Parramatta. Institute has permanent home

The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, announced a $7 million grant to restore the historic Female Orphan School, at the UWS Parramatta campus, enabling the Whitlam Institute to be permanently housed in the building. ''There could be no better place to establish a permanent home for the Whitlam Institute and the Whitlam Prime Ministerial Library than in this grand old building, within this young, vibrant university,'' said the institute's director, Eric Sidoti.