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On the eve of the Tasmanian Election, the current state government have dealt the opposition a hammer blow.
With the state pretty much focused on two big issues, Premier Jeremy Rockliff has served up a brilliant bit of policy.
Rockliff has promised to utilise the proposed new AFL stadium for emergency housing when games aren’t being played on the Apple Aisle.
“Talk about two birds one stone, amirite,” laughed Rockliff this afternoon.
The bombshell announcement on the eve of the election comes after the new AFL team’s existence was confirmed on Monday – in a suspicious bit of timing for a team that won’t enter the comp until 2028.
Both parties support the introduction of the Tassie Devils, but only the Liberal Party support the building of a half a billion dollar stadium in Hobart.
The stadium is part of the AFL’s conditions for granting Tasmania an AFL licence, with the league pretty much promising ‘no stadium no play.’
The Labor Party in Tasmania and all of the independents have been opposed to funding the new stadium, given the Island is facing a fairly hectic housing crisis that has been exacerbated by the bloated cashed up property investors and holiday makes from Melbourne and Sydney.
Median rents and house prices have jumped astronomically across Tasmania, with an emerging homeless class being established from Hobart to Launceston.
However, things are looking up.
Not because the government will do anything to ensure people in Tasmania have their own homes, but because they’ll be able to go and sleep inside a massive stadium for 12 or so nights a fortnight.
“It will be like a big sleep over!” said Premier Rockliff.
“Vote for us tomorrow.”
