South Sydney Rabbitohs push forward with $16 million high performance centre John Sutton during South Sydney Rabbitohs training in Mascot .Picture Gregg Porteous Source: News Limited RABBITOHS CEO Shane Richardson is vowing to push ahead with plans for a new $16 million High Performance Centre at Maroubra, insisting: "This club isn't giving up on its dream." As revealed by The Daily Telegraph yesterday, proposed funding for the Bunnies modern, complex at Heffron Park - set to include a gymnasium, altitude chamber, pool and theatrette - has been dumped from the new Federal Government budget. Treasurer Joe Hockey this week announced the money, gifted as part of a pre-election promise by the Labor Party, would no longer be forthcoming under an Abbott regime. Yet Richardson stressed the proud foundation club would continue to work with its project partners, including Randwick City Council and Marcellin College, to ensure the high-quality facility was established as originally planned. "We're not giving up on our dream," Richardson said. Souths Sydney players Adam Reynolds, Beau Champion and Nathan Merritt at the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence. It was disappointing to get the news but we have worked extremely hard, alongside our partners and the local community, to put these plans in place and source funding for the centre. So while these revelations are a setback for us, it doesn't deter us from our end goal of providing a wonderful community facility that will be enjoyed by thousands of people in the South Sydney district. While the Rabbitohs funding has been dropped under the new Liberal Government, a $10 million promise for Brookvale Oval - located in the Warringah electorate of Prime Minister Tony Abbott - has been retained. The Bunnies, who currently train out of a revamped Redfern Oval, initially gained State Government support for a new High Performance Centre across the road from their current base. That decision, however, has since been reversed. The club then pursued the Heffron Park blueprint, with plans to share the facility with Marcellin College, Randwick.