Another Big Day

by Mark Mordue | Apr 23, 2022

Another big day – and an even bigger night to come – at Addi Road in Marrickville with the premiere at 6pm, Friday 22 April, of the documentary ’DIE. OR DIE TRYING. ESCAPING THE TALIBAN’. We expect a crowd of around 300 people to view our one-hour feature....

Walk This Way

by Mark Mordue | Mar 22, 2022

It’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Down at what’s affectionately known as Addi Road in Marrickville, a community is weaving itself together, celebrating the day despite a drizzly early morning start in Sydney.  People are...

Reality on the Ground

by Mark Mordue | Jul 15, 2021

“I’ve been thinking how there are two sides to the pandemic,” says Rosanna Barbero, CEO for the Addison Road Community Organisation in Marrickville. “I know everyone is really scared this time. I’m actually a bit nervous, too. This bloody Delta strain is so...

Our Island Home

by Mark Mordue | Jul 3, 2021

Wonderful feature story in today’s SMH Good Weekend about the photography exhibition ‘We Bleed the Same’, which made its debut here at the Stirrup Gallery in Marrickville.   Addi Road was integrally involved in sponsoring the exhibition and helping...

Not all ‘people smugglers’ are the same…

by Addison Road Community Organisation | Jun 21, 2021

As part of our government’s ongoing attempt to deny refugees and asylum seekers a right to safety in Australia, politicians from both sides of politics have demonised so-called people smugglers. Many refugees don’t deserve our sympathy, the argument runs, because they...