Our Place – Hobart has called on Premier Rockliff to resign following the release of the draft assessment by the Tasmanian Planning Commission.
Roland Browne said:
The draft assessment is a shocking indictment of the Premier’s stadium proposal at Macquarie Point in terms of costs, economic impact and heritage impact.
Tasmania cannot afford $1.86 billion of debt after 10 years that the report finds it will cost. It cannot afford the damage to Hobart’s tourism economy and its status as a small city in a big landscape that the report details.
The government must pull this project from the Planning Commission now and save Tasmanian taxpayers the $60 million allocated for consultants and put an end to the division the project has generated.
The government must start work tomorrow on getting AFLW/AFL teams up in Tasmania on terms that will not bankrupt the economy and will not require a new stadium. It’s time for Plan B and that’s using the stadia we have. We need a new premier with determination and character who can save the team. Jeremy Rockliff will only doom the teams if he is allowed to persist in this impossible folly of a stadium Tasmania can clearly not afford.