All posts tagged "Hobart Stadium"

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  MPs Challenge AFL Over Stadium Blackmail Claims

  Cassy O'Connor MLC, Vica Bayley MHA, Kristie Johnston MHA & Peter George MHA

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  Cross-Party Victory – AFL Agrees to Stadium Meeting

  Following sustained lobbying, the AFL has finally agreed to meet with Tasmanian MPs tomorrow to discuss its insistence on building the Macquarie...

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  Stadium Threatens Tasmania’s Future – ‘Save Tasmania Rally’

  Our Place Hobart has announced a ‘Save Tasmania Rally’ for 23 November to protest the planned Hobart stadium, citing unaffordable costs, cuts...

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  Voodoo Economics – Flawed Stadium Project Appraisal

  In the following commentary, Ruth Forrest accuses the Tasmanian Government’s use of “voodoo economics” in its new approach to project appraisal for...

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  AFL Team, Yes. Billion-Dollar Stadium, No.

  As a Tasmanian living near the Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido, Japan—Simon Jackson details how poor logistical planning, namely the barrier of water...

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  Stadium’s Cost Threatens Trust, Vision and Social Fabric

  The upcoming 4 November 2025 parliamentary vote on the new Macquarie Point stadium has plunged Tasmania into a political crisis defined by...

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  Perry’s Stadium Analysis Raises Serious Questions About Independence

  The 22 October Public Accounts Committee hearing into Coordinator-General John Perry’s controversial stadium opinion piece has raised serious questions about the independence...

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  Tasmanians Are Speaking — Why Won’t Our Leaders Listen?

  This article by anti-stadium activist Janice Overett examines the rapid growth of grassroots opposition to Tasmania’s proposed Macquarie Point AFL stadium through...

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  Australia’s Democracy Stuck in Colonial-Era System

  This opinion piece from Steve Loring argues Australia’s Westminster parliamentary system has become an outdated relic unable to meet modern citizen expectations....

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  Letters to the Editor

  The Beauty Point Tourist Park Guy Barnett’s submission to the Supreme Court regarding long term residence in Tourist Parks – where to...