Tasmania’s parliamentarians have received a draft version of the order they will vote on to determine the fate of the Macquarie Point Stadium project.
The order lays out the conditions that the project must adhere to if it is greenlit to proceed by the parliament.
What is in the order?
The order is broken down into seven parts, including Aboriginal heritage conditions, historic cultural heritage conditions, environmental conditions, TasWater conditions and council conditions.
There is also a section dedicated to the enforcement of those conditions and which agency is responsible for doing so.
Can the order be changed?
Normal legislation is able to be amended as it makes its way through parliament, but the final order will be a “yes or no” proposition.
But the government has provided MPs with a draft order to enable some level of feedback and the potential for changes to be made before it comes to parliament.
This allows the government to choose whose feedback it might take on board and some votes will be more important to them than others.
The draft order will become a final order on October 22.
The governor then needs to approve it and the government intends to have it debated in the lower house on November 13.
The crucial vote is in the upper house, where debate is set to take place on December 3 and 4.
With Labor’s support the government needs the votes of three out of eight independents.
It could come down to independents Tania Rattray, Casey Hiscutt, Bec Thomas and Dean Harriss.
Premier Jeremy Rockliff intends to have the stadium approved by the end of the year.