this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
35 points (90.7% liked)

Australia

3616 readers
74 users here now

A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

Before you post:

If you're posting anything related to:

If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:

Banner Photo

Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Moderation

Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mupAus@aussie.zone 51 points 1 year ago (7 children)

To echo my comment from the Melbourne thread. I think it's a good thing and wish more governments would call off projects as soon as they realise the cost is going to blow out.

Better to waste a small amount of money up front, than an extra $4B later.

[–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I reckon we should be using bigger numbers.

A regional games was going to cost 2,600 million dollars. Up to 6,000 million dollars. Over a million dollars per athlete, plus all the government funding over the years to train these people.

Yeah, good call to axe it

load more comments (6 replies)