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Why I am grateful to John Coates (for his insulting treatment of Queensland’s most powerful woman)
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Why I am grateful to John Coates (for his insulting treatment of Queensland’s most powerful woman)
July 22, 2021 12.03pm
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Look, I am really grateful to John Coates. He gave a masterclass in how to be an arrogant powerbroker when he schooled Brisbane 2032 Olympic bid-winning Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at a late-night press conference in Tokyo.
Palaszczuk, who went to Tokyo to cheer on her city’s successful bid, was determined not to attend the Tokyo opening ceremony. For all the good reasons.
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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (AP) How about this for an Olympic-scale list of world cities: Athens, Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles (LA) and, wait for it, Brisbane.
Since the Summer Games were last hosted in Australia, at Sydney in 2000, and when they’ll return Down Under in 2032, the Olympics have been held in some of the world’s most famous cities.
Brisbane, the capital of Queensland state and Australia’s third-largest city, is an outlier.
It’s aiming to produce an Olympics more like Barcelona in 1992 than London or Beijing.
It’s not a so-called top-tier world city but combined with close neighbours and Olympic co-hosts in the southeast corner of Queensland, the region has some of Australia’s most iconic beaches on the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.