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Sydney Morning Herald
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
Brisbane Games board takes shape as golfing legend loses seat
Former champion golfer Greg Norman is among those to have lost their seat on the 2032 Brisbane Olympic organising board, after the Queensland government passed laws to shrink the body to 'streamline' decision-making. The legislation, passed through Queensland parliament last week, removed requirements that women make up 50 per cent of the board's members and that at least one member be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. All original members, including four-time Olympian Jess Fox, will have to be renominated to the revised board, and several have lost their places. Until last week, the Australian government had four nominees on the board: Norman, three-time Olympic gold medallist Tracy Stockwell, Gold Coast Titans co-owner Rebecca Frizelle and Federal Sport Minister Anika Wells. On the day in February he was formally appointed as a board member, the one-time world No.1 golfer spruiked his ability to be a diplomatic conduit between Australia and US president Donald Trump. Loading His seat at the table was under jeopardy just a month later, when the Queensland government's handpicked Games Independent Infrastructure and Co-ordination Authority recommended the board be reduced from its 24-member composition to 15 to 'enhance efficiency and effectiveness'. A document obtained by this masthead through a Freedom of Information request showed the federal government was considering asking Queensland for a second position alongside Wells. The incoming briefs prepared for Wells after the federal election in May said failing to make this request before June 30 would give Queensland the 'final decision on which nominees continue'.
The Age
03-07-2025
- Politics
- The Age
Brisbane Games board takes shape as golfing legend loses seat
Former champion golfer Greg Norman is among those to have lost their seat on the 2032 Brisbane Olympic organising board, after the Queensland government passed laws to shrink the body to 'streamline' decision-making. The legislation, passed through Queensland parliament last week, removed requirements that women make up 50 per cent of the board's members and that at least one member be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. All original members, including four-time Olympian Jess Fox, will have to be renominated to the revised board, and several have lost their places. Until last week, the Australian government had four nominees on the board: Norman, three-time Olympic gold medallist Tracy Stockwell, Gold Coast Titans co-owner Rebecca Frizelle and Federal Sport Minister Anika Wells. On the day in February he was formally appointed as a board member, the one-time world No.1 golfer spruiked his ability to be a diplomatic conduit between Australia and US president Donald Trump. Loading His seat at the table was under jeopardy just a month later, when the Queensland government's handpicked Games Independent Infrastructure and Co-ordination Authority recommended the board be reduced from its 24-member composition to 15 to 'enhance efficiency and effectiveness'. A document obtained by this masthead through a Freedom of Information request showed the federal government was considering asking Queensland for a second position alongside Wells. The incoming briefs prepared for Wells after the federal election in May said failing to make this request before June 30 would give Queensland the 'final decision on which nominees continue'.
The Age
29-05-2025
- Sport
- The Age
Three proposals, three locations for Victoria Park stadium
Another plan for a Victoria Park stadium has come to light, as the Games Independent Infrastructure and Co-ordination Authority continues its work to select a suitable location. The Crisafulli government gave the Victoria Park stadium the green light in March, but its exact location within the 64-hectare site was still to be determined. Brisbane firm Blight Rayner Architecture has suggested the stadium be located in the north-east corner of the park, closest to the RNA Showgrounds and the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. The Blight Rayner concept was submitted to former lord mayor Graham Quirk's 60-day Olympic venue review and uncovered in a Right to Information request from Save Victoria Park, the community group committed to preventing the stadium's construction within the parkland. It was the third known vision for the site in the public realm, all of which position the stadium in different sections of Victoria Park. Archipelago's high-profile Brisbane Bold proposal had the stadium a little further south, near the Inner City Bypass, while an artistic render released by the Crisafulli government in its 2032 Delivery Plan positioned the stadium in the south-west corner of the park. 'I'm not sure why the government one was slightly further down into the park,' Blight Rayner director Michael Rayner told this masthead. 'It may have been a concern over the acoustics – I don't know – but that's yet to be tested.'
Sydney Morning Herald
29-05-2025
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
Three proposals, three locations for Victoria Park stadium
Another plan for a Victoria Park stadium has come to light, as the Games Independent Infrastructure and Co-ordination Authority continues its work to select a suitable location. The Crisafulli government gave the Victoria Park stadium the green light in March, but its exact location within the 64-hectare site was still to be determined. Brisbane firm Blight Rayner Architecture has suggested the stadium be located in the north-east corner of the park, closest to the RNA Showgrounds and the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. The Blight Rayner concept was submitted to former lord mayor Graham Quirk's 60-day Olympic venue review and uncovered in a Right to Information request from Save Victoria Park, the community group committed to preventing the stadium's construction within the parkland. It was the third known vision for the site in the public realm, all of which position the stadium in different sections of Victoria Park. Archipelago's high-profile Brisbane Bold proposal had the stadium a little further south, near the Inner City Bypass, while an artistic render released by the Crisafulli government in its 2032 Delivery Plan positioned the stadium in the south-west corner of the park. 'I'm not sure why the government one was slightly further down into the park,' Blight Rayner director Michael Rayner told this masthead. 'It may have been a concern over the acoustics – I don't know – but that's yet to be tested.'
