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Plans for the Brisbane Olympics have been dismissed as “half-baked”, with the Queensland premier also slammed for blindsiding a 2032 Games infrastructure review. LNP senator Bridget McKenzie didn’t hold back outside an inquiry into Australia’s Olympic preparations, saying the Brisbane Games were heading in the wrong direction with “a lot of buck passing but no building”.
Quirk said he got an inkling that the state government was not keen on a new stadium before his review was completed. “About a week or so out ... the panel were advised that the government probably didn’t have a very strong appetite for a stadium,” he said. But he told the inquiry he did not know that the state government had been working on its own venue plan behind the scenes. “The premier announced ...
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