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The Australian city and surrounding South-East Queensland region were approved as the Games hosts at an International Olympic Committee session in Tokyo on Wednesday.
It will be Brisbane’s first Games, although Australia has previously hosted two: Melbourne 1956 and Sydney 2000.
More to follow.