The National Aboriginal Art Gallery project is one of the biggest investments into Alice Springs in decades and it will provide more local jobs, economic growth, and social benefits.

According to the comprehensive Business Case for the project, if constructed in the CBD, it will bring an additional 53,000 visitors to Alice Springs every year, injecting up to $64 million into the local economy and generating up to 245 local jobs.

This week the Alice Springs Town Council voted to reject the Civic Centre site offer from the Territory Government. This comes after Council has spent almost two years rejecting every offer on the table, without providing any real solutions.

The Council under the leadership of a CLP candidate has not provided a counter offer to the proposed $20M land swap that will also see the creation of a new town library.

The Council needs to come clean and make clear to the people of Alice Springs what conflict of interests exists with their elected officials and how this may have impacted on their decision-making.    

The National Aboriginal Art Gallery project is too important for the people and future of Alice Springs to be stalled by deliberate inaction or political game playing.

The Territory Labor Government remains committed to building the National Aboriginal Art Gallery in the Alice Springs CBD – with or without the Alice Springs Town Council.

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