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Why should we all pay for Annastacia Palaszczuk’s vanity Olympics?

28 April 2021

1:58 PM

28 April 2021

1:58 PM

Pain heals. Glory lasts forever. And longer than that lasts the bill for hosting the Olympics. 

Scott Morrison this week agreed that the federal government would stump up half the costs of the Olympics should Brisbane ‘win’ the right to host the 2032 games, just over an hour before applications to the International Olympic Committee were due.

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