Published: 23 June 2025
Now that the major parties are on a unity ticket for the development of the Mac Point stadium there’s no incentive for them to raise peripheral issues, and anyone outside the tent who does so is jumped on by the majors as negative and misguided in what’s best for Tasmania.
It is now recognised that the Federal grant of $240 million is for the Mac Point precinct, not specifically for the stadium itself.
Nevertheless, when the cost of the stadium is bandied about, specifically how much we will have to borrow, the grant is always deducted in full from the stadium cost to derive a figure for net borrowings required, (which some then convert to a multiple of the number of weeks of health spending this equates to, in order to trivialise the sum involved).
Federal grants are sometimes quarantined from GST calculations meaning future GST distributions won’t be affected.
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