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25 FEBRUARY 2021
Award-winning television host Todd Sampson will present the first event at Charles Sturt s new Innovation Hub in Port Macquarie.
Charles
Sturt to launch its Innovation Hub –
an initiative designed
to support regional innovators and businesses – at Port Macquarie campus
Opening event for new Innovation Hub on
Tuesday 23 March will feature hour-long information session by award-winning
television host Mr Todd Sampson
Innovation
Hub is part of Charles Sturt’s Stage Two Development in Port Macquarie which
received funding from NSW Government
An award-winning television presenter and documentary-maker will be in Port Macquarie next month to officially launch a new centre at Charles Sturt University aimed at supporting regional innovators and entrepreneurs.
âShopped around for yearsâ: Skydiving funding from bushfire grants criticised
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A NSW council twice unsuccessfully sought government funding for a regional skydiving and adventure sports facility before it was eventually awarded $11 million from a bushfire economic relief fund.
The funding for the Macleay Valley Skydiving Adventure Park was announced by the NSW Nationals in October 2020, under a fast-tracked $177 million state and federal Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund now at the centre of an inquiry into government grants.
Firefighters combat a blaze on the NSW Mid North Coast in November 2019.
Credit:Nick Moir
Months before the stateâs bushfires, the council released the Macleay Valley Coast Destination Plan in July 2019, which identified the adventure park as a âgame changerâ project and outlined a plan to âleverage the NSW governmentâs support for adventure sports tourismâ.