Andrews calculated only political cost of scrapping Commonwealth Games
Regardless of the cost overruns, if the state government felt it needed to stage the Games to win the next election, it would have done so without hesitation.
As the premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews is the most calculating of his generation and he operates the best political operation in Australia since Neville Wran. Andrews has a personal and political staff of nearly 100 people, twice as many as that of the prime minister.
Regardless of the extent of the Commonwealth Games cost overruns, he wouldn’t have cancelled them if there was no political advantage to be gained.
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John Roskam is a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Connect with John on Twitter.
