Thursday, 5 October 2023

Commonwealth Games

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (09:46): The chamber will be very aware of the unclear responses that Premier Jacinta Allan has been giving about what she knew and when she knew it. When did she know about the Commonwealth Games cancellation? When did she know that it was in dire and likely terminal trouble? She has not been really frank, in my view, with the community or with the Parliament or indeed with the news media. It is time that she came clean. It is time that she told the truth. It is implausible in the extreme that she went to the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee and gave this glowing endorsement about where it was all heading – it was all hunky-dory, all fabulous – and yet just one day later we know that a legal firm was being hired to look at how they were going to get out of this contract that they went to the election indicating that they would implement. It is a very strange moment when the Premier of this state tries to obfuscate in this way and tries to mislead the Victorian community in a systematic way. I think it is time that she came clean. We want to hear what she knew, when she knew it and who made these critical decisions that have cost the state so much money.