In March 1978, Inner Sydney Regional Council (ISRC) entered the “information game” with the launch of its 62-page newsletter Inner Voice. ISRC was originally set up to work with local…

It is hard to think about the challenges of information sharing in the age before social media and the internet. In March 1978, when organisations were dependent on physical resource…

Editorial New developments market the promise of sustainability, walkability and amenity. Too often, what eventuates falls well short of that promise. Chippendale’s Central Park development promised a balanced mix of…

ISV is looking for input on what needs to change to deliver people-focused human services, especially for public housing tenants, that can be fed into various human service discussions.

  With population increasing quickly, the time has come to reinvest in inner city schools. Between the 1980s and 2000s, many inner city schools closed. Inner Voice, in December 1980,…

This issue is for Waterloo public housing tenants and those interested in large-scale public housing redevelopments.

Social mix is easy to lampoon as this carton shows. This may be why governments now prefer to use the term “integrated communities” rather than “social mix”. Whatever the term,…

Challenging Disabling Images has been an ongoing issue as this month’s from the vault shows.  We have struggled with it in preparing the cover for this issue. The usual physical…

In mid-2017 the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) rolls out in inner Sydney, so in this ISV we focus on disability issues and the NDIS. One of the key messages…