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Cody Atkinson and Sean Lawson

How the Hobart stadium spend is a game-changer in Australian sport and the AFL

The Macquarie Point project has attracted significant funding from the federal government. (Supplied: AFL)

On a bracing Hobart morning in autumn, many Tasmanians were greeted with the news that they had been waiting years to hear.

On the cusp of delivering his government's second budget, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has committed $240 million to building a stadium at Hobart's Macquarie Point site, pending the AFL granting Tasmania a licence for a league team.

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