• mupAus@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    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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        My guess… probably the usually grifting and bribing that tags along with these sort of events like the Olympics and FIFA World Cup.

        Glad to see some pushback on this shit. Too many people turn a blind eye because it’s supposedly a big grand event.

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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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      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.