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Mr Evans says council had been constantly asking about the costings and planning around the Commonwealth Games.
Senator White says that had Mr Evans been presented with the same overall cost blowout, he would have also cancelled the Games.
This causes a bit of emotion to boil over on the panel.
Mr Evans: As a councillor, when you get asked how much is this going to cost, I would have loved to have told them how much it was going to cost, but frankly we did not know —
Senator White: Sure, but you didn't ultimately have to make the decsion to stop the Commonwealth Games, did you? Somebody else has made an assessment, and if they've made an assessment that it was going to cost too much, you would have been in exactly the same position previously where —
Senator Henderson: Oh hang on, those costs are contested.
Senator Canavan: Senator Henderson and Senator White, we've done so well today, and we've got 90 seconds left.
Mr Evans is a asked whether the City of Greater Bendigo CEO Craig Niemann was also forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which Mr Evans says he does not know.