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November 15th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
HIGH TIME: Premier Anna Bligh, Mark Stockwell, Eve Lutze and Mayor Ron Clarke react with elation as the decision is announced. Picture: Michael Ross
Source: The Courier-Mail
THE State Government insists it has the money to stage the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games despite Opposition claims that staging the $1.1 billion event could force up debt or taxes.
The Government must find $300 million in its budget to 2014-15 as it prepares for the Games, after which projected surpluses are earmarked to fund final projects.
Premier Anna Bligh yesterday said about 80 per cent of the facilities needed were already finished, with remaining upgrades and new building projects planned for rapidly growing areas such as Coomera, where more infrastructure would have been built even without the Games.
She laughed down the LNP’s pledge of bipartisan support for the 2018 Games, accusing Opposition Leader Jeff Seeney of trying “desperately” to be seen as an advocate while undermining the win in State Parliament.
“No one will forget the appalling position (the LNP) took to the 2009 election that the growing city of the Gold Coast, the second biggest city in this state, should not have another stadium,” she said.
“What is the centrepiece of this bid? Metricon Stadium … built by Labor and opposed by those opposite.”
Mr Seeney, who had challenged Ms Bligh to rule out a debt, deficit or tax hike to pay for the Games, said the Premier had now become the “minister for everything” after naming herself as the minister with responsibility for the Games.
“It begs the question, does the Premier not trust any other of her ministers?” he said.
But Building Industry Minister Simon Finn suggested things would be worse with LNP leader Campbell Newman at the helm.
“What would we get if these were Campbell’s Games? An open-air, indoor sports centre that doubles as a sauna?” he said, in a veiled sledge at the former Brisbane mayor’s King George Square revamp.
Policing was also under the spotlight, with Surfers Paradise MP John-Paul Langbroek accusing the Government of reducing frontline numbers.
Police Minister Neil Roberts rejected that as “deliberately misleading”.
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