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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:36): A supplementary question to the Premier: how much does the government forecast the full cost of the Aboriginal art gallery will be?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:36): It's hard to answer that in any other way than the previous answer because the $150 million has been included in the budget. Work is being done at the moment on the scoping of that project, as those opposite may appreciate. This is a complicated issue, where we are managing collections that sit between multiple organisations. We want to be extraordinarily respectful to Aboriginal communities in South Australia and in other jurisdictions about what we are moving ahead with, so we are taking our time to make sure that we come up with the right result.

I make this point: there is still a huge amount of work to do on Lot Fourteen to prepare that site for the establishment of the gallery, and so we would rather take the time to get this right. We believe that this is going to be a centre of international significance and will draw people here to South Australia. The demolition work is continuing on the Lot Fourteen site, so it's not as if we had made up our mind, finalised the design and put the money into the budget so that we could be starting work on the gallery or the centre at the moment. We will take the time, we will get it right and we will update the house as soon as possible.

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