Hansard Questions on Notice - Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories Question 1

Mr SNOWDON: What interaction is there between the AIS and the University of Canberra? What cooperation exists between the two organisations? What research takes place with the AIS on behalf of the University of Canberra or vice versa? Mr SNOWDON: Would you mind providing us, on notice, with a list of all those things you participate with them in? Mrs Palmer: Broadly with universities or just the University of Canberra? Mr SNOWDON: All of them would be great, so we understand what that interaction is. ANSWER:

• The Australia Institute of Sport (AIS) has partnerships in place with a total of 19 Universities. • 15 of these partnerships involve supporting PhD Scholarship placements whereby students undertake research projects focusing on an identified high performance sport topic as agreed with the AIS, the University and a respective sport. The student is primarily based at the AIS Canberra campus accessing site facilities, engaging with AIS expertise and interacting with the sport involved in the research project. • The nature of some partnerships, such as with the University of Canberra, also involve joint appointments of staff to undertake a schedule of work with mutual benefits for the AIS and the university. • The AIS collaborates with universities such as LaTrobe in the field of computer/ machine vision; and University of Canberra in the field of statistics and data analytics. • In some cases the partnership also involves the AIS accessing specialised facilities such as the Environmental Chamber (University of Canberra) and the Wind Tunnel (Monash University).

Question 2 ACTING CHAIR: Going back to those visitor numbers: you mentioned 520,000 per year, and that was a one per cent increase from last year. How do you calculate those numbers? ACTING CHAIR: Can we get a breakdown of the composition of the 520,000? ACTING CHAIR: You said it increased last year. Can I get a trend about where those numbers have been over the last five or 10 years?

ANSWER: The breakdown of visits to the AIS campus over the last 6 years (period over which this data has been collected in this form) is as follows:

Description 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13

Events & Camps 105,000 96,000 113,000 110,000 117,000 119,000

AIS Tours 125,000 113,000 114,000 115,000 108,000 115,000

Residences – Commercial 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000

Residences – National Sporting 9,000 9,000 9,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 Organisations

Residences - School groups 8,000 8,000 7,000 7,000 6,000 7,000

Swim School 140,000 137,000 128,000 138,000 157,000 147,000

Fitness Centre 74,000 71,000 66,000 60,000 69,000 66,000

Public swimming 55,000 77,000 75,000 72,000 77,000 68,000

Total 521,000 516,000 517,000 515,000 547,000 535,000

Notes:

• These figures generally represent visits to the campus as opposed to total visitors. For example one individual visitor may attend multiple events on multiple occasions. • Events & Camps relates to approximate number of visitors to the site attending concerts, functions, sporting and other events not otherwise captured in the following categories; • AIS Tours relates to participants undertaking a tour of the AIS, including school groups and general members of the public; • Residences – Commercial reflects the number of guests who have stayed on site from the general commercial sector including sporting clubs, associations and community groups; • Residences – National Sporting Organisations reflects the number guests who have stayed on site from National and State Sporting organisations including athletes, coaches, officiators and administrators; • Residences - School groups reflects the number of children and teachers from school groups who have stayed on site; • Swim School relates to the number of individuals participating in swim school classes each term, noting that a single person enrolled in the Swim School class visits ten times during a school term; • Fitness Centre includes: o member and casual visits to the gym, attendance at group fitness classes and participation in personal training sessions; o day registrations in the School Holiday Programs noting that a single person enrolled in the School Holiday Program generally visits five to ten times during a school holiday period; o participation in the Sports Experience Program; • Public swimming reflects the number of visits to the Aquatic & Fitness Centre for casual swimming.

Question 3

ACTING CHAIR: Speaking of trends, you said there's 50 athletes currently living there now. How does that compare, again, over the last five or 10 years? Has it gone up? Has it stayed the same? What sort of athletes are they, and, again, has that changed over the last decade?

ANSWER: The number of athletes staying on site on a long term basis over the last 5 years is as follows:

No. Long Stay Year Main sports Reason for any significant change from previous year Athletes

2018 52 Basketball Addition of full NBA Men’s program

2017 40 Basketball Addition of partial NBA Men’s program from mid-year

Drop off in Rowing, Swimming, to offsite/share 2016 36 Basketball arrangements

Basketball, 2015 48 Gymnastics, Rowing

Basketball, 2014 47 Rowing, Swimming

Please note:

• Approximately 9,000 athletes, coaches, officiators and administrators from the High Performance Sport Sector stay on site in any given year during short stay camps; • Even when the AIS hosted scholarship programs, the number of long stay athletes averaged only 100 to 110.

