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Perhaps Ive got the story mixed up but I thought the Gabba was pretty unlikely as part of the solution for the olympics. The space between Vulture and Stanley street being too narrow for a stadium that will be suitable for the olympics. One of the main reasons being they still would have poor access for driving equipment under the stadium which limits the ability to use the stadium for other big events. The other one was access for people with disabilities so I assume if they want a big stadium for track and field, the Gabba doesn't work for the Paralympics.
Some of the things you mentioned are correct. Below is other concerns Graham Quirk had with a rebuild.

Crisafulli most likely has not even read the Quirk review. If he has God help us over the next 4 years.
At the time he would have just been against anything Labor proposed.
To be fair, that's any oppositions political party's stance though.
Now he actually has to do something. A bit of catch-up reading would be a good starting point.
Hopefully he comes around but i am not confident he will.
Below from the Quirk review

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Some of the things you mentioned are correct. Below is other concerns Graham Quirk had with a rebuild.

Crisafulli most likely has not even read the Quirk review. If he has God help us over the next 4 years.
At the time he would have just been against anything Labor proposed.
To be fair, that's any oppositions political party's stance though.
Now he actually has to do something. A bit of catch-up reading would be a good starting point.
Hopefully he comes around but i am not confident he will.
Below from the Quirk review

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How anybody could even consider a rebuild of the Gabba after reading this review would have to be totally negligent. A new 60,000 seat stadium is the only sensible solution for the future of sport and entertainment in Brisbane. And the cost of building a new stadium would be more cost effective even if construction was slightly greater than a Gabba rebuild (which is highly unlikely) considering the vast number of additional patrons using the much larger stadium in the future. It is very dispiriting to see the small minded thinking of the political class in Queensland who can't seem to grasp the opportunity to look past their own time in office. Hopefully sanity prevails, although it seems unlikely at this stage. Having yet another review is pointless,what more do they need to know?
 

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Paywall that one
"If the LNP think that they can come back into this community and decide to demolish a public school and a public park ... they should look back to what happened to the last premier that tried that,” Chandler-Mather said."
"Because if the LNP want to base their platform and remind people of the Newman years by coming out here and one of their first actions being announcing demolishing a public school, then they are going to have a massive campaign on their hands."
"My message to Crisafulli is: do not make the same mistake that the Palaszczuk Labor government did.”

Now the State election is over he will go again since Crisafulli mentions rebuild in the mix. Did not want to do anything leading up to the State election though.
Because they don't have a plan. I spoke to a few Greens volunteers who spoke about this issue, which came up in multiple electorates when door knocking. They reckon that Qld Greens MPs don't have an actual alternative for the school or the stadium.
 
Can't imagine the LNP Lord Mayor would be saying this to the LNP Premier unless it was genuinely a possibility.

Also quite a turn from how vehemently Schrinner came out against a Vic Park stadium at the start of the year.

Lord Mayor Says Victoria Park Must Be Considered In Olympic Venue Review

The new independent Olympic infrastructure review must consider Victoria Park, the lord mayor said as Queensland’s new premier confirmed the Brisbane 2032 stadium debate would be finally put to rest in about four months’ time.

Premier David Crisafulli said the clock would start ticking on his promised 100-day review sometime next month, when the board of the independent Olympic infrastructure delivery authority was constituted.

“That’s a lot of work to do in a short period of time, but it’s important that we put a road map forward, and within that 100 days, you’re going to get something that Queenslanders are proud of,” he said.

That review should consider all options, including Victoria Park, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner told the regular Brisbane City Council meeting on Tuesday.

Crisafulli had previously said there “can’t be new stadiums” built for the Games – seemingly ruling out the park being redeveloped as the centrepiece of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games and a long-term AFL and cricket venue.

In an earlier address to the council chamber, Save Victoria Park spokeswoman Sue Bremner had called on the lord mayor to “put all that speculation to rest” and declare there would not be a stadium built on the site while he was in power.

Schrinner said he could not rule anything out until the outcome of the review was known.

“However, there has been only one independent review of Olympic venues conducted [the Quirk review], and that independent review recommended Victoria Park as a location,” he said.

During the council meeting, former Labor deputy mayor David Hinchliffe could be heard from the public gallery saying Schrinner’s position was an “absolute disgrace”.

“Former councillor Hinchliffe is good at opposing things, I will tell you he’s very good at that, and he’s back at it now,” Schrinner said in a delayed response.

“But I know a little bit of history and I know that sometimes people want things to happen, sometimes the wider community wants things to happen.”

Before losing power, former premier Steven Miles had settled on the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre as the main track and field venue, citing the advice of Australian Olympic supremo John Coates and rejecting former lord mayor Graham Quirk’s independent venue review that recommended Victoria Park.

On Tuesday, Coates was asked about the review, and his position on any changes to the existing plan for Games venues. He replied: “Ask the premier.”

“I’ve dropped the premier a note,” Coates said. “He knows where I stand. It’s up to him to speak on it.”

The Quirk review was commissioned after the cost of previous premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s plan to rebuild the Gabba ballooned from $1 billion to $2.7 billion.

There has also been a private sector push for a new stadium at Hamilton, which would form the centrepiece of a $6 billion property development on crown land.

Schrinner said all proposals needed to be considered, but immediately rejected two of the four options that have been suggested.

“My view is that the Gabba won’t work, the Gabba won’t stack up. There’s a reason why it fell over in the first place, because it just would not work,” Schrinner said.

“We are going to see a thorough assessment of different options, including the Gabba, including QSAC – I can tell you that definitely won’t work, I think everyone agrees that won’t work – but this process needs to happen.”

