{"id":263274,"date":"2025-11-05T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263274\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:03:09","slug":"former-afl-ceos-fresh-comments-on-planned-tasmania-football-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263274\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AFL CEO&#8217;s fresh comments on planned Tasmania football stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gillon McLachlan has reaffirmed his strong support for the new football stadium in Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>Both houses of parliament are set to finally vote on the terms of the $1.13 billion Macquarie Point stadium in the coming weeks, with the development still a major point of contention across the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear Eddie Summerfield\u2019s FULL interview with Gillon McLachlan<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The former AFL CEO said that while change would be hard, the benefits of the new stadium would outweigh the negatives when it does eventually open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stadium and the team will change that state,\u201d he told 3AW\u2019s Eddie Summerfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChange is difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gillon McLachlan has reaffirmed his strong support for the new football stadium in Tasmania. Both houses of parliament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-263274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263274","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=263274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}