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Canberra stadium delays cost $2.55 billion, Civic stadium cost jumps to $2.9 billion.

The Canberra Times

After all the talk, the ideas, the locations and the seven studies, who knew the most expensive thing about a new stadium in Canberra would be ... not building it.

ACT Sport Minister Yvette Berry has revealed for the first time the cost of the government's stadium procrastination - $2.55 billion. Yes, you read that right. Sitting on their hands for 15 years has cost $2.55 billion.

The ACT government's figures claim the cost of a Civic stadium has jumped from $350 million in 2011 to $582 million in 2021 to now $2.9 billion three years later.

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New Civic stadium cost estimate $2.128 billion to $2.9 billion, 400% higher than previous.

The Canberra Times

The cost of a new stadium in Civic could be close to $3 billion, the ACT government has revealed in a set of figures significantly higher than previous estimates.

The government says the price of a new 30,000-seat city stadium with minimal surrounding infrastructure on the Civic pool site would sit between $2.128 billion and $2.9 billion.

The figure represents a hike of almost 400 per cent on a cost estimate of $582 million presented in a 2021 feasibility study for a city centre stadium.

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NRL heavyweights fear Canberra Raiders' finals potential after upset win against Penrith Panthers.

The Canberra Times

If there is one team the NRL's premiership heavyweights want to avoid in the finals series, "it's the Canberra Raiders".

Because a shock win over the Penrith Panthers means Canberra's top eight ambitions still have a pulse in the race to the finals - but they need the bring down another top four contender and hope other results go their way to get there.

The Raiders will go behind enemy lines to face the second-placed Sydney Roosters and eighth-placed St George Illawarra on the road to the finals, but even three consecutive wins might not be enough to get Canberra into the eight.

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