{"id":1336,"date":"2019-01-25T00:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2019-01-25T00:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T00:15:47","slug":"labor-will-invest-in-a-new-entertainment-centre-for-proserpine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/labor-will-invest-in-a-new-entertainment-centre-for-proserpine\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR WILL INVEST IN A NEW ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE FOR PROSERPINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"intro\" class=\"intro\">\n<div class=\"content\">\nA Shorten Labor Government will invest $5 million to rebuild the Proserpine Entertainment Centre \u2013 generating 43 local jobs in construction and giving the local community a vote of confidence in the future of their region.<br \/>\nThe entertainment centre is a central part of the town\u2019s identity, but it was badly damaged through Cyclone Debbie in 2017 and has been closed since, forcing events to relocate and limiting the region\u2019s capacity to attract new events.<br \/>\nRebuilding it is an integral step in helping the community\u2019s ongoing recovery efforts, and to boost tourism and economic opportunities in the region \u2013 one of the most unique and beautiful parts of Australia.<br \/>\nLabor\u2019s investment will go towards reconstruction of a new complex, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The capacity for a 300 seat auditorium for live shows and movies.<\/li>\n<li>A conference and function space with a capacity for 256.<\/li>\n<li>Full access for people with disability.<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced facilities including green room, change rooms, loading dock and prop storage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s estimated that some weeks more than 1,000 people will use the centre \u2013 providing an economic and social boost to Proserpine and the broader Whitsunday community.<br \/>\nA new entertainment centre would also provide a large air conditioned facility for local community groups to use, particularly local senior citizen groups.<br \/>\nDuring construction the project is forecast to have an economic output of $16.7 million and create 43 jobs during construction, and once fully operational it will generate an annual $3.3 million output and 16 fulltime equivalent jobs.<br \/>\nThis investment is the result of the hard work and advocacy of Labor candidate Belinda Hassan \u2013 who has been listening to the local community about what they want for their region.<br \/>\nResidents in Proserpine and the Whitsundays have done the hard work to rebuild their community after Cyclone Debbie, and Labor\u2019s investment will give them extra support in continuing these efforts.<br \/>\nThis is a beautiful part of Queensland \u2013 it deserves a government in Canberra that listens and acts on the things that matter. That\u2019s what Labor will do.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Shorten Labor Government will invest $5 million to rebuild the Proserpine Entertainment Centre \u2013 generating 43 local jobs in construction and giving the local community a vote of confidence in the future of their region. The entertainment centre is a central part of the town\u2019s identity, but it was badly damaged through Cyclone Debbie &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/labor-will-invest-in-a-new-entertainment-centre-for-proserpine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR WILL INVEST IN A NEW ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE FOR PROSERPINE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}