Wednesday, 4 October 2023

Commonwealth Games

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (09:41): We in the chamber here have watched Jacinta Allan move from Minister for Commonwealth Games Delivery and Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. She botched both of those portfolios – massive blowouts, massive cost overruns in the transport infrastructure portfolio and then the king daddy of misadventure, the Commonwealth Games. Launching the Commonwealth Games, bidding for the Commonwealth Games and then after that pulling the –

A member interjected.

David DAVIS: It is a colloquialism; I do not think it is an unparliamentary point. But what has happened with the Commonwealth Games is the most extraordinary set of circumstances: the failure to properly scope the games, the failure to properly work out exactly how this would impact or work out where the games villages were going to be built, what sports were going to be there, how this would operate – and then suddenly this so-called massive cost blowout and a decision to pull the games and cause huge reputational damage to the state. I mean, this minister and now Premier has really got to explain how she could get it so wrong and do so much damage to the state.