REDWatch : monitory democracy as a radical approach to citizen participation in planning

These are the words of "The rebel of Redfern" His nameis Geoff Turnbull ...Redfern's resident ratbag" (Adair, 2010, p. 1). Geoff is the spokesperson for local resident action group REDWatch. The organisation's name is formed from an acronym combining the first letters of the Sydney suburbs of Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington and Waterloo with the word "watch". These four suburbs, colloquially knownas Redfern/Waterloo, are located3km south of the central business district of Sydney. The New South Wales (NSW) State Government holds large tracts of public housingandpubliclandinthe area. WithintheSydney MetropolitanStrategy(see Figure1),acitylevel strategic planning document, Redfern/Waterloo is located squarely within the "global economic corridor" of "Global Sydney" (NSW Government, 2013a, p. 4).