Overview
- Greens MPs Vica Bayley and Cassy O'Connor and independents Kristie Johnston and Peter George met AFL COO Tom Harley in Melbourne, but the league restated its position of no stadium, no team.
- The AFL requires a roofed, 23,000‑seat venue at Macquarie Point as a formal condition of granting the Tasmania Devils the league’s 19th licence.
- Tasmania’s Planning Commission has recommended against the project, finding it too big for the site and saying the benefits are outweighed by the disbenefits with cost assessments from $1.13 billion to about $1.8 billion over a decade.
- The Liberal government and Labor opposition support the stadium, yet they need three independents in the upper house to pass the enabling measures in the December vote.
- Premier Jeremy Rockliff frames the build as a strategic investment to attract private capital and tourism, while opponents urge using existing venues in Hobart and Launceston as the Devils report 214,000 members.