The Tasmanian Greens are NOT happy with the Tasmanian government’s response to the stadium review:
Vica Bayley MP, Greens Acting Leader said:
The Liberal Government are utterly delusional in their response to the Tasmanian Planning Commission’s unequivocal recommendation that the stadium should not be built. There is nothing in this response that offers any credible answer to the multiple, profound negative findings of the expert panel that the Premier himself established.
The Liberals’ response, designed to replace the facts with spin, is convincing no one. Their so-called positive impacts were already put to the Planning Commission and have been roundly rejected in their cost-benefit conclusion.
The Planning Commission were clear – the stadium should not proceed. It will be a budget black hole, accumulating $2 billion of debt within the decade.
The Commission found that Tasmanians will be worse off as the government is forced to up taxes or cut services to pay for the stadium.
This Government response does nothing to clarify exactly how Premier Rockliff will pay for this.
With health and housing services already underfunded, Tasmanians simply can’t afford a stadium. The Premier needs to remind himself who he’s working for. Are Labor really going to keep letting the Premier get away with this?
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More bread and circuses with today’s report of a $2 billion proposal for extensions to MCG in Melb. People are sleeping on the streets, in shop doorways and under bridges because of lack of housing. There are empty buildings - motels and aged care homes which were used during Covid to house the homeless because of health concerns and political will to act.
Now vic taxpayers are asked to shore up AFL pretensions of grandeur.
Politicians wonder why people hate them, why there is so much dissent???