Road to Brisbane 2032
Questions over $450 million Gabba Metro busway project
With the Gabba no longer set to be rebuilt as Brisbane’s Olympic stadium, the suburb may lose one of its promised transport upgrades to somewhere else.
- by Tony Moore
Latest
Another Brisbane 2032 venue set to go out for tender
Another 2032 Games venue has made it through the project validation phase, clearing the way for work to begin on the $205m Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre.
- by Cameron Atfield
Quirk warns Brisbane will be judged by state of 2032 Games venues
Former Brisbane lord mayor Graham Quirk believes the economic benefit of hosting the Games will only come if the city can show off “modern, contemporary” venues.
- by Sean Parnell
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Brisbane 2032 Olympics
With Coates clause, Olympic supremos build influence on Brisbane 2032
Olympic powerbroker John Coates has been joined as a vice president of the Brisbane organising committee by AOC president Ian Chesterman under new Queensland law.
- by Chris Barrett
Dropping Olympic boxing would be ‘a crime against humanity’
The future of boxing as an Olympic sport beyond Paris is still in doubt – a prospect that Australian boxers and medal hopes Harry Garside, Caitlin Parker and Teremoana Teremoana say they find “honestly terrifying”.
- by Konrad Marshall
Games village no longer earmarked for social housing
The keys to a major Brisbane 2032 athletes’ village won’t be handed to the homeless before the Games after a Queensland government back-step.
- by Savannah Meacham
$115,000 a seat: The big cost of a small stadium for Brisbane 2032
The Miles government plans to spend $1.6 billion upgrading QSAC, but it has emerged more money will be needed for the stadium to host athletics at the Games.
- by Cameron Atfield
‘Brisbane is not a hillbilly town’: Olympics boss says 2032 Games are ahead of schedule
Andrew Liveris has moved to reassure Olympic stakeholders in Paris that Brisbane 2032 will deliver a spectacular Games.
- by Chip Le Grand
Perspective
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi! Oi! Oh boy… make it stop
Australian sport fans have the opportunity to come up with something more inspiring than ‘Oi! Oi! Oi!’ before Brisbane 2032.
- by Cameron Atfield
‘So ocker, so good’: Brisbane 2032 marks eight years to go with chant push
Brisbane’s Olympic organisers are pushing a new social media campaign to flood the internet with the famous “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi! Oi! Oi!” chant.
- by Cameron Atfield
Exclusive
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
First look at Brisbane’s no-frills Olympic stadium
Unusually for a summer Olympics, Brisbane 2032 will be held in the middle of winter. The planned stadium will not provide much cover for spectators.
- by Cameron Atfield