Premier doesn’t want to ‘offend’ after rebuke over opening ceremony | fel_caldwell
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has indicated she will attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games after public pressure from Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates overnight.while in Tokyo to deliver Brisbane’s final pitch for the 2032 Olympic Games, was ordered to attend the event on Friday night in an unprompted rebuke during a press conference.Mr Coates insisted to the Premier: “You are going to the opening ceremony.
Mr Coates continued, “You’ve never been to an opening ceremony have you?” to which the Premier shook her head.“You don’t know the protocols, I think it’s a very important lesson for everyone here,” he said. “Opening ceremonies cost in the order of $75 million to $100 million, it’s a major exercise for any organising committee... It’s my very strong recommendation that the Premier and the lord mayor and the minister be there and understand it.”On breakfast TV this morning, Ms Palaszczuk repeated that she was not going to “offend anyone”, indicating her position was softening on accepting the VIP invitation to Friday night’s event.
“I’m certainly not going to offend John Coates, nor am I going to offend Thomas Bach, who’s just awarded us the Olympics and I’ll leave that to them, but there is an expectation now that all three of us attend,” she told“So it would be the federal minister representing the Commonwealth, it would be the lord mayor representing Brisbane, and myself representing Brisbane, and myself representing the state of Queensland.
The Premier told ABC Radio Brisbane that Mr Coates was “laying down the law” and “I’m just going to do what John Coates said”.“In my view, we’ve just been awarded the biggest sporting event on the planet, [and] my view, being here I should attend the opening ceremony – so I will be,” he said., making it the third time the global event has been held in Australia.
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