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J , A U) ST RA LI
PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA 5 December 1985
JOINT PRESS RELEASE BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR H{ AWKE, AND THE
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PREMIER, MR BANNON
The Prime minister, Mr Hawke, and the Premier, Mr Bannon, today
announced that two major South Australian projects had been
granted funding under the joint Commonwealth-State Bicentennial
Commemorative Program.
The first project is to relocate the existing Mile End Railway
Museum at Port Dock Station at Port Adelaide. Mr Bannon said
that the museum fulfilled an important role in the preservation
and care of historically significant engines, rolling stock and
memorabilia associated with South Australia's railway history.
" It is the only railway museum in Australia displaying
locomotives representative of four different railway gauges,
reflecting the State's unique position in Australian railway
history." Mr Bannon said the Museum would attract 60,000 visitors a year
and because of its proximity to the South Australian Maritime
Museum, would add another feature to the redevelopment of the
Port Adelaide area. The museum will be completed within the
Bicentennial year 1988.
The second project to be given Federal funding is the tropical
conservatory in the Botanic Garden. Mr Bannon said that the new
tropical conservatory of steel and glass construction would have
educational, scientific and recreational value to the community
and would provide a striking Bicentennial focus for the
imaginative redevelopment of the Hackney bus depot site. It will
be used to cultivate a tropical-plant display featuring species
from Australia, Malaysia and the Pacific region.
Mr Hawk~ e said that the Commonwealth Government was pleased to be
associated with the two projects. The project nominations from
the South Australian Government demonstrated imagination and a
commitment to Australia's heritage. They were another example of
Commonwealth-State cooperation which served to illustrate the
Bi'centennial theme ' Living Together'.
The two Bicentennial projects will cost a total of $ 7.1 million.
Two other Bicentennial projects which will be jointly funded by
the Commonwealth and State have already been announced. These
are the River Murray Interpretive Centre at Goolwa and a Tourist
and Out1-back Interpretive Centre at Port Augusta.