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WESTERN Australian premier Colin Barnett is poised to make an announcement on the development of a new outdoor sports stadium.
Tourism Minister Dr Liz Constable told a packed audience full of members of the travel and tourism industry at the Hyatt on Wednesday to ``watch this space’’ when quizzed about the new stadium.
``This is something that Colin Barnett has taken on and all I can say is… watch this space,’’ she said.
In 2008, then premier Alan Carpenter announced that $1.1 billion would be spent on a new stadium, with Kitchener Park as the preferred location.
However, when Mr Barnett took on the top job, he put a stop to progress on those plans, saying more time needed to be spent to consider options.
The old East Perth Power Station site continues to pop us a viable option for a new stadium and representatives of Burswood say that James Packer is still interested in considering an option for a new stadium on, or near his land.
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Interesting
I wouldn't mind something at Burswood like the plan that came out just before John Langoulant handed in his report to the previous Labour Government and was dismissed as being brought to the table too late, Packer said he would fund it as well. That plan was also dismissed because the Labour Government had decided to push ahead with what they're doing down on Wellington Street.
Then again Governments don't commission people to do jobs like that without already knowing what they want to do.
How about getting rid of Belmont park racecourse and building a stadium there? The racing scene in Perth is not significant enough to warrant to grounds
Ah yes, the Burswood site would be ideal. All for the loss of a couple of fairways...
I'm not so sure about that, Arts and Culture might attract more people as a one-off activity, however Regular international sporting competitions such as the Super 15 and the Tri (Soon to be 4) nations would attract more in a cumulative sense surely!Originally Posted by Lix Constable
Possibly the stats are skewed by not having a stadium big enough to hold an international crowd. Subiaco only holds 43000 and is sold out every test (Except maybe Fiji) whereas Etihad holds 80000 and only got 60000 for the last Bledisloe. Maybe if we had a 60000 seat stadium, we could fill it too!
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She would be putting every arts stat to good use there Gigs, museum's, galleries, concerts, book launches, movie theaters etc...
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Maybe get rid of Ascot then. Much closer to home for me :p
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I don't think they will be getting rid of either race track ... Belmont was built in 1899 and Ascot is considred one of the grand old ladies of Australian racecourses, holding the first Perth cup in 1887. So if they were going to get rid of them I think they would have by now![]()
Perhaps Colin Barnett (=) can just "compulsory acquire" some land for a new stadium ...
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Colin Barnett a loser eh? I hate all politicians but here's a thought- if a greens/ labour government get in & the developments up north don't go ahead, add on the increased mining tax then we can kiss goodbye to a lot of corporate money in our sport. Look at the major Force sponsors (including 3rd party player deals). Mining & oil & gas service companies take huge risks and often have to decrease margins significantly to stay in business through rougher times. Unfortunately sponsorship & local community support dollars are the first to go, which would be a shame. I'm not trying to get on a political bandwagon here & I hate being serious but if WA (wait awhile) continues trying to appease everyone by decisions by committee after committee then we're f*#ked. So go Colin- slap the do-gooders round the head & pinch a bit of land for a proper rugby stadium. Build a decent car park as well & use that to teach people how to merge. Sorry but I'm on a roll now & the Mitchell freeway just sh*ts mePerhaps Colin Barnett (=) can just "compulsory acquire" some land for a new stadium ...
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What are the odds on Barnett announcing that WA will pay for a new stadium at Kitchener Park, sized for AFL, and paid for by the sell-off of other stadia and then all the other sports* get told to use it, but not during the AFL calendar?
[*even athletics, cycling and swimming. They've got to re-coup the cost of the Perth Arena somehow!]