According to gamesbids.com Canberra is in the running to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games:
- The Gold Coast will be in competition with the city of Perth, which also officially announced its bid Friday, while Canberra has also said it was bidding.
Leaving aside the question of why any city would want to inflict this barely-glorified sports carnival upon itself…
Is this a cunning plan to bring the self-government era to end? Are we planning to bankrupt ourselves on Athletes Villages and new buses before throwing ourselves upon the arms of a Commonwealth Government that, at the end of the day, can’t allow its national capital to rot?
Maybe it does make sense…