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Media Release18 September 2024 Our Place spokesperson Roland Browne has described the latest plans for Macquarie Point stadium as terrifying. “We predicted it would blow out on cost and even before they start building, it’s gone up 8%—and it won’t be the last time or...

Has Treasurer Ferguson’s budget left you feeling let down? Frustrated? Hopeless? Angry? Do you have an empty feeling of dread in the pit of your stomach as you consider the future of our state, as observed through that budget lens?The budget includes infrastructure...

For over a year now, Tasmanians have been speaking up to oppose the construction of a new stadium at Macquarie Point in Hobart. And, over recent weeks, Tamanians have given generously to help spread the word on the big island to the north.At Our Place, we know there...

Tasmania's financial position is on track to "become worse than that of any other state or territory over the next three years", and the deterioration is "entirely attributable" to state government policy, an independent review of the state's finances has found....

FOR over 50 years opinions about dams, pulp mills, poker machines, forestry, mining, super trawlers, cable cars and salmon farming have divided the Tasmanian community. The controversy that’s currently tearing the state apart concerns a stadium — and whether Tasmania...

The Macquarie Point Development Corporation says the proposed 23,000-seat, roofed stadium will be a "premier entertainment destination". But former Tasmanian music promoter Charles Touber, who brought AC/DC to Tasmania in 2001, said the belief that international acts...

Callum feels the familiar vibration of his mobile phone. Another text from Sportsbet. The name of Australia's most popular gambling app — official betting partner of the AFL and NRL — has become synonymous with major sport on TV. Callum hasn't placed a wager for more...

On 26 July 2024, Mr Roland Browne appeared before the Tasmanian Government Administration Committee B to give evidence in support of his written submission to the Committee's Inquiry into the Electoral Disclosure and Funding Amendment Bill 2024 (No. 9). In the course...

RSL Tasmania is the state’s peak body and offers advice, support and camaraderie to all current and former Australian Defence Force members and their families. For over a year, the RSL has been distracted from its core work by endless impositions on its time as it...

he release of a stadium design by Cox Architects and, soon after, of Mr Shamus Mulcahy’s image (released by Our Place), providing a real context for that design, prompted reactions of shock and horror from some well-known Australians who love our capital city.

Our Place has released a new architectural render showing the devastating impact the Cox designed AFL stadium will have on Hobart’s celebrated urban heritage. According to Our Place spokesperson, Roland Browne, “You just can’t hide how huge and how utterly...