# Capture — all the benefits

- **Claim filed:** “The Victorian Government will deliver a comprehensive $2 billion package to ensure regional Victoria still receives all the benefits that would have been facilitated by the Games.”
- **Who:** Premier of Victoria / Jacinta Allan (Minister for Commonwealth Games Delivery), 18 July 2023
- **URL:** https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/more-homes-sports-upgrades-gippsland
- **Date on page:** 18 July 2023
- **Publisher:** Premier of Victoria
- **Title:** More Homes With Sports Upgrades In Gippsland
- **Captured:** 2026-08-14
- **Method:** saved HTML (`premier-2023-07-18.html`)

## Verbatim (Premier release)

> That’s why the Victorian Government will deliver a comprehensive $2 billion package to ensure regional Victoria still receives all the benefits that would have been facilitated by the Games.

> Every one of the permanent new and upgraded sporting infrastructure projects planned as part of the Games will still proceed – and all will be completed as planned.

Allan:

> Whether its upgrades at Ted Summerton Reserve or many other smaller projects across the State, every one of the permanent new and upgraded sports facilities will be delivered.

Shing:

> We’ll deliver all the housing, sports infrastructure and tourism legacy benefits for our regions – but without the massive extra cost of hosting the Games.

ABC live blog, same day — `abc-live-2023-07-18.html`  
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/victoria-commonwealth-games-announcement-daniel-andrews/102613156

Allan to ABC Radio Melbourne:

> we are still going to do that but without those additional costs that were far greater than any benefits of running a 12-day sporting event.

Package includes a $1 billion Regional Housing Fund for more than 1,300 new homes. ABC wrap: $2 billion is $600 million less than the $2.6 billion Games allocation.

## The other meter — delivery

Victorian Parliament select committee, final report, 14 March 2025 — `parliament-inquiry-2025.pdf`  
https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/495902/contentassets/d674233824484c9685aa8acbdb1d0a37/final-report-for-website-lc-comm-games-bid-60-03_final-report.pdf

FINDING 21: The $2 billion regional package has not yet been fully delivered. Any impact will have to be assessed in the light of the actual delivery.

Committee text: the promised package “at this stage largely remains in the planning or advanced planning stages.”

Homes Victoria, Regional Housing Fund — `homes-vic-rhf.html`  
https://www.homes.vic.gov.au/regional-housing-fund  
captured 2026-08-14

> Work is well underway with more than 630 homes completed or under construction, including 377 new and upgraded homes already completed, with many more homes in the planning stage.

Of the 377: **187 existing homes upgraded**. Timeline on the same page: fund completion **2028**.

## What this file does not do

It does not file “build nothing in the regions.” It files “all the benefits” / “completed as planned” against a 2025 finding of a plan, and a housing page that counts upgrades toward 1,300 new homes.