Southern Metropolitan Region
Ryan BATCHELOR (Southern Metropolitan) (12:48): (1519) My question is to the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. What support is the government providing to the proposed Jewish Arts Quarter in Elsternwick? Melbourne’s Jewish community is a thriving hub of culture and the arts. The Jewish community here in Melbourne has a rich and proud cultural history. The proposal for a Jewish Arts Quarter or Jewish arts precinct in Elsternwick has been supported by the state Labor government. We made a $7 million commitment at the last election. I was pleased to be in Selwyn Street at the Kadimah on Monday to hear the Deputy Prime Minister and the federal member for Macnamara Josh Burns announce an $18 million commitment from a re-elected Labor government to support the Jewish Arts Quarter project. State Labor and federal Labor are backing the Jewish Arts Quarter, supporting a thriving hub of Jewish arts and Jewish culture right in the heart of Elsternwick.