In June 2022, Gillon McLachlan and Matthew Chun visited Hobart's Dark Mofo festival, planning a new 23,000-seat AFL stadium funded mainly by taxpayers. Following eight failed attempts, the AFL approved a Tasmanian team in May 2023, contingent on stadium construction at Macquarie Point. The project halted the A$64.6m art park, originally part of a vision by Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) to foster reconciliation with Aboriginal history. This cultural initiative, according to Greg Lehman, could have driven significant change in acknowledging and addressing past atrocities.
Greg Lehman, a Trawoolway descendant, expressed that the Mona-backed truth-and-reconciliation art park could create "real generational change to Australia's relationship with its past," focusing on addressing the genocide against Aboriginal Tasmanians.
Mona's vision for the Macquarie Point site was conceived as "a cultural precinct with truth and reconciliation as an idea underpinning it," emphasizing the importance of addressing historical injustices through art.
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