Tasmanians will come together to celebrate the birth of their own team, revealing the jumper and their nickname at a range of locations around the state and one in Victoria.
Tasmania’s AFL club will come to life on Monday night with the unveiling of a traditional bottle-green jumper with a yellow Tasmania-shaped yolk.Official launches will be held at six Tasmanian sites, and streamed to clubs and pubs across the Apple Isle, in an attempt to unite the state behind the team ahead of Saturday’s state election in which the proposal for a new $715 million stadium is a key issue.
“The licence that’s been granted is conditional on a number of things which includes the stadium being built at Macquarie Point with a roof and with a capacity of at least 23,000,” Dillon told ABC Radio. The state Liberal Party, led by Jeremy Rockliff, says the stadium plan will go ahead, albeit with the government capping its expenditure on the stadium at $375 million, with theThe ALP, led by Rebecca White, says it wants Tasmania to have a team in the AFL, but the club needs to prove itself worthy of a new stadium first before they will commit to funding the infrastructure.
A bunch of independents – many likely to be elected to the 35-seat chamber under the newly adopted Hare-Clark electoral system – are potentially crucial to where the decision lands if they are required for one of the parties to form government.
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