Grand Final Friday: government ignores its own advice about 'costly' new holiday

By Farrah Tomazin
Updated August 23 2015 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
The idea of a Grand Final Friday was derided by some when Labor unveiled it in 2011. Photo: Greg Newington
The idea of a Grand Final Friday was derided by some when Labor unveiled it in 2011. Photo: Greg Newington

Premier Daniel Andrews has pushed ahead with plans to create a new public holiday on the Friday before the AFL grand final despite the government's own high-level advice warning that the economic cost would outweigh the benefits.

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