Eleven Games committee officials were paid $330k a year

afr.com:

The Victorian government spent nearly $11 million on salaries for staff on the organising committee of the Commonwealth Games it axed, including at least $300,000 a year paid to 11 executives.

More than $500,000 a year was paid to Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief executive Jeroen Weimar, who was one of 32 people listed as executives among a staff of 74, the committee’s annual report released on Wednesday shows.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan was the minister responsible for the Games before they were axed. Joe Armao

The salaries were part of more than $21.6 million that Victoria spent on the Games organising committee during the last financial year.

The report was among more than 200 annual reports for various state government departments and agencies tabled in parliament on Wednesday, in a document dump the Liberal opposition claimed sought to obscure critical details from public scrutiny.

Among figures in the reports were some showing the Victorian government spent $4.1 million on consultants for the Games in the last financial year. This included $662,419 to PwC for four separate projects, $990,000 to Boston Consulting Group, $451,960 to Deloitte and $80,000 to KPMG.

The Victorian government spent more than $670 million on consultants from mid-2017 to mid-2022, figures released by the Auditor-General’s Office showed in June, which included nearly $80 million paid to PwC.

The figures add detail to the millions of taxpayer dollars spent on the Games before then-premier Daniel Andrews abruptly cancelled the event in July, citing a blowout in the expected cost from its forecast of $2.6 billion to up to $7 billion.

Opposition Leader John Pesutto slammed the Labor government for the number of annual reports