Former Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating speaks out on Church closures

THURSDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2004
5.25p.m.

 

Statement to sacredheartrescue

“I regard the precinct as an extremely exceptional institutional one. These important buildings of the neo-grecian former High Court, the Hospice and the Church itself along with St. Vincent’s Private Hospital, have a civility of a kind that would be dramatically altered by a campus and any retail and commercial development. Let alone the added traffic and parking.

A development of this kind pays scant regard to the body of the Church community of the Sacred Heart and is typical of the kind of railroading, over which some Diocesan administrators have earned a bad name.

Mr. Keating also added

‘IF IT IS A CASE OF GOD OR DOLLARS,

LET’S HAVE GOD WITHOUT THE DOLLARS”

And may that same God send his blessings to Mr Keating.

Update 2023:  Sacred Heart, Darlinghurst appears to have survived the diocesan depredations.