The Minister for Sport’s pitiful media release today highlights the Liberals’ hypocrisy and deflection over their secret stadium deal with the AFL and their refusal to answer questions Tasmanians want answered.
The fact is that until the Liberals release the documents, it remains a secret deal between Premier Rockliff and Gillon McLachlan.
The Liberals need to answer Tasmanians taxpayer’s questions on the stadium, including:
- Why are the Liberals refusing to say that they have accepted the cost blowout risks?
- Why are the Liberals refusing to clarify whether the $240 million in Federal funding is quarantined from the GST allocation?
- Why are the Liberals leaving Tasmanians to pay 97 per cent of the stadium after previously saying we would pay only 50 per cent?
- Where is the money coming from for the other Macquarie Point precinct projects, including housing, transport and wharf upgrades?
- Why are the Liberals building a stadium when we have record debt and $940 million of GST revenue has gone missing due to Treasurer Ferguson’s incompetence?
- Why are the Liberals building a stadium when Tasmanians are struggling with health, housing and cost-of-living expenses?
The Liberals need to stop hiding behind their own deflection and hypocrisy and explain to Tasmanians why they are being left to hold the ball with almost all of the stadium costs.
Josh Willie MLC
Shadow Minister for Sport