Hamilton shores up for 14,000-bed Olympic Games athletes village

It is also close to the proposed new Brisbane Olympic Stadium at Albion.

A second 2000-bed Games village is proposed for the Gold Coast, while a 600-bed athletes day village has been put forward for Maroochydore Central on the Sunshine Coast.

The main stadium, proposed for the Albion Park Raceway site, or the 40,000-seat Gabba, which might be redeveloped by 2032, are suggested as possible venues for the opening and closing ceremonies.

Brisbane has 14 sports venues, the Gold Coast has seven and the Sunshine Coast five under consideration as part of the Olympic bid.

The Queensland government has long identified Hamilton Northshore as a Priority Development Area.

The suburb includes 50 hectares of Queensland government-owned riverfront land.

A spokesman for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed the site was “certainly part of the planning”.

“All three levels of government now have to get involved to determine the final solution,” he said.

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Lord mayor Adrian Schrinner said Brisbane’s preferred bid status was “the best opportunity that our city, our region and our state has had in generations”.

“We can’t let this go to waste,” he said.

Cr Schrinner has called on all levels of government to co-ordinate a decade-long investment boom in south-east Queensland, including the new billion-dollar City Deal, as the Olympic bid progressed.

Sunshine Coast MP Ted O’Brien, who is Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s representative on the Olympic bid leadership group with Ms Palaszczuk and Cr Schrinner, said the bid documents should give the public confidence in the “mammoth amount of work” done so far.

“But the detailed planning process has not yet started,” Mr O’Brien said.

“A lot of other options are still under assessment and we will give them a thorough due diligence to get them right.”

Brisbane hosted the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the Gold Coast hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Brisbane also hosted the privately-owned 2001 Goodwill Games run by media magnate Ted Turner, attracting 1300 athletes in 14 sporting competitions.

Athletics was then held at the Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre, then known as ANZ Stadium, with gymnastics at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Olympics have previously been held in Australia at Sydney in 2000 and Melbourne in 1956.