| Early History |
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| "How the Aboriginal Housing Project was Born" by the late Bob Bellear |
- Source: Black Housing Book, ed. Robert Bellear, Amber Press, 1976 |
| "How the Aboriginal Housing Project was Born" by Kaye Bellear |
- Source: Redfern Oral History Website |
| "How the Aboriginal Housing Project was Born" by the late Colin James |
- Source: Redfern Oral History Website |
| "How the Aboriginal Housing Project was Born" by the late Father Ted Kennedy |
- Source: Redfern Oral History Website |
| "BL's Back Aborigine Housing Scheme" |
- Source: BLF Newsletter 1973 |
| Media reports 1973 - 2015 |
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| "Breakfast at 6 to Unite the Blacks" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 12th March 1973 |
| "Building Union Ban Lifted" |
- Daily Mirror 21st March 1973 |
| "Whites Attack on Aboriginals" |
- Daily Telegraph - 22nd March 1973 |
| "Aboriginal Go Alone" |
- Sydney Daily Mirror 23rd March 1973 |
"Sasha, 2 a victim of Redfern's race hatred" |
- Sydney Sun 23rd March 1973 |
| "Housing at Redfern: Aborigines Plans Outlined" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 26th March 1973 |
"Housing Plan for Aborigines" |
- Melbourne Sun 26th March 1973 |
| "The Unrest of Black Redfern" |
- Nation Review 30th March 1973 |
| "A Champion's Fists keep and Uneasy Peace" |
- Sunday Mirror 8th April 1973 |
| "Black Ban on Aid" |
- National Times 9th April 1973 |
| "City Aborigines in Fear of Police" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 14th April 1973 |
| "Joy and Anger at Redfern Plan" |
- Daily News 16th April 1973 |
| "Federal Backing For Aboriginal Co-op" |
- Adelaide Advertiser 16th April 1973 |
| "Half Million Dollars as a Spur for Aborigines" |
- Brisbane Telegraph 16th April 1973 |
| "$530,000 Grant for Aboriginal Houses" |
- Melbourne Sun 16th April 1973 |
| "Homes Gift For Blacks" |
- Melbourne Age 16th April 1973 |
| "Aboriginals Ask Council For Support" |
- Daily Telegraph 17th April 1973 |
| Editorial "Redfern's Aborigines" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 17th April 1973 |
| "Home for an Aboriginal Community" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 17th April 1973 |
| "Work Started on Aborigines Home Project" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 17th April 1973 |
| "A Self-Help Pace-Setter" |
- West Australain 30th April 1973 |
| "Row in ALP Over Housing Aid Project" |
- Daily Mirror 3rd May 1973 |
| "Aboriginal Community Scheme Can Win: Bonner" |
- Australian 8th May 1973 |
| "Housing Project launches Labor's first major racialist challenge" |
- Sydney Morning Herald - 10th may 1973 |
| "A Black Outlook" |
- Sydney Morning Herald - 11th may 1973 |
| "Heartland of Underprivilege" |
- Melbourne Age 6th June 1973 |
| "Co-operate Plea" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 21st June 1973 |
| "It's not the Colour, it's the Lifestyle" |
- Melbourne Herald 24th June 1973 |
| "Blacks are hoping for communes in more state capitals" |
- Australian 2nd October 1973 |
| "Their own village in the heart of the city" |
- Melbourne Herald 25th June 1974 |
| "Mum Shirl's World is Black Redfern" |
- Age June 1974 |
| "Sinister or simply petty: Redfern's problems divide opinion" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 23rd January 1997 |
| "Demolition of derelict homes to kick off Redfern clean-up" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 25th January 1997 |
| "Redfern makes the transition" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 22nd February 1997 |
| "Redfern crime slashed, New York style" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 17th April 1997 |
| "Red hot - The changing face of Redfern " |
- Daily Telegraph 6th December 2003 |
| "Aborigines riot in anger at boy's death" |
- Age 16th February 2004 |
| Pics of Redfern "Riot" |
- 16th February 2004 |
| "Redfern riots a 'tragedy for all': Mick Mundine" |
- ABC Radio - The World Today 16th February 2004 |
| "NSW Govt boosts resources for Redfern police" |
- ABC Radio PM 16th July 2004 |
| "Aborigines' Protest in Sydney Leaves 40 Injured" |
- New York Times 17th February 2004 |
| "Battle-scarred Redfern on a knife edge" |
- Age 17th February 2004 |
| "Three inquiries into boy's death" |
- Australian 17th February 2004 |
| "Latham Slams Parents Over Riot" |
- Australian 19th February 2004 |
