Oncology ward
Crossed offQLD Cancer Centre
An $8.49 Billion Stadium Requires an Urgent Review.
- Fuel prices have skyrocketed. Groceries. Power bills. Construction costs. Queenslanders are doing it tough.
- The Victoria Park stadium budget was set before the fuel crisis.
- Supply chain disruption, energy price volatility and construction cost inflation have reshaped the costs of major projects.
- Independent analysis put the full precinct at $5.998 billion before those pressures hit. A conservative estimate now sits much higher than that.
- Irreversible works are scheduled to begin before the State Budget is even handed down.
- We're not against the Olympics. We're asking for an urgent review that is clear what it will cost.
- Sign the petition, this is our money.
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Victoria Park stadium · estimate
The real number isn’t $3.785 billion anymore.
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Item Est. cost (AUD)
- Stadium base build
- …
- Precinct & landscaping
- $856,000,000
- Security (consolidated)
- $412,000,000
- Materials inflation
- $738,000,000
- Energy / fuel uplift
- $211,000,000
- Total
- …
EIGHT POINT FOUR BILLION.
Set before the fuel crisis. Before supply-chain chaos. Before construction inflation hit 21%.
No fixed price No review
We're not against the Olympics.
We're against signing blank cheques.
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2.3 million Queensland households
$3,691each
Set before the fuel crisis.
$8.49B could instead be
- 17 regional hospitals
- 3.2y of state-school funding
- $1,880 /yr fuel subsidy, 3y
$4.7 billion blowout
What we're crossing off
The things Queensland actually needs.
Regional hospital · Cairns
Crossed off17 regional hospitals
QLD Police
Crossed off4,200 nurses + police, 5yr
Power bill · mailbox
Crossed off$3,750 / household rebate
And we'll pay for all of it with our own taxes.
Vic Park Stadium: Project Cost Tracker Live
Budget at announcement $3.785B
Modeled estimate at 2032 $8.49B
Based on RLB construction cost index data and Arcadis precinct estimates
The world changed.
The budget needs to catch up.
Sign our petition calling on Premier Crisafulli to commission an independent, public review of the Victoria Park stadium budget, updated to reflect current global construction costs and including the full precinct and a consolidated security figure, before any further commitments are made.
A blowout in Brisbane puts regional Queensland at risk too.
The Queensland Government has committed $7.1 billion to Games venues across 17 sites statewide. Cairns, Townsville, the Gold Coast and regional communities are all part of that programme. Cost overruns at Victoria Park in an already pressured budget environment do not stay contained. They flow through the whole programme. Regional Queenslanders have just as much at stake in getting this number right as anyone in the south-east.
The Real Cost of Building in 2026
Fixed-price contracts are a relic of the past. Taxpayers carry this volatility risk.
PVC & Plastics
+36%Impact: Critical
Structural Aluminium
+39%Impact: Severe
Reinforcing Steel
+21%Impact: Severe
Diesel Fuel (Operational)
+20%Impact: High