00:00No stadium, no team, no budging.
00:06It's really clear the conditional licence is a 23,000 seat roof stadium at Macquarie
00:11Point.
00:12A scathing report from the Tasmanian Planning Commission has found the cost benefits of
00:16a stadium at Hobart's Macquarie Point are far below what's being spruced and there would
00:21be size and access issues with the site.
00:24The AFL isn't shifting.
00:27It is complex and it's difficult but we're really confident that the planning will play
00:32out the way it is and we'll end up with a stadium.
00:35The Tasmanian Government also not budging.
00:38We are working through the issues.
00:41We are in a process.
00:42The timelines are challenging.
00:46One indisputable fact is if this stadium is not built there will be no team.
00:54But non-government MPs don't share the Premier's optimism, peppering him with questions about
00:59his pet project.
01:00How have you stuffed this up so badly?
01:03In my opinion your government will send the state broke if you continue down this line.
01:08Surely you can now see that the stadium is a terrible deal for Tasmania.
01:13The stadium is being assessed under a Project of State Significance process that gives parliamentarians
01:19the final say after a series of public hearings.
01:22The Greens say they're concerned the government could walk away from it.
01:26We are deeply concerned that the Premier is looking at pulling the pin on what is already
01:33a substandard planning process, the POS, and bringing in enabling legislation.
01:38We are in the Project of State Significance process as we speak.
01:43We are continuing in that process and the parliament at the end of the day will have
01:48it's say.
01:49The government needs Labor's vote for the stadium to pass the lower house.
01:54Despite being critical of the stadium in parliament, the opposition leader issued a statement saying
01:59he wants to see it built, but stopped short of guaranteeing parliamentary support.
02:05Tasmanian Labor supports building a stadium.
02:08We support it and we have given all the political support that this Premier needs, but I can't
02:12build it for him.
02:13The Labor leader didn't front the cameras, leaving questions about whether there are
02:18limits to that support and why the draft report hasn't changed his stadium position unanswered.
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