| "TJ's life played out in the 'dead zone'" |
- Weekend Australian 21st february 2004 |
| "Aunty Leaves the Block" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 19th March 2004 |
| "Coroner's inquest into death of TJ Hickey" |
- ABC Radio AM 5th July 2004 |
| "Conflicting police reports emerge at Hickey inquest" |
- ABC-TV 7.30 Report 15th July 2004 |
| "Redfern reforms rushed through" |
- Herald Sun17th July 2004 |
| "Block's new life of hope - $27m plan for `cultural housing' in Redfern" |
- Daily telegraph 11th October 2004 |
| "Major plan to redevelop Redfern" |
- Age 29th November 2004 |
| "Revealed: how Redfern will be reborn" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 29th November 2004 |
| "Maximising market value the main game" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 29th November 2004 |
| "Moore moves to block Redfern's revamp" |
- Daily Telegraph 30th November 2004 |
| "Redfern Coalition to resist forcible acquisition of The Block" |
- ABC Radio AM 20th December 2004 |
| "Selling out the people of Redfern" |
- Australian 12th May 2005 |
| "Priest who brought hope into Redfern" |
- Daily Telegraph 25th May 2005 |
| "Redfern plan threatens cultural identity, critics say" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 15th April 2006 |
| "Big plans for Redfern" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 17th April 2007 |
| "Redfern's black history goes back generations" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 10th July 2009 |
| "Friday deadline on the Block, but last residents are refusing to go" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 15th November 2010 |
| "Redfern's 'The Block' landmark is done" |
- Sunday Telegraph 23rd October 2011 |
| Block politics in Redfern |
- Sydney Morning Herald 26th April 2014 |
| Hipsters take over Aboriginal Redfern |
- Sydney Morning Herald 2nd May 2014 |
| Redfern Block Tent Embassy established |
- Red Flag 31st May 2014 |
| Redfern stoush intensifies over block development project |
- ABC Radio AM 6th June 2014 |
| "Protesters fear Indigenous residents will never again live on the historic site" |
- ABC News 11th June 2014 |
| "Redfern grannies vow to stay on the Block" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 14th June 2014 |
| "The Long Haul" |
- Honi Soit 6th July 2014 |
| "Protesters scale buildings to stop bulldozing of The Block" |
- Sydney Morning Herald 7th July 2014 |
| "The AHC and the battle for Redfern's Block" |
- The Saturday Paper 12th July 2014 |
| Redfern apartment marketer spruiks ‘Aboriginal exit’ |
- Australian 10th December 2014 |
| 'Vegie gardens keep Redfern Tent Embassy supporters fed' |
- The Stringer 14th December 2014 |
| "Supporters Flock To Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy" |
- by Chris Graham New Matilda 22nd December 2014 |
| "Redfern tent embassy discusses Aboriginal resistance" |
- Green Left Weekly January 31, 2015 |
| " Redfern First Nations Embassy slapped with 48 hour eviction notices " |
- N.U.G. 20th February 2015 |
| "Block being sold out to 'little rich white kids', warns Munro " |
- NITV 8th March 2017 |
| "'None of this is right': Development plans spark fury at The Block " |
- Sydney Morning Herald 14th November 2018 |
| "The Block plans approved for 24-storey tower in Redfern " |
- ABC 4th March 2019 |
| Academic Papers - some good, some questionable |
Note: These are PDF files - you need Adobe Reader to open them |
| "Aboriginal Youth Subcultures in Redfern" |
- by George Morgan - University of Western Sydney |
| "Documenting Redfern: representing home and Aboriginality on the Block" |
- by Ceridwen Spark - Monash University |
| "Mapping Australian Postcolonial Landscapes" |
- by Mark Harris in Law Text Culture Vol 7 2003 |
| "Urban Indigenous Housing Issues in Redfern" |
- by Jacqui Wilkinson - University of NSW |
| "Riots, Policing and Social Disadvantage" |
- by Don Weatherburn NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. |
| "A Critical Media Analysis of the Redfern Riot" |
- by Andy Gargett - University of Melbourne |
| " The Redfern All Blacks Rugby League Club in the Early 1960s" |
- by Jackie Hartley in Labour History, No. 83 (Nov., 2002), pp. 149-171 |
| "Struggles over Aboriginal Housing, Redfern, 1970-73" |
- by Kay Anderson in Settlement: A history of Australian Indigenous housing |
| "The Two Realities on the Block" |
- Elizabeth Rice in collaboration with the Aboriginal Housing Company |
