The impressive building with sweeping water views was meant to be built in the most marginal electorate in the country - and designed by the architects behind the North Sydney Pool renovation.
It was meant to be an expansive, light-filled building with a rooftop terrace and sweeping water views near Jervis Bay, built on the back of a $7.5 million election promise and designed by the architects behind the North Sydney Olympic Pool upgrade.
Federal Labor member Fiona Phillips promised $7.5 million for the library - half the anticipated cost - during the 2022 election campaign, when she was locked in a tight battle with former state Liberal minister Andrew Constance for her seat of Gilmore. She eventually won with a margin of 0.34 per cent.
Shoalhaven City Council said rising construction costs were to blame for the price of its new library rising from a budgeted $14 million in 2021 to $30 million-plus. “I think is a victim of poor circumstances really. Part of that perhaps came around by the instructions given to them,” Findley said.Then opposition leader Anthony Albanese with local Labor MP Fiona Phillips at Bomaderry during the 2022 election campaign.The council decided to build the district library in 2018 to serve the growing population around Jervis Bay and St Georges Basin, and to provide an economic boost to Sanctuary Point.
The project must be finished by December 2026 under the grant conditions, but Phillips moved to allay concerns the council would have to hand the money back. Other grants under the program include almost $30 million for parks in Sydney electorates, including Bennelong and Lindsay, and more than $141 million for projects across Tasmania’s five electorates.
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