The Federal seat of Grayndler has been held by the Labor party since its inception in 1949. A traditionally working class area, gentrification has seen the rise in more yuppie-skewed politics in recent years. The more liberal residents have caused a rise in the Greens votership, while conservatives made their…
In May 2014, a Tent Embassy was established on The Block in opposition to the Pemulwuy Development Project. Supported by the Aboriginal Housing Company the development proposes new university housing, commercial businesses and inner city housing in the much sought after Redfern. This involves selling off the land that was…
A few years ago, a corner shop in the heart of the Vietnamese shops on Illawarra Rd in Marrickville started to change. Everyone watched with interest at what would happen to the old tailor shop with the window that hadn’t been cleaned in years. Slowly it was cleaned up and…
Another area that many say is likely to lose most of its state-owned housing in Glebe. Home to Indigenous, migrant and working class families for decades, Glebe has history with urban development that makes it an interesting case of both renewal and gentrification. In the 1970s, housing owned by the…
Millers Point: A community under the hammer Get a sense for what is at stake in selling off Millers Point public housing with this interactive website from the Sydney Morning Herald. Learn more about the history of the area and the government’s plans for the future. Most importantly, you get…
Leichhardt used to be a neighbourhood where you knew all your neighbours. In our Leichhardt edition of There Goes the Neighbourhood, one resident states, ‘My grandparents live next door and my uncle lives across the road.’ Leichhardt is known for being a tight-knit community of (mostly) Italian migrants. The influx of Italians…
For over a decade, Marrickville has been the frontier for the gentrification creep. If you’ve lived in Marrickville for more than 20 years, you probably remember when the first white-Australian family moved into your street – or maybe you were that white family? Look at Marrickville and you’ll see the…
During the time of the project, many things happened in the station’s broadcast area that meant the focus of an area had to change slightly. For example, we had planned on doing some work in Woolloomooloo but then the NSW Government decided to sell off Millers Point housing estate and…
The National and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) was an influential indigenous organisation in Glebe throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. In the 1970s an African American dancer, Carole Johnson. visited Australia as part of a dance company. After the tour Carole remained in Australia to work with the Aboriginal…
The struggle being fought in Redfern right now goes much deeper than locals vs. yuppies. This fight is about the situation of Indigenous people in Australia and their right to their land. Deemed the most unliveable part of Sydney in the 1960s, Redfern was an industrial precinct that became the…