For the 100-or-so people who assembled on a Victoria Park ridge to mark 150 years since its establishment on Wednesday morning, the mood was more resolute than celebratory.

Resolute that their campaign to prevent a 63,000-seat stadium being built on the inner-city site would ultimately be successful, despite the considerable headwinds they faced.

Those headwinds were literal as well as figurative near the Victoria Park golf clubhouse in the post-dawn light, wreaking havoc with paintings and signs placed around a survey marker, indicating a future borehole for the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority’s search for a suitable location for the stadium .

The message from the Save Victoria Park group was clear – there was no suitable location to be found within the pa

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