restore human rights bringCOMMENT COMMENT COMMENT davidThe Politics of The Politics of The Politics of hicksBig Brother Big Brother Big Brother News homePAGE 14 ! PAGE 14 PAGE 14 VOLUME ONE NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT FEB’07 CIRCULATION 21,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND POLITICAL WOMAN OF PROFILE THE YEAR? INCUMBENT KENEALLY A FORMER POLICE BATTING FOR HEFFRON COMMANDER CONTENDS PAGE 17 PAGE 07 Residents speak out against proposed changes to Community Development Employment Program Brenden Hills with less money going into the community. The Federal Government’s pro- Since 1977, the CDEP system posed changes to the Community has allowed a community-created Development Employment Program fund from combined unemploy- brought Redfern residents out in ment benefits. This then creates their numbers to speak out at the Indigenous-run businesses that Redfern Community Centre in mid- employ the jobless and provide December. low-cost services to the community. Outlined in a November 6 The proposed changes encompass discussion paper titled ‘Indigenous Australia on a national basis but Potential Meets Economic Opportu- the Government has stipulated nity,’ the proposed changes would that city areas will no longer be see Redfern’s CDEP funding ceased. subsidized for CDEP because they Federal Labor Member for Sydney are areas that are not troubled by Tanya Plibersek, and Sydney City high unemployment. Councillor Tony Pooley headed up Those that have participated with the meeting. Redfern CDEP businesses say it is Under the proposed changes, vital for the community’s well-being. Indigenous Australians now using “The changes are a potential disaster Bikes for all in Newtown Photo: Ali Blogg the services would be forced into … this (CDEP) program has enabled mainstream employment services people to build up a reliable wage under the Government’s Structured who would otherwise not have Newtown’s Bike Club, Training and Employment Projects access to a job,” said Tony Pooley, program. Sydney City Councillor and former Ms Plibersek told the SSH that, Mayor of South Sydney. a two-wheeled success story if implemented, the STEP system Don Isles, Resources Officer for will force people onto New-Start, the Redfern Aboriginal Corporation fostering a cycle of unemployment, – a CDEP creation – told the SSH Alex Serpo expensive bikes ready to go to the Beginning with only a few regulars, tip. Briana says, “During Council Bike Club now sees as many as Newtown is now host to a thriving clean-up we find a bike on almost forty people on a busy night. In the bike project where locals and bike every street. Often they just have future, organisers hope to provide enthusiasts get together to repair two flat tyres so we pump them up community bikes for Newtown. Barons future up in the air bikes and socialise in a warm com- and ride them away.” Bikes are also Bike Club has also given birth to munity environment. often bought from Council auctions many forms of bike activism, such Peter Whitehead Environment Court for 27th and 28th The Bike Club, operated by local for as little as ten dollars. as creating a bike fleet of more than February 2007.” residents Briana Rocheta and Tash These activist philosophies have fifty bikes used to travel to Peats The usual suspects are juggling At the Sydney City Council meeting Verco, functions as a co-operative, made the Bike Club more than just Ridge Festival, which occurred to the future of Kings Cross with all the of 11 December, the initial decision to where nothing is bought or sold. a place to repair a bike. Tash, who celebrate the new year. At the festival bewildered certainty of an English refuse the application was altered to Rather, locals donate old bikes, parts, runs the Bike Club out of the spa- a bike tent was set up, hiring out fielder. allow for a deferred commencement tools and time and in exchange can cious backyard of her women’s share bikes from the Club to promote Clover Moore has declared: “The approval for demolition of existing leave with a well-serviced second- house, “The Nunnery,” comments cycling as a sustainable and healthy City’s vision for a comprehensive and buildings and construction of a new hand bike. that the Bike Club is “a place where alternative. effective heritage planning framework four storey building with basement The bike workshop is also a highly people can get together that isn’t a Mark Pate, another activist who is being realised through research and level for restaurant and commercial economical alternative for students pub or a shopping mall.” attends Bike Club “just to help out,” consultation… Council demonstrated uses (includes premises known as or those on a low income. Briana Many come to the bike workshop was involved in a project in 2002 to