Pre-budget grandstanding is not going down very well
Sinking hundreds of millions of dollars on a stadium in Hobart that no one appears to want is at odds with what the Albanese government has forecast about the nation’s future.
It’s not often a prime minister gets heckled for making a major funding announcement, particularly when it’s a major funding announcement involving football.
But in what feels like a symbol of a particularly contradictory set of messages from the federal government in the lead up to Tuesday’s Budget, Anthony Albanese was filmed striding across derelict land in Hobart last Saturday, hotly pursued by protesters who heckled him as he announced $240 million of funding for a new football stadium in Tasmania’s capital.
Loading...
Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for the ABC's 7.30 program. She is the staff-elected director of the ABC. Connect with Laura on Twitter.
