• mupAus
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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        I’ve seen construction quotes that have doubled in the last 2 years.

        The construction sector has gone spastic in the last couple of years and contracts with hard completion dates are a license for trades to print money.

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          Yeah I got a few quotes to get a 2.5 bay shed made and installed 2 years ago…… almost $50k lol. From a local company that had made ones for my friends and family for less than half that a few years earlier. Blamed the price of steel.

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      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

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    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

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    1 year ago

    If the Empire wants an Empire Games, perhaps they could flog some of the Empire Loot to fund the fucking thing.

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      1 year ago

      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.