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Port Adelaide to turn to private enterprise to create Aboriginal centre of excellence | Adelaide Now
Port Adelaide will push ahead with plans to build a 50-bed Aboriginal boarding house, health and education centre at Alberton and will turn to private capital to fill a $10m funding shortfall.
Plans for the club’s Aboriginal centre of excellence have been drawn for three years and it has secured $4m of Federal funding, but further pledges totalling $12m fell over after the respective State and Federal elections left the project at a standstill.
(Quoth the CEO, June 2019):
“But we haven’t got the money to build it. We know there are a lot of priorities for government but all we are saying is we are still here, we are absolutely committed to this and are a willing partner looking to provide solutions.”
“We feel like once we are able to articulate the broader scope of this (to private enterprise) and relate it to the success we are already seeing with our programs, we think there will be interest.”
Port Adelaide will push ahead with plans to build a 50-bed Aboriginal boarding house, health and education centre at Alberton and will turn to private capital to fill a $10m funding shortfall.
Plans for the club’s Aboriginal centre of excellence have been drawn for three years and it has secured $4m of Federal funding, but further pledges totalling $12m fell over after the respective State and Federal elections left the project at a standstill.
(Quoth the CEO, June 2019):
“But we haven’t got the money to build it. We know there are a lot of priorities for government but all we are saying is we are still here, we are absolutely committed to this and are a willing partner looking to provide solutions.”
“We feel like once we are able to articulate the broader scope of this (to private enterprise) and relate it to the success we are already seeing with our programs, we think there will be interest.”
