Serious questions for the Tasmanian Government on the suitability of the $1.13B Macquarie Point Stadium consortium partner
What due diligence is being undertaken by the Tasmanian Government and the Macquarie Point Development Corporation on the consortia members?
There have been serious concerns aired overnight and a previous Inquiry in NSW around WeBuild, an Italian member of one of 2 consortia bidding for the $1.13 billion Macquarie Point stadium project.
Of the 2 consortia, I think there are serious questions at least to ask of Constructure Joint Venture. Constructure Joint Venture partners include China Construction Oceania, McConnell Dowell and WeBuild.
WeBuild SpA is an Italian company which has been found to have breached arrangements with sub-contractors on the Metro Line to Sydney’s new airport. It has also previously been fined by the EPA for environmental breaches on Snowy 2.0.
The company is reported to be in a $2b dispute with the NSW Government
The Metro Line to Sydney’s new airport is a public private partnership worth billions of dollars. Serious concerns have been raised around contractors not being paid asked to accept less, and invoices disappearing.
The concerns about worker exploitation were raised in the NSW parliament in September of last year at the Sydney Metro Inquiry (NSW Hansard).
The government – Minister Abetz - announced on April 19 2026 that 2 consortia were vying for the stadium contract. The question I have is this: what on earth is the due diligence the state government is doing?
How is it that the Minister didn’t know the problems writ large in NSW? I don’t think with this latest news that the government can continue to overlook the matter of a company with serious questions as to their conduct.
Perhaps Treasurer Abetz, responsible for the state’s maxed out budget and the stadium project, needs to call his NSW counterpart Daniel MooKey and ask a few questions about this before going any further.