{"id":618086,"date":"2026-08-03T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/618086\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:15:28","slug":"questions-linger-over-funding-for-scrapped-alice-springs-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/618086\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions linger over funding for scrapped Alice Springs art gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lingiari MP Marion Scrymgour said the $80 million the federal government committed to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Gallery of Australia project \u2013 sensationally scrapped by NT Treasurer Bill Yan last year<\/a> \u2013 has returned to \u201cconsolidated revenue\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have said I will fight for the funding to return to Alice Springs, which I will keep doing. However, this also requires the active support of the Northern Territory Government and the Alice Springs Town Council,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur job now, at all levels of government, is to develop a plan that we can take forward. <\/p>\n

\u201cI understand the Alice Springs Town Council has a list of projects they want funded, but it will need to involve the Northern Territory Government also. I have a role to play in this advocating at the Federal level for that funding to come through, which I am committed to doing, but we all need to be at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Scrymgour\u2019s comments come as Alice Springs Town Council Mayor Asta Hill told Tuesday\u2019s council meeting she is still fighting for the $80m to be put towards other projects in town. <\/p>\n

Ms Hill said she met with representatives from Ms Scrymgour\u2019s office, during which she \u201claboured the point\u201d about the funding sitting in limbo. <\/p>\n

She expressed the \u201cwidespread community disappointment\u201d about the federal funding sitting in limbo<\/a> and said she will continue advocating it be put towards any of the \u201cshovel ready\u201d projects council currently has. <\/p>\n

But responding to questions from this masthead, Ms Scrymgour reiterated it was the NT government\u2019s decision to scrap the project, which they were committing equal funding to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have fought for Alice Springs\u2019 fair share of funding, and I will keep doing that, but the NT Government must join me at the table,\u201d Ms Scrymgour said. <\/p>\n

Mr Yan scrapped the gallery in October last year after the $160m project was downsized, leading to a funding fracas between NT and federal government<\/a> as the feds reviewed their share of the funding commitment. <\/p>\n

Mr Yan has been contacted for comment but this masthead did not receive a response by deadline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lingiari MP Marion Scrymgour said the $80 million the federal government committed to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[260871,260874,260888,260868,260875,260894,260897,260907,260872,260896,260914,260890,260886,260885,67484,184629,260909,260920,260895,365,362,363,364,260889,8742,122537,40442,366,18,117,260870,260901,61785,4313,260884,260918,1510,3428,260898,19,17,6863,27035,197027,260887,260902,260877,260873,44132,260919,12129,260881,260893,84284,76113,260917,260903,260869,260876,260906,260880,260892,260879,260878,260900,260916,260904,260913,71469,260905,260867,260912,260891,228123,197964,260883,260911,260910,256768,260882,260908,260915,260899,19537,10689],"class_list":["post-618086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-s-comments","tag-s-council-meeting","tag-s-decision","tag-s-fight","tag-s-office","tag-80m","tag-a-funding-fracas","tag-a-handball-game","tag-a-now-scrapped-aboriginal-art-gallery-project","tag-a-now-scrapped-art-gallery","tag-a-plan","tag-a-response","tag-a-role","tag-a-territory-town","tag-a-list","tag-alice-springs","tag-alice-springs-art-gallery","tag-alice-springs-town-council-mayor-asta-hill","tag-all-levels","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-australia-project","tag-comment","tag-consolidated-revenue","tag-deadline","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-equal-funding","tag-fair-share","tag-federal-funding","tag-federal-government","tag-federal-money","tag-full-swing","tag-funding","tag-government","tag-handball-game","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-last-year","tag-levels","tag-limbo","tag-lingiari-mp-marion-scrymgour","tag-mr-yan","tag-ms-hill","tag-ms-scrymgour","tag-nt","tag-nt-treasurer-bill-yan","tag-october","tag-other-projects","tag-our-job","tag-projects","tag-questions","tag-representatives","tag-scrapped-alice-art-gallery","tag-that-funding","tag-the-shovel-ready-projects-council","tag-the-widespread-community-disappointment","tag-the-160m-project","tag-the-80-million","tag-the-80m","tag-the-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-island-art-gallery","tag-the-active-support","tag-the-alice-springs-town-council","tag-the-federal-coffers","tag-the-federal-funding","tag-the-federal-government","tag-the-federal-level","tag-the-feds","tag-the-funding","tag-the-funding-commitment","tag-the-future","tag-the-gallery","tag-the-northern-territory-government","tag-the-nt-government","tag-the-point","tag-the-project","tag-the-table","tag-their-share","tag-this-advocating","tag-this-masthead","tag-town","tag-tuesday"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}