‘Too gutless’: Savage barbs traded amid Games backflip, Brisbane Metro rejection
David Crisafulli has been branded ‘gutless’ in Question Time even as the state government reverses a key position on the delivery of the 2032 Games. QUESTION TIME BLOG
David Crisafulli has been branded ‘gutless’ in Question Time even as the state government reverses a key position on the delivery of the 2032 Games. QUESTION TIME BLOG
The state government has emphatically denied seeking advice to cancel the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Grace Grace has made an extraordinary admission over transport funding to the proposed QSAC site sparking calls from Adrian Schrinner for the Brisbane Metro to be extended in a $500m investment.
Brisbane Lions boss Greg Swann says he was “genuinely excited” by the Victoria Park 55-000-seat stadium proposal and admitted the shock decision could hamstring the club.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner says a decision to upgrade QSAC would leave Brisbane with ‘two poor outcomes’.
Karl Stefanovic and Cate Campbell have launched a blistering attack on the Queensland government over the 2032 Olympics stadium farce.
Brisbane residents hoping to catch the Olympics action in the city’s $1.6bn athletics stadium are in for a fight for tickets, with the venue set to be the smallest since the Amsterdam Games held 104 years earlier.
The world’s 400m freestyle champion Sam Short has backed plans for Brisbane Arena to have a drop-in swimming pool despite calls from advocates to have a permanent aquatic centre built instead.
Olympics powerbroker John Coates has broken his silence on the controversial decision to snub an independent review to spend billions on upgrading the dilapidated Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre. HAVE YOUR SAY.
The man whose $450k government-funded review of the Brisbane 2032 Games was snubbed by the Premier says politicians must be brave and “make the right decisions” instead of playing politics, reinforcing his arguments in support of Victoria Park.
Steven Miles will snub the findings of a $450,000 taxpayer-funded review to spend billions upgrading the dilapidated Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre for the 2032 Games.
Queensland’s alternative government has remained silent on whether it supports the premier’s $1.6bn Olympic stadiums plan, but instead pledged to go back to the drawing board if elected in October.
It’s a cowardly decision that reeks of political survival, but there’s only one man behind the decision to splash $1.6bn to reincarnate QSAC stadium, and it isn’t the Premier, writes Hayden Johnson.
A world-class stadium could be built at Victoria Park for a little more than the state and federal governments had already planned to spend on the Gabba and Brisbane Arena.
Queenslanders have slammed the Premier’s decision to ignore the recommendation of his own review in the 2032 Brisbane Games to choose a “dumb location” with “no public transport and miles from city” for its main stadium. HAVE YOUR SAY
The man responsible for a review of 2032 Olympics and Paralympic Games venues says it’s time to start building, with a Victoria Park stadium at the centre of plans and possible green space where the Gabba now stands.
Graham Quirk’s 60-day Olympic Games review has been handed to the state with almost 90 recommendations. HERE THEY ARE
Plans for a drop-in pool for the Brisbane 2032 Games must be dumped in favour of a permanent facility, says Olympian turned property developer Mark Stockwell.
Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games president Andrew Liveris has urged all political sides to back the imminent findings of Graham Quirk’s venue infrastructure review – and get building.
We have squandered the headstart the International Olympic Committee gave us by approving our bid in mid-2021, writes the editor.
The original plan for collaborative organisation of the Brisbane 2032 Games has not happened, writes Mark Stockwell.
A critical rail line into the heart of the Sunshine Coast has a big new price tag, with the Opposition demanding the full business case.
The boss of the Brisbane Lions has backed a “Brisbane Bold” plan to build a massive 90ha sporting and events precinct complete with 70,000-seat stadium at Victoria Park, saying the club thinks it’s a “great opportunity”.
Brisbane Lions co-captain Lachie Neale has backed a proposal for a Victoria Park sporting precinct, saying he hopes the team could relocate there.
Incredible new images have been released, showcasing how Victoria Park would be extended over the Inner City Bypass and used to host Olympics events. SEE THE PICTURES.
The only mass public transport to and from Brisbane Airport during the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be the Airtrain, due to an exclusive deal with operators.
Brisbane River could become one of the city’s biggest assets in the fight against congestion, with one route potentially cut in half.
A deal struck in 1998 by Queensland’s then Coalition government has had far-reaching effects on the state’s growth, writes the editor.
The end of this year marks the deadline for the biggest of the government’s decisions about 2032 Games venues, writes the editor.
Brisbane’s Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Plan is an opportunity to be the first Games in history that doesn’t just manage homelessness in the lead-up but plans to reduce it by 2032, writes Jackson Hills.
Cuts and delays to Queensland’s road and rail projects risk setting up the state for “international embarrassment” when the Olympics arrive, MPs are warning.
She faced genuine fears she would lose her life or never walk again after she endured a horror quadruple amputation at age four, but now little Mia Wilkinson has been identified by coaches as having potential for the Brisbane Paralympic Games.
Another hot summer is almost here and we have scoured the state to unearth the teenage athletics superstars in every corner of Queensland who deserve to be recognised for their amazing feats. Discover them here
By stepping in to save the 2026 Games, the Gold Coast has the opportunity to reshape what the event has become, to make it more attractive to future hosts, writes the editor.
Potential major sponsors of Brisbane 2032 are being wined and dined as its organising committee president attempts to avoid early cost blowouts, while raising the city’s global profile.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will on Friday pitch the economic benefits of Brisbane 2032 to 180 Townsville business leaders, as the Games board hosts its first meeting outside the southeast corner.
Federal Sport Minister Anika Wells went against the wishes of her own department to accommodate Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in a controversial Olympics move, the Opposition claims.
The Palaszczuk government will forge ahead with plans to splash $2.7bn to redevelop the Gabba despite recommendations it be “urgently reviewed”.
NATIONAL cabinet should find an Australian solution to the 2026 Commonwealth Games, including liaising with Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate.
Paralympics Australia president Jock O’Callaghan has been unanimously dumped by his board after attempting to remain in the top job beyond next year.
Steven Miles has thrown his support behind cricket being included in the Brisbane Games and warned SA to back off as proposed event host.
A historic decision on whether to include cricket as an official sport at the next Olympic and Paralympic Games has been postponed by organisers, leaving Brisbane Games organisers hanging.
The inclusion of cricket in the Olympics would change the game for Brisbane, in a way that is far bigger than the inclusion of a popular sport we are good at, writes the editor.
A push is underway to transition Brisbane’s iconic City Cat ferry fleet to battery power in time for the 2032 Games.
The state government has been accused of “savagely and secretly” cutting over $1 million in grassroots sport funding less than a decade before the Brisbane Games.
The Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee will officially support the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Re-organising grassroots funding at such a crucial time, with the funding pool seemingly shrinking, is at best a bad look and, at worst, deliberate obfuscation, writes the editor.
Brisbane’s Olympic Games sporting venues could be changed, with some sports calling for new facilities and the Gold Coast lobbying to poach flagship events from the capital.
Powderfinger bassist John Collins says the “deal is done” and the band will reunite to be the headline acts for the Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games opening ceremony in 2032. There’s just one catch.
A Senate inquiry into the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games has erupted as the organising committee’s chief executive was grilled over her remuneration package.
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