for the duration, think remembers when she used to work at back home to her roots. And on the get older, you just get riper.” crushed sandstone around the con- about opening its doors again. Young Mob impresses at Youth Awards in Redfern

Darcy Byrne Redfern-Waterloo community. A leaflet come out like this. This is what it’s World Vision Australia. communities. It is clear from the contribu- prepared by Council’s history unit was all about.” “The confidence levels of the girls who tions they are making to their communities The City of Sydney Betty Makin distributed to guests outlining “Aunty” Many guests commented on the have done the toastmasters training have that Betty Makin’s ethos of volunteerism Youth Awards ceremony took place Betty’s life-long commitment to the outstanding skills displayed by the Young improved dramatically,” said Mereani and community participation is alive recently at Redfern Town Hall, with a local community. Mob from Redfern as the night’s MCs. Cooke from Redfern Community Centre. and well. huge crowd in attendance. The large number of adult guests who The Young Mob is a girls’ group from “They are now at the stage where they can The ceremony included a number of attended to support young people was Redfern Community Centre Youth Program MC an event in front of hundreds of people. impressive dance performances by young The awards are held annually to particularly encouraging. Betty Makin’s whose members have been trained in They’re very professional.” people from Glebe, Pyrmont and Ultimo. honour the late Betty Makin, a tireless daughter, Jill Edwards, addressed the public speaking, etiquette and event Many of the award nominees and A closing performance by Paulini of Austral- social activist and advocate in the crowd: “It’s great to see the community coordination by Koori Toastmasters and winners were from low-income inner-city ian Idol fame brought the house down. 12 The South Sydney Herald – May 2008

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ADVERTISEMENT Kristina Keneally MP MEMBER FOR HEFFRON Botany Road Re-opened!

Thank you to the motorists, local residents and WO1 Col Watego Photo: Jack Carnegie businesses for their patience during the recent closure of Botany Road. Unsung heroes Traffic returned to both lanes of Botany Road at approximately 3pm on April 24th 2008. remembered

I am aware that the local residents put up with a lot of and honoured On the Sunday before Anzac Day Redfern RSL members lay wreaths at the restored Memorial in Redfern Park Photo: Ben Bontia disruption and local businesses have been doing it tough. Susannah Palk community can participate in Anzac Day what nation group they came from. We celebrations on their terms.” don’t know how many of our people The NSW Government listened to our concerns about the effects To the sounds of the didgeridoo Often, Indigenous men and women have not been repatriated, we still have and cheering onlookers, Indigenous where treated as equals within the a long way to go on that front.” of the road closure and took all available options to get this road soldiers, their families and supporters armed forces, only to be treated as It seems that many Indigenous dig- repaired and reopened as soon as possible. walked through the streets of Redfern second-class citizens when they came gers didn’t receive the benefits due to on Anzac Day, in what was the second home. As Bob Noble, ex-serviceman them, such as war pensions. One reason annual Coloured Diggers March. said, “There was a great difficulty in for this, says Bob Noble, was that they I am advised that it took 500 trucks, more than 5,000 tonnes of settling back into society. They weren’t simply didn’t know. For many, the march was to honour even permitted to go into a pub to share “A lot of our people were not aware crushed sandstone and 600 man hours to repair a retaining wall those who served and didn’t receive a beer with their comrades they fought that those pensions existed. And it’s on a construction site adjacent to Botany Road. I understand the the recognition they deserved upon in the trenches with.” only in the last few years that we are returning home. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders now reaching out to those veterans stability of this wall was the main safety concern in relation to “The Aboriginal diggers have never have fought in every major European and letting them know that there are been properly recognised,” said Naomi conflict, from the Boar War in the entitlements due to them.” the re-opening of the road. Mayers, CEO of the Aboriginal Medical late 19th century to recent missions in Mark Spinks, Chairman of Babana Service. “Actually they were ignored Somalia and East Timor, with at least Aboriginal Men’s Group, whiched when they came back home. My uncles 500 serving in World War I and 5,000 helped to organise the event, said that The retaining wall in question is on a construction site on where some of them, Jack Patten in World War II. although their