By Diet Simon
“The Block” in Redfern, an inner-city Sydney suburb, has become something like sacred ground to thousands of Aboriginal people since the 1970s, when they managed to buy the prime real estate with freehold title.
The Block was where you went to stay with relatives or friends for a while when you came to the big smoke seeking opportunities.
But it also became notorious for drug taking.
Now The Block is about to be bulldozed to build new housing. I’ve been talking about that with Paulette Whitton, a presenter at Gadigal Koori Radio in Sydney.
http://www.4shared.com/audio/bddilMTB/20110125-the-block-paulette-wh.html
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You might end up with prison style, slave state architecture
Maybe the landlord can see that his problem is not with the drugs but with the black market economy? If your place is as such that an international fast food franchise would not fit in there, usually the same thing can be said about the black market economy. It turns the marketplace into a dogfight and even before that it turns everything around it into a marketplace. You'd either need a lot of landscape to spread out, a lot of thick-skinned elders, or a lot of sleepwalking in political enemies to handle such a thing, preferrably all of the above. Be aware that if you do not sort this out upon yourself you might end up with the prison style architecture of a gated community in the slave states.