The Age has written, since the cancellation of the 2026 Regional Commonwealth Games, about the intended Aquatic Centre in Armstrong Creek, a recently built suburb south of Geelong in a marginally held Labor seat.
Apparently the plan was to build temporary stadia around two 50 metre racing pools, and one diving pool.
After the Games, the two 50 metre pools were to be removed, leaving the diving pool for the locals.
Can you consider the breath taking expense and waste of building two Olympic standard racing pools as temporary measures in some obscure regional town?
Obviously, the political motive, similar to what a corrupt US southern politician from TV shows like Sheriff Lobo or The Dukes of Hazzard would desire, would be obvious.
Which leaves me wondering. Did Chairman ‘Boss Hogg’ Dan actually intend to hold the 2026 Commonwealth Games, or did he offer it to marginal seats in regional areas as a major pork barrelling exercise?
It appears that he did not intend to actually hold those Games, unless he is so financially incompetent that he could not predict when he signed off on those Game 17 months ago (ie 9 months before an election) that he could not afford to hold such an extravagant spectacle.
In the latter case, it was an extremely financially incompetent decision – the first symptom of a nightmare we will be paying for many years into the future.
In the former case, it is even worse – it is a matter of a highly sophisticated electoral fraud undeserving of an anglophonic democracy.
Lost For Words! 