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Redfern to Waterloo 2005

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Redfern to Waterloo 2005

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Redfern

Inner-city suburb located immediately south of the central business district whose sandhills were first settled by Chinese market gardeners and later by Aboriginal people who migrated to work in the local factories. Today it is a rich blend of public housing, renovated terraces, light industry and arts precincts.

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Redfern Oval

Rugby league ground which is home of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league club. It adjoins Redfern Park and was originally established as a sportsground as part of the park design in the 1880s.

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Redfern Park

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Nineteenth century park, adjacent to Redfern Oval, which contains a cenotaph and many examples of the earliest botanical imports to the colony. Proclaimed as a park in November 1885, the park was designed by engineer Charles O'Neill and officially opened to the public in 1890. The site of the famous Redfern Speech by Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1992 which acknowledged the dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In 2018 Redfern Park and Oval was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register.

Waterloo

Southern inner-city suburb characterised by industry in the nineteenth century and public housing in the twentieth, now undergoing gentrification.

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