Save Millers Point, Dawes Point & The Rocks.

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Community, Heritage, Relationships, Art, Home, No Surrender, Save Millers Point

THE POINT IS

Community, Heritage, Relationships, Art, Home, No Surrender, Save Millers Point.

Reg Mombassa I Deborah Kelly I Ruark Lewis I Mini Graff

Ian Milliss I Alison Alder I Be Useful Group I Tamara Dean

Nikki Easterbrook I Jane Bennett I Sally Cushing

Margaret Bishop & John Dunn I Peque I Paddi O'Leary

Members of the Millers Point Community

Responses by artists and the community are presented in a united show of resistance to the relocation of Millers Point tenants. The Point is underscores the diversity and social cohesion inherent in the unique, historic community of Millers Point.

Curated by Cara Martinez

Preview to Documentary Forced Out by Blue Lucine

Opening Wednesday 7th October, 6-8pm

Keynote speech by Eva Cox AO I Live entertainment by Choir Rocks &

Jacinta Tobin I Coordinated by Paddi O'Leary

Exhibition continues until Sunday 1 Ith October

Gallery open Wednesday-Saturday 1 Oam-5pm I Sunday 1 lam-4pm

With thanks to Bec Dean; Public Housing Tenants Group - Millers Point, Dawes Point and The Rocks; The Working Party; Friends of Millers Point; Resident Action Group; the artists and all of our dedicated supporters.

An independently funded multi-arts hub supporting emerging artists to present new work. 107 RE-DFERN STREET, RE-DFE-RN • www 107projects.org

TRAVEL BETTER • BUS 305, 308, 309, 310 • TRAIN Redfern Station RIDE • WALK

Sunday, 20 September 2015

Millers Point Historic Images and Oral Histories Released As Suburb Faces Redevelopment Threats

HuffPost Australia By Bella Westaway 19/09/2015 20:54 AEST

View along Argyle St, Millers Point, 1955 | City of Sydney Archives

Images and oral histories chronicling Sydney’s historic Millers Point have been released for the first time, providing us with a fascinating look into the lives of local residents born as far back as 1915.

The histories come as Millers Point residents are being forced to vacate their homes due to NSW Government plans to redevelop the area, where former public housing terraces are worth a small fortune.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the interviews paint a vivid picture of of life on Sydney’s working harbour.

“This is the community that built much of Sydney -- Millers Point is more than just a collection of old terraces with good views, it’s a strong, proud community, and their stories and their history matters,” the Lord Mayor said.

“These voices are an important part of the City’s oral history collection, which can now be accessed online so more people can learn about one of Sydney’s most resilient and historic precincts”.
Harry Lapham, a Millers Point resident born in 1915 recounts the stories of his childhood where you knew the names of the shopkeepers and tobacco wasn’t sold on Sundays.
“They were the days when they had used to have to measure the butter out, had the box of butter, wooden paddles, scoop it out and weigh it out on the scales, a half a pound or a pound of butter, whatever you wanted,” he said.
Under the state government's sell-off plan, more than 460 Millers Point residents will be relocated from 206 properties.
With the eviction date looming in March 2016, residents are standing strong, saying they will fight until the end to live in the homes many of their families have occupied for generations.
"It’s the only place I’ve ever known, this is where I grew up, this is my life. It will be a fight [to evict us] because we will have many many supporters. We don’t want violence, but we are prepared to go to jail," life long resident Barney Gardner told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Community Services Minister Gabrielle Upton said the sell-off is required to fund the construction of more public housing.
"This is a fair outcome. The proceeds from the sale … can make sure that we provide more homes for more tenants [and] invest in the upgrade of other public housing stock," she told The Sydney Morning Herald.
And because pictures tell a thousand words, here are some incredible images depicting life in Millers Point throughout the twentieth century.

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