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Black Summer fire ban fallout put Brisbane Festival in audit officeâs sights
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The financial fallout from a high-profile Brisbane Festival event cancelled amid 2019âs Black Summer bushfires raised the eyebrows of Queenslandâs Audit Office, which has since questioned the ability of the festivalâs government-owned parent company to pay its debts.
But the organisation insists that while it recorded a financial loss that year, driven by the cost of refunding tickets and reaching a confidential settlement with the French artistic troupe behind the Fire Gardens event, this did not leave it in the red.