With the final vote on the proposed Macquarie Point stadium just days away, thousands of opponents to the project have gathered on Hobart's parliament lawns.

Above a sea of placards, speakers at the rally lambasted Tasmania's major parties and the AFL, while imploring key independents to reject the stadium plan.

Lawyer and prominent anti-stadium critic Roland Browne, who organised the rally, told the crowd it was still possible to "persuade the upper house to do the right thing".

"We're not going to let the Liberal Party define us by its capitulation to the AFL and its ongoing deafness to reason, its deafness to expert advice and its deafness to public sentiment," Mr Browne said.

" We don't want the waterfront transformed into Disneyland. "

He said about 7,000 people were in attenda

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