Tasmania’s budget is in a mess and essential services are already going underfunded. Yet on the first day of Parliament the Liberals have reconfirmed their unconditional support for a billion-dollar stadium that Tasmanians don’t need and can’t afford.
Treasury has warned that the budget isn’t in good shape, and that we can’t just grow the economy to fix it. Revenue raising and a cut in spending is needed.
However, essential health and housing services are already struggling to meet Tasmanians’ needs. They need more investment, not cuts.
We simply can’t afford a stadium which will add almost two billion dollars to Tasmania’s debt by the end of the decade.
Support for the Tassie Devils team is continuing to grow in the community. We have teams heading off to the VFL and VFLW. Tassie’s teams are happening, with or without the new Macquarie Point Stadium.
It’s time to renegotiate the deal for our teams. The Liberals can’t cut essential services to meet the demands of the AFL for a stadium.
The Liberal Government needs to ditch its costly stadium and ensure essential services have the funding they need.
