Opinion

Views expressed on this Opinion page do not necessarily represent the views of Stop the Stadium Inc.

Letters to the Editor

Comments on the proposed Awatea St stadium model and design

» Worse still, a stadium would drain the kitty. Artbeat Column by Peter Entwisle, Port Daniel Press, www.portdanielpress.com. Published in the Otago Daily Times, 29 Sep 2008.

Stained glass window » Heritage matters: Art student Elizabeth Gordon’s reaction to rate-payer money being spent on a new stadium: Dunedin is full of heritage gems but I doubt that the people who designed the proposed new rugby stadium were interested in integrating it into the character of the city as it looks like an overgrown oyster. A lot of people, even supporters of the stadium, are against council plans to provide tens of millions of dollars of rate-payers money for a new stadium. That includes me. I think the reputation of ‘ the House of Pain’ should be built on, not squandered and I would prefer to see Carisbrook Stadium spruced up. Read about the work on Elizabeth Gordon’s website.

Dunedin City Councillors’ answers to ‘Risky basket’ questions

Recently, three Dunedin City Councillors, Dave Cull, Chris Staynes and Kate Wilson, expressed their concern about the City’s involvement in funding the proposed Awatea St Stadium in an opinion piece in the Otago Daily Times (21.8.08). We wrote to the councillors and posed the questions raised in the opinion piece, hoping to discover their current thinking on these issues. Here we present the councillors’ answers.

Knockers

» Time to polish off the knockers Opinion, Otago Daily Times, 9 September.

» The scale of the per capita ratepayer commitment Response by Jolyon Manning

» Standing it on its Head (or Time to eject the alarmists?) Response by Peter Entwisle. Or download the whole article (PDF, 42KB).

» Brass knockers Cr Kate Wilson’s Letter to the Editor, Otago Daily Times, 22 September 2008. With permission.

» An open letter to the disheartened. By Jolyon Manning, 26 Sep 2008
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» Is the proposed stadium progress? From ‘Have your say,’ Otago Daily Times Online, 1 September 2008
Proposed Awatea St stadium seating
» Stadium figures look thin. Letter to the Editor, Otago Daily Times, 3 September 2008.

Carisbrook folly

» A folly among the icons… 2007. Murray C. Stott examines the viability of Dunedin’s proposed new Carisbrook stadium from an historical perspective.

» Carisbrook…folly… 6 Feb 2008. Murray C. Stott writes a second review on the proposed Carisbrook Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand.