Victoria Sets up Inquiry Into Cancelled 2026 Comm Games

Fireworks erupt over the Alexander Stadium during the closing ceremony for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, central England, on August 8, 2022. Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry will examine the cancellation of the 2026 Commonwealth Games despite a last-ditch government effort to divert it.

A motion to set up a nine-member select committee into the saga passed the upper house 25 votes to 15 on Wednesday morning.