Track and feud: Queensland to announce third 2032 Olympic stadium plan in four years. Will this one stick?
The widely expected construction of a new 60,000-seat venue at Victoria Park will take a chunk of the largest green space near the inner city
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Alan Patching led the construction of the largest-ever Olympic stadium. It took 30 months to finish the designs for Sydney’s 110,000-seat Stadium Australia, build it, and hold its first major event.
“That’s not going to happen [in Brisbane],” Patching said. “The climate’s changed, the building environment has changed, [and] goodness knows how we’re going for resources.
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