{"id":841825,"date":"2026-08-03T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841825\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:40:23","slug":"questions-linger-over-funding-for-scrapped-alice-springs-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841825\/","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":841826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[381247,414024,382106,397622,377283,414034,414037,414040,414047,379533,414022,414039,380634,398087,402304,414031,24261,414049,414055,414038,449,458,459,64,63,414033,7781,29024,460,134,414021,74810,48408,69,414030,157294,2494,3786,52619,45755,28336,178437,414032,414042,414026,414023,1098,414054,33373,407292,391890,6027,59906,393191,414043,414020,414025,414046,414029,414036,414028,414027,414041,414053,414044,414051,120559,414045,414019,378886,414035,131558,302592,386913,414050,390234,63784,383393,414048,414052,397700,13060,28333],"class_list":["post-841825","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-consolidated-revenue","tag-80m","tag-a-funding-fracas","tag-a-handball-game","tag-a-list","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-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-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-project","tag-comment","tag-deadline","tag-design","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-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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}