Minister for Stadia and Events Nic Street has today twice refused to confirm the Macquarie Point stadium will have a roof.

A roofed stadium will create significant engineering challenges, which will be compounded by the instability of the site’s foundations.

A roof also means the stadium will need to be at least 40-metres high, so lighting can be provided inside it, which in turn means the stadium will impact the Cenotaph.

And of course, a roof will also add significant cost to the project, which is already set to cost Tasmanian taxpayers dearly.

For more than a year, Jeremy Rockliff and his government have been promising something they know they cannot deliver. It is time they started being honest with Tasmanians.

Will the stadium have a roof, or not?

Given everything they’ve said about this previously, why is the government refusing to say?

Dean Winter MP  
Shadow Minister for Economic Development