Labor promises $18 million for Jewish Arts Quarter

As campaigning for the May 3 election begins, Labor is fighting to retain the Melbourne electorate of Macnamara with a pitch for the Jewish vote.

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles joined local MP Josh Burns today to announce an $18 million investment to support the creation of the Jewish Arts Quarter (JAQ) in Elsternwick.

JAQ is being developed as cultural precinct which will include a relocated Jewish Museum of Australia, a redeveloped Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library, the new Melbourne Holocaust Museum, and the existing campus of Sholem Aleichem College.

The project is part of the City of Glen Eira’s Elsternwick Cultural Precinct, which will also include a co-working office space for community organisations and non-for-profits, function spaces for celebrations, and creative studios for musicians and artists.