It's just over seven years until the opening ceremony for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics and 4BC Drive host Gary Hardgrave is worried about the lack of infrastructure improvement leading up to the global event.
"Without support from the Feds as well as the state government the South East Queensland Olympics are going to be imperil."
"Australia needs us to succeed."
"We need to dust ourselves off and realise we are running out of time, "Hardgrave continued.
But I guess as the saying goes, if you like what you're hear, tell twenty friends. If you don't, just tell us pretty simple. Let's talk about the Olympics. Two thousand and five hundred and ninety two days to go until the opening ceremony. If we've got it in your diary twenty third of July of twenty thirty two, that's the Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics. It's just two thousand, five hundred and ninety two days away. If you say it quickly, it'll go even faster. That we're fourteen days shy of the end of what was regarded as the early mark period afforded to us when we were awarded the game basically four years ago. We've had an early mark, and really we haven't advanced the cause very much at all. And of course there's all these people admiring the problem of preparing for the Olympics, and they've blocked up a lot of frequent fly miss they really have traveling to Paris, Los Angeles and everywhere in between. And of course, naturally enough, they're touting their role as organizers of the games here in Brisbane and Olympics and I guess a lot of this matters. It does matter that we're building relationships. I do know from some that I've spoken to have been on those trips that they picked up in Paris, that there was a lot of negativity there, as there seems to be basically negativity around the Olympics in every host city before the event. So in this regard, I guess Brisbane twenty thirty two is right on track. I just think now is the time we have to dust ourselves off and realize we are running out of time. It took ten years to build up the stadium over in Perth. We have seven years basically seven years and a month and a couple of days to get something built here, not just one thing, but lots of things and people take if the CFMU is involved, and it will be ready by twenty forty five, probably three hundred percent over budget. But it's just the Olympic facilities themselves I'm talking about there. But the original idea of twenty thirty two Olympics was to trigger big investment by all levels of government in the infrastructure. Southeast Queensland was going to need to cope with the projected population growth. This population was coming regardless of the Games, and the plan was to actually draw attention on us and our needs. We want the Olympics to put pressure, in particular pressure on the federal government to stump up some real money and pressure the state government of course, to ensure the infrastructure needed to cope with population growth would actually be delivered, not just a flashy brochure but actually real boots on the ground, concrete and the whole kind of stuff. So it was never just about the Games. Now I agree with Safety for Marca. The twenty thirty two Olympics will go ahead regardless of whether the kit is finished. I'm sure it will be. But what about all the stuff we need for beyond the Olympics. And already we've had the federal government backtracking and looking at Sydney and Melbourne Venue saying, oh well, what are the rowing in Southeast Queens. They will take it down to Penrith, down the western Sydney. That was a really bright idea by the Prime Minister the other day. What an idiotic idea that was. We'll talk to Michelle Landry a bit later on. She's the federal member around Rockampton, member for Capricornia. She's got a view about it, but it was all about taking financial pressure off the big promises they have already made for these Queensland games. And I think it's pretty typical because down south they actually don't believe Brisbane and Southeast Queensland is anywhere near as important as Sydney or Melbourne. We have the status as a branch off of state. We've got to shake this off. It's constantly been reinforced in government and business by people who just don't even understand what's going on here, the growth which is happening here, the need which is missing. Nothing's being done. Frankly. Brisbane has been treated poorly. Frankly since the beginning, since the eighteen I told the story of that Sydney based governor at the time he decided our inner city roads should just stay narrow, and that bloke New South Wales governor Gips, he never thought we'd amount to much. I don't know why we've named Gip Street in the Valley after him. But with the wealth we have in our resources sector, Queensland has a very big capacity to pay our own way. We really do, but without support from the FEDS and big support at that as well as the state government. The Southeast Queensland Olympics are going to be in peril. David christopherlie the Premier, he's making the right noises and he's making the sounds of somebody wanting to fight for us, and that is good. But I already know that. You know, federal ministers, if it's just money, they don't mind. They're already lining up for the best tickets to the various Olympic events, because by their reckoning, they'll still be in government this current mob come twenty thirty two. But when will the building start and how long it's going to take? Think that is the real issue. However, it's not just about the Olympic Games themselves. Got to keep saying this over the next two and a half thousand days. It's got to be about the big and bald infrastructure planned Southeast Queensland desperately needs in order to cope with the population growth. We're going to end up with a million more cars on the road in Southeast queens than between now and the Olympics. A million more cars. Where are they going to go? This lack of major roads and rail in too many parts of Southeast Queensland is evident for the people who actually live there. There's so many examples of our poor transport infrastructure. I talk about Queensland Rail, the lines were designed in the eighteen sixties and eighteen seventies and built in the eighteen eighties. And then you've got the northwestern suburbs of Brisbane. You know there's no freeway corridors there. For fifty years, they've been talking about this Route twenty corridor that basically has bardened to bald Hills. Now it can go under ground, it doesn't have to go on top of the ground. But there's no plans for freeway type corridors or rail corridors that actually keep you out of the inner city, no plans to build them, despite discussions going on for fifty years about this. So what you've essentially got is forty percent of Brisbane's population not having any access to the kind of freeway quality roads that so many others have. And if I was one of those, I'd be furious. You know, you've paid your taxes, but you don't have the facilities. Instead, your taxes have gone to pay for good roads in other places. Thank you very much. I'm very grateful for the Southeast Freeway I'm very grateful for the Ipswich Motorway and the Logan Motorway and the Pacific Motorway and the Gateway Motorway. I've got all those, but in the Northwest, so it's a Brisbane nothing. I mean all over Queensland. We are creating real wealth for Australia, so I think it's reasonable. We actually expect the FEDS stump up some big cash when we need it. We need the money to flow, we need the plans to be firm, the funds to flow, and we need the work to start now. We need political will to create some real tangible plans for the Olympics and beyond and action them because we are running out of time, less than twenty six one hundred days to the Olympics, and we're going to mark it up on the wall. We will, We'll count it down. We deserve here in Queensland the attention we now crave, and frankly Australia needs us to succeed. One double three eight eighty two. 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