WHY SPEND BILLIONS ON A MUSEUM MOVE NOBODY WANTS?

DEAR MICHAEL DALEY, As new leader of the Opposition in New South Wales you wasted no time in getting stuck into the Berejiklian government over its surreal proposal to knock down two sporting stadiums and rebuild them at a cost of roughly $2 billion to the taxpayer. It’s an excellent target, as neither the Premier nor the Sports Minister, Stuart Ayres, has been able to come up with a convincing rationale as to why it’s necessary to demolish a stadium that seats 45,000 people so as to accommodate 100,000, even though the usual attendance is about 16,000.

There was a bit of laughable, opportunistic banter about making new facilities for women’s sporting teams, but this would be like tearing down your house in order to renovate, that unless we get a new stadium the grand final could go interstate. If the interstate teams finish top of the table why shouldn’t they get the grand final? Sport should be all about rewarding achievement not enshrining privilege.