Brisbane 2032 Olympic Stadium blurred hard to justify

Me niether.

Since then I have only heard screaming and infinite topics.

The topics came because after working in the same madness to spend so much money just to organize a sporting party, subsequent governments tried – and they did not make those numbers work. And they don’t.

The first idea was to go with mostly existing infrastructures with the premier Palaszczuk who said that Queensland could get used over 80 % of its existing places. The Gabba, he said, could be pushed for only a lazy billion dollars with friends, with a total budget of $ 4.45 billion for games.

In response, an economy researcher named Rodney Bogaards He wrote an academic treaty For the Federal Parliament on the fact that Brisbane could actually obtain history, basing its offer on the principle of “new rule” of the use of existing infrastructures. The short answer?

NO.

“The history of the cities that hosted the Olympic games”, wrote in its report, “suggests a common trend for excessively optimistic estimates of the benefits and underestimation of significant direct and indirect costs, which have often led to large overloads of costs”.

Bogaards continued in detail at how Montreal took 30 years to pay the debt incurred by the 720 % of the 1976 Olympics. He also stated that the costs invaded by the 2004 Athens games have weakened the Greek economy to the extent that he could have contributed to the subsequent economic crisis that swallowed the country. And so on.

In Brisbane, he was soon shown well.

Within 18 months, the original estimate to embellish the Gabba had skipped $ 2.7 billion at a cost per seat stripped of $ 54,000-that was cheap compared to $ 147,058 for offices for the new drop-in pool to the expected Brisbane Arena of 2.5 billion dollars. The overall cost for games was calculated at $ 7 billion.

However, the The Federal Government soon announced that he would earn about $ 3.5 billion To help him cover him. But the anomalies and explosions were becoming increasingly horrible and there was still no sound of marbles and no agreement from Queenslander on something as simple as where the opening ceremony would be held, or the athletics staged.

Prime Minister Palaszczuk resigned, to be replaced by his ever-smiling deputy, Steven Miles-Che announced an urgent review of how games would be conducted.

(It looks like a plan!)

Unfortunately, when that review has returned, he said that the plan to embellish the Gabba should be abandoned, and instead a new stage built in Victoria Park. Premier Miles immediately rejected that, on the basis of the fact that the price of $ 3.4 billion could not be justified in the middle of a crisis in the cost of living.

(This, in my opinion, affirmed herself healthy.)

Lang Park, he said, could host the opening and closing ceremonies, while the current Sports and Athletics Center of Queensland – which hosted the Commonwealth games such as the Jubilee Sports Center Queen Elizabeth II in 1982 – could host athletics.

Still no marble.

Lead to the state elections last year and the Olympics have been a big problem. The leader of the opposition David Crisafulli promised that if he had won, athletics would not be held at the old Qaii stadium.

“When I speak with the Queenslander of the Olympic and Paralympic games,” he said, “they use the word that they don’t want to be embarrassed”.

But it was equally clear that he would not blow the budget and there would have been no new stadium built in Victoria Park.

Of their what you said, David, in the election campaign: “I don’t think the city needs a new stadium, I don’t do it”.

No #stadiumspurge on his watch!

In these promises, Crisafulli won the elections and duly launched a 100 -day review, The results he announced Tuesday. We cross him now:

“In the end,” he says, “the choice was clear: the games must be kept in a new stadium in Victoria Park.”

I know. What has changed? It is not clear.

Equally unclear is what he means that the new stadium in Victoria Park is “completely financed”.

Sorry, what?

You have the money in the account and you can write the check to see it built – the usual meaning, for the rest of us, when we have the funds to buy something.

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In the government, the alternative meaning for “completely financed” is that we have creaked the numbers and we believe that this new project will pay alone. The most memorable example of this was our Gladys Berejklian who announced that spending $ 2 billion to break down the Sydney football stage and reconstruct it “would pay for only two years”. (Make effort that, as I noticed. $ 3 million profits every day! We believe a dozen of them!)

And that’s where we are.

Together with the new Victoria Park, a series of Olympic events will now suddenly leave Brisbane and instead will go to the regional Queensland-a function of the fact that while only four members of the cabinet of 15 people from the Labor government came from the regions, now there are 11 who respond to that description.

Cairns and Townsville will now host football, while the latter will also host navigation and the Gold Coast will receive the hockey.

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But instead of moving the “super-regional” rowing in our Nepean rowing center in Penrith, as has been suggested, and tennis at the Rod Lavener Arena in Melbourne, as is only sensitive, will build their in Rockhampton on the Fitzroy river, complete with Crocs. And they will build the new RafoTater rafting center in Redlands, among the critical habitat of Koala. You are for further protests.

Still no marble.

Friends?

It is just another #stadiumspurge as the one we dealt with in Sydney, like the one with which Hobart is currently fighting, and in fact like those in the western world. The numbers have never stacked and will never accumulate. But it will still go more or less. Because while the Greeks invented the Olympics, it was the Romans who established that there are “two things that only people want to anxiously, bread and circuses”.

And when it comes to it, the fact that the Olympics are always and always the greatest circus that has ever been, gives it a significantly dynamic dynamic that will see the public money found for this madness regardless. Without a doubt we will appreciate those Olympics when they are on. But not as much as the Queenslander may have enjoyed hospitals, schools and accommodation to which the money should have gone.