tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7838969.post109875422323660997..comments2023-10-05T01:28:59.704+11:00Comments on Kings Cross Times: Tanya swings into the limelightThe Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16827285775130578187noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7838969.post-1098794791746619792004-10-26T22:46:00.000+10:002004-10-26T22:46:00.000+10:00Clean-up plan for inner suburbs
Saily Telegraph
...Clean-up plan for inner suburbs<br />Saily Telegraph<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />October 26, 2004<br /><br /><br />THE inner Sydney suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo will be overhauled as part of a 10-year state government plan to clean up the derelict area.<br /><br />A Redfern-Waterloo Authority will be set up and overseen by former Sydney Lord Mayor and Energy Minister Frank Sartor.<br /><br /><br />But the plan remains short on detail, with the make-up of the authority and the amount of funding to be poured into the area to be released at a later date.<br /><br /><br />NSW Premier Bob Carr said the area – the location of a violent riot earlier this year – was the fifth-poorest suburb in Sydney.<br /><br /><br />"The area is not of the standard we would expect as part of a city as modern, as competitive, as affluent as Sydney," Mr Carr said.<br /><br /><br />"The problems there are very real; you've got 60 per cent of the population unemployed, you've got a concentration of disadvantage."<br /><br /><br />Mr Carr said the suburbs were also plagued by drug dependency and other complex social problems.<br /><br /><br />The Block – the scene of the February riot – was not owned by the State Government but Mr Carr said individual home ownership could be the way forward.<br /><br /><br />The Premier said it was not the Government's intention to displace the poor.<br /><br /><br />"Fixing up The Block is to a very large extent the key to this problem," he said.<br /><br /><br />"If that continues to be derelict and a source of disruption, then that affects all that happens around it."<br /><br /><br />Under the 10-year plan, public-private partnerships would be pursued with a view to redeveloping Redfern railway station, building a new pedestrian bridge and developing the Australian Technology Park into a biotechnology hub.<br /><br /><br />NSW Opposition Leader John Brogden later criticised the plan.<br /><br /><br />"I'm extremely cynical about this," Mr Brogden said.<br /><br /><br />"The last thing the people of Redfern need is another government bureaucracy, let alone (one) run by Frank Sartor."<br /><br /><br />He questioned whether it was a plan for a new government authority above Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore.<br /><br /><br />"The Labor Party has no confidence in Clover Moore, they didn't want her as Lord Mayor in the first place so now they've decided to create a new bureaucracy to put over the top of her."<br /><br />AAPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7838969.post-1098777164286180262004-10-26T17:52:00.000+10:002004-10-26T17:52:00.000+10:00Tanya Plibersek ridiculed the Kings Cross resident...Tanya Plibersek ridiculed the Kings Cross residents when they conducted a survey about the preferred location of the injection centre.<br /><br />The community rejected the Darlinghurst Rd location in a popular vote.<br /><br />As a matter of interest she loves the concept of an MSIC and Latham loathes it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com