In response to an opinion piece in the Mercury from the Coordinator General Our Place Hobart has submitted two articles to Tasmanian Times for publication.
“A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING” AT STADIUM ECONOMICS OR ‘ROSE COLOURED GLASSES’?
Response to The Coordinator General’s Opinion Piece “Devil’s Deal is Economic Gold” – Hobart Mercury 10 October 2025
Mr Perry’s creative accounting and his fanciful conclusions recently published in a double page spread in the Tasmanian Government’s Public Relations Organ, the Mercury, smack of a last-ditch attempt to rescue the stadium debate from the brink of absurdity over which it was teetering in its own response to the TPC’s Integrated Assessment Report. A frantic effort to insert some final ‘quantifiable data’ before surrendering all common sense to “the vibe”.
One of the first questions its release prompted was why did the Coordinator General not make this submission to the TPC? Could the answer be that this analysis is deeply flawed?