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March 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Queensland government must reveal the true cost of the 2018 Commonwealth Games before the state election, the Liberal National Party (LNP) says.
The Games Village on the Gold Coast was originally estimated to cost $48.9 million but the coordinator-general says it is more likely to be between $120 million and $208 million, according to a document obtained by The Courier-Mail.
The opposition says the state government was planning to spring the true cost of the Games on taxpayers only after the March 24 election.
LNP finance spokesman Tim Nicholls said Premier Anna Bligh had used a similar strategy in the lead-up to the 2009 election on the issue of asset sales.
Then, the premier and treasurer promised they wouldn’t sell assets or change the fuel subsidy, Mr Nicholls said.
“As soon as the election was out of the way, assets were sold, the fuel subsidy was ripped away, the fuel price went up, costs and charges went up,” he told reporters in Brisbane on Tuesday.
“This is another case that there’ll be more fees, taxes and charges.”
Mr Nicholls said the people of Queensland have a right to know “the true cost of the Commonwealth Games”.
“They want this government to come clean,” he said.
Ms Bligh said the Games Village would be delivered within the budget and there had been no request to increase the costs.
“Any suggestion of a cost blowout in the Commonwealth Games is completely without any foundation,” she told reporters on Tuesday.
The village was being built in a public-private partnership with the developer for $48 million, the premier said.
“He (the developer) hasn’t asked for an increase and he won’t be getting one,” she said.
Ms Bligh acknowledged just how much the government recouped from the sale of the units heavily depended on the state of the real estate market.
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