00:00Tasmania is at a turning point. A decision that will choose one of two paths forward for the
00:08state. Will there be a stadium at Macquarie Point or not? Can we afford it? Can we afford not to?
00:19Does it fit in the city? How would the city move forward without it?
00:30Emily Mifsud wonders what the future holds and whether there are enough opportunities
00:36in Tasmania to keep her here. There's been multiple times where I've actually thought
00:41about leaving since, or I've spoken to my partner, you know, with him about us moving
00:45away. But this opportunity here would definitely, would keep me longer, if not, you know, forever.
00:54Emily stumbled into the world of Aussie rules five years ago, after a career in cricket.
00:59She says the stadium would provide a pathway for players, both men and women, to grow and play
01:05in their home state. I switched across to AFL and I haven't looked back ever since and I've gone
01:12from never playing footy to winning three premierships in a row, so I'm pretty, pretty happy with that.
01:19The building would be 54 metres above sea level at its peak and change the view from the Hobart
01:26Cenotaph forever. It's a place that was unveiled 100 years ago to honour fallen Tasmanian soldiers.
01:36This area has an ambience, it's open, it was built for a reason here. That reason we believe will be
01:44destroyed if the stadium goes ahead at the current location that's planned.
01:50This is where residents in Hobart gather for Anzac Ceremonies and Remembrance Day. It marks conflicts
01:58including World Wars I and II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The RSL supports a team and a stadium,
02:07but at a different site. It really is a matter of respect. Let's respect what we've got. Let's respect
02:14our cultural history and all that it brings. But if you want development, have development. But
02:21there must be other places you can have that development. Ben Hickey views the stadium as a
02:30drawcard, a beacon for football fans and event goers who would swarm the waterfront, hungry,
02:37thirsty and maybe in need of a place to stay. I think for hospitality it's a really huge opportunity,
02:45really for retaining some of our key staff in Tasmania and maybe helping train some more professionals
02:52for the future. His heritage-listed pub has prime real estate on Salamanca Place. It gets busy,
03:00but has quiet periods too, more often in winter. The speed of life in Hobart can be a little slower
03:07than the rest of the states and I understand that people would want to protect that,
03:11but we still need positivity to maintain our population and grow our population.
03:20Warwick Oakman believes there's something special about this city.
03:24He fears a stadium will override that. When you look at it from vantage points all over Hobart,
03:31it will completely dominate this slowly developed and beautiful urban landscape, this beautiful city.
03:38The area was used by the Muwanina people for thousands of years. Over recent years industrial waste was cleaned
03:48up, getting the site primed for some sort of development. Everyone wants a team. If we could afford it
03:57somewhere else, it's a complete disaster.
04:00So can the city handle it? Alison Hetherington is neither for or against, but worries about transport planning for the big crowds.
04:12At the moment, it's hard to see how Hobart's transport system could handle a huge glut of congestion that we'd expect with the stadium.
04:21As an avid cyclist, she sees the pulse of city traffic. Its main arteries flow past the stadium site.
04:30We all know if you live in Hobart, one thing just has to happen on the road network and everything goes to gridlock.
04:37A range of views in the community for upper house politicians to weigh up and decide what they think is best for Tasmania's future.
04:46with that research of Tasmania.
04:53coastline is the lowest place for Tasmania.
04:56And the last person has received the highest rate of stations for Tasmania.
04:58Germany is the highest rate of a year in our country, the highest rate of running the place of social distancing.
05:02There is no more than the highest rate of people in town now.
05:05These states have higher rates of people inside the world.
05:08There is no more than the highest rates of students, and they do the highest rates of individuals in the background than the highest rates of thousands.
05:09There is no more than the highest rate of These are far from the highest rates of people here.
05:10And those are too many things that are probably not well known for their echelonima experience.
05:11What thefenis system is menoishly or the highest rate even, that are pretty sensitive and low-rexed in its future.
05:12For the most places in the highest rates of the largest rates of landfall of the past,
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