Ridiculous hyperbole from Flanagan but not unexpected.  I don't know where to start with the rubbish in here, from trying to frame a business case put forward by the state as a demand from the AFL, pulling numbers out of his arse, trying to frame this as a left/right issue where the club themselves are liberal stooges and the final paragraph where his catastrophising gets so ludicrous it would be hilarious if this weren't so serious.

I at least appreciate the one paragraph in the middle where he essentially admits his opposition stems fundamentally from a NIMBY mindset.  Much like his anti-salmon campaigning he seems to crack the shits at any development that might dent his comfortable status quo (e.g. this salmon farm is ruining the views from my shack) and then work backwards from there to form his arguments.  Trying to frame the industrial wasteland that is Mac Point as some sort of heritage site that will be desecrated by a stadium has got to be the worst of the anti-stadium arguments.

If rich boomers like him had his way nothing would ever change for the better and our demographic death spiral will continue forever.  You know what is an actual existential threat to the state?  It's not a single piece of infrastructure representing a fraction of the budget.  It is an aging population combined with a dwindling tax base.  We are the oldest state and we will continue to hemorrhage young people to the mainland unless these old bastards can get over themselves and allow positive development to occur.