Yesterday I took a walk around Redfern, being over there for a minor bit of skin treatment at the GP’s surgery — and to get a flu shot prescription. Looked around Pitt and George Streets; George Street was where M and I first lived in 1990 before moving on to Little Eveleigh Street and then in 92 to Surry Hills. Had a very healthy veggo lunch at Quirk’s Grocery in Pitt. Redfern is worth a wander these days.
Today is the Surry Hills Festival in Prince Alfred Park.
All sorts there. That’s last year above, but you get the idea. Had a look around, spent nothing. 
There’s a fuss at the moment about Hillsong Church’s plans for Rosebery, where Jim Belshaw lives. You can read a bit about it in the April South Sydney Herald (p. 13). They have some clout, Hillsong. There was an article about it in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald: Rabbitoh push for Hillsong church.
A GROUP of prominent politicians, business leaders and community organisations including the South Sydney Rugby League Club are supporting the controversial Hillsong Church campaign to build a mega-church in the inner city. The Rabbitohs, the South Sydney Police & Community Youth Club and the former director of the NSW Liberal Party, Scott Morrison, have joined the Reverend Fred Nile in letters to Sydney City Council supporting the proposed 2700-seat church and seven-storey offices in Rosebery.
The $78.4 million development, to open seven days a week, from 7am to 10.30pm, has drawn strong opposition from residents, who say it would flood the streets with noise and traffic. The supporters’ letters, urging the council to accept the application for a “positive addition” to the area, praise Hillsong’s “commitment to the community”.
The letters – which include submissions from Wesley Mission and the Australia Christian Lobby – have an identical paragraph stating that the sender “cannot speak directly to the proposed development”…
I find this all rather ironic when I see some of those names and think of Camden, where ostensibly some of the same issues — noise and traffic — were raised. But of course some are more Blessed than others, it seems… I am sure those involved would deny on a stack of, um, Bibles that there is any double standard in play.
There is a good post on Camden on Club Troppo: Camden, Islamic schools, and all that.
Posted by Denys on April 12, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I lived in Little Eveleigh Street for 3 years from about 1999.
Posted by ninglun on April 12, 2008 at 3:18 pm
We only left because the house was sold and we couldn’t do much about it at the time; otherwise we may have stayed!