Brisbane 2032 Olympics

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Inertia Engineering’s proposal for Woolloongabba Village urban renewal, Brisbane. Supplied 27/02/2026.

The Gabba underground: Proposal to sink Stanley Street for new urban village

Two Brisbane design firms have unveiled plans for 2500 new homes and eight hectares of green space to transform Woolloongabba ahead of the 2032 Olympics.

  • Cameron Atfield

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2032 Olympic Games organising committee president Andrew Liveris at the IOC meeting during the 2026 Winter Games in Milan.

Liveris doubles down on Olympics cost pledge, rattles tin for US sponsors

Brisbane Olympics president Andrew Liveris has doubled down on his pledge that the Games will not require taxpayer funds to operate, as he scours corporate America for sponsors to cover the event’s regional spread.

  • Michael Koziol
Demolition work has begun on a PCYC in Logan Central, which will make way for the new Logan Indoor Sports Centre Olympic and Paralympic venue.

From PCYC to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic stage: Work begins on new sporting hub

Work has started on another Olympic venue in south-east Queensland, with excavators moving in on a landmark Logan building to clear the site for a new indoor stadium.

  • Cameron Atfield
Jackie Narracott won silver in skeleton at Beijing.

Jackie left the Olympics elated. But it cost six figures and three concussions

Australia created history at the Winter Games in Milano Cortina. But as two Olympic legends attest, the job is only just beginning.

  • Nick Wright
Fitzroy River in Rockhampton.

Labor, LNP on Rocky rowing unity ticket, but former local MP disagrees

Days after Rowing Queensland urged members to get behind a proposal for a new facility in greater Brisbane, the state’s Labor opposition has backed the LNP’s plan to hold Olympic events in Rockhampton.

  • Cameron Atfield
The proposal to build a rowing course on the site of a decommissioned Boral quarry at Lawnton, north of Brisbane.

‘Epic legacy’: Rowers push for Olympic racing to be moved to SEQ

Queensland rowers have been urged to lobby governments for a proposed Moreton Bay course pitched as a 2032 Olympic alternative to staging events in Rockhampton

  • Cameron Atfield
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Thousands of homes would be built along the Hamilton riverfront under the plan.

Thousands of new homes planned for former athletes’ village site

Six hectares of riverfront land at Northshore Hamilton will be opened for development, with five parcels going up for sale this week.

  • William Davis
Stadium opponents fear new legislation will allow Victoria Park to be sold off to developers.

Stadium opponents fear Victoria Park land sell-off to developers

Legislation passed on Thursday night has made Victoria Park “freehold” land, sparking fears of a sell-off. But the Queensland government insists it will remain in public hands.

  • Cameron Atfield
Somerset Mayor Jason Wendt wants Olympic rowing to be held on Lake Wivenhoe in 2032.

Labor backs in Rocky rowing, as another SEQ mayor throws hat in ring

Another south-east Queensland council has launched a bid to poach Olympic rowing from Rockhampton, with a proposal that would see competitive rowing return to the region’s biggest dam.

  • Cameron Atfield
Queensland Attorney-General Deb Frecklington, who had carriage of the donation change bill, in parliament last year.

Warning on Olympic corruption risk after developer donation ban overturned

The LNP this week reversed a ban on state political donations by developers and quadrupled the cap, despite the corruption watchdog’s concerns.

  • Matt Dennien