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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Brisbane Labor has declared its intention to abolish the council's Olympics Committee if it wins the election in March, describing it as a waste of ratepayer money designed to prop up the LNP.

Brisbane City Council lord mayoral candidate Tracey Price said the internal committee cost ratepayers $250,000 annually despite having no oversight over the games.

The party has made an election promise to dismantle the "vanity project" and instead spend that money on local sports clubs and women's change facilities.

LNP Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has been a strident critic of the state Labor government's "dysfunctional" handling of the upcoming 2032 Olympics.

Both Adrian Schrinner and the Greens have described the state Labor's plans to knock down and rebuild the Gabba Stadium as a $2.7 billion waste of money.

"His track record of managing transport projects — Kingsford Smith Drive, Brisbane Metro and the Green Bridges, to name a few — shows he has no business making demands about what the city needs.


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