As Redfern gentrified, its old public school became a hub for the local community. Not any longer | JordsBaker
, must divest the land it buys to Indigenous communities. The NSW Aboriginal Land Council approached it, unsolicited, about the Redfern site a few years ago.
But the chief executive of the land council, Yuseph Deen, told the rally that the council had only intended to take on the property, not the business, which makes a loss of more than $2 million a year. From April, however, it was clear the ILSC wanted to divest both. “Unfortunately after the last meeting we had here last week, the negotiations with the ILSC broke down over what an adequate envelope of funding would keep the doors open,” Deen said.
A former chief executive of the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence, Clare Ingrey, described what the centre meant to the community. “A big beautiful space where Aboriginal people ... could come and see and feel Blak excellence around them”.
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