ancestors had been private property and not under NSW Government control. and Aaron Briggs. They weren’t even One major issue still, is working out forgotten, Australia was heading in the allowed into RSL clubs.” how many served and who they were. right direction. The event was the brainchild of Pastor From the First World War, right up to “I’d like to think, that with the Prime After negotiations with the building site owner broke down, Ray Minniecon, Director of Crossroads the Vietnam War, Aboriginals were not Minister’s ‘sorry’ announcement, we Aboriginal Ministries. During the march, asked to state their cultural background. can build on that and work together to NSW Police used their emergency powers to gain access to Pastor Minniecon said, “I’m just enjoy- In fact, in WWI in order to serve, you move forward.” ing being out here, with the community. had to be not more than “one-quarter” the site – only the second time they’ve been used since the Showing our recognition, our respect for Aboriginal. Many got around this by The Coloured Digger 2 art exhibition is Newcastle Earthquake. those who served. It’s good to see our stating they were Polynesian, Maori or showing until May 10 at Damien Minton community come out and do that.” even Indian. Gallery (61-63 Great Buckingham Rob Bryant, Vietnam Vet in the RAAF This is something Ray Minniecon is St, Redfern), and features works by To ensure that the necessary work was done so the road could took part in the march and said he trying to rectify. “This is a challenge for Martin Sharp [see front page], Roy believed a Coloured Diggers march was us. One of the things we are doing at Kennedy, Reg Mombassa, Daniel be reopened, and disruption minimised for motorists, residents important for the whole community. “It the moment is collecting names from Wallace, Jon Lewis, China de la Vega, and businesses, the Iemma Government introduced urgent is so important. The whole Indigenous ancestors and also trying to work out Clinton Nain and Reg Lynch. legislation to ensure the repair work continues regardless of action being undertaken by the building site owners in the Supreme Court. Celebrating Molly Cameron I congratulate those agencies – namely, Police, Department Ellice Mol residents against rising rental prices. of Commerce and the RTA – who worked together to ensure “Molly lobbied MPs, Ombudsmen, A plaque dedicated to the late Molly supporting local tenants when housing the road was re-opened as quickly as possible, mindful of Cameron was unveiled in Erskineville by prices hiked,” continued Cr Pooley. “She safety concerns. Deputy Mayor Tony Pooley as the rain was deeply committed, not only to her came down on Sunday April 20. family, but to the community.” Molly Cameron opened a ladies’ salon Molly’s daughter, Sue McSullea, I understand work continues at the site. I will keep the in Alexandria in 1958, which became remembers how her mother worked known as a meeting place and a core hard for people and their causes. Mum community updated on future developments in relation for the local community. There, money fought hard for her family, she treasured Photo: Ali Blogg was raised for the community and Molly her family and friends, Ms McSullea said to this issue. and her husband, Tom, became patrons with welling emotion. the campaign and after a quadruple of the first Scouts and Cubs groups in Fellow community worker and friend bypass heart operation, Molly was back Alexandria. “She was also a great South to Molly, Hal Alexander, was present at her post; rain, hail, or shine. Such Sydney supporter,” said Cr Pooley as to share his memories of her achieve- devotion to a cause became an inspiration he made his address to a room full of ments. Tony Pooley recited a passage to all of us and we eventually won.” Kristina Keneally MP warm smiles. Mr Alexander wrote in the book Grow- Terry Murphy, long-time friend “Molly was instrumental in saving the ing Old Disgracefully. Recorded in the of Molly Cameron, remembers her Member for Heffron Erskineville Post Office as well as Jack passage is a recollection of working remarkable strength of character. “Molly Shop 117, 747 Botany Road, Rosebery NSW 2018 Shuttleworth Reserve. The post office is alongside Molly. Cameron was the toughest person I’d still here and it’s predominantly due to To quote: “Molly would set up her ever come across,” he said. “There were Phone: (02) 9699 8166 Fax: (02) 9699 8222 the impact of Molly and the local com- table outside the fruit shop every Satur- so many duties she felt that she had to Email: [email protected] munity,” said Cr Pooley. day morning; she collected thousand of take part in that I couldn’t keep up.” Molly was known for her kindness signatures. ‘Save the Post Office Save the The plaque rests outside the bakery and determination in defending local world’ was the slogan. Halfway through opposite Erskineville Town Hall. The South Sydney Herald – May 2008 13 Comment & Opinion

Banning political donations in NSW: reform or a media ploy?

