Joanna Gash (Gilmore, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

This Saturday will see the opening of the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre. The centre was built by the Shoalhaven City Council and Edwards Construction. It has two very large stages, one capable of holding 900 people seated and the other 200. It can be converted in approximately 1½ hours into a restaurant style, seating 800 people. The centre cost $24 million. The previous government gave $3.3 million from the Regional Partnerships program. I have to say how much the community appreciated this funding from the partnerships program. Can I also say that the artists, the theatre people, the people who do the dance and so many young people will now be able to hold all their school speech days and dramas in the entertainment centre which has been built by the community, for the community, with community funding and Regional Partnerships funding from the previous federal government of $3.3 million.

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