Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate said on Thursday the city could step in to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games after Victoria placed the future of the quadrennial multi-sport event in doubt by pulling out due to projected cost overruns.

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    1 year ago

    Funniest bit of this is that Tate was on holidays. His deputy said that they didn’t want it/it wasn’t feasible or possible. Tate literally flew home to over rule her

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    1 year ago

    Tate needs to back off. Rates already paid for part of the 2018 Comm Games and we’ve got the Olympics coming up.

    We have such a housing and cost of living crisis, that I can’t believe he would think ratepayers would support this

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    1 year ago

    Well at least they’ve got all the venues from 2018. Even if half it was in Brisbane.