There’s $18m in NSW state government money for a campus there

Saturday’s announcement follows a federal election campaign event when state ministers and the then local Liberal member for the federal seat of Robertson, Lucy Weeks (she lost), announced $18m in federal funding (CMM April 12).

While there was no mention of state money then, there is now – bringing the project cost, with the university’s $22m to $58m.  What? You think the state government held the funding amount for its own pre-budget pre-announcements? Honestly, some of you are such cynics!

This will be Uni Newcastle’s second Central Coast (between Sydney and the university’s home city) campus – joining the long established  one at Ourimbah. And it expands the university’s Gosford presence – former prime minister Scott Morrison opened Uni Newcastle’s $72m Central Coast Clinical School and Research Institute there in March (CMM March 15).