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As someone pointed out to me on Weds, the Vic Govt money is not new money. It's money that the ARU would have received anyway as part of the agreements to host test matches. It's presumably just being brought forward.
Twiggy's money was all new money!! And that's the real story here - the ARU turned down $70m+ of new money that would have been on top of the Vics' $20 million.
That demonstrates to me that there was no way the ARU was going to keep the Force. Why was that? Did Clarke and co stand to lose out personally if the Force and the Rebels were both kept?