The 40,000 Years mural stretches along the brick wall of the railway bridge opposite Redfern Station, defined by its powder blue background and the curving form of the Rainbow Serpent. Completed in 1983, it serves as a visual record of…
Redfern Aboriginal History
Walk through the birthplace of modern Aboriginal self-determination to see where landmark civil rights, health, and legal services were fought for and won.
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1. 40,000 Years mural
2. Aboriginal Housing Company
The Block is defined by the modern, high-rise student accommodation and mixed-use buildings that now rise above the streets of Redfern. This site, bounded by Eveleigh, Caroline, Louis, and Vine Streets, became a center for urban Aboriginal…
3. Redfern Community Centre
The Redfern Community Centre stands as a three-story building constructed from the repurposed brickwork of a former printing factory. It is surrounded by a landscaped park featuring an outdoor amphitheatre and is located on the site of the…
4. Welcome to Redfern
Redfern Park is defined by its grand, mature Canary Island palms and the ornate Baptist Fountain, which sits at its heart. Originally a boggy wetland known as Boxley’s Lagoon, the site was reclaimed and transformed into a Victorian…
5. National Centre of Indigenous Excellence
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence stands on George Street in Redfern on the site of the former Redfern Public School, which operated for over a century beginning in eighteen seventy-nine. Heritage-listed Victorian Romanesque…
6. Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern
The Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern occupies a building at thirty-six Turner Street. It is the first Aboriginal community-controlled health service in Australia, established in nineteen seventy-one to provide medical care that was…
7. 119 Redfern St
One hundred nineteen Redfern Street is a Victorian Italianate building from the eighteen eighties that once served as the Redfern Post Office. You can recognize the structure by its polychromatic brickwork and sandstone base, which have…
8. Redfern Legal Centre
The Redfern Legal Centre occupies the historic Redfern Town Hall. Established in nineteen seventy-seven, it became the first community legal centre in New South Wales and the second in all of Australia. The organization was born from a…
9. Redfern Park
Redfern Park is defined by its collection of mature Canary Island palms and Moreton Bay fig trees, which shade a landscape that has shifted from a nineteenth-century pleasure garden to a hub of Australian political history. The twelve-acre…