Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Hansard source

That's the ideal. Sydney was the greatest at that time, and Melbourne in '56 at that time was the greatest Olympics of all time. But we have to strive to make sure that we can say at the end of the Brisbane Olympics that it was the greatest Olympics of all time. Although we have had New South Wales and, before that, Victoria, when it comes to the Olympics, we should be able to put state of origin behind us and we should be able to all join together and say that we hope Brisbane does us proud.

But let's not underestimate that that is going to take a power of work, a power of planning, and all of us coming together at the federal level, the state level and the local government to make sure that those facilities and all of the organisation that goes around it is absolutely world-class.

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