{"id":240704,"date":"2025-10-25T21:54:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240704\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:54:22","slug":"debate-heats-up-over-macquarie-point-afl-stadium-the-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240704\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate heats up over Macquarie Point AFL stadium | The Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">But there&#8217;s another side to the ledger. Coordinator-General John Perry&#8217;s economic modelling projects the stadium would generate more than $220 million in economic activity each year, plus $1.2 billion in flow-on benefits during construction. It would create more than 1,000 jobs, boost tourism, attract younger professionals, and support the new Tassie Devils AFL team &#8211; a club expected to become one of the state&#8217;s largest employers by 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But there&#8217;s another side to the ledger. Coordinator-General John Perry&#8217;s economic modelling projects the stadium would generate more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-240704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}