Law firm was engaged well before cabinet decision to cancel 2026 event, but Jacinta Allan says it came amid rising cost estimates
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The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has confirmed that the state government hired lawyers weeks before the public was told that it was cancelling the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
But she has denied that the law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler’s sole role was to terminate the multimillion-dollar contract.
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