Damning report exposes $590 million Comm Games farce
A damning Auditor-General report has exposed Victoria’s Commonwealth Games debacle as one if the greatest blunders in the history of Australian sport.
Those findings are in-line with scathing claims made by Commonwealth Games Australia chief executive officerGreaves said in the report the overall cost to the taxpayer will be $589 million — more than half a billion of wasted public money. “The government relied on DJSIR’s business case when it decided to host the Games and determined the budget.“The business case raised the risks associated with hosting the Games. But it underestimated the costs and overstated the benefits.”
Pesutto said: “When we say that Premier Jacinta Allan and her government have lied to Victorian people, that’s why we say that,” he said.Allan responded to the report by saying the government “made the right decision” to scrap the event. The Commonwealth Games Federation is still yet to find a host for the event despite the governing body offering Malaysia $194 million to host it.CGA boss Phillips said in a statement released on Wednesday: “The VAGO Report into Victoria 2026 confirms the gross exaggeration of costs detailed by the then Premier when he made the decision to cancel the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
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