Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has lashed the Victorian premier for not appearing at a Senate inquiry into the planning and canning of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
McKenzie said Queensland’s Palaszczuk government had allowed officials and members of the 2032 Olympic organising committee to attend the same inquiry, which is also probing Australia’s preparations for the major event.
But Andrews declined the invitation to attend the Melbourne hearings, and also told the Senate committee that no current ministers or officials from his government would attend. “Daniel Andrews has thrown an invisibility cloak over his officials, his ministers, and this whole decision-making process within the Victorian government has been shrouded in secrecy,” McKenzie told ABC Radio National.
“If you’ve got nothing to hide, then why all the secrecy? Part of the privilege and honour and responsibility of being a minister, or being a premier, is to be able to subject yourself to accountability, and my grave concern is the culture of secrecy that exists here in Victoria.
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