By supporting the odious Mac Point stadium today, the Tasmanian Labor Party has abandoned any pretence of being an opposition party and revealed itself as cowards without principle or purpose.
Less than a week after plans to reduce nursing staff by 58% at the RHH Cancer Clinic became known, and with ongoing cuts in programs and more to come, Labor has demonstrated it now exists only to play the part of karaoke singers mouthing Jeremy Rockliff’s nonsense in support of a vanity project that will according to the Tasmanian Planning Commission (TPC) lead to increased taxes and reduced public services.
Why is Josh Willie supporting more taxes, job cuts and worsening public services just so Jeremy Rockliff can be photographed in a warm corporate box sipping champagne with AFL executives while the growing homeless sit in their wet tents up on the Domain hill overlooking Macquarie Point?
By backing a $1.8 billion stadium that Tasmania cannot afford and the majority of Tasmanians oppose, by going against the damning recommendations of the government’s own experts that the stadium will significantly damage Hobart’s cityscape and Tasmanians’ social and economic future, Tasmanian Labor has written its own suicide note and it will be punished (again) at the next election with a vote even worse than its historic low of 25% in the last election.
As our health services crumble and state schools worsen, and cruel austerity are measures introduced, Tasmanians won’t forget who could have acted in Tasmania’s interests but weren’t up to do the right thing.
Roland Browne
Our Place spokesperson
It took the ALP 5 days to write a media statement supporting the Liberal government and the Rockcliff Stadium. Did they even read the TPC report? They have clearly given up on being a serious opposition party. Looking for a greater swing against them next election, i suppose. #nonewstadium
— Roland Browne (@slowguns.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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