Former premier torches Miles, LNP over Olympic stadium fight

“I’ve been told the committee has actually already decided it’s going to be Victoria Park. It’s got no transport, it’s going to cost a lot more, billions and billions and billions of dollars that Queenslanders don’t have at the moment with cost-of-living pressures …

“And I think there’s going to be a lot of outrage about the last piece of pristine greenness in our city being ripped up for stadiums.”

She said she had held her tongue about the Miles government’s decision to use the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre at Nathan as the main Olympic stadium, which she described as “an absolutely ridiculous idea”.

“There was a plan, we had 80 per cent of our stadiums locked in and, frankly, I’m pretty annoyed about how it’s turned out, it actually makes me quite sad as well,” she said.

“Let me be very clear here, time is running out.

“Under the former plans that we put in place, it would have been completed by 2030. Now we’re going to be pushed right up to the line until 2032.”

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