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Callum Godde

Games official top scored with $500,000 pay packet

More than $10.8 million in taxpayer money was paid to the 75 staff of Victoria 2026, a report shows. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

A top Victorian bureaucrat tasked with organising the 2026 Commonwealth Games raked in more than half a million dollars before the event was cancelled.

More than $10.8 million in taxpayer money was paid to the 75 staff of Victoria 2026, according to the now-abolished organising committee's annual report tabled in state parliament on Wednesday.

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