Jacinta Allan warned about rising cost of Commonwealth Games months before it was cancelled

In question time on Wednesday, Victorian premier Jacinta Allan confirmed lawyers were hired by the government before the event’s cancellation. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

The organising committee tasked with delivering the 2026 Commonwealth Games has told a parliamentary inquiry that Jacinta Allan was warned about rising cost of running the event three months before it was cancelled by the government.

In its submission to parliament’s upper house inquiry into the canned event, Victoria 2026 reveals it wrote to Jacinta Allan – who was then deputy premier and Commonwealth Games minister – in April to request additional funding.