its commitment to our heritage when Barons). comments: “The one time I got my simply for the satisfaction of bringing send seven thousand bikes to East it recently rejected plans to demolish Required before the project goes bike serviced, it cost me one hundred an abandoned bike up to working Timor. He is currently working on a the ‘Barons’ building on Roslyn ahead, is a revised design which and fifty dollars!” She is shocked by condition. Others come to take part project to send even more to Ghana Street, Potts Point.” reduces the Floor Space Ratio of this, considering that it is something in the co-operative learning environ- in Africa. Yet Andrew Woodhouse, president development on the site, and an she could easily do herself. ment, either by sharing their bike For Tash, however, Bike Club of the Potts Point and Kings Cross alternative design for the Roslyn However, the workshop is about maintenance skills or to learn skills is really about the confidence Heritage Conservation Society, Street elevation that is in keeping far more than economics. Tash from others. someone can gain from learning to fulminated in a mid-January press with the Elizabeth Bay Conservation comments that the workshop also The Bike Club grew out of the fix a bike: “If someone can learn to release that “the ecstasy and odyssey Area and with the potential to retain has philosophical and ethical roots, July 2005 “Students of Sustainability do something for themselves, then over the long running heritage saga the original Victorian Villa. seeking “to challenge throw-away Conference” in Melbourne. Activists they can take that into other parts for proposed demolition of Barons, A deferred approval is too much culture.” sought a way of both promoting of their lives.” a group of buildings including the approval for local objectors suspicious Ironically, it is throw-away culture sustainability but also fostering a famous Bohemian bar in Kings of the transparency of this process. that feeds the bike workshop. sense of community. To find out more about Bike Club visit Cross, is coming to its ultimate “In this case, Clover Moore has Regulars of the workshop are always From here it only took a few spare the website at bikeclub.wordpress.com conclusion shortly with the case shown a loose inventiveness with the amazed by the endless abundance of parts to give birth to Bike Club. now listed before the NSW Land and continued on page 2 The South Sydney Herald Feb 2007 News PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo Nearby, Ian Hayson has ambitions Telephone 0400 008 338 for the former Kings Cross Village Phone/fax 02 9698 8949 Centre. He already owns Minton The views expressed in this newspaper A good House, next-door to the former Com- are those of the author and the monwealth Bank at 46 Darlinghurst article and are not necessarily the Road where the Redrock Leisure views of the Uniting Church. news story group has lodged a DA for a new nightclub. ADVERTISING Australand’s $70 million deal to [email protected] from across buy the Crest Hotel in conjunction Ben Falkenmire 0400 139 710 with Allen Linz and Eduard Litver did not include the pub underneath MAILING ADDRESS: the ditch which has attracted the interest of PO Box 2360 Allan Levy of Metro Commercial and Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 SSH Gerry Quinlan of Manetti Quinlan & Email: [email protected] Associates. In 1997, the Rev. Dorothy McRae- The Art Wall Building – William LETTERS McMahon advised the Uniting Street and Kirketon Road – is being Please send letters and emails to the Church that she was a lesbian in sold as a strata development. South Sydney Herald, supplying sender a committed relationship and the You may know of more to come. Hi name and suburb. church sustained her ordination. ho, hi ho, it’s off to work they go. Size: 150 words or less. After she retired as National Director To the considerable consternation We may edit for legal or other reasons. for Mission, she was invited by Knox of local residents. Many local groups Presbyterian Church in Christchurch, are vocal in their opposition to radical New Zealand, to be its minister for change. The Kings Cross branch of a period while its own minister the ALP is to host a forum this month carried out his duties as Moderator that will address the saturation of the of the Presbyterian Church of New neighbourhood with liquor outlets. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Zealand. Andrew Woodhouse warns: “The Late last year, the Presbyterian Damoclean wrecker’s ball is now Church of New Zealand decided at its swinging over every piece of heritage General Assembly that homosexual in this city – including the QVB and people should not be accepted into Town Hall itself [not individually any leadership roles in their church.