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Tasmania's premier defends site of AFL stadium amid concerns about 'geotechnical properties'

Quick read In short: Tasmania's AFL dream hinges on the construction of a 23,000-seat, roofed stadium at Hobart's Macquarie Point. The premier said he was aware of a 2015 report compiled by Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering firm Douglas Partners for the Macquarie Point Development Corporation, that found fill on the site had "poor geotechnical properties". A spokesperson for Macquarie Point Development Corporation, which received the report in 2015, said extensive geotech investigations had been undertaken since remediation of the site began that year, and that "these do not infer that a stadium development would be unstable or could not proceed." The government signed a deal in May with the AFL to build a roofed stadium at Macquarie Point as part of Tasmania's entry to the national league.

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