The ambassador for the suspended $200 million Aboriginal cultural centre on North Terrace says he would be “devastated” if it was scrapped and wants information after the Premier cast doubt over the project’s future.
The state government is currently considering the findings of a high-level review into the state and federal-funded Tarrkarri Centre for First Nations Cultures, slated to be built next to the Botanic Garden at Lot Fourteen to display the state’s Aboriginal cultural artefacts collection.
Construction was put on hold in October, after the project’s managing contractor advised the government of a $50 million cost blow-out and warned that the building would only be of “local state-level standard”.
Asked in parliament yesterday if the government had…
