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As the excitetment of the 2024 Paris Olympics heats up, all eyes remained firmly fixated on the noisy minority of inner-city Brisbane yuppies who have made the preparation for our own games far more difficult than it need to be.
This comes months after the NIMBY anti-Olympics movement stamped their feet right through a local council election that nearly delivered a Greens mayor.
The term NIMBY is an acronym for Not In My Backyard, and refers to a person who objects to the siting of something perceived as unpleasant in the area where they live, especially while raising no such objections to similar developments elsewhere.
In the case of the embattled Brisbane Olympics development, the NIMBYs are local homeowners who are worried about the noisy construction works that will take place over the next decade, as the third largest city in Australia spruces itself up for a global audience of billions.
Earlier this year, the Queensland Government were forced to reasses their initial plans to rebuild the Gabba area on Brisbane’s inner-south, instead deciding that the rugby league stadium at Lang Park will now host the Games’ opening ceremony and the comically suburban Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre (QSAC) to be used for athletics.
With the games now looking like they’ll be hosted at completely decentralised locations at different ends of the 15,826 km² city, there are still no confirmation if there will be any possible upgrades to the current outer-metropolitan facilities that have been settled upon.
And as the Olympic spirit begins infecting Australians right across the country, the nation growing self-conscious about whether or not it is really appropriate for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic’s 100 metre sprint to take place in a stadium that usually hosts primary school athletic carnivals.
However, one South Brisbane NIMBY, Stew Pidyuppie (47), says he’ll be holding strong against backpedalling from the Olympics committee.
“So there alternative plans aren’t working out? huh?” says Stew.
“Not my problem. This is a proud, light industrial community. If I’d known that The Gabba would become a sporting precinct, I wouldn’t have spent 2 million on a townhouse right next to the cricket stadium”
“I will fight every day to protect the car dealerships, Chemist Warehouses and Barbecue Galore outlets that make up this thriving local community”
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