Anthony Albanese is expected to unveil a significant infrastructure investment for Tasmania this weekend that will facilitate the construction of a controversial new stadium in Hobart and enable the state to have a team in the AFL.
Amid hostility to a taxpayer-funded football stadium from the state Labor opposition, the federal Liberals and federal Tasmanian independents Andrew Wilkie and Jacqui Lambie, Mr Albanese is poised to inject as much as $240 million into the project.
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