All I can say is that for the number of times it's described as a crisis, I sure wish it was treated like one.
The only reason I can think of is that the relevant industrial lots (the ones off Deshon St) are about equidistant to Coorparoo, and more to the point, aren't sat on an easy train line or busway. Then there's the difficulty of mixing trucks and kids.
If it's not within 10 minutes of a train, IMO they aren't being serious.
Unfortunately market forces will always dictate pricing... and once covid hit everything went up as nothing was built... no one can really be blamed for those units no longer being cheap - nothing is now cheap.
It’s literally infuriating seeing this campaign by Labor to politicise the stadium issue this much with just outright lies. Mark Gottleib summed it up nicely.
Lol , but it's your job to upgrade suncorp ffs. What a c..t
Andrew Liveris putting this out there gives me hope all is not lost re Victoria Park.
They didn’t once mention the $1.6B for QSAC in that article or that they will end up spending more than $3.4 Billion, and instead presented it as the low cost option. The Guardian needs to do better on this.‘The Queensland way’: rising costs, political power plays and legacy fears already dog the 2032 Brisbane Olympics
Stadium designs have been ripped up, a suburban venue will host the 100m final and one public servant says work has been ‘half-baked and half-arsed’www.theguardian.com
A background look at what went haywire over the years.
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The government’s unilateral decision to rebuild the Gabba stadium – an oval ground used for cricket and Australian rules football – for the opening ceremony opened a political wound that has festered since.
Ted O’Brien, the former Morrison government special envoy for the Olympics, says that announcement “nearly killed” the city’s bid for the games when it “blindsided” everyone.
“It flew in the face of everything we were pitching to the IOC about avoiding a big spend on venues and it also broke faith with the people of Queensland who had been assured the 2032 Games would not become a spendathon with taxpayer money,” he says.
It's mind bogging isn't it?
I find anything from that era to be inherently unreliable given the amount of bullshit and one-sided blame everyone else but themselves attitude at the time and even now (having watched Nemesis).‘The Queensland way’: rising costs, political power plays and legacy fears already dog the 2032 Brisbane Olympics
Stadium designs have been ripped up, a suburban venue will host the 100m final and one public servant says work has been ‘half-baked and half-arsed’
A background look at what went haywire over the years.
......................................................................................
The government’s unilateral decision to rebuild the Gabba stadium – an oval ground used for cricket and Australian rules football – for the opening ceremony opened a political wound that has festered since.
Ted O’Brien, the former Morrison government special envoy for the Olympics, says that announcement “nearly killed” the city’s bid for the games when it “blindsided” everyone.
“It flew in the face of everything we were pitching to the IOC about avoiding a big spend on venues and it also broke faith with the people of Queensland who had been assured the 2032 Games would not become a spendathon with taxpayer money,” he says.
‘The Queensland way’: rising costs, political power plays and legacy fears already dog the 2032 Brisbane Olympics
Stadium designs have been ripped up, a suburban venue will host the 100m final and one public servant says work has been ‘half-baked and half-arsed’
A background look at what went haywire over the years.
......................................................................................
The government’s unilateral decision to rebuild the Gabba stadium – an oval ground used for cricket and Australian rules football – for the opening ceremony opened a political wound that has festered since.
Ted O’Brien, the former Morrison government special envoy for the Olympics, says that announcement “nearly killed” the city’s bid for the games when it “blindsided” everyone.
“It flew in the face of everything we were pitching to the IOC about avoiding a big spend on venues and it also broke faith with the people of Queensland who had been assured the 2032 Games would not become a spendathon with taxpayer money,” he says.
Yeah everyone uses the line that our bid was based on us using 85% of exisiting infrastructure, but people don’t realise that the 15% we didn’t have was the stadium and arena!! Those two along with the whitewater facility were the 15% of venues that were going to be new.
Paywall, is anyone able to copy and paste the article for us technological nuffies please.
