The wall comes down as shutters go up at Redfern

The corner of Regent and Redfern Streets, as it was, an unwelcoming place.

For decades Redfern, the epicentre of Sydney’s Aboriginal community, languished under cruel perceptions as a place of crime and poverty, spoken about by the rest of greater Sydney only in terms of derision.

In recent years that has all been changing. 

Against the odds and intimidation Occupy Sydney lives on

Last week I met with Occupy Sydney activists to learn of the new tactics being employed by the NSW Police Force to intimidate and harass the continuing Occupy Sydney demonstrators, a small group who is keeping the fight for economic and social justice alive as much of the rest of the world tries to forget it.