Macquarie Point Stadium

He's campaigning on a middle ground platform aimed at ending partisan feuding within the chamber.

His election manifesto highlights key priorities including pragmatic compromises on urban bike lanes, rates management, medium density housing developments and constructive engagement on the Macquarie Point Stadium project.

The Mercury also reports that the Tasmanian government has rejected calls to classify a proposed artificial intelligence data centre in Wesley Vale as a major project, despite La Trobe Council warning that local planning processes are inadequate to assess the facility.

State officials insist the development can be handled through standard municipal channels, even as concerns grow over the site's potential to consume up to 30% of the state's power grid.

Of course you do.

Uh, the Macquarie Point Stadium is inching closer with the next month crucial in the decision on who lands the contract.

I thought they had announced that.

Two firms have been taking part in the-

That's looking brilliant.

And of course, you know, the progress on Macquarie Point is, is fantastic and, and where it needs to be as well.

Probably more importantly than that, though, is our own high performance center, and we're getting really, really close to...

Civil works has kicked off and getting really close to construction starting.

I know I want...

I'm keen to talk more about the VFL side obviously, but just on Mac Point a- and the construction, we haven't settled on a tender yet, have we? When, when does that process wind up?

Uh, so we're of the understanding, and we get regular briefings from Macquarie Point Development Corporation, is, um, they're currently in a process where they're, they're reviewing, um, two different parties.

Um, they'll be close in the next couple of months around selecting, and then hopefully by the end of this year they'll be signing a, a building contract to go.