[Lizi]

Are the state government priorities correct?
Shouldn’t new hospitals, aged care and power stations come before the Olympics?

[Cosmo]

Absolutely not! Of course you wouldn’t include education as a priority in a State that is so obsessed by totally unproductive sport. We don’t even have industry spin-offs from sport such as manufacturing and exporting sports equipment and clothing, we have to import that too. Then of course there is the greenhouse effect of flying thousands of participants, administrators and spectators around the world.
When we have tens of thousands of homeless people living on our streets it is obscene to be spending hundreds of millions of dollars and employing thousands of building trades people refurbishing numerous stadiums for this one event.

[KSS]

Actually, there is a spin-off from sporting events and that is tourism. Not only will QLD get renovated or new facilities, but tourism also contributes about $23 billion state budget and will likely increase year on year up to olympic year. That money goes into government coffers to help pay for other things like health and homeless services. You can whinge about manufacturing yet manufacturing is Queensland’s largest contributor to the QLD budget of $141,971 Billion while mining contributes $93,850.B, Electricity, Gas, Water & Waste Services contribute a combined $36,714.B and education a further $35,501.B Oh and construction already contributes the second highest amount $127,249.B. And finally Health Care & Social Assistance
$58,335 Billion. So if you want to get rid of sporting events, how are you going to replace that money $23 Billion, plus the revenue from Gas Electricity and mining and education all adding up to $187301 BILLION from a total budget of $930.733 billion approximately 20% of the entire QLD budget. SO just how will you replace all that?

[Cosmo]

KSS pull the other one! A tourism industry which produces thousands of low skilled low value jobs which is currently running on two cylinders because of the shortage of foreign back packers. I recently stayed in south eastern Queensland where the foreign owned hotel operator apologised about the lack of service due to an absence of back packers. It certainly explains why education is not a necessary priority in Queensland where you have a youth crime epidemic.

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