Norman Thompson companies and sex for favours. After years of stonewalling on he electoral funding and reforms to electoral funding, Premier Tdisclosure system in Australia Iemma made an unexpected is in crisis. Almost daily stories announcement on Easter Saturday have come out about vast amounts that his government would consider of money flowing into the coffers banning all political donations. He of the major political parties opted for full public funding of from the property and hotels election campaigns. Suddenly the industries. As these stories made negative headlines were replaced by headlines the public has become more positive ones of a government increasingly concerned about these planning real reform to our state’s contributions buying access for the system of electoral funding. donors to our politicians. Was the Premier serious or was it a ploy to get the media off his back? Recently several NSW MPs have After listening to the General been found to have received in-kind Secretary of NSW Labor, Karl Bitar, donations of free office space and at the Parliamentary inquiry and Cartoon: norrie mAy-welby printing of campaign materials that meeting with him three days later, they didn’t disclose. One didn’t I’m very skeptical. It appears to be realise that over $50,000 in such policy on the run. donations needed to be reported to While Bitar said he is open to all SOUTH SYDNEY ENVIRONMENT the electoral authorities. These stories suggestions, there is a crucial one he only increase public concern. refuses to seriously consider. Mr Bitar Even Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover is insistent that while all donations Moore has been caught up in this would be banned, including those Fighting our way out of plastic bags problem. The Sydney Morning Herald from individuals, there would be no reported several weeks ago that Ms caps on election spending. He has Moore was grilled by members of the stated caps didn’t work anywhere in Anna Christie not for the fact that they build address the problem. Oh please, Mr Parliamentary inquiry into political the world. This clearly isn’t the case the cost into their overheads. Garrett, don’t embarrass yourself. donations about her possible failure since spending limits work well in walked past Central I am not talking about a total How on earth are we going to to report the commercial value of a such countries as Canada. I Station the other ban – plastic bags are sometimes resolve the more complex and large in-kind donation during the last Banning all donations without a day, pondering to needed. Admit it, though, how challenging waste problems, like council election. cap on expenditure would lead to myself how a meeting of all the many households do you know toxics and techno-waste, if we can’t Ms Moore was given the use of a the disappearance of independents, Environment Ministers in this that have cupboards full of the reach agreement on plastic bags? large terrace house in a commercial emerging parties and the smaller country could have been unable to things? There are way too many. South Australia is not waiting. area of Pyrmont for four or five political parties. Labor would still agree on measures to dramatically I also had to laugh about some They have announced they will weeks before the council election receive large amounts of money from reduce plastic shopping bags. Yes of the reasons floated in the introduce a ban from next year. and a week afterwards. She reported union subscriptions, and all the major it’s true, that is the kind of thing I media about why there should The South Coast town of Huskisson the total value of the donation as parties have substantial income from think about in my quiet moments. not be a ban: “Multi-use bags did it five years ago. They didn’t $950 while certain real estate agents their large investments. are so strong, you can fit a lot need a ministerial conference and said the correct value was several Iemma may bring in some Just then a strong gust of wind in, and people are injuring their intergovernmental working group to thousands of dollars more. Moore welcome changes to increase arose, and hey presto, there was arms”, “dog owners use them to achieve it. Forget waiting – now is said she had received different advice transparency of donations. But our one of them being blown around pick up dog poo” and “we need the time for Chambers of Commerce about the value of the donation. best hope of real reform is the Rudd right before my eyes. I sighed. them to line our rubbish bins”. in the South Sydney region to take Groups of candidates are required government in Canberra. Senator After all, they are all Labor We know that