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Commonwealth Games

The full archive on the Commonwealth Games

November 2023

  • The opening ceremony of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018.

    Australia has three months to find host city for Commonwealth Games 2026

  • David Webster

    Other lives
    David Webster obituary

October 2023

  • swimmer

    Swimming officials ‘concerned’ by Victorian plan to rip up Commonwealth Games pools

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    $7bn cost estimate used to axe Commonwealth Games based on worst-case scenario, inquiry reveals

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    Jacinta Allan warned about rising cost of Commonwealth Games months before it was cancelled

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    Victorian government hired lawyers weeks before Commonwealth Games cancellation

September 2023

  • Commonwealth Games Australia CEO Craig Phillips

    Commonwealth Games could be delayed a year as officials scramble to find replacement hosts

  • Series of billboards on street

    ‘A pointless exercise’: mixed feelings over Games legacy in bankrupt Birmingham

August 2023

  • Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate during the inquiry into Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games preparedness

    Mayor refuses to give up on idea of having Victoria help fund Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

  • Victorian premier Daniel Andrews

    Daniel Andrews refuses to name those behind flawed Commonwealth Games business case

  • The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews. The Victorian government will pay Commonwealth Games bodies $380m in compensation after cancelling the 2026 event

    Daniel Andrews says $380m Commonwealth Games compensation ‘the best outcome Victoria could get’

  • A card table with a game of bridge underway

    Brief letters
    Bridge has youth appeal in spades

  • Alberta withdraws support for 2030 Commonwealth Games bid due to cost

  • Timing of $2bn housing and sports package uncertain after Victorian Commonwealth Games pullout

July 2023

  • Opposition Senate leader Simon Birmingham

    Birmingham says opposition doesn’t ‘fear’ early election – as it happened

  • Ozzy the animatronic bull was unveiled in its new permanent home at Birmingham New Street station, 26 July 2023.

    ‘Birmingham could pull it off’: city considers hosting Commonwealth Games again

  • A pod of whales is being monitored off the coast of Western Australia amid fears of a mass stranding event.

    Australia news live
    Mass stranding in WA – as it happened

  • A composite of Bridget McKenzie (left) and Daniel Andrews (right).

    Bridget McKenzie wants Daniel Andrews to face Senate inquiry over Commonwealth Games cancellation

  • The Guardian Essential report
    Essential poll: sizeable support for Daniel Andrews’ decision to scrap Commonwealth Games

  • Commonwealth Games cost blowout known by government for months, Daniel Andrews confirms

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