Councillors to be briefed on secret Olympic bid details before vote

Brisbane City Council will hold its first extraordinary closed-doors meeting in more than a decade next week to be briefed on confidential details of the 2032 Olympics Games pitch and formally vote to put itself forward as the host city.

The meeting, to be held on Tuesday, March 23, will be the first of its kind since councillors voted on Clem7 tunnel proposals in 2007, lord mayor Adrian Schrinner told reporters on Monday.

Cr Schrinner said a majority of the council would need to vote in favour of putting the city forward as host in the formal submission, to be handed to the International Olympic…