Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Deane ya bude gasar Olympics ta 2000 ta lokacin rani, yana ba da ɗan gajeren jawabi a gaban taron mutane 110,000 a filin wasan Olympics na Sydney. Firayim Minista John Howard ya fara shirin bude wasannin da kansa, tare da yarjejeniyar kwamitin shirya da kwamitin Olympic na kasa da kasa (IOC). Koyaya, a watan Nuwamba 1999 ya canza tunaninsa kuma ya shawarci IOC cewa Deane zai buɗe wasannin. Howard ya ce wannan ya faru ne saboda "damuwa cewa bude wasannin Olympics na zai zama batun siyasa na jam'iyya [...] Ina tsammanin a cikin dogon lokaci zai fi kyau ga wasannin Olympics don Gwamna Janar ya buɗe su saboda za mu cire wannan yanki na siyasa mai rikitarwa. " 'Yan jam'iyyar adawa ta Labor sun yi kira da a nemi Sarauniya ta yi wannan girmamawa, suna mai cewa munafunci ne ga Howard ya goyi bayan ci gaba da mulkin mallaka a zaben raba gardama na shekarar 1999
amma kada ku kira Sarauniya ta wakilci Ostiraliya.