I support the recent statement from 50 Hunter groups highlighting the short-changing of the Hunter area ('Stop 'short-changing' Hunter', Newcastle Herald 11/3). I have now been in Sydney for two months for medical reasons and the government expenditures seen here are breathtaking.
I researched the grants given to 11 regional cities plus Sydney around the time we received the $10 million grant for the Newcastle Art Gallery extension. I calculated the per capita amount and on that basis we should have received $210 million as a regional city, or $170 million using the Sydney grants.
