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If you don't like my factual comments put me on ignoreAgain, you are suggesting that all professionals sports are in the same boat i.e. that they shouldn't be helped. that the NRL should build it's own stadiums which the NRL has forever shied away, from.
There is a case for the community good, which is the case for a lot of "cricket" stadiums.
Who would decry the building of the MCG ? The MCG was built for the Olympics but spported by cricket and mainly Australian Football yet still accommodating many international events, sports and concerts.
Perth Stadium certainly wasn't built for Australian Football or even cricket. cricket said they were totally uninterested and Australian football said it was too expensive and they were happy with Subiaco. Perth Stadium was built with the idea of being multi-purpose.
Docklands was originally built for soccer but luckily Australian Football provided a use for it.
The stadiums that fit your criteria are professional rugby stadiums in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra.though occasionally soccer gets a look see as well.
Most people are aware that the leader of the Australian government is on an eto trip and insistent that $650 million of taxpayers money be wasted on a professional sport in a foreign country in a totally logic-deprived suggestion that somehow that will deter Chinese influence in PNG when the Australian government itself leased a strategic port to a Chinese company.
The idea is ill-conceived and can only be seen as provocation towards China and we all know that results in punitive tariffs on Australian goods which are just getting over after the last faux-pas by an Australian government leader.