It comes days after Premier Daniel Andrews revealed taxpayers would pay $380 million in costs for the cancelled games.
The cost to taxpayers came after the government reached a settlement with the official bodies involved after deciding to withdraw from hosting the games.
"At budget time we said very clearly, there was $2.6 billion dollars set aside," she told reporters today. "There is a huge amount of work that was going on and many different moving parts around an event of this type."The games were slated to be held from March 17-29 in 2026, across Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Gippsland and Shepparton.
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