Tasmanians got fucked hard by the AFL and complicit politicians today. Apparently a whistleblower has just revealed that the AFL is looking to pull out of managing People First Stadium on the Gold Coast because it's too hard to operate in the black & we are going to be taking on 100% of the operational risk of this abortion of a project.
A vote to approve an AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront will now pass
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-03/hobart-stadium-to-pass-tasmanian-parliament/106087096
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MisterFrog@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 269d
Ahhhh, socialising the risk and privatising the profits, a tale as old as neoliberalism
shads@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 269d
I especially like how we are bending over and taking it from a Non-Profit so they can make more money.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 269d
If people didn't want this shit horror they could have voted Green at the last election, I know I did. Alas...
shads@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 269d
Did what I could between Peter George and Rosalie Woodruff, but Dean Winter still got back in as did vice chairman Abetz.
As a state though we did the Australian Signature move of voting against our best interests. We aren't quite as polarised as the US yet but I see people whinging about Leftists with disturbing regularity.
Plus the whole way through this stadium crap they have been calling anyone with even basic questions about the process an "Anti". I always wanted to reply with Anti-Corruption, Anti-Crime, Anti-Bankruptcy. But most of those mouth breathers wouldn't appreciate that sort of nuanced position.