LATROBE VALLEY MALTESE MUSEUM

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Ms SHING Eastern Victoria

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LATROBE VALLEY MALTESE MUSEUM

Tuesday 3 March 2020

Ms SHING (Eastern Victoria) (13:20): I rise today to congratulate everyone associated with the creation of Australia’s first Maltese Museum in Morwell. The day before the highly successful Maltese Festa in Morwell, we saw the official opening of brand-new facilities, which have been created from a very well used and well-loved pigeon club in Morwell. Thanks to the allocation of a $56 270 grant through the Latrobe Valley Authority, we have seen a range of local service providers and contractors come together to create the most enormously touching, dedicated and passionate love letter to Malta, which consists of miniatures, of artefacts and of told history, photographs and the stories of so many of the families who came to the Latrobe Valley to contribute their labour, culture, music, stories and of course food. What a wonderful outcome. Thank you so much to Mario Sammut, who has worked so hard to bring this museum to reality, along with the very wonderful Consul General Mario Farrugia Borg, who attended on the night to officially open the museum.