Macquarie Point Stadium Proposal – Overruns
You continue to guarantee Tasmanians your stadium project at Macquarie Point will not go a cent over its back-of-the-envelope budget.
You continue to guarantee Tasmanians your stadium project at Macquarie Point will not go a cent over its back-of-the-envelope budget.
The Liberals' newly released Macquarie Point Precinct Plan is nothing more than a hollow marketing ploy to sell their unpopular and unnecessary planned stadium.
The skyrocketing cost for a new racetrack is not only a shocking waste of taxpayer funds on a cruel industry, but casts further doubt over the Hobart stadium
At the last minute, the Premier lamely tabled a whole bunch of documents, which it turned out were already all in the public domain.
Today the Treasurer backed in a cost-benefit analysis report created by the pro-stadium lobby as part of its PR strategy and counter to its own advice.
The report uses a methodology from the discredited PricewaterhouseCoopers that would not be accepted by the Commonwealth for the allocation of grant funding.
I want to touch quickly on the stadium, the kunanyi cable car and, if I get time, the Lake Malbena development.
It is clear the public interest is for all of the information that the Government used to make the decision should be in the public domain.
There has not been a lot of clarity about where all members stand on the stadium.
Apart from moving around a few ministerial positions and bringing in a highly paid spin doctor from a lobbying firm, it is clear nothing has changed.