Federal Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather on Monday warned any return to the Gabba would be vigorously opposed by his party and the community.

The premier brushed that aside on Tuesday.

“I’m not overly worried about what his commentary is, I’m worried about what Queenslanders think,” Crisafulli said.

“I want Queenslanders to know that that independent infrastructure authority is what we’ve always said needed to happen, and there will be people ... who have got one interest, and that is making sure that we create something that’s world-class.”
 
Because they don't have a plan. I spoke to a few Greens volunteers who spoke about this issue, which came up in multiple electorates when door knocking. They reckon that Qld Greens MPs don't have an actual alternative for the school or the stadium.
That's because it involves progress.
 
Can't imagine the LNP Lord Mayor would be saying this to the LNP Premier unless it was genuinely a possibility.

Also quite a turn from how vehemently Schrinner came out against a Vic Park stadium at the start of the year.

Lord Mayor Says Victoria Park Must Be Considered In Olympic Venue Review
Thanks for showing the article.
Just noting the Lord Mayor is Liberal party only, The Premier is LNP with his main allegiance to the Liberals.
However, in power the Premier may find things more difficult to keep both his parties views aligned.
For arguments sake, i doubt the Nationals give a dam about a new stadium in Brisbane or possibly the Olympics in general.

From the article it's hard to know who is doing the review. People he will appoint for a review like Miles did.
Or will it come from this authority mentioned in the article "his promised 100-day review sometime next month, when the board of the independent Olympic infrastructure delivery authority was constituted."

With typical government fast-tracking, it may unfold like this:
People he appoints pass on the report exactly 100 days after starting.
The report is given to the newly constituted authority for review.
The authority read the review and question quite a few details in that report, this takes some time to clarify.
Once satisfied, the authority passes the amended report to Crisafulli.
Crisafulli takes days to absorb what is in the report.
He calls a press conference to tell everyone he rejects their findings.
 
I like this image of The Gabba from above. It was taken some time ago.
Either before they finished the roof or after a portion of the roof was removed when a huge storm hit the area.

The image is one of the better ones that shows the real problem with space available around the existing stadium.
The area i marked is the only way i see to get extra land for the stadium.
The building fronting Main Street on the right is heritage listed.
This entails demolishing the 12 story "Gabba Towers" building. I believe it is owned by the Government so that helps.
The school is on the left.

Even permanently closing one of Stanley, Vulture or Main Street would not help.

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I like this image of The Gabba from above. It was taken some time ago.
Either before they finished the roof or after a portion of the roof was removed when a huge storm hit the area.

The image is one of the better ones that shows the real problem with space available around the existing stadium.
The area i marked is the only way i see to get extra land for the stadium.
The building fronting Main Street on the right is heritage listed.
This entails demolishing the 12 story "Gabba Towers" building. I believe it is owned by the Government so that helps.
The school is on the left.

Even permanently closing one of Stanley, Vulture or Main Street would not help.

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Yeah, this is literally the only thing holding the Gabba back - it's the squeeze between the major roads.

FWIW, I still think it should be the Gabba, and the ground needs to be elevated to fit this. But I get the issue.
 
I like this image of The Gabba from above. It was taken some time ago.
Either before they finished the roof or after a portion of the roof was removed when a huge storm hit the area.

The image is one of the better ones that shows the real problem with space available around the existing stadium.
The area i marked is the only way i see to get extra land for the stadium.
The building fronting Main Street on the right is heritage listed.
This entails demolishing the 12 story "Gabba Towers" building. I believe it is owned by the Government so that helps.
The school is on the left.

Even permanently closing one of Stanley, Vulture or Main Street would not help.

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If you make the oval a little longer, and more narrow (like Optus), it fits better.
 

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Can't imagine the LNP Lord Mayor would be saying this to the LNP Premier unless it was genuinely a possibility.
Disagree - the cooperation between the various levels of government doesn't always follow party lines.

Besides, Brisbane itself is really what saved the ALP from getting completely wiped out this year. Schrinner will do himself no electoral harm by not getting too matey with Crisafulli.
 
Does anyone remember the Greg Swann interview he gave back when he first joined the club? I love Swanny, but he genuinely thought there wasn't enough Brisbane Lions fans in Queensland and asked AFL fans in QLD who supported other teams to support the lions as their second team. To go from that to where we are now is astounding. And once the new stadium is built (wherver it may be), we will easily eclipse 70k members. Which says a lot considering we struggled to crack 15k during the banter era. I think that's the amazing part of the stadium plans to me. Once it's built, it will show just how far we've come as a club. Something I think rarely few thought would be possible back in 2013-2014.
 
Taking in the brilliance of The Games on ABC iView. I look forward to hearing about all of these issues in the run-up to our games.
There's an even a bit where John talks to the AFL CEO and he goes through all the days/time slots that games are being scheduled at now but it doesn't matter that fans don't want to go as it's all about the corporates. And this was 1998/99 and it's only gotten worse since then.
 

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Yet another example of the Greens (a) opposing progress and (b) just being plain wrong.

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Well, no Seal, they're not completely incompatible. Victoria Park is ENORMOUS. As that little girl in the GIFs is very fond of saying...

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Also, the positioning of the stadium in that map is interesting. The Brisbane Bold proposal (a graphic of which is included in the above article, somewhat confusingly and contradictorily) has the stadium in the north east corner of the park, on the eastern side of the ICB, which would be completely covered over under their (very excellent) proposal.

It's disappointing the quality of reporting of this whole saga has been so poor as to not provide any distinction between the B-grade proposal favoured by Graham Quirk in his report, and the Brisbane Bold proposal which is a far superior proposal on virtually every measure.
 

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