Gary Hardgrave (Moreton, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am delighted to report to the House today that Brisbane has failed in its bid to host the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. The reason I am delighted to report that is that we have Premier ‘Teflon’ Beattie heading over to Kenya to tout Brisbane as the site for these games and everyone has seen through him. I bet you he did not tell the committee that made its decision that, for anybody who arrived to contest in the 2011 or, indeed, in the 2013 world athletics championships—the third largest athletics events in the world—there would have been no water coming out of the taps of any hotel rooms they would have been staying in because his government and, indeed, the Goss-Rudd administration of the early nineties failed to actually deliver on the Wolffdene Dam, which was needed to secure the water that we need in south-east Queensland.

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