00:02On the day the Commonwealth Games should have opened in Victoria, the only point scoring
00:07was being done by politicians.
00:09But while shots are being fired on Spring Street, Morwell's new world class shooting
00:14range is silent.
00:15We're a low profile sport and we're really looking forward to highlighting and profiling
00:20our sport.
00:20The range was one of more than 20 legacy projects totalling $2 billion that were promised in
00:26the wake of the cancellation.
00:27It's just one of three of the promised sporting facilities completed, along with the Shepparton
00:33BMX track and Cresswick mountain bike trails.
00:36One project, a sports complex on the outskirts of Ballarat, is yet to begin, while 13 other
00:42projects announced when the games were scrapped are in various stages of construction.
00:47The Bendigo Bowls Club's upgrade is due for completion in October, a welcome silver lining.
00:52It was a bit devastating for us all about the cancellation.
00:56But then once we realised what the upshot of that was going to be for us, I think we started
01:02to become quite satisfied.
01:04But the same can't be said for the housing developments planned on the four athletes' village sites.
01:09Initial earthworks are underway in Bendigo and Morwell.
01:12But in Ballarat and Geelong, there's no sign of work beginning.
01:17Had all gone to plan, this empty paddock should have been an athletes' village, housing 2,500
01:22of the Commonwealth's greatest sports people.
01:25After the games, it was to be converted to social and low-cost housing as part of Victoria's
01:30big build.
01:31The need for the dwellings remains as desperate as ever.
01:33But, as yet, the site remains untouched.
01:37That's still a bit of an opaque project.
01:40We're not quite sure when that will start coming out of the ground.
01:43But the state government is still committed to all those.
01:45A finish line that won't be crossed until long after July's games are staged in Glasgow,
01:50propped up by $590 million from Victorian taxpayers.
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