The Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport is seeking members for a new Legacy Committee to plan how the State is to continue to benefit from the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the years after they take place.
Premier and Minister for the Olympics, Annastacia Palaszczuk said while other groups concentrated on the decade of preparation for the Games, the Legacy Committee would concentrate on the decades of celebration that followed.
“Our focus has never been on a few weeks of competition,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
“It must be on the decades’ worth of investment that will set Queensland up for the next 20 years,” she said.
“The Committee will have 12 members, including a Chair and Deputy Chair, and all Queenslanders over the age of 18 are encouraged to apply.”
Ms Palaszczuk said a special Youth Adviser, aged 16, would also be appointed and four members of the Committee must live in regional Queensland.
“The Legacy Committee will naturally have its focus on Queensland,” she said.
“One idea put to me recently is that there should be a Queensland Pavilion as part of our Olympic venues to tell visitors the story of our State.
“This is about what happens the week, the month and the year after the Games.
“How will what we do now shape our future?
“Those are the exciting questions this Committee will answer.”
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