The Victorian premier may have miscalculated the real cost of cancelling the 2026 Commonwealth Games, which has made Victoria a laughing stock.
to his Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan who has come under fire as minister responsible for the Games, as well as the Suburban Rail Loop and the problematic West Gate Tunnel.Some of that may come to a head this coming week when Victorian Labor MPs meet for a compulsory two-day retreat at the. A Labor MP, speaking anonymously, says that is when grievances typically are aired.
“The Opposition are irrelevant to the work that I do and I think if anyone is going to get sacked it’s the leader of the Opposition,” Andrews said on Friday when asked about Allan. “Jacinta Allan is an outstanding deputy premier, she works hard every day ... and in her 23 years in parliament she’s done just a little bit more than the leader of the opposition ever will.
There was no money for Victoria’s Games in the May budget. But insiders claim that officials knew as early as April about the cost blow outs. “It’s been some weeks that we’ve been finalising our position ... any suggestion we knew ahead of the budget is wrong,” Andrews said on Friday. It likely reflects a premier who has centralised power in his office. That centralisation of power has previously been
“This morning felt like every morning during lockdown, the only thing missing was Andrews’ North Face jacket. Turning up to deliver bad news and say it was someone else’s fault after getting the hopes of Australians up.” “Victoria has spent 30 years building a global reputation as a sports event city. To pull the rug on a major event like this and leave it in the lurch is a really bad look, and it goes to the heart of the state’s reputation as a reliable partner,” Wylie toldCommonwealth Games Australia chief Craig Phillips says the costs overrun “are a gross exaggeration” and the government “wilfully ignored” advice to scale back the Games within Melbourne.
Games officials say that either the initial estimate was wildly wrong or the blow out is being exaggerated. The Brisbane Olympics - three times the size - is
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