While Our Place does not share Mark Pooley’s view that we need another referendum on the proposed stadium (we had one at the last State election), we are very happy to share his searing piece on the strategy being employed by Mr Dean Winter and his party. An excerpt:
Political weakness is a metastasising cancer. In a race to the bottom of public distrust, Dean Winter thinks he has a cunning plan.
Reading between the lines of its press releases, it is obvious Labor is leveraging the government’s appalling mishandling of the berthless $900 million Spirits IV and V, and is prepared to support the construction of the AFL theme park safe in the knowledge that the mismanagement forecast in Dr Nicholas Gruen’s (government-commissioned) Stadium Report would be clarified by the snowballing costs during construction and lead to a change of government.
But by then the die is cast and the money-pit deepens.
It’s very easy (for this writer) to believe Labor’s approach would be successful, but what does it tell every Tasmanian about Dean Winter’s treacherous abuse of ‘Tasmania’s Debt Dilemma’ (Saul Eslake, March 2025) with such a lazy, sloth-like route to government?