Brisbane

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In one of his first acts in the role, the premier, Steven Miles, paused the Gabba rebuild plan and in January ordered a review by former Brisbane mayor Graham Quirk.

In a statement on Thursday, the Brisbane 2032 organising committee president, Andrew Liveris, declared Coates’ views “should be listened to very carefully”.

The president of the East Brisbane state school parents and citizens association, Austin Gibbs, said they were quietly hopeful of a reprieve, but would await the final review.

“We’re very hopeful that whatever happens to the Gabba is not a complete knock down and rebuild, and instead is something more modest, that will incorporate a design that involves leaving the school where it is,” he said.

“It flew in the face of everything we were pitching to the IOC about avoiding a big spend on venues and it also broke faith with the people of Queensland who had been assured the 2032 Games would not become a spendathon with taxpayer money,” he said.

“Ever since, venue decisions such as the Gabba have failed any genuine public consultation process and instead they’ve been made in-house on a “government knows best” principle, in the offices of Anastacia Palaszczuk and Steven Miles.”

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