{"id":653281,"date":"2026-05-06T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/653281\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:29:11","slug":"environmental-department-clears-olympic-and-paralympic-games-stadium-proposal-at-brisbanes-victoria-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/653281\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental department clears Olympic and Paralympic Games stadium proposal at Brisbane’s Victoria Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

The proposal for a 63,000-seat stadium at Brisbane’s Victoria Park for the 2032 Olympics and Paralympic Games has been cleared by the federal environmental department.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a decision released on Wednesday, the department declared the proposal to construct and operate the Brisbane Stadium in Victoria Park and the National Aquatic Centre in Spring Hill was “not a controlled action.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The decision is a declaration that the construction of the stadium is unlikely to have a significant impact on protected matters, no matter how the proposal is undertaken.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An artist’s impression of the new Brisbane Stadium at Victoria Park.\u00a0 (Supplied: Queensland Government)<\/p>\n

David Hinchliffe, from advocacy group Save Victoria Park, said the decision by the environmental department was not a surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The environmental thing was just a side issue for us,” he said. “That result was always expected.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Save<\/p>\n

Save Victoria Park is a campaign coordinated by concerned residents who oppose development within Victoria Park, the new home of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. (ABC News: Christopher Gillette)<\/p>\n

He said the group was focusing its efforts on protection under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act.<\/p>\n

He said the campaign had five applications in place under that Act.<\/p>\n

“They are the strongest grounds in which to be able to get protection and to take legal action,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Artists<\/p>\n

An artist impression of proposed National Aquatic Centre at the existing Centenary Pool at Spring Hill, in Brisbane’s inner north. (Supplied: Archipelago)<\/p>\n

Preparatory works to build the 63,000-seat stadium will begin once the land is transferred to the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority (GIICA) on June 1.<\/p>\n

The stadium is slated to cost about $3.6 billion, and forms part of the $7.1 billion infrastructure plan for the 2032 Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The proposal for a 63,000-seat stadium at Brisbane’s Victoria Park for the 2032 Olympics and Paralympic Games has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61879,64,63,277147,102215,38791,10018,15992,85,8824,38790],"class_list":["post-653281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-61879","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-stadium","tag-environment-department","tag-olympic-stadium","tag-olympics","tag-paralympics","tag-sports","tag-stadium","tag-victoria-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}