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Taxpayer-funded report into viability of an NT AFL team yet to be released despite completion
AFL Northern Territory has been sitting on a taxpayer-funded report it commissioned to map out a local bid for a potential AFL club for nearly 18 months
Key points:
- In 2018 the NT Government gave the AFL $100,000 to examine the viability of an NT-based AFL club
- The study was commissioned to guide a potential bid for an AFL team licence
- It is not known when the AFL will next make another team licence available
The funding for the “scoping study” into a potential AFL team was first announced by Chief Minister Michael Gunner in October 2018.
The report was due to be released in mid-2019 and was tabled to the AFLNT board in September 2019.
The report, however, was not released to the public after it was tabled to the board.
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