plastic shopping the initiative and support retailers to report all donations over $1,000 to Faulkner has flagged well-thought Ministers, surely they can achieve bags are usually so flimsy, you need in cutting down on plastic bags. the NSW election authorities. Any through reforms and is open to consensus. How hard can it be two of them or else the rubbish will donations under that amount will further ones. for the Environment Ministers to split the bag. Often they scarcely never be made public. introduce a ban on free plastic make it home before splitting open. If you would like to suggest environmental The NSW state government came shopping bags at the point of sale? The once-respected, now highly issues in South Sydney that need investigation, under intense pressure in February Norman Thompson is Director of Did I say “free”? Let’s start by disappointing, Federal Environment please contact Anna Christie by email: with the unfolding of a major scandal Democracy4sale (NSW Greens). dispelling that myth. Nothing Minister Peter Garrett said after the in Wollongong involving the heady Next month: Response from is free, and retailers wouldn’t ministerial gab-fest that an urgent [email protected] mix of donations from property Labor Lord Mayoral Candidate. be giving them away if it were working group was needed to

or two metres needed to fit the carried little traffic through Surry intersection of Liverpool and cycle paths that will force the READERS monstrosity in. It’s a ‘quart into a Hills. Consider City Hall’s plan Bourke more perilous. risk of collision the City should pint pot’ situation that is enraging piece by piece. What cyclist would The correspondent should consider taking simple steps to LETTERS everybody in the neighbourhood. choose to ride up the steep stretch have asked how the bicycle path make cycling safer and improve Brian Noad of Bourke Street, Woolloomooloo will progress through the granite our urban streetscape. Less parallel Proposed Bourke St Nichols Street Community Group, from Cathedral Street to William slippery-when-wetness of Taylor parking would reduce the bike Surry Hills Street (which is almost impassable Square and its water features and rider’s greatest fear of the suddenly Bicycle Route, Surry Hills to North/South traffic since our 24-hour party people. South of opened car door. Wide tree-lined We are puzzled as to why Sydney Lord Mayor used the Eastern Taylor Square Bourke is a quiet, roads like Bourke Street are perfect City Councillors who signed off Cycleway not the way Distributor as an excuse for road shady street that I often enjoy for instituting 45 degree angle on the City’s ‘Cycling Strategy’ closures)? The announced route on riding along, apart from the parking in bays with the potential are now encouraging the Bourke to go the western side of the street takes worst stretch, that 300 metres to accentuate the natural curves Street Bicycle Route, which is in Disappointing to see the SSH cyclists across the entrance to the of separated cycle path north of of the route and incorporate more blatant breach of that Strategy. The sinking to become part of Clover’s Eastern Distributor. How annoying Cleveland Street where I am forced garden and tree planting. The City ‘Cycling Strategy’ states that the publicity machine with the gullible for motorists and life threatening to ride through low overhanging should get its consultants on their minimum width of streets suitable gloss of the new cycleway planned for cyclists. The section of Bourke branches. Across the difficult lights bikes and out finding the natural for this sort of ‘Bi-directional for Bourke Street [SSH April]. from William Street to Taylor at Cleveland Street the traffic does bike routes, the ways along the separated bicycle road ‘ is 12.8 Without wishing to restrict the free Square carries negligible traffic increase but rarely flows at more high ground by streets less used by metres. Many parts of Bourke movement by cycling of citizens apart from the half-hour flurries of than 30 kph until Phillip Crescent motorists. Fix the potholes and the Street are significantly narrower from Woolloomooloo to Zetland, four-wheel-drive vehicles morning where the plan deteriorates to a grates that threaten narrow wheels. than this, and the planners appear I must query the need for expensive and afternoon when SCEGGS shared bicycle/pedestrian path – Make the roads better for everyone to be trying to get around this by road works that will retard the parents parade for princess pickup your photograph of cyclists rolling rather than inconveniencing hacking away at various aspects free flow of traffic. Far from the and drop. Moore’s proposal three abreast over the outline of some to aggrandise others. of our Heritage-listed streetscape CBD, Bourke Street has, since merely serves to narrow the road a pedestrian summed that up. Peter Hayes to artificially secure the extra one its interruption at Taylor Square, and will make the troublesome Instead of splurging money on Darlinghurst 14 The South Sydney Herald – May 2008 Features Alcohol-fuelled violence is worst in the City

