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By state political reporter Lucy MacDonald
Outline of stadium in Hobart seen from across the Derwent.

"It's complex and it's difficult, but we're really confident that the planning will play out the way it is and we're really confident we'll have a stadium,"
AFL boss Andrew Dillon said.

"One indisputable fact is, if this stadium is not built, there will be no team."
Jeremy Rockliff with a football.

Height of proposed Macquarie Point stadium compared with surrounding buildings

"It says designs don't meet the planning scheme, it'll take years longer to build than you've been admitting. It questions your ability to deliver on the broader stadium precinct, given the limited space of the site."

Group of people chatting on green lawn with cameramen around.

  1. Does Labor still maintain that it won't stand in the way of a Macquarie Point stadium?
  2. Will Labor still vote for the project through the POSS process?
  3. Given the TPC's draft report, is Labor still supportive of the project? Why?
  4. If the project's as botched as you say, why are you still supportive of it?
  5. Will Labor support special enabling legislation for the stadium?
  6. If Labor said it no longer supported the project, the POSS process would be dead. When will you answer definitively how you'll vote?
  7. Labor holds press conferences almost every sitting day. Why won't it hold one today, following a damning report into such a large expenditure of public funds?

"I have given the premier a pathway to have the stadium approved through his own POSS process. But I cannot build it for him."

A render of the Macquarie Point stadium

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