Give the people of NSW chance to vote on the stadium situation

The people of NSW should decide at the next NSW election whether they want a new Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney’s east or more funding for schools and hospitals across the state.

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The people of NSW should decide at the next NSW election whether they want a new Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney’s east or more funding for schools and hospitals across the state.

The next election on 23 March will be a referendum on the Berejiklian Government’s lavish stadium plans and its intention to take the wrecking ball to the Sydney Football Stadium while everyone is on holidays in January.

NSW Labor leader Michael Daley speaks to the media outside Allianz Stadium in Sydney on Monday. Picture: AAP

We are four months from the next election and three months from caretaker period and I am demanding that the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust and the Berejiklian Government immediately halt demolition of the Sydney Football Stadium.

It would be a scandalous waste of taxpayers’ money for this project to proceed.

The people of NSW should be given the opportunity to have their say at the upcoming NSW election. Let the next election be a referendum of the people on the Liberals’ $1.5 billion stadium extravaganza.

An artist’s impression of the proposed $250 million plan to transform the out-of-date Allianz stadium into a hi-tech, fully roofed entertainment facility.

The Liberals cannot be trusted with major infrastructure projects.

The facts speak for themselves. There are already more than $10 billion in cost blowouts for West Connex, the Sydney Gateway and the Sydney Light Rail alone.

Sydney Light Rail faces the risk of further billions in litigation and has faced unacceptable completion delays which have closed businesses and disrupted thousands of commuters and city workers.

A madness has descended on Sydney. Communities are being ignored by this Government, bloated and arrogant from the sale of $70 billion of privatisations. Enough is enough.