Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urges Tasmania to 'get on with' Macquarie Point stadium, hits back at Eddie McGuire 'choke hold' claim

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has once again thrown his support behind the building of a stadium in Tasmania at Macquarie Point.

The divisive 23,000 seat, roofed stadium is set to cost nearly $1b and will be the home of the Tassie Devils AFL team, as well as used for cricket in the summer, amongst other things.

However, state politics in Tasmania has thrown a spanner in the works, with a snap state election delaying a vote on planning permits for the stadium, with the Greens and crossbenchers largely opposing it.

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Albanese's Federal Government has tipped in $240m for the project, while the AFL itself will contribute $15m.

Speaking to those who are opposed to the stadium, the Prime Minister said they need to take a wider view of what a significant urban development at Macquarie Point will do for Hobart.

"We support a stadium, not just because of what it will do for AFL, but for what it will do in Hobart," the Prime Minister told the Two Good Sports podcast.

"In 2012 the government gave $50m to the Tasmanian government to do planning for the Macquarie Point site.

"You need to have a proper urban development project at Macquarie Point, you need a driver of urban development projects, so as part of a precinct, sporting, hospitality, residential, it will bring the CBD down to the river and open up the city of Hobart.

"It's got to be viewed from that perspective. Not from the narrow (perspective) that it's just somewhere where footy will be played for home games for the Devils."

Albanese called out the current Liberal government and Premier Jeremy Rockliff, suggesting they failed to accomplish anything with the $50m handed to them in 2012.

"The (Liberal) state government down there for a long time dilly-dallied around. I went down there about a year ago and it was exactly the same as it was in 2012," he said.

"13 years later you literally had to watch where you're walking because it's not even a dirt road.

"They need to just get on with it."

Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire suggested during the week that the Tasmanian state government should put Albanese in a "head lock" and demand he pay for a larger share of the stadium.

"I tell you what I would've been doing from day one, I would be putting the prime minister in a head lock," McGuire said on Wide World of Sports' Eddie and Jimmy podcast.

"They've got to pay. Tassie has got nothing for a long time. Queensland is going to get it all for the Olympics, that's great. But again, Tassie deserves it."

However, Albanese remains firm on the contribution already made by the Federal Government, saying they won't be investing further.

"We have dipped in our share and it is capped, but the Tasmanian government, going back to Mac Point, we gave money in 2012 and nothing happened with it," he said.

"The Tasmanian government are in the position to manage the project.

"We've made a contribution to urban redevelopment there, but we're not an ATM.

"If we act like that, you'll get no proper management of the project. We're not going to run the Tassie Devils footy team or state planning.

"Our contribution is substantial ... we looked at the case that's there. They just need to get on with it."

No further developments on the stadium are expected until the end of the snap state election, which will be held on 19 July.