The Rockliff Government’s litany of untruths surrounding the Macquarie Point stadium can now be revealed with indisputable clarity.
Working as an architect in Sydney (now retired in Hobart) I have seen many large private and government projects awarded to firms who have used blatantly false or misleading conceptual renderings in order to secure major contracts.
Yet I am not sure I’ve witnessed anything more deceitful than the computer graphic imagery conjured over recent months by compliant architects to support the self-aggrandisement of one unqualified town planner who – prompted by an AFL salesman – considers himself qualified to subjugate an entire state to a Big City sporting and gaming empire in exchange for a license to play just one of the many nationwide games it already plays.
Until this week, the Macquarie Point stadium ‘artist’s impressions’ have deliberately excluded all existing parameters or familiar edifices by which to scale the siting or height of the proposed stadium.
But now the hoodwinking, the fudging, and the downright lies can be revealed. All we needed was the inclusion an existing survey monument lying on an exact parallel of latitude with the architect’s cross-sectional centreline.
And finally, here it is: the 1901 Gasworks brick chimney stack at 38.1 metres high (Australian Height Datum).
On Monday 10 March, Mark Pooley, the author of this piece, discussed his findings with Ryk Goddard on ABC morning radio. You can listen in at the 1 hour 36.5 minute mark: