The first sod on the long-awaited Lismore Quadrangle Project and Lismore Regional Gallery was turned today by Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan, Lismore City Mayor Jenny Dowell and State Member for Lismore Thomas George. Once complete the Lismore Quadrangle project, costing a total of $5.8 million, will include a relocated gallery in the old…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said Wherrett Park is again hosting cricket, soccer, rugby league and athletics thanks to a Coalition Government investment of $950,000 to upgrade the Clarence Valley region’s sporting facility. “It is great news that this new modern facility at Wherrett Park has been completed,” Mr Hogan said. “Our community is…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan today announced a grant of almost $9000 to the Woolgoolga Regional Community Garden Association. The grant will allow the association to purchase major infrastructure items for the garden, including a shipping container that will double as a storage area and a meeting place, as well as water tanks and…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said 25 Southern Cross University undergraduate students will receive an Australian Government grant to study and undertake work-based learning in the Indo-Pacific next year. “I am delighted that the Government’s New Colombo Plan mobility program will support 25 Southern Cross students to study in our region,” he said. “Our…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said Veterans and their families in Townsend will benefit from Australian Government grant funding for local projects. Townsend Men’s and Women’s Shed has received $9545 for the purchase of new tools and equipment under the Veteran and Community Grants program that supports important services and helps improve the lives…
Senator the Hon Mitch Fifield, Minister for the Arts and Mr Kevin Hogan MP, Member for Page, today opened a new exhibition In Glue and Dust we Trust at the Lismore Regional Arts Gallery. The exhibition showcases work by master wood craftsman and Lismore local Geoff Hannah and his students. It is the first time…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said the Federal Government’s Roads to Recovery Programme has today been distributed to five councils across the Northern Rivers to assist with local road construction and maintenance. “This is the Federal Government making good on election promises by continuing to support programmes that deliver funding exactly where it’s needed…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said today’s opening of the new Alstonville High School Primary Industries Trades Skills Centre will create pathways for local students into the workforce and on to valued careers. Local students and staff in Alstonville can now make full use of the trade training facilities, which have been developed through…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan has congratulated Alstonville High School student Patrick Bundock who has a won a national competition to commemorate Australia’s Vietnam War veterans on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. Mr Hogan said Patrick was a worthy winner of the Federal Government’s Honouring Australian Vietnam Veterans Competition, which…
For more than 50 years, the Harwood Bridge has been the major crossing point for motorists travelling across the Clarence River on the Pacific Highway, but by the end of the decade a new bridge will take its place as the main carriageway. Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said the new crossing is…