‘Massive humiliation’: Victoria’s 2026 Commonwealth Games cancelled
‘Massive humiliation’: Victoria’s 2026 Commonwealth Games cancelled
The Games were to be held in March 2026 in Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Gippsland and Shepparton, but Premier Daniel Andrews says they will be called off.
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.
Value for money should always be in the conversation. Feels like a lot of policy gets held hostage by a sunk cost / we already announced it trap.
If you never cancel anything it sends the wrong message to under quote and jack up the price later.
Absolutely.
What I want to know though is how the costs blew out from $2.7bil to $6bil-7bil? I know they were only announced as having the games last year, but do we know when they would have done the proposal and budget? That's an absolutely massive difference.
I honestly wish Brisbane would do the same with the Olympics.
We need Olympic to make sure harmonious. In 9 years Brisbane will be Brazil with 50% of population mulattos from HK.
Why oppose that?
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
I dunno how Dan puts pants on anymore, the dudes balls must be massive by now. Making unpopular politcal choices cause it makes sense.
So sick of the media calling decisions like this "humiliating". It's not humiliating, it's damn good sense and a great result for everyone.
We need a damn royal commission, the media is beyond cooked
If the Empire wants an Empire Games, perhaps they could flog some of the Empire Loot to fund the fucking thing.
Seems odd that the British pm is commenting and saying it is up to Australia to fix it with a referendum on a republic planned in the not too distant future. This after insulting the cricketers. Seems like he's not helping relations.
Stoked to see. Fuck the games. They ruin economies.