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	Macam-Macam: Redfern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Redfern is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
		Redfern is subject to extensive redevelopment plans by the state government, to increase the population and reduce the considerable concentration of poverty in the suburb and neighbouring Waterloo, hence the creation of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority.
		Redfern is the first station south from Central Sydney terminus on the edge of the city.
	www.theswanker.com /macammacam/2006/10/redfern.html (883 words)

	The Challenge of Redfern :: by Peter Maher :: Publications :: ACMICA
		His deep and profound love of the Aborigines in Redfern and all their relatives around Australia was expressed in his extraordinary memory of names and places and where those names belonged.
		Redfern parishioners – that strange, diverse and sometimes tortured group of all kinds, all colours and even various beliefs – somehow created a community that would have made Jesus proud.
		The recent Redfern riots, as they are known, was an act of resistance to the terrible shrinking world of Aboriginal safety in Redfern.
	www.acmica.org /pub_maher-redfern.html (701 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Sydney riots over Aborigine death
		Angry youths torched a railway station and pelted police with petrol bombs and lumps of concrete in the mainly Aborigine district of Redfern.
		Police reinforcements wearing riot gear were drafted in from across Sydney to quell the violence.
		At the height of the riots, some 100 people were said to have taken to the streets.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3491299.stm (496 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news issues: the Redfern riot
		The rioting in the district, Redfern, left 40 officers injured and highlighted continuing tensions between Aborigines and the authorities.
		But the raw intensity of the February 15 riot, its graphic portrayal in the media and its synonymity with the death of 17-year-old Thomas "TJ" Hickey guaranteed it would not be swept under the carpet.
		Different treatment may have led to riot, says PM February 27, 2004 - Prime Minister John Howard has suggested that the Redfern riot was partly the result of a policy of treating the indigenous community differently to the rest of Australia.
	www.eniar.org /news/news-issues/redfernriot.html (3888 words)

	smh.com.au - The Sydney Morning Herald
		The cousin of a Redfern teenager whose death sparked race riots in the inner-Sydney suburb should be mourning with his family, a Sydney court was told today.
		Redfern police have called for more officers on the street and a replacement station within view of the Block to quell civil disobedience, in a move likely to anger Aboriginal leaders.
		Redfern, the crucible of fl-white relations, continues to shock.
	www.smh.com.au /specials/redfern (1282 words)

	The Redfern Riots: Multiculturalism at Work
		It was alleged that a cause of the riot was the pursuit by police of an Aboriginal who in attempting to escape had had a fatal accident.
		However the police denied any pursuit by them, and even if there had been a pursuit the accidental death of a fugitive through his own negligence and refusal to stop would in no way be a proper cause for complaint.
		What is however evident is that the Redfern riots are a predictable consequence of the multicultural movement, which is opposed to assimilation, and of the lobby groups who set out to blame white Australians for the difficulties that Aboriginals have been creating for themselves.
	www.nationalobserver.net /2004_autumn_ed2.htm (1045 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As the year draws to a close the people of the inner- Sydney suburb of Redfern are still reeling from the shock announcement that the government plans to completely rebuild much of the suburb.
		Significantly, after hearing of last year's Redfern riots, state Liberal Party leader John Brogden declared that the government should "Bring in the bulldozers!" And sure enough, this is just what the Carr Government now proposes to do, even if this means violating the rights of Aboriginal residents.
		In this respect the Redfern proposal is just a much larger variation of the Carr Government's many plans for the redevelopment of other areas, despite the objections of residents and other concerned citizens.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve04/1211redfern.html (690 words)

	Standing Committee on Social Issues - 10/11/2004 - REP
		Redfern is a chronic socially disadvantaged community in which there was a lot of resentment.
		Redfern has a very important train station, and problems are being inflicted on local people by drug users who are not locals.
		Following the riot I visited Redfern and met with Mrs Hickey to give her some encouragement because I believed that the Aboriginal people in the area were feeling alienated—a sense of Aboriginal people versus white people; and not only white police but the white community.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /Prod/Parlment/HansArt.nsf/f3241a77a196fd77ca256cfe000d24a0/bb43766c3a9cad7eca256f540011f2c0!OpenDocument (7411 words)

	Redfern Riots - Forums
		Forty police officers were injured as drunken youths pelted police with bricks, bottles and petrol bombs during a riot in Sydney overnight sparked by a teenager's death.
		Redfern railway station was set alight, a car burnt out and windows smashed as about 100 drunk and angry youths armed with Molotov cocktails and rocks wreaked havoc.
		At the height of the riot, reinforcements were brought in from across Sydney to help officers in riot gear control the situation.
	www.inthemix.com.au /forum/showthread.php?t=82008 (2320 words)

	ncca - Redfern Riots
		We, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission of the National Council of Churches in Australia, call for a period of reflection in the wake of the tragic death of 17-year-old Thomas ‘TJ’ Hickey and the subsequent riots in Redfern.
		Although the passage of time may not have lessened the pain of those affected by the situation, it gives the wider church community a chance to revisit attitudes and responses to Indigenous people; to seek insight and a way forward.
		In addition to the immediate causes of the riots, these events have raised deeper issues that need to be identified, recognised and resolved.
	www.ncca.org.au /archives/media_releases/2004/redfern_riots3 (348 words)

