When and where will Australia next host Olympics?

I dunno...

No way Perth isn't the way to go Brisbane defiantly is. I come to Australia year round and visit Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne. Brisbane is by far most interesting, fun, booming economy and with the added areas like the sunshine coast gold coast it would be perfect.

Perth is the way to go! I've got mates from over east and they say that Perth is in need of a major event! It will bring wonder to this wonderfull city. The city is changing day by day. And is projected that Perth and Western Australia is the Most fastest growing State in the country, plus it trainsport system has been hail as the best in Aus! It's time for Perth to Shine and have its fair go, and not be left in the dark by Sydney and Melbourne!

I think Australia should hold it in 2020

Interesting question. The big question mark is over when. The AOC/governments seem to think we’ll be ready to start throwing our hat into the ring by 2028. But when you look at other places that have expressed an interest in hosting it we could be waiting for another home Olympics for a while longer. North America will host at least one before we get another shot. They’ll probably get in another 2 or 3 before us if you go on history. With New York, Chicago and Phillie in the States and Toronto in Canada all potential candidates, they have some great cities that have never hosted a games to take it to. Europe will have had 2 games’ by the time the next vote roles around and I’d suggest they’ll have at least one more games before we get a go. Again the list of potential candidates is impressive and suggests there could be more than just one- Paris, Moscow, Rome, Madrid and possibly a German city??? In Asia, Japan with Tokyo and Osaka have seemed pretty keen on carrying the flame and the emerging areas such as the Middle East and India (despite the Dehli shambles) have both got cases for hosting an Olympics before us. As has been discussed Durban or Cape Town seem almost destined to host Africa’s first Olympic Games before too long as well. All of this considered when looking into the crystal ball, the future could look a little something like this – 20’- Cape Town. 24’- Chicago. 28’- Paris. 32’- Tokyo. 36’- Toronto. 40’- Dubai. 44’ – Moscow. 48’ – then may be us??? 48 years after out last Olympics. Not beggars belief considering it was 44 between our first and second. Obviously we’ll have to start registering our interest well before that but 2028 may be a little premature. Where it should go within Australia is a little more clear in my opinion. Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are really the only cities that currently have the capacity to host an Olympic games. I understand Perth is booming and fast becoming an international city in its own right, but it’s still too small and more importantly isolated. 1.8 million in the city and a state population that’s only slightly larger than greater Brisbane. If it was located on the east coast and in closer proximity to some of the bigger centers then its reasonably small population could be overlooked. Who knows it could (probably will) be a different storey by the time we get another Olympics but currently Perth is too small and isolated. Being the last city to host the Olympics, Sydney should be well down the list and I think Melbourne shouldn’t be considered until Brisbane (a city that has put together a serious bid before) has hosted a games. SEQ’s boom is as great if not greater than what’s happening in the west. And with the regions exposure to the mining areas in Queensland there's no signs of it slowing down. Brisbane has emerged from its oversized country town tag to be one of the Pacific’s most beautiful and modern cities. The infrastructure projects going on there are incredible. The city has transformed itself over the last decade and in a decade from now the place will again look like another city all together. Adding weight to the argument of a Brisbane games are the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast to the south and north respectively. They’ve also emerged from being sleepy coastal towns to bustling metropolises by the sea. Each being one hour by car from Brisbane, they could provide great backdrops to a number of venues. The region is ready for something like the Olympics and being thrust on the world stage would do wonders for the place. Sydney and Melbourne already seem to have enough street cred with a global profile stretching around the world. Brissie 2048 bring it on!!

Canberra will never host an Olympic games. The town is too small. To build all the infrastructure to cater for the influx of tourists, athletes and businessman would be near impossible. Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane are the only regions in Australia that have the primary infrastructure in place to bid for the games. On another note, the AOC have already targeted 2028 as a games that they will bid for. With Brisbane already putting their hat in the ring to be the bid city. @Paul good point brought up about Montreal. They were still paying off their debts from hosting the 1976 Games up until 2005. Almost 30 years later! Due to this farce, the IOC has already put restrictions on bidding cities to prove that the cost of the games won't almost destroy the economy of the city like it almost did with Montreal. Madrid, Rome, Tokyo, Durban, Paris and the USA (either Chicago, LA, NYC, Philadelphia) are all due to (or are bidding for 2020 and if lose will more than likely bid in 24 or 28) be bidding for those games also so Australia are really up against it! In saying that, I'd love to see the Games back downunder!