Candice Chung consistent approach to enforcing crimes were alcohol related. the liquor laws in order to Professor Ian Webster, the Trendy night spots in the reduce alcohol-related crime. chairman of Alcohol Education and booming pub districts of East “Both the police and the Office of Rehabilitation Foundation, said the Sydney the City are recording a Liquor, Gaming and Racing (OLGR) problem venues tend to be places higher number of alcohol-related need to reinforce the law. At the where people travel from outside of violent crimes than Redfern. moment they’re not doing this the local area “to have a good time”. consistently,” Mr Underwood said. “The density of entertainment Almost three times as many “For example, one licensing officer outlets influences the behaviour cases of assaults were reported in might take someone to court for a of people in the locality. In fact, Kings Cross in the year to 2007 practice that another officer might just recent research shows that when compared to Redfern, according issue a warning for. Our concern is you’ve got a high density of alcohol to a report released by the NSW that this is sending a mixed message outlets, you get increased property Auditor General last month. about what licensees should be doing. crimes and violent behaviour,” City Central tops the number of “The police also need to make Professor Webster said. drunken brawls with 774 incidents better use of their resources. At the “I would argue that local reported in a 12-month period, moment, they’re not focusing on communities should be much while Kings Cross and Surry Hills areas of greatest needs,” he said. more involved in determining recorded 574 and 333 cases of assault Another recommendation things like the number of licenses Vince Forrester Photo: Ali Blogg respectively. Redfern recorded only from the report is “naming and in the area, where they’re located 203 incidents in the same period. shaming” pubs and clubs that have and their hours of operation.” The same report found that breached their liquor licenses. Professor Webster believes alcohol-related assaults have almost An earlier report from the the key to driving down alcohol- doubled over the past decade, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics related crime rests in limiting the with the number of incidents and Research showed that areas number of late-trading premises Elder speaks reported jumping from 10,305 in with a higher concentration of and fostering greater co-operation 1997-98 to 20,475 in 2006-07. late-trading premises tend to between police and licensees. Almost one third of the alcohol- experience increased crime rates. An overhaul of the Liquor Act will linked offences occurred on licensed The research revealed that the come into effect from July 1 and is out against premises such as pubs and clubs. George Street cinema strip, Taylor expected to give increased powers to Barry Underwood, spokesperson Square and Kings Cross were the police and the director of liquor and for the Audit Office of NSW, city’s “hotspots” for violence and gaming to take action against problem said there needs to be a more robberies. More than half of the venues and unscrupulous licensees. Intervention

Sarah Malik the Intervention laws are not working in tackling the Indigenous A forum held by the Aboriginal disadvantage because they are Rights Coalition, on April 14, not based on consultation but are including activists, government authoritarian and punitive in nature. officials and those living under the “Education is supposed to a Intervention laws brought together human right – a citizenship right. diverse views on the ongoing We’ve been asking for education Intervention in the Northern Territory. for 35 years. And education is not to be about assimilation The Intervention, instigated by but empowerment that leads to Uluru Photo: Claudia Leigh the Howard Government in June employment,” Mr Forrester said. last year, included bans on alcohol Darren Duke from the Human Rights and pornography in 73 Aboriginal and Equal Opportunity commission townships, as well as the compulsory (HREOC) spoke of the findings of Welcome to the Disney desert acquisition of Aboriginal land. HREOC’s 2007 Social Justice Report At the time this was