Robin Gray, Tasmania’s longest serving Liberal Premier, has launched a blistering attack on Jeremy Rockliff’s plan to build a $750 million stadium in Hobart.
In highlighting how the “dud deal” will kill football in the north, will damage the northern economy and will burden Tasmanian taxpayers for generations, Robin Gray has backed in everything the Labor Party has been saying about this reckless project.
His extraordinary intervention also highlights, once again, the deep divisions within the Liberal Party over the Premier’s plan. Robin Gray has now joined Federal Liberal MP Bridget Archer, Liberal fixer Brad Stansfield and former Macquarie Point CEO Mary Massina in opposing the $750 million stadium.
And little wonder given that during a health, housing and cost of living crisis, Premier Rockliff has decided that building another stadium in Hobart is his top priority. He wouldn’t be more out of touch if he was living on the moon.
In contrast, Labor is on the ground listening to Tasmanians who say they want a health system that works, housing they can afford and power prices capped.
Dean Winter MP
Shadow Minister for Economic Development
