‘Rolled gold baloney': Outrage over Victoria Park Stadium plan
Former Queensland premier Campbell Newman discusses the outrage around the Victoria Park Stadium in Brisbane City.
'The various proponents and hucksters and boosters – it's quite shameful,' Mr Newman told Sky News host Steve Price.
'The government, well maybe they've drunk the Kool-Aid and they believe this, but it's just not true ... there are various other bits and pieces that have been left out.'
'Again, I say to the Olympic Committee, you talk about a sustainable games, this just shows your platitudes are exactly that, rolled gold baloney, you're allowing the destruction of Brisbane's largest inner city piece of green space.'
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