Inner-city Brisbane has lowest fertility rate; Liveris says Brisbane is not a hillbilly town; Miles defends dumping Gabba for QSAC [Video]

“Brisbane 2032 has one spokesperson and that’s me, and that’s for a reason,” Olympic boss Andrew Liveris told international journalists in Paris last night.

Liveris went on to explain that he did not want politicians’ positions being misconstrued as the views of his organising committee for Brisbane’s Olympic Games.

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“Alignment of message, so we don’t get this abhorrent view that because politician ‘x’ says statement ‘y’ that it’s a Brisbane 2032 statement,” he said.

Liveris said he would wait for project validation reports to be completed before commenting on the viability of Premier Steven Miles’ Olympic stadium plan.

Miles has chosen to refurbish the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre (QSAC) in Nathan to host the athletics. It will be the smallest stadium to host athletics for any Olympics in the last 100 years.

But Liveris said a refurbished Gabba was still on the table and could be …