	Race riot Summary
		A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil unrest in which race is a key factor.
		Such riots often reflect anger among racial minority groups that are regarded as socio-economically deprived, and often such anger is directed at law enforcement agencies who are perceived to unfairly target these racial groups.
		Racial profiling, police brutality, institutional racism, urban renewal, and racial identity politics are often cited as causes of these riots, although many have argued that these riots tend not to follow any sort of political logic but rather represent spontaneous violent outbursts.
	www.bookrags.com /Race_riot (1246 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news
		A celebrated fly on the wall documentary filmed by the ABC some years ago and called Cop It Sweet, highlighted the tensions between Aborigines and police in the inner Sydney suburb.
		A familiar face around Redfern for the past 20 years, Mick Mundine describes last night's events as a tragedy for all concerned.
		MICK MUNDINE: Oh, I think it's getting a bit better, like, in the last couple of years because it all depends on which commander is really running the show up there and now that Dennis Smith, sort of, you know, is the new commander, it's been going pretty good.
	www.eniar.org /news/redfernriots7.html (823 words)

	Guardian \| 'Violence damages the Aboriginal cause'
		In a knee-jerk response to a problem that has been simmering for years, the New South Wales government promises probes into how teenager Thomas Hickey died in a cycling accident and whether the police contributed to it, as claimed by locals.
		There are those who have tried to change Redfern through their gentle influence over the years, but sadly they are being swamped by the tide of intractable, unemployable youngsters who displayed their contempt for society at the weekend.
		For me, as an Aboriginal person, Redfern is a place where one can interact with a powerful collective will to struggle against imperial forces that continue to interfere with - and endeavour to reinterpret - our history, our identity, and our future prospects from a very different colonial perspective...
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4860886-110732,00.html (570 words)

	A point of view
		Redfern parishioners - that strange, diverse and sometimes tortured group of all kinds, all colours and even various beliefs - somehow created a community that would have made Jesus proud.
		They have little time for the inverted sense of mission that Redfern parishioners have lived and breathed for thirty years.
		They find it hard to appreciate inverse symbolic action as resistance and the Indigenous people's rejection of their need to convert them to repentance for their drunkenness and rebel rousing The recent Redfern riots, as they are known, was an act of resistance to the terrible shrinking world of Aboriginal safety in Redfern.
	church-mouse.lanuera.com /Articles/ID_TheChallengeofRedfernwrittenforSWAG_4Iban.html (655 words)

	The last thing Redfern needs - Opinion - smh.com.au
		In the soul-searching aftermath of the violence, one of the strongest requests from responsible Aboriginal leaders and front-line police officers in Redfern was to remove the needle exchange bus from the Block.
		In his submission to the largely useless upper house inquiry into the riots last year, the chief executive of the Aboriginal Housing Company, Mick Mundine, complained the needle exchange bus which the new centre is set to replace "was like a honeypot for drug addicts and dealers.
		The residents of Redfern are entitled to a neighbourhood free of crime and disorder.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Opinion/The-last-thing-Redfern-needs/2005/05/25/1116950755666.html?from=moreStories (1151 words)

	Select Committee on Redfern Policing - 26/02/2004
		That is why Redfern police officers held their own meeting in the wake of the tragic events of 15 February.
		In a sense, the Government's response to the riots was to just say, "Look, that is all in hand, team." Although the Government may have come to deal with this issue somewhat belatedly, at least it has come to the table and recognised that the issue has to be looked at.
		It is important that the Aboriginal community of Redfern and the Block, and those who come and go because of their close connections with the residents, sense some acknowledgement of the issues from their perspective.
	www.anzacatt.org.au /prod/PARLMENT/hansArt.nsf/V3Key/LC20040226028 (9610 words)

	Redfernwakeupcall.com press release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Redfern indigenous community says he was fleeing a police car that was chasing him.
		Three enquiries are on their way to sort out the truth but one thing is sure: T.J was scared by the police car and that fear led to his death.
		The day after the riots, she heard the Redfern story on Hack (a Triple J radio program) and wrote “Look Over”, a song about her perception of T.J’s death.
	www.christinemaudy.com /PaulineRedfernwakeupcallPressR.htm (259 words)

	The Guardian
		The Block, as it is known, is an Aboriginal housing complex in Redfern.
		The message that the poor have no right to live on potentially valuable real estate is most evident in the proposals for Redfern, formerly described by The Guardian as "a place where greed, racism, callousness and philistinism all intersect in the interest of developer megabucks".
		The Aboriginal people of Redfern, and their supporters among the Australian community, will prove a match for the land thieves of Macquarie Street.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve06/1264redfern.html (843 words)

