Deputy opposition leader Jarrod Bleijie said the LNP had already been concerned about a lack of budget funding allocations for the project before the minister’s comments on Thursday.
“We need a real plan,not a stab in the dark,” he said in a statement.
One year on from the announcement that Brisbane would host the 2032 Games,and now less than 10 years out from their opening ceremony,questions remain about the stadium plans and how they will affect the small,122-year-old state school,located on the same busy Woolloongabba block.
Asked by South Brisbane Greens MP Amy MacMahon — whose electorate covers the school and stadium site — what options were being considered for the school,and its likely future,Grace first sought to draw attention to the Greens’ opposition to the event as a “flash in the pan”.
“I don’t know whether that necessarily reflects the view of a lot of citizens around Queensland,” she said,to interjections of “it does” from MacMahon.
Grace said she was not sure how MacMahon had come to the idea that the school,facing congestion concernseven before the Olympics were announced,would probably be closed. The department was considering options that included the acquisition of new land and merging with another school.