Sunday night’s Commonwealth Games closing ceremony has been deemed a failure by reporters and the general public after event broadcasters focused too much on the entertainment with no vision of the athletes.
Athletes entered the stadium before the television broadcast and were not shown to TV audiences as they stood in darkness and many spectators left the venue less than an hour into the event.
Channel Seven commentators, Johanna Griggs and Basil Zempilas, attacked the ceremony immediately after it finished, saying they were "furious".
Mr Peter Beattie tweeted an apology on Monday morning saying "the speeches were too many and too long. I was part of that and I acknowledge it. Again, we got that wrong”.