More than three and a half years after the Tasmanian government first announced plans to build a new Hobart stadium, it has finally got the parliamentary numbers to make it a reality.
And fittingly for a project that has been hard to sell to politicians and characterised by constantly shifting cost estimates, there needed to be one more government concession to get undecided upper house MPs over the line.
The order to approve the stadium is set to pass the Tasmanian parliament after four Independents — one more than the required three — announced they would vote for it.