There are so many reasons for not building a stadium in Hobart, or indeed Tasmania writes Suzanne Curry.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Here are three indisputable reasons why not, and it’s a lot about elephants.
Australia has an elephant in the room. He is so gigantic that if he sat on his rear end and tucked his tail and trunk in, he might just squeeze onto the ground at the MCG.
That elephant is the biggest gambling debt in the world – $31.5 billion annually. Despite the cost-of-living crisis, the amount of money lost to gambling is increasing and rising faster than the cost of education, housing and inflation. Anglicare’s Social Action and Research Centre states that Tasmanians lose an average of $1676 per year, and Tasmanian gamblers lose over $1million per day.