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Sportswatch Autumn 2021 What’s Inside From the QSport Office Page 3 QSport welcomes elevation of 2032 Olympics bid to preferred status by IOC Page 4 Minister assures QSport of “continued, close collaboration” Page 6 Artist’s impression of what a rebuild of The Gabba would look like for a 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane Sport Governance Program continues in 2021 Next Gabba rebuild Page 7 New sports-focussed telehealth centre piece of sport tool an answer for improving mental health Page 9 infrastructure for Sport Leaders Mentoring Program gets underway for 2021 Brisbane 2032 Page 10 One of international cricket’s world famous venues and home to AFL’s Brisbane 2020 QSport Board Lions will be transformed if the International Olympic Committee approves returned unopposed in 2021 Brisbane’s bid to host the 2032 Olympics. Page 10 The IOC decision expected in coming months would see a projected $1billion Gabba for the Games rebuild of the iconic Gabba and surrounding precinct in the lead up to 2032 in Page 12 the second major reinvigoration of the venue in forty years. QSport Board moves to gender A five stage redevelopment from 1993 to 2003 saw the venue upgraded from balance a pear shaped, greyhound track ringed ground orchestrated in 1971 by former Page 14 Brisbane Lord Mayor the late Clem Jones and with seating for 14,000 to a proper oval configuration seating 42,000 for AFL and cricket. Football for the A Year In Australian Sport 2000 Olympics and a Wallabies / British Lions rugby international in 2001 when Page 16 then Lang Park was being redeveloped into Suncorp Stadium top a long list of other sporting events in athletics, rugby league and school sport last century. Major sport tech conference for A Gabba rebuild would host the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies the Gold Coast and the athletic events and obviate the need for another new venue with an Page 22 uncertain future. More inside on Pages 12-13. Sportswatch is a quarterly publication of QSport which is an independent collective of State sporting organisations established to enhance the development of sport in Queensland. Sportswatch aims to inform readers and views expressed in Sportswatch are not necessarily those of QSport. No responsibility is accepted by QSport for consequences emanating from actions or failures to act on material within this publication. For contributions, advertisements and enquiries, contact the QSport Office at Sports House, Cnr Castlemaine and Caxton Streets MILTON Q 4064 Telephone 07 3369 8955 Facsimile 07 3369 8977 Email [email protected] www.qsport.org.au powered by: We’re for the blood, sweat and tears, on and off the field Online Apps Paper Robert Craddock, Chief Sportswriter @craddock_cmail OFFICIAL BEER OF QUEENSLAND’S #1 BEER * *IRI Aztec | Volume (litres) | MAT July 2019 2 Sportswatch - Autumn 21 From the QSport Office From the Approximately 12 months ago around Anzac Elite sport, with more self-interest and money Day 2020, Queensland and the rest of the as drivers, gave many the distraction they country was in lockdown in the wake of the needed to get away mentally, emotionally, at arrival of COVID-19. least temporarily from the anxiety and stress COVID-19 caused in a year like no other. Sport, indoor and outdoor, at elite and community participation levels, was shut down, Twelve months on, Australians including at that stage unknown for how long as we and Victorians most affected by lockdowns know other Australians sensed the potential crisis that so far, we have “missed the bullet” that that we and other countries worldwide faced. COVID-19 has been and still is in other parts of the world. History shows, to this day at least, that most Australians got off relatively lighter than others Sport has survived, albeit by necessity in other parts of the world, acknowledging trimmed up, particularly at the top end, while some have not, losing loved ones and jobs and at the other end, the resilience of volunteers a degree of mental health as a result. has again shone through the dark that accompanies any crisis. Sport doesn’t shut down very often. Flood, fire and war are the main reasons when it does but As winter approaches, it’s business now largely we can add pandemic to that trinity of natural as usual for the sporting competition that were and man-made disasters after 2020, not impacted on so heavily last year by COVD-19 forgetting the Spanish flu 100 years or so way thankfully are very largely back up and running, back last century. particularly at all important community level. When flood and fire prevail in our communities, With decisions on State Government funding it’s the SES volunteers we see to the fore with support for QSport and member State sporting police, ambos and the other