An $8.49 Billion Stadium Requires an Urgent Review.

  • Fuel prices have skyrocketed. Groceries. Power bills. Construction costs. Queenslanders are doing it tough.
  • The Victoria Park stadium budget was set before any of this happened.
  • Supply chain disruption, energy price volatility and construction cost inflation have reshaped the costs of major projects.
  • Independent analysis put the full precinct at $5.998 billion before those pressures hit. A conservative estimate now sits much higher than that.
  • Irreversible works are scheduled to begin before the State Budget is even handed down.
  • We're not against the Olympics. We're asking for an independent review that is clear what it will cost.
  • Sign the petition, this is our money.
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Victoria Park Cost Blowout Live

Future Olympic Stadium: Victoria Park, QLDArchitectural rendering of the proposed Victoria Park stadium precinct in parkland, with the city skyline beyond.

The world changed.
The budget needs to catch up.

Sign our petition calling on Premier Crisafulli to commission an independent, public review of the Victoria Park stadium budget, updated to reflect current global construction costs and including the full precinct and a consolidated security figure, before any further commitments are made.

Regional Risk

A blowout in Brisbane puts regional Queensland at risk too.

The Queensland Government has committed $7.1 billion to Games venues across 17 sites statewide. Cairns, Townsville, the Gold Coast and regional communities are all part of that programme. Cost overruns at Victoria Park in an already pressured budget environment do not stay contained. They flow through the whole programme. Regional Queenslanders have just as much at stake in getting this number right as anyone in the south-east.

Fuel price board at a petrol station showing unleaded and diesel prices.
Photograph of a petrol station with fuel price signage.

Market Volatility Analysis

The Real Cost of Building in 2026

Fixed-price contracts are a relic of the past. Taxpayers carry this volatility risk.

PVC & Plastics

+36%

Impact: Critical

Structural Aluminium

+39%

Impact: Severe

Reinforcing Steel

+21%

Impact: Severe

Diesel Fuel (Operational)

+20%

Impact: High

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