justified as which found the Intervention laws in Claudia Leigh and coaches arriving in town, tracks girls, with four years of secondary a way of tackling Indigenous contradiction with basic human rights. filled with any type of tourist. On the education (albeit heavily interrupted) disadvantage and child-sex abuse. Mr Duke detailed the income Just a few days before my other you have a school trying to cannot even read their own names. The laws passed in August last management system where Indigenous departure to one of the remotest cater for girls who have all but slipped Each afternoon I dutifully get out the year as the Northern Territory welfare payments were quarantined Indigenous communities in through the cracks. All this is set basketball and shoot hoops, trying Emergency Response Bill 2007, with the right to an external merits Australia, where I was planning against the ridiculously spectacular to encourage some kind of activity. required the suspension of the review as a denial of procedural to spend 10 weeks volunteering, backdrop of Uluru and Kata Juta. The girls do want to learn. They are Racial Discrimination Act to make fairness, particularly when at least I was informed of a slight The landscape is so incredible desperate to read and all have proven changes to the Liquor Act and half of the cases merit reviewed change in plans. Due to some it feels like a theme park, themselves incredibly resilient leases of Aboriginal townships. by Centrelink are reconsidered. unsuccessful bureaucratic sculpted to create the illusion and adaptable by learning English Vince Forrester, a Mutitjulu “How do you expect people to wrangling, the accommodation of being in the desert. and attempting a western style of elder spoke about living under the believe that law is there to protect (one of the biggest concerns in We were told our jobs on project education. But the problems are deep Intervention laws and the culture of people’s rights when you are denying remote communities) had fallen would be a mixture of tutoring and run like underground rivers. police intimidation and increased them access to justice?” he asked. through. Instead we would be and sports/recreation activities In the first week we had several militarism. “The Intervention in The Intervention laws were volunteering at Nyangatjatjara for approximately 30 students. fires, countless walk outs, plenty the bush - they are a big mob of justified under Section 8 of the College, in a town called Yulara. We three volunteers arrived bright- of rock throwing and on Monday cowboys giving the police a lot of Racial Discrimination Act which eyed and bushy-tailed ready to wow night a complete mutiny, involving authority,” said Mr Forrester. allows governments to make Yulara is a resort town built to these students with any number of a strategically planned and executed He detailed accounts of having rules for particular races if they service the many thousands of tourists creative yet educational activities. exodus out of the school and over to travel long distances to use food are “special measures”. who visit Uluru. Quite different We planned basketball games, the sand dunes. This, it seems, is a ration cards at Woolworths and Coles Special measures are defined from the remote community softball competitions, dance completely normal school week and which were humiliating and shameful by Article 1(4) of the International experience I was expecting, classes, spelling bees, art does pose a question regarding the experiences for Indigenous people. Convention on the Elimination of all yet perhaps even more surreal. classes and read-a-thons. appropriateness of boarding schools “The Intervention is an abuse of forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) The resort is made up of several Then we arrived. We were greeted for Indigenous kids. But my eyes are human rights... an apartheid system as having to be “beneficial” in nature. hotels and a lot of basic residential with rocks thrown within range still wide open. The look of surprise that is taking place,” he said. Mr Duke said that the only thing accommodation for those who work in of our whitefella heads, a not so and happiness on the girls’ faces when At the same time, Mr Forrester separating whether something town. The school is a ten minute drive subtle reminder that these kids they read aloud the right words, is a did not shy away from the very real was beneficial or detrimental to up the highway and over a couple of have seen countless whitefellas hopeful reminder that one of these problems that Indigenous people in a race was the consultation with sand dunes. Nyangatjatjara College come, bluster about and go again. girls may realise the value of literacy his communities face. “I live in a that group itself, which had not is an Indigenous girls secondary This term, on any given day, we and pass it on to her own children. community of third-world conditions. occurred in relation to these laws. boarding school. It services three have had between 10 and 15 students. In the meantime, I will Living in a community of poverty you He also criticised the current remote central desert communities: Of these girls, aged between 12 and continue my daily afternoon solo get all the symptoms that come with government’s inaction on the laws. Docker River, Imanpa and Mutijulu. 