Interesting to see how much the Asia soccer cup 2015 costs the government or should i really say the tax payers, and how much the tournament will make in advertising$$$, and tv ratings numbers $$$, and increased investment form Asia and the World $$$$ after the event. We have actually hosted a few big soccer torunamants World youth cup 1993 Olympic soccer AFC cup matches

Fake ex-AFL fan has hit the nail on the head. Sydney 2000 was good fun, but we've climbed that mountain and we're still paying it off. Cost blowouts like the Grand Prix in Melbourne, and excessive security requirements like APEC in the dying days of the Howard government have turned public opinion against hosting major events. More disruption than it's worth, and the economic benefits that are promised never materialise. That, along with the effect on the AFL and NRL, is why the FFA's bid for the 2022 World Cup didn't get any traction in the community. Unfortunately bidding for these sort of events is a giant p###ing contest where an ever-increasing amount of money is spent on grovelling to dubious characters. We're better off out of it.

i hope not here, apart from football stadiums the new venues for what the minor sports would barely get used post olympics and i'd rather see new infrastructure for sports we actually watch. If you look at england, the only people who actually want to retain the athletics track in Englands new olympic stadium, is the athletics community in the hope that they 'might' get the 2015 athletics championships (unlikely now that another dubious qatar bid is involved) while the rest of the population would rather see the stadium actually used regularly as a proper football stadium.

I think Canberra , national capital, good climate for summer olympics not to hot in spring september, but not overly cold, just right temperatures september in Canberra. And AIS upgrade fo facilities would get actually used after the Olympics, for high performance training. And good for national capital of a coutnry to host, and would do wonder's for Canberra's profile around the World , business investors $$$$.

1996 case-in-point. Melbourne only had to build two more stadia and make minor transport improvements, but instead the Coca-Cola bid was chosen. Olympics are a waste of money and time these days. Only the professionals have any chance of winning, making a mockery of the amateur-roots that founded the basis of the modern Olympics. The TV coverage we get here in Australia would make a caveman think the Olympics were a swimming carnival - what's so great about someone splashing across, or into, a puddle??? The last thing Australia needs is more white elephant obsolete stadia like the Sydney Olympic Park complex, which is so under-utilised it's not funny (compared to the MCG and Sydney Football Stadium which are used year-round). I also visited Montreal a few years ago. Walking across the concourse adjacent to the stadium, I noticed roots were shooting up between the pavings. No notices of upcoming events were posted, the whole thing looked abandoned - perhaps it would have been so were it not for the Bio-Dome across the concourse. It looked rather sad. I couldn't help but feel this is where ANZ Stadium's future lies.

Perth would be perfect, at 1.8 million people it could cater easily. Per head of population Gold Coast is fastest growth at 20,000 per year, Perth 55,000 this year. Perth needs new stadiums and with the large immigrant population, most events would be well supported. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane have all had their day in the sun, Gold Coast will host the Commonwealth games. Time to push our 4th biggest city, time zones to Asia are crucial to this event, it would be the selling point. -- Comment left via The Roar's iPhone app. Download The Roar's iPhone App in the App Store here.

Strongly agree, Swampy, re the World's biggest sporting event. But the Olympics tournament is big. Perth is a lovely city with lovely people in it -- even looked at from afar, here in NQ! I'd love to see some countries start to present bids which are cheaper to present, saving the big money for the actual event if the bid is successful. Surely the facts DO count, even if not presented in a glossy manner?

Australia has never hosted the World's biggest sporting event for a start. And fake's post pretty much describes the reason Melbourne or Sydney could never host it again. Perth on the other hand... -- Comment left via The Roar's iPhone app. Download The Roar's iPhone App in the App Store here.

Don't bother, complete waste of time with dodgy so called 'economic benefits' including the wonderful privilege of increased government debt in return for a bunch of sporting white elephants. Recent hosting decisions by the IOC and FIFA have also shown that a city like Melbourne bidding on the basis of 'existing infrastructure' would miss the point completely - these bodies are looking for green-field scenarios where their corporate mates can get their hands on big juicy construction contracts, not some boring, trivial facelift of the MCG. Let's forget this nonsensical idea straight away and let some other suckers put this on their national credit card while we enjoy watching on the telly. Preferably in a friendly time zone.