Would you BUGgers out there mind terribly if I give myself a little pat on the back? I work alone so it will have to be me.

Come to think about, I never got a pat on the back when I worked in fairly large metropolitan newsrooms for years so what does that say about me. No need to answer; it’s a rhetorical question.

Back to the main point of this rant. On April 14 last year, our Media Glass House poked much run at media chatter about whether or not Brissie needed a new stadium for the 2032 Olympics; would a rebuilt athletics stadium out at Nathan makes us look like Hicksville! Did we need a legacy stadium to proudly remind us all that we once were considered a world city worthy of hosting the world’s biggest sporting event?

We had plenty of fun with then InQueensland writer David Fagan who in a fresh column had argued strongly for a brand spanking new stadium, despite being firmly against it earlier. At top and below are the final pars of that MGH piece.

That RIR is me! Yes, long before the last state election, long before Premiers Stephen Miles and now David Crisafulli promised no new stadiums – the cost would be shameful with so many Queenslanders facing cost of living pressures, before final reviews, I got it right.

As the headline above mentions, I hope you all put some hard-earned on this happening.
Again, apologies for this little gloat. I just thought my reader would appreciate it.

PS: And yes, it’s true that I had no problems at all with a city that promised a no-frills Olympics tarting up QSAC at Nathan. Viewers around the world wouldn’t have given a flying fuck. And apart from saying a sad goodbye to the Gabba, I’ve got no real objection to this new stadium, apart from it chewing up a large part of a city not blessed with many large open spaces like that. What happened to those open spaces that could be serviced by an extended Doomben line? A new stadium there would have been fine.

Still, a new stadium it is and I remember on a bus tour of Montreal being proudly shown their Olympic stadium which is now a multi-level car park or grows mushrooms, I can’t remember which. I’m okay with some of the other stuff too, except for rowing in the apparently “crocodile infested” Fitzroy River. Obviously the course will have to be further upstream than the tidal part of the Fitzroy so they can probably put some croc-proof nets across where the tide stops flowing and ebbing? Who would want to see a some gold medallists taken in a death roll? Another rhetorical question?

Don Gordon-Brown

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