Repository file
Capture — hospitals and schools
evidence/2023/hospitals-and-schools/source.md
From Can’t Explain Raw capture
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.