David Pocock urges ACT government to reconsider a new stadium for Canberra amid safety issues and outdated facilities at Canberra Stadium.
David Pocock is urging the ACT government to revisit plans for a stadium in the city as Canberra Stadium goes "past its use by date", to start "thinking a little bit bigger", and to consider the economic drivers a new venue could deliver to the capital.
Because when a stadium descends into "a workplace health and safety issue for coaches", the conversation is worth having again.
You could block your nose and hold your breath when that odour wafted through the bowels of Canberra Stadium. Remember that one, when the ACT government blamed ball boys for opening the wrong door, only for plumbers to say a failed pump was the cause of the smell?
You could sit a wheelie bin in the middle of the main change room when the ceiling starts leaking. ACT Brumbies officials had to do it just two weeks ago, when all they could do was watch the water fall from the ceiling while lightning delayed their game.