Today’s Stadium Updates

It was inevitable – there is a stadium for sale on Trade Me – it looks suspiciously like an inverted Beehive!

The anti-waterfront lobby meeting saw many unusual coalitions. Hide and Locke opposed in unions, and John Minto and rugby supporters also united in opposition. Bill Hodge from Auckland University highlighted that the legislation planned by the Government to allow the stadium to be built will have to over-ride not just the Resource Management Act but also the Local Government Act, the Public Finance Act and commitments given in other acts in relation to the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Herald has the latest City Council count as eight in favour, six against and six undecided.

And Brian Rudman predicts the stadium would morph into an albatross of debt.

UPDATE: Not PC has an excellent summary of all the speakers at the anti-waterfront meeting. This is again one of the reasons I love blogs – you can get much more detail of what happened at an event, because there are no artificial limits on story size.