Rebecca White and Labor cannot continue to hide and play hypocritical games over Tasmania gaining an AFL men’s and women’s team and a world-class entertainment venue.
Everyone knows that no stadium means no team. Labor wants to kill the dream.
Rebecca White and Labor are playing both sides of the fence by saying they would use every opportunity to block the stadium and then at the very first hurdle, voting in favour of legislation to assess and approve the stadium, they cave it.
Today’s Tasmanian daily newspapers have all skewered Ms White and Labor on their hypocrisy
This is exactly what Tasmanians have come to expect from Labor – they say one thing and do the opposite.
Who can forget Labor leader David Bartlett saying he would never ‘do a deal with the devil” and form a Labor-Green Government in 2010 and then doing just that – jumping on his bike with Nick McKim and taking Tasmanians for a ride.
That decision has so far cost Labor 9 years in opposition and they still haven’t learned – Tasmanians want builders and not blockers and they also want a Government that is true to its word.
We know that David O’Byrne has the Labor leadership in his sights again and he, like several other members of the Parliamentary Labor Party and the Federal Labor Government, are in favour of the stadium.
They have vision while Tasmanian Labor has White Line Fever.
And, Bass MHA Janie Finlay can play all the semantic games she likes but securing AFL and AFLW teams is the catalyst for upgrades to UTAS Stadium.
UTAS Stadium will be needed to host more Tasmanian AFL games while the Macquarie Point stadium is being completed – what will happen if Labor kills the stadium and kills Tasmania’s AFL dream?
Ms Finlay needs to be straight with the Bass electorate – will she cross the floor and vote in favour of an AFL team and the AFL dream Tasmanians have been waiting decades for.
Once again Lazy Labor have been exposed as duplicitous, dodgy and deceitful – everything that Tasmanian voters hate.
