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2032 Brisbane Party Puts Rest of Queensland Back in the Dark Ages: Katter
February 6, 2026
They’re delusional! Even the Olympics boss is now saying there’s no hope of delivering in the budget, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said.
This week, Brisbane Olympics chief Andrew Liveris said, “The costing out of that [means] we have the bid budget and that bears no resemblance to reality, especially right now.”
“When even the boss himself is calling it out, it’s time that the Brisbane Government come clean and tell Queenslanders that they have been sold a dud, and for good measure, they’ll have to wait another six years before you’ll see any construction outside the Brisbane Bubble,” Mr Katter said.
“Queenslanders, especially the 50% who don’t live in Brisbane, need the dignity to be told the Games will cost billions and billions more than was first sold to us by Labor, but worse, it’ll cost billions more than the LNP have since tried to carry on the cruel joke.
“Trickery around ‘operating budget’, ‘infrastructure envelopes’, I’m not having it.
“Queenslanders need the truth – how much actual money is being diverted from our school, our hospitals, our death-trap flood-prone roads?” He asked.
Respected independent economist Adjunct Professor Colin Dwyer has calculated the total cost to be more than $62 billion.
Mr Katter repeated Professor Dwyer’s calculations regarding the cost per seat at the new Brisbane stadium.
“$1,500 per Queenslander, if, they run to budget. That’s Mount Isa generously giving $25 million to Brisbane for their party, and Townsville casually forgoing more than $260 million to our southern rulers,” Mr Katter said.
Analysis from Construction Skills Queensland shows that in the next five years, Brisbane will need at least 4,500 more construction workers for funded projects, with more expected as more Olympics projects are finalised.
“Anecdotally, I’ve been flat out told by bureaucrats and those in the know ‘don’t even think about anything until after the Olympics!” the KAP Leader said.
“They’re saying the quiet part out loud!
“Outside of the Brisbane party Bubble, we’re putting up with major highways that are death traps, 140 year old hospitals, communities cut off by flood for four months, and grocery prices that make your eyes water.
“Make no mistake, the government will turn to Treasury and say, ‘make these numbers look good’, and they’ll do calculator gymnastics and try to bamboozle us all, and convince us that Mount Isa, Cunnamulla, Weipa, Emerald, we’re all going to benefit from a two-week party thousands of kilometres away.
“We need to stand up to their spin, and remind ourselves that every dollar, every cent to those Olympics is another hospital, road, school, that won’t be built for another six years,” Mr Katter said.