00:00A pair of prized recruits set to assemble the Devils playing list.
00:07To be able to bring players in that can draw the crowd, can draw people through the gates
00:14I think is just incredibly important.
00:17Architect of two Premiership winning lists at Collingwood, Derek Hine joins as head recruiter.
00:23While Tasmanian born Todd Patterson leaves Melbourne to start as head of list management and strategy.
00:29I think Tasmanians want to see Tasmanians wearing the jumper and I think Tasmanians also want
00:35the best team possible so it's going to be striking a balance.
00:38But while the Devils continue to build, the building of their future home is under scrutiny again.
00:44The State Government is ditching a public-private partnership for the Macquarie Point Stadium.
00:50Minister Erica Betts saying that would cost the taxpayer more, take longer to implement
00:55and take away from the asset being owned by and for the Tasmanian people.
01:00It means the Macquarie Point Development Corporation will borrow to fund any cost overruns
01:05and look to recoup the money via land sales.
01:08Despite the Premier's pre-election insistence that he'd drawn a line in the sand and cap the State's funding.
01:15The $375 million will be invested and not one cent more. This is our commitment.
01:22A promise he's made many times since and is now accused of breaking.
01:27This is not a mythical private company. The Macquarie Point Development Corporation is an arm of the government.
01:33It is an arm of taxpayers' money.
01:35Premier Rockliffe went to the last election and he lied to Tasmanians.
01:39The Government maintains nothing's changed.
01:42The concept of borrowing was always on the cards.
01:46In the next fortnight the State Government is set to release a draft of the special legislation
01:51that will need to pass both Houses of Parliament for the stadium to be approved.
01:56It will then have to convince at least two Upper House Independents of the project's merits.
02:02Part 1
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