From: Grace Cochrane <gracecochrane@bigpond.com>
Date: Sunday, 7 April 2019 at 4:54 pm
To: 'Grace Cochrane' <gracecochrane@bigpond.com.au>
Subject: Powerhouse Museum: AFTER THE ELECTION, WHAT NOW?
POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY OPPOSITION TO PHM RELOCATION CONTINUES!
Following
the narrow win by the Liberal/National coalition for state government in NSW,
there has been considerable criticism of strategies
Premier Berejiklian is putting in place. Many significant departments have been
amalgamated into super-ministries, such as Environment being absorbed into the
Planning and Industry department. The emphasis appears to be even more on
‘development’.
However,
Linda Morris writes that: ‘Labor and the Greens have rejected any suggestion
the Coalition has a fresh mandate to shift the Powerhouse at a capital cost of
$1.1 billion and use the proceeds from the institution's redeveloped Ultimo
site without oversight. Greens MLC David Shoebridge, deputy chairman of the
long-running Upper House inquiry which recommended the project be abandoned, is
hoping to gather enough crossbench support with Labor to re-establish a select
committee in the arts portfolio’ to monitor the governance of the arts and culture sector in New South
Wales, with particular reference to the governance and management of the
Powerhouse Museum relocation project.
‘The
two-and-a-half-year parliamentary inquiry had urged the Powerhouse Museum be
given a cash injection and restored to its former glory, while Parramatta would
receive funding for its own, separate ''world-class'' institution… But the NSW
Premier insisted there was no turning back: ''The Powerhouse in western Sydney
is part of the future of western Sydney.'' ‘
We
understand that the Government must ‘respond’ to the Inquiry report within six
months.
You
can check the Powerhouse Museum Alliance web page for recent News reports: https://powerhousemuseumalliance.com/find-out-more/a-news-chronology/
… as well as Letters to the Editor and Inquiry transcripts
and report. And you can have your say on our Facebook page!
Many
thanks to everyone for your continuing support. And let’s encourage our local
MPs to advocate for the recommendations of the Inquiry. For the Inquiry Committee’s Final Report: Read more and Read more
Grace
(for
the Powerhouse Museum Alliance).
Grace Cochrane AM
25 Morris Street, Summer
Hill,
NSW 2130, Australia
61 (0)2 97986821; 61 (0)4
25215244
curator.writer.consultant
MFA, PhD (Tas)
D.Litt (UNSW)
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