Agree on Tulla, it’s past its use by date and all these add ons are just causing dramas and isn’t addressing the issues at hand. It really needs to be either moved or similar to Sydney have another major airport built to take loads away.
Western Sydney Airport has a lot of detractors and those that want to kick it but it’s going to be absolutely amazing and with the vision that will see it remain that way long into the future.
They just need to sort their dramas out with the rail link
In the early 90s there was talk of building a new Windy Hill Stadium at Essendon Airport and after that a new Stadium at the Showgrounds shared with the Dogs/Roos… then Docklands trumped them all
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It’s all starting to fall apart ain’t it?
Economic modelling of the planned Brisbane Arena Olympics project found the showpiece venue would cost nearly $1bn more than the income and benefits it generated, intensifying doubt over a second key 2032 Games build.
The analysis for the Queensland government showed the 17,000-seat auditorium did not even reach the halfway point of breaking even.
When was the last time a (properly costed) Olympics was not a loss?
Small minded small city, just like the carry on in Hobart at the moment. It’s why you don’t give major events to a country town like Brissie.
Lol, Dan Andrews says hi
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Either Vancouver or London IIRC.
Paying for Athens left Greece hamstrung during its financial crisis, while Sochi, Rio and Beijing were more about presenting the hosts positively costs-be-damned than anything else.
The newly constructed highway linking Moscow with Sochi for the 2014 games was more expensive than the entire Vancouver games.
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atlanta
I thought Atlanta was a massive loss
I wouldn’t consider the comm games a major event these days. It’s odd we haven’t been given the Olympics since 1956, we have all the infrastructure needed and people have actually heard of Melbourne overseas. We are now the biggest city in Australia.
Coates being a Sydney prat probably doesn’t help our cause though.
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Ever since the TV ratings failure in the US of Sydney 2000 which was held in Sept-Oct up against the NFL, the US networks have demanded the IOC hold the games in July-Aug
Only glowball warming can bring the games back to Melbourne (or Sydney)
Not sure that’s a positive. Probably why I’ll never move back there.
I don’t want the games in Brisbane, but to suggest it’s too small with the adjoining Gold and Sunshine coast populations is arguably incorrect.
Less about the people that live there and more about the infrastructure to support an event the size of the Olympics, and the logistics that comes with it. Brisbane/GC just don’t have it, whereas Melbourne does (probably with a few upgrades here and there)
Don’t get me wrong it’s a nice place, but i mean the city, it’s like a country town. It’d be like Hartford in the U.S hosting the Olympics.
The pubs literally in the middle of the main strip in Brisbane are pretty cool.
Isnt the idea behind brisbane and the olympics is for it to provide the economic push to get the facilities and infrastructure the city and region needs for the following decades?
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Fixed.
Probably not (though I would have seen an entire episode of H&A, because my sister loved it).
Is your point (totally unrelated to the topic) that QLD is a mythical place not of this world?
How many brains can Victoria break when we offer to host the game instead of Brisbane?