The alternative Macquarie Point vision announced today shows it is possible to utilise Macquarie Point to deal with one of Tasmania’s most pressing issues, housing.
The site presents an opportunity to generate significant social and economic benefit for Tasmania – two things Jeremy Rockliff’s planned stadium will not do.
Jeremy Rockliff is blindly chasing a stadium-dream which is proven to be a total economic dud by his own business case, and will prevent the site from reaching its full potential.
Jeremy Rockliff’s bad decision to abandon considered development in favour of a stadium will cost Tasmanians hundreds of millions of dollars in real terms, with the opportunity cost to be even higher.
The Liberal Government has had nearly ten years to come up with a plan for Mac Point that benefits Tasmanians.
If they were going to develop something there they’d have done it by now.
Yet the best they have come up with is a billion-dollar taxpayer funded stadium that we don’t need and can’t afford.
Dean Winter MP
Shadow Minister for Economic Development