support services organisations post 30 June just around the to deal with the crisis. corner, the second half of the year, with COVID vaccination stepping up in number for With COVID-19 last year, it was the same but Queenslanders should see us further insulated with front line health workers essential when from the pandemic. the crisis became real for those who picked up the virus. The prospect of a Summer Olympics here just over 11 years away if things go to plan shapes Others, though, also stood up when the crisis as “a light on the hill”, to borrow from the caused shutdown of what sport is and will political, that can deliver not only for sport but always be – a “should have” at least, if not a also in other needed non-sport infrastructure “must have”, for community wellbeing, for that would take longer to arrive. individuals and collectively. If it goes to plan, hats off to the Council of SEQ Those “others” included QSport, its Sport Mayors who kicked the ball into play and the Groups and their member delegates and staff, State and Federal Governments and the IOC with essential work to get community sport who will have come to the party. from shutdown to training to return to play via Industry Plans that have seen us through the PETER CUMMISKEY OAM extent of the crisis that was visited upon sport. Chief Executive Officer Sportswatch - Autumn 21 3 QSport welcomes elevation of 2032 Olympics bid to preferred status by IOC QSport, the Queensland sports collective of over IOC changed its approach to the determination 70 State sporting organisations, has welcomed of successful bids, covering the staging costs of the IOC’s decision to advance Queensland’s the Games themselves and looking to ensure a Brisbane bid to stage the 2032 Olympic Games to more optimal legacy in the city, region, State and the preferred level. country. “The IOC’s decision to concentrate on the “The 1982 Commonwealth Games and the 1988 Brisbane bid vindicates the strategic foresight of World Expo in Brisbane were game changers for the Council of South East Queensland Mayors, Brisbane and a 2032 Olympics will clearly make subsequently supported by the Palaszczuk and Brisbane a more world recognised city and by Morrison led State and Federal Governments extension Queensland a destination for many respectively, to bid for the Games to come around the world into the future”. here in 11 years time” says QSport CEO Peter Cummiskey. “A successful bid will give Queenslanders a goal to strive for with benefits by way of infrastructure The longstanding Queensland sporting that otherwise would be much longer in arriving.” administrator, who served on then Queensland Premier Anna Bligh’s 2018 Gold Coast “Ironically, we can thank the pandemic. It’s what Commonwealth Games Bid Reference Group over it has done to the rest of the world and not a decade ago, said the 2032 Olympics bid was thankfully to Queensland that has emphasised always a “no brainer” for Queensland after the what we here know – this is one of the best places in the world in which to live, work and play”. Explore all the things to see and do in Brisbane. Things to see and do 4 Sportswatch - Autumn 21 Minister for Sport Stirling Hinchliffe addressing the Mullins Lawyers Sport Leaders Luncheon at the Queensland Cricketers Club at the Gabba on 29 April Sportswatch - Autumn 21 5 Minister assures QSport of “continued, close collaboration” State Minister for Sport Stirling Hinchliffe has With tourism industry development moved to maintain and build on the close and innovation also part of his portfolio collaboration between the Government and the responsibilities, he cited the great opportunity for State’s peak body for sport developed during sport and tourism in Queensland going forward, 2020 when joint action by QSport officers and including the 2032 Olympics if awarded to members and the State’s health and sport and Brisbane. recreation agencies ensured a return to play for community sport after the initial shutdown from The Minister announced the Government’s March to July. ActiveKIT Program to support innovation in sport and recreation development in early April with an The Minister met QSport Board members and allocation of $4.34 million. staff at Sports House, Milton on 15 April, thanking the Board and staff for their effort in relation to State level sport and recreation organisations the above in 2020 (see photo below). funded by the State up to 30 June this year are awaiting information on support post 30 June, Confirming the Government’s ten-year Activate! with upcoming discussion on that with QSport Queensland strategy for sport and active confirmed by the Minister. recreation as ongoing, he indicated while some activity had been impacted by the pandemic,there would be no big change in policy direction.

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