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An indigenous group has launched legal action to stop the 63,000 seat stadium from the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
The Queensland government announced $ 3.8 million ($ 2.5 million; £ 1.8bn) New stadium – Federal financing – Victoria Park, 60 hectares site.
The Yagara MaganDjin Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) and the Victoria Park team requires the federal environmental minister to determine the park as a significant culturally significant, to protect land from development.
The Victoria Park “great meaning and history” is “for indigenous and not indigenous, YMAC Kerry Charlton explained YMAC Kerry Charlton.
“We are very worried that there are trees there, artefacts and very important ecosystems in it. There may be traces of ancestors.”
A spokesperson for the federal government confirmed that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander received the application for the designation of the site.
“The Department is reviewing this application and will take all the standard steps to move forward, along with the applicant, Profoident and Queensland government,” they said.
If the stadium is built, the Olympics and the Paralympics will organize the opening and closing events in 2032.
After the Olympics, the stadium will become the house of Queensland AFL and Cricket.
2032 Olympics Infrastructure Plans have become a political problem in Queensland in recent years.
Labour’s Annascia Palaszczuk directed a successful Olympic offer and plans to replanse aging Gabba stadium, for games, cost $ 3 million. But the plan was impatient that he was relocated with the locals, and the taxpayers were ashamed of the price label.
When he exited as a Premier in 2023 he recommended a newly expensive plan, a new stadium in Victoria Park. However, as a result of the crisis of the living, State Leaders, Instead of renewing existing rooms to organize game events by Steven Miles, some people were criticized in the world phase.
Monthly later, he campaign a campaign in a promise that he lost his election has no new stadium.
After the new government review, David Crishafulli intended to build a site in the new Premier Victoria Park and has since been exempt of new Olympic rooms in development.
However, the plans have come across the protests of Queensland, worried about losing a large green space in the city, and others worried about potential damage to cultural heritage.
The state federal government has signaled that they will relate to indigenous groups in the development plans in Victoria Park.
According to the Lord of Brisbane in Adrian Schrinner, he was strong support for the stadium.
“Eventually, that will happen,” he said. “There will certainly be attempted to crush and slow the project.”