	2005 civil unrest in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, riots began on Thursday 27 October 2005, triggered by the deaths of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois, a poor commune in an eastern banlieue (suburb) of Paris.
		Rioting took place in the city center of Lyon on Saturday, 12 November, as young people attacked cars and threw rocks at riot police who responded with tear gas.
		Prior to the riots, he had already equipped the police with flash-ball and tasers, a measure criticized by Amnesty International, concerned by risks of abuse and possible lethal damage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2005_Paris_suburb_riots (4492 words)

	DRUGS: Redfern riot linked to heroin trade - 19 June 2004
		In his submission to the inquiry, he described the syringe van as being like "a honey-pot for drug addicts and dealers" and that its presence has "substantiated and ratified a culture of tolerance for drugs." He had reportedly seen children as young as six sitting in the syringe van.
		Residents of Vine and Hugo Streets in Redfern, in their submission, have spoken of an invasion of drug-dealers in the past three years, accompanied by muggings and bag snatches.
		Police that walk the streets of Redfern every day know that drug use is the biggest cause of the problems in that community.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2004jun19_d.html (987 words)

	The World Today Archive - Redfern riots a 'tragedy for all': Mick Mundine
		Redfern riots a 'tragedy for all': Mick Mundine
		There's no boundaries to drugs and drugs play a big part in what's happening in Redfern at the present moment.
		It's a very vicious cycle, it's pathetic and I mean to say that's the reason why we try to demolish all the houses, redevelop the block and try and build a good foundation so we can start getting that good respect in the community.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1046114.htm (862 words)

	Redfern Riot WorkCover Investigation - 08/12/2004 - QWN
		Mr JOHN WATKINS: We have a number of inquiries ongoing about the Redfern riot and related events: the internal Coburn inquiry, which spurred the major police response to the events last February; the upper House committee hearings into Redfern; and the WorkCover investigation into the police response to that incident.
		He told Stateline on ABC TV on 13 August, "I don't think there's a single thing police did right at the Redfern riot." That is a direct insult to the 50 police officers who put their lives on the line and acted so bravely at that riot.
		We learned from the mistakes that happened in Redfern in February this year, but nothing can take away from the bravery and dedication of those brave police serving in Redfern.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/HansArt.nsf/5f584b237987507aca256d09008051f3/33ae0545ba90218fca256f6d00041051!OpenDocument (443 words)

	Better living conditions
		The United Nation’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva is considering submissions in front of senior officials from four government departments over Sydney’s Redfern riots and the death in custody of a man on Palm Island, off north Queensland, last year.
		He said the riots in Sydney and Palm Island signalled deep frustrations over the government’s failure to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody.
		The Redfern riots were sparked by the death of Thomas “TJ” Hickey, 17, who was impaled on a fence while riding his bicycle through the inner-Sydney suburb on February 14 last year.
	bel08028.tripod.com /donations/id6.html (708 words)

	NSW Police 'Force' News GKCNN Online
		He came to light during a series of high profile raids on The Block, Redfern, on 11 August 2000, which was criticised as being yet another orchestrated attack on Sydney's indigenous community for the benefit of the camera.
		He appeared in front of the cameras during the Redfern riots over the death of TJ Hickey on 14 February 2004.
		He was the centre of criticism by a member of the Parliamentary Committee into the Redfern riots, according to Aimee Brown of the Centre for Independent Journalism.
	www.geocities.com /publik15/archive05/2005b12.html (1006 words)

	Wo! Magazine
		The Corroboree, held annually, acts as a platform to discuss sexual, family and domestic violence in the Indigenous community and attempts to break the shroud of silence that surrounds it.
		A certain police presence was welcomed at the Corroboree, despite an extensive history of hostile relations, culminating in the Redfern Riots in 2004, and the obstacles Indigenous women face in being able to freely report sexual assault to police and other authorities.
		However at the Corroboree the Commander of the Redfern Local Area Command Catherine Burn thanked the Indigenous community for inviting the police and spoke about moving forward together to tackle and prioritise the issue of family violence.
	www.wo-magazine.com /website/issuefour/sexualassault.html (1435 words)

	Uniken ONLINE
		Riots in Redfern, Aborigines Riot, Race Riots in Sydney were just some of the newspaper headlines that screamed at readers around the world.
		It is known that a 17-year-old boy died after being impaled on a fence in the Sydney suburb of Redfern and that a number of people rioted that night.
		While we do not know actually what the police involvement was (there are a number of conflicting claims about the events that led to the boy’s death), we do know that there was police involvement.
	www.unsw.edu.au /news/pad/uniken/uniken0404/page16.html (695 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Sydney riots over Aborigine death
		More than 40 police officers have been injured in Sydney in a riot sparked by the death of an Aboriginal teenager.
		Thomas Hickey, 17, died after he was impaled on a metal fence when he fell off his bike.
		The riot broke out on Sunday night and continued into the early hours of Monday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3491299.stm (496 words)

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