Tasmanian government hopes indebted voters will just watch the footy at their $945 million AFL stadium, even as the state's budget blows out.

The cost for a new waterfront stadium in Tasmania, a condition of the state's licence for an AFL team, has further blown out to almost $1 billion.

From Townsville to Launceston and Wollongong to Perth, Daily Mail Australia has ranked the nation's famous and not-so-famous grounds - and some fans will not be happy.

Tasmanian Planning Commission report today has killed the possibility of a new AFL stadium being built in Hobart. At an estimated cost of $1.2bn, over $700m that will have to be paid by Tasmanians ...

A draft assessment from the Tasmanian Planning Commission, released late on Monday, says construction of the Macquarie Point Stadium in Hobart will cost $992.5 million if it wants to be fit for ...

Hobart’s controversial AFL stadium will cost almost twice as much as claimed, damage Tasmania’s “economic welfare” and saddle taxpayers with $1.8bn of debt, says the state planning commission.

But KPMG did not include the opportunity cost of the land on which the stadium will be built in its costings for the project, thus understating the costs by over $150 million.

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Image / Pulse (File) Premier Jeremy Rockliff has brushed off an economist’s report that questioned the cost estimates and timeline of the proposed Hobart stadium at Macquarie Point. The stadium, ...