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Letters to the Editor, Monday, July 5, 2021: Pump some money into the Carrington pumphuse

Updated July 5 2021 - 1:43pm, first published 4:00am
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Letters to the Editor: Pump cash into Carrington icon

I APPLAUD Brian Suters' call for the Pump House, pictured, to be repurposed ("Pump House a star waiting to be reborn", Opinion 29/6). But I fear his hope for some financial assistance from the NSW government is doomed to largely fail. Currently our state government has promised $244 million for Sydney Modern (the extension to the Art Gallery of NSW), $500 million to upgrade the Powerhouse Museum, $950 million for Powerhouse Parramatta, $10 million to move Willow Grove House (Parramatta), $735 million for the new Sydney football stadium. Yet the once-promised $7 million to help redevelop our Newcastle Art Gallery has seemingly disappeared. The phrase "Sydney-centric" comes to mind.

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