Options for Canberra Stadium include leasing it to the government, refurbishing it or knocking it down.GETTY IMAGES
ACT Sports Minister Yvette Berry will "meet with her federal counterpart to help decide the future of Canberra Stadium in the coming weeks," according to David Polkinghorne of the CANBERRA TIMES. The future of the "aging facility is still up in the air," with the federal government yet to decide its plans for the Australian Institute of Sport and its facilities, which included Canberra Stadium. A new national sports plan is "currently being worked on" and could be finalized in conjunction with the federal budget announcement in May. The ACT government is "also weighing up" its options now that it is leasing Canberra Stadium from the federal government for about A$350,000 ($270,720) per year. One option is for the ACT to buy Canberra Stadium and then "either refurbish it or knock it down and build a new stadium in Civic." The federal government assured Berry it would not "do anything without discussing it with the ACT government first" (CANBERRA TIMES, 3/21).
