# Capture — hospitals and schools

- **Claim filed:** “I will not take money out of hospitals and schools to host an event that is three times the cost estimated and budgeted for last year.”
- **Who:** Daniel Andrews, 18 July 2023
- **URL:** https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/commonwealth-games-regional-victoria-scrapped-daniel-andrews/102613718
- **Date on page:** 18 July 2023
- **Publisher:** ABC News
- **Title:** Commonwealth Games scrapped in regional Victoria as government redirects allocated money
- **Captured:** 2026-08-14
- **Method:** saved HTML (`abc-2023-07-18.html`)

## Verbatim (ABC)

> I will not take money out of hospitals and schools to host an event that is three times the cost estimated and budgeted for last year.

Premier release, same day — `premier-2023-07-18.html`  
https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/more-homes-sports-upgrades-gippsland

> more than $6 billion for a 12-day sporting event just doesn’t make sense.

> not at any price, and not without a big lasting benefit for regional Victoria.

## The other meter — what did leave

VAGO, 20 March 2024 — `abc-vago-2024-03-20.html`  
https://www.audit.vic.gov.au/report/withdrawal-2026-commonwealth-games/

> The total cost of the Games to Victorians is over $589 million. This waste would have been avoided…

Breakdown: $112m DJSIR, $38m organising committee, $42m Development Victoria, **$380m** settlement.

ABC settlement, 19 August 2023 — `abc-380-2023-08-19.html`  
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-19/victoria-commonwealth-games-compensation-settlement/102750854

Andrews: “the **best outcome** that Victoria could get.” “Not a dollar more, no court action, the matter is closed off and finalised.”

## Glasgow ran on the cheque

AFR, 23 July 2026 — `afr-glasgow-2026-07-23.html` (lede captured; rest paywalled)  
https://www.afr.com/companies/sport/welcome-to-glasgow-s-cut-price-commonwealth-games-thanks-victoria-20260723-p60hqa

> They are the finest cut-price Commonwealth Games that Victorian taxpayers’ money can buy.

> Victorian taxpayers shouldering much of the cost.

SportsPro, 22 July 2026 — `sportspro-glasgow-2026.html`  
https://www.sportspro.com/features/decision-makers/politics-and-governance/commonwealth-games-2026-glasgow-katie-sadleir-hosting-model/

Commonwealth Sport CEO Katie Sadleir:

- Glasgow expected around **UK£160 million** (Birmingham 2022 ~£800 million).
- Most of that funding from a **UK£100 million** settlement paid by Victoria.
- Almost entirely **existing venues**; ten sports.

## What this file does not do

It does not file “always host.” It files the hospitals-and-schools line against the $589 million that did leave, and the Games that ran on the settlement.