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