18, all speak English as a second basketball displays and cross my it. You wouldn’t send your dogs to our “Jenny Macklin inherited Mal Arriving here has been a strange language (Pitjantjatjara is their native fingers that within the next eight bloody schools… kids living in the Brough’s Henry VIII powers which experience, on the one hand you have tongue) and our top student reads at weeks some of the girls might be desert swimming in sewerage ponds.” subvert all concepts of democracy a constant stream of campervans a 4th grade level. Two 18 year-old- coaxed out to enjoy a game. Mr Forrester believes that and parliamentary process.” The South Sydney Herald – May 2008 15 Community Notices & Advertising

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Glen Dwyer Canterbury’s attacking ventures, aided in both halves. NSW Rugby League also by the Bulldogs’ own shoddy General Manager Geoff Carr was a The Newtown Jets regained their handling and lack of purpose. guest of the Newtown club for the winning form with an emphatic 32-0 Jets centre Albert Hopoate crossed match and he was no doubt impressed win over Canterbury-Bankstown twice in the first half and both with the excellent presentation of in the NSWRL VB NSW Cup match Newtown wingers Byron Ford and Rhys Henson Park, the season’s best crowd played at Henson Park on Saturday Pritchard scored tries, with Pritchard’s and Newtown’s winning form. April 26. The match was played in coming off a superb off-load from the The Newtown forward pack perfect conditions and Henson Park classy back-rower Sean Rudder. deserves special commendation with has never looked better, with the Jets coach Greg Matterson called the best performances coming from sunny weather drawing out this on his players to maintain their Mickey Paea and Sean Rudder. There season’s best crowd. The Jets led 22-0 commitment in defence for the were a number of standout players in at half-time and managed to keep the second half and to play through their the Newtown backline, with fullback Bulldogs scoreless for the second half sets – they complied with his first Toshio Laiseni having his best game as well. request but completed less than 50% of the season and wingers Ford and of their sets in the second session, Pritchard always dangerous with the Newtown’s dominance on the and yet kept a strong grip on the ball. Centres Hopoate and Brent Grose scoreboard was not exactly reflected game’s ultimate outcome. Newtown and halfback Luke Millwood were in the match statistics. Canterbury added a further two tries through other strong performers. had a much better completion rate workhorse forward Mickey Paea and With the Anzac Day long than the Jets in both halves, as well as fullback Toshio Laiseni, with Paea’s try weekend being part of a split round, having the possession and territorial coming from a remarkable exhibition the Newtown Jets have no playing advantages arising from a lopsided of strength and determination. Coach commitments next weekend. Their penalty count in favour of the Bulldogs Matterson was pleased with his team’s next home game at Henson Park is on Newtown’s tackling enthusiasm defensive effort, particularly in view Saturday, May 24 against the Central Ben Te’o scores for Wests Tigers Photo: © Newspix/Gregg Porteous and speed off the line snuffed out of Canterbury’s wealth of possession Newcastle Knights. More woes for Rabbitohs Alex Rovers star at Olympic Stadium Emily Pollard brief talk the Rabbitohs were unable to score again, leaving the Sharks to claim Perry Johnstone took to the field with determination long time with everyone who was 15-year-old reporter Emily Pollard is victory. The Souths fans left more than and smiles on their faces. there and associated with the mighty hopeful of a Rabbitohs win, soon! a little disappointed. The mighty Alexandria All 11 boys had a run during the Alexandria Rovers. Round 6 saw the all-important Rovers under-6 team took centre match and all had a great time. 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