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Brisbane is no “hillbilly town”, insists 2032 Olympic chief Andrew Liveris, who indicated he would have the final say on the city’s controversial Games venue plan.
As AAP reports, the Darwin-born, Brisbane-raised corporate heavyweight addressed the International Olympic Committee session in Paris yesterday, exactly eight years out from Brisbane’s 2032 Games.
This (Olympics) is a gift. Let’s get the enthusiasm for what we’ve been given right and whatever ends up happening with venues, we will deliver.
Brisbane is not a hillbilly town, (not) that ‘strange place up north’. It’s very cosmopolitan, maybe not 24/7 yet, but on it’s way.
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