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Olympic organizers from Australia said Wednesday they have safeguards in place to stop the 2032 Brisbane Games ever joining Paris, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro under investigation for financial wrongdoing.

The man who recorded Mick Jagger, gave the world a winking kangaroo in 1982 and put pink submarines in the Brisbane River for World Expo has another Olympics on his mind.

The Palaszczuk government is adamant any extra costs for the $7 billion bill for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games would be split with the Commonwealth.

Brisbane’s Olympic Games is a decade away. However, it took a significant step forward this week.

The Australian Financial Review: Photos of the Week, December 16, 2022

Former CEO of Deloitte Asia Pacific, Cindy Hook has been appointed as CEO of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The climate crisis is disproportionately impacting those who are already economically and socially marginalized, particularly in Asia. Half of the population in Asia, where I am based, live in low-lying coastal areas, making them particularly vulnerable to storms and inundation. This amounts to 2.4 billion people in a region where43,000 people a year already die in storms, floods and landslides. The United Nations has also estimated that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women – s...