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Andrew Liveris is wrong: the Olympics are by their nature political
Letters from readers on Brisbane’s Olympic Games; the energy conundrum; and more music for the US election soundtrack.
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Andrew Liveris wants a stop to the political discussion about the Brisbane Olympic Games (“Games boss: Stop ‘political football’”). The Games process involves spending a lot of public money and a lot of disruption to the community, so it is proper that the effect of the spending after the Games is the subject of community and political discussion.
Brisbane 2032 president Andrew Liveris addresses international media in Paris. Getty Images
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