Robert Craddock
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Appearances Over Time
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Yes, it's all about one kilometre from where...
I'm looking through the windows out there thinking that in six years' time, it'll be about a month away from the Games.
Has Brisbane got time?
Have they got time?
I mean, you want that stadium in a year before the Games.
I'm telling you, there's so many things can go wrong.
You want test events and everything.
And I'm not saying they're out of time, Gerard, but I will say this, the clock is ticking fast.
There was a couple of hundreds of protesters set up at basically a tent city there over the weekend, and there was a lot of action, and they will run into more of that.
Chris Ofuli today said, you know, it is now a construction site, it is illegal to protest, but there's so many things that can slow down construction.
I mean, I've got a friend who's an apprentice.
And he said to me already he's heard union meetings in his trade where, oh, gee, we're going to have some fun with the Olympics, you know, just stop works and things like that.
So it's the new stadium.
And one thing I've got to salute is the role that the Brisbane Lions, we had Chris Fagan pop into work.
I had to interview him last week.
And I said, your biggest legacy is when David Christopher Lee, the Premier,
said 50 times, we are not building a new stadium, okay?
We're not building an Olympic stadium.
And the Lions just kept plugging away with cricket and knocking on their door.