Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I love these interjections from Western Australian senators. Senator Sterle says that was on Utopia and can I tell you, yes, it is very utopian. It's very much a utopian project. That's the problem I have with this announcement they've made; it wasn't a promise but a bad decision. I'll tell you why it's bad. It's not because they're funding a stadium. It's because, in doing so, in putting $240 million of that finite resource of taxpayers' money on the table, they are duding Tasmanians by taking it out of our GST allocation. On multiple occasions, now, I have asked the Leader of the Government in the Senate. I have asked the—