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June 12, 2020 10:40AM
Small sports stadiums with capacities 40,000 seats or less will be allowed to reopen to crowds in July.
The venues will be allowed to sell 10,000 ticketed seats per event, with social distancing measures in place around bars and food outlets.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said larger stadiums, including all of the major AFL grounds, were an entirely separate issue.
He said bigger grounds presented unique challenges around access points and public transport crushes, which required much more significant work.
The chief medical officer will consider reopening larger stadiums on a case-by- case basis.
The rule relaxation will also apply to big arts and cultural venues along with ticketed and seated outdoor festivals.
It will not extend to music festivals where people roam from tent to tent.
International students may be able to travel to Australia as early as next month.
The Prime Minister also said authorities were working to allow students to travel to Australia on a pre-approved plan with particular institutions.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the appropriate quarantine entry requirements and biosecurity measures would have to be in place.
“I would hope to be in a position to do pilots next month,” he told reporters on Friday.
The plan is contingent on state borders, with Mr Morrison telling premiers their own borders must be open before international students can arrive.
“If you want to open up borders for international students, then you have to open up borders for Australians,” he said.
Mr Morrison said he’s not concerned that Chinese students will be deterred from coming to Australia, after Beijing warned about racist attacks.
However, he said there is still work to do before any international students can arrive.
“I’m not suggesting this is going to happen soon,” he said.
“We’ve received some very, I think, well thought-through proposals from states as to how this can be done, particularly here in the ACT.”
Australia’s borders have been closed to non-citizens and non-residents since March.
Opening borders for travellers is expected to be one of the final measures taken as coronavirus restrictions are eased.
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If a 40,000 stadium can have 10,000 tickets and we have HBF at 20,000 capacity and about 5,000 members at the start of Covid, I guess that would be the easy way to work out who can go to the Force home games should crowds be allowed. It would certainly be a nice reward for those who have put their money where their mouth is.
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25% of capacity will be the new rule(from other articles I have read). HBF holds 21,000, so 5,000 or so would be the 25%
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There's only about 10 stadia in Australia with capacities >40,000, and I think 2 of them aren't useable at the moment:
MCG - 100,000
Stadium Australia (Olympic Park) - 83,000 (being rebuilt for 70,000)
Optus - 60,000
Docklands/Marvel/Etihad - 56,000
Adelaide Oval - 53,600
Suncorp - 52,500
Queensland SAC - 48,500
SCG - 48,000
SFS - 45,000 (being rebuilt)
Gabba - 42,000
Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon