'There's a limit to the amount of lipstick you can put on any pig': Raiders call for new stadium

Raiders chairman Dennis Richardson said the government's infrastructure plan was a vision rather than a plan. Picture by Elesa Kurtz

The Canberra Times

The Canberra Raiders have called for the ACT government to build a new stadium, rather than refurbish the existing one, because there's only so much "lipstick you can put on a pig".

Raiders chairman Dennis Richardson said the government's infrastructure plan was a vision rather than a plan, but they would work with the government to make it happen.

And he backed ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr's preference for the capacity to be 30,000 - to take into account Canberra's predicted population growth.

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