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The Quirk review is in and it has recommendations!

The Gabba:

… the panel estimates an upgrade alone would cost around $2 billion. A full rebuild would cost around $3 billion – more than the $2.7 billion estimated by the Queensland government – plus displacement costs for the AFL and cricket.

How about a new stadium at Victoria Park:

The review instead recommends the government build a new stadium at Victoria Park with 50,000 seats for the Games, and more to be added later for the AFL and cricket. And, as Brisbane Times revealed on Sunday, the alternative stadium would come at a cost of around $3.4 billion – $700 million more than the government tipped for the Gabba.

And how about a new Brisbane Live Arena venue:

Instead, it recommends building Brisbane Live at a the non-parkland northern corner of Roma Street precinct which currently houses a carpark and workshop depot. This corner was originally set aside by the former Beattie government for a landmark public museum-style building.

Quotes are from: https://brisbanedevelopment.com/olympic-recalibration-review-recommends-new-victoria-park-olympic-stadium/?amp=1

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/brisbane-news-live-labor-losing-votes-left-and-right-brisbane-s-significant-next-48-hours-20240317-p5fd35.html

I demand justice.

This is a screenshot from ECQ's expenditure disclosure page, showing the three main parties' largest expenditures.

Note that it shows:

• For LNP: all expenditures over $10,000
• For Labor: all expenditures over $1,000
• For the Greens: all expenditures over $500

As a summary:

• The LNP spent just over $1,000,000 counting only the expenditures over $10,000 each (the top 12 of their 55 expenditures)
• Labor spent over $283,000 counting only expenditures above $1,000 each (that's the top 15 of their 35 expenditures)
• The Greens spent just over $18,300 on their expenditures over $500 each (the top 9 of 31 expenditures)

And as a free bonus, here are all of independent Councillor Nicole Johnston from Tennyson Ward's expenditures: