Brisbane Olympics: Greens, One Nation and Katter parties unite in push to cap spending on 2032 Games

The Queensland crossbench – including members of One Nation, Katter’s Australian party and the Greens – are calling on the state and federal governments to cap expenditure for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics at $7b. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

They don’t usually agree on much, but Queensland’s crossbenchers this week put their political differences aside to voice their shared concerns about spending on the 2032 Olympic Games.

“I’m about as excited about this as getting a vasectomy, standing here with the Greens, with our natural enemy,” the Katter’s Australian party MP Nick Dametto told reporters on Tuesday.