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Parramatta as the founding of NSW white governance and the stories of where aboriginal and white people first met has its own history and a separate museum with context makes sense.
Create a new Museum in the Parramatta/West Precinct, thus maintaining the existing Museum for Sydney Central citizens and for Tourists.
There are sufficient items now in storage to furnish both venues with excellent displays, and for the Education of our school children.
Normally in any major city in the advanced western world we find museums located close to the centre of the city eg Madrid London New York etc.
Why is the current Powerhouse Museum being sold..? It doesnt make good sense for the future generations !
The inevitable long term consequence of such oppression of community in favour of vested interests will ultimately feed the flames of social unrest and shatter the consesus to be goverened. Our social fabric and environmental sustainability are threatend by activities which could result in legislative challenge if the community had the resources to take such costly action. By the time government understands the consequences in political terms it will be too late for the planet and for maintaining community harmony and culture.
As David Suzuki noted on his last Australian visit: ’the Barbarians are in charge!"
Leave the PHM where it is, so everyone can visit it. Most overseas tourists only have a short stay in Sydney and would not be able to include a visit to the Museum in Parramatta.
Also the cost of re-locating to Parramatta is to much for the taxpayer to take on. There are many exhibits in storage which could be displayed in a NEW Museum in Parramatta, leaving the present PHM in Ultimo where it has always been.