‘Lets make York Park the tricked-up stadium for Tasmania’, independent candidate says
“Lets make York Park the tricked-up stadium for Tasmania”: A coalition of independents is standing against major party priorities this state election campaign.
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Business owner and former Burnie alderman Malcolm Ryan is running in the state election as an independent to protect his nine-month-old granddaughter’s future.
“I’m not about to stand back and allow a $13 billion debt to be dumped on her,” Mr Ryans said.
“I played 200 games of footy for Yolla, Doncaster and South Brisbane and I know we deserve a football team but not at any cost.
“We’ve got a stadium in Launceston that is tickety-boo, the players say the surface on the ground at York Park is the second best in the country.
“Lets put another $100 million into that and make that the tricked up stadium for Tasmania.”
Mr Ryan said while doorknocking, anti-stadium sentiment is around 60 per cent for people 40 and under, but bumps up to 90 per cent for the older generations.
“Anyone who has had to balance the books at home or at a business is dead against it.
“We just can’t afford it,” Mr Ryan said.
The 6th generation “Braddonite” wants the next generations of Tasmanians to benefit from the same opportunities as “us more senior Tasmanians” have had, like home ownership and sensible environmental stewardship.
Mr Ryan was keenly involved in the Voices of Tasmania community independents movement after seeing the benefit to having local representation in Parliament with the likes of Zali Steggal and Monique Ryan.
He was at Port Sorell’s Simply a Barbershop on Saturday with other independent candidates talking to the community about the upcoming election.
Mr Ryan has a passion for protecting the unique Tasmanian environment and personally appealed the approval of the Robbins Island wind farm in the Supreme Court.
Mr Ryan said the government decision to retrospectively alter the State’s Coastal Policy, which had been put in place 20 years earlier to “stop the butchering of our coast”, to facilitate the Robbins Island wind farm amounted to “corruption”.
“They thought they were above the law, so they changed the law.
“They went into parliament while we were in court and changed the law.
“That’s corruption in my mind.
“It’s Trumpism- it’s not democracy and it isn’t good environmental management,” Mr Ryan said.
He is one of 14 independents running for the seat of Braddon this election.
Six of them are co-ordinated independents, running on the same ticket.
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