Question 4

Mrs Palmer: Five years ago, the AIS changed its programming and moved out of scholarships, and at that point the residential programs changed, so the number of athletes staying on campus full time dropped significantly. That's been taken up by the camp based program. Many sports come for a number of days. It might be a pre-embarkation camp to an international competition somewhere. Mr SNOWDON: Has there been any evaluation of the impact of that change in policy on the outcomes for the athletes? Mrs Palmer: Yes. We monitor the performance of athletes on an annual basis. We can provide you the data on that. But even in the early days, the majority of medals won by Australia were won by athletes who were not resident at the AIS. Mr SNOWDON: I'm not particularly interested in medals. I'm more interested in what happens at the institute in terms of what happened during the period when scholarship holders existed in terms of their performance and in terms of a whole load of measurements. Mrs Palmer: We measure performance by the outcomes of athletes— Mr SNOWDON: Winning isn't every bloody thing! Mrs Palmer: No, and that's certainly a premise of ours—the most important thing. Medals are actually important because we as a country invest significantly in high performance, but more important to us is the values Mr SNOWDON: I'd be interested in what metrics you used for evaluation of performance, aside from medals. Particularly, is there a measurable difference in those metrics from the full-time scholarship holders to what now currently exists?

ANSWER:

In accordance with the recently developed High Performance Strategic Plan, high performance success is to be measured across three areas: • Podium success – measured by medals, the number of medallists and the breadth of sports medalling • Pride and Inspiration – measured by the level of positive sentiment about the system including sporting results, athlete role models and athlete engagement with the community • World Leading System – measured by the key system drivers being assessed as providing effective support for current and future cycle success and comparing favourably to top countries systems.

These metrics have been developed to reflect a national focus and the changed high performance landscape post AIS scholarship programs.

Prior to the cessation of AIS scholarship programs, the AIS had the following metrics in place • Australian medals at benchmark events won by athletes supported by the AIS, state and academy institutes and academies of sport, the Australian Paralympic Committee and relevant universities. • NSOs achieving the key performance indicators listed in their high performance plans. • Level of impact from applied research and development projects. • The impact of ASC initiatives to improve NSO capability to delivery their high performance programs • Improvement in the sharing of knowledge and improved practices in the delivery of high performance programs. • The impact that direct financial support on athletes’ ability to prepare for competition

Whilst there has been a decline in medal outcomes since 2000, for a variety of reasons, the majority of that decline occurred under the old scholarship system that existed until 2013.

Question 5

ACTING CHAIR: As I said, I would just like to get an idea about how that has changed over time and also what disciplines and sports they're in. You've got accommodation out there. How many beds have you got. Mrs Palmer: Six hundred beds. ACTING CHAIR: If we could get an idea of the average occupancy and, of course, the peaks and troughs over the year and over the last decade as well, that would be helpful, because it's a lot of space that's not being used.

ANSWER: The following graph highlights the occupancy rate at the AIS Residences over the ten year period 2009 to 2018. Whilst there may only be 50 athletes staying on site on a long stay arrangement, approximately 9,000 athletes, coaches, officiators and administrators from the High Performance Sport Sector stay on site in any given year. Whilst the average occupancy in 2018 has been 35%, this rate should be interpreted with the following details:

• the average is calculated across the whole of the calendar year, including public holidays and Christmas season which are traditionally very low occupancy periods. As you can see from the below there are many times when occupancy is at 70% or above. • the demand for accommodation is driven by availability of athletes (particularly school aged athletes), timing of benchmark sporting events (eg preparing for the Olympics / Paralympics, Commonwealth Games, World Cup, National trials etc), travel arrangements, peak school group travel period (school terms 2 and 3); • 100% occupancy is very difficult to achieve as allocation of beds takes into consideration segregating groups based on training schedules, adult supervision, gender and age. In order to keep gender and age different group’s separated some beds deliberately remain unoccupied.

The AIS Residences occupancy over the ten year period can also be summarised as follows: Average occupancy by calendar year from 2009 to 2018

Average occupancy by month of the year over the ten year period from 2009 to 2018

Average occupancy by day of the week over the ten year period from 2009 to 2018

The AIS Residences occupancy by month for 2018 was as follows:

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SPORT AUSTRALIA

Type of Question: Written Question

Question:

Which sports currently use the AIS campus, and what purposes do they use it for?

Answer:

The following National and State Sporting Organisations currently use or are expected to use the AIS campus in 2019:

Sport Purpose ACT Athletics (incl veterans / masters) Sporting events Australia Inc Identification, training and development camps Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Australian Canoeing Inc Identification, training and development camps Australian Fencing Identification, training and development camps Sporting events Australian Karate Federation Identification, training and development camps Australian Paralympic Committee Identification, training and development camps Australian Rugby Union Identification, training and development camps Sporting events Rugby WA, Tasmanian Rugby Union, Identification, training and development camps Victorian Rugby Union Sporting events Australian Taekwondo Identification, training and development camps Sporting events Australian Water Polo Inc Identification, training and development camps Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events ACT Water Polo, NSW Water Polo, Identification, training and development camps Tasmanian Water Polo Sporting events Australian Weightlifting Federation Inc Identification, training and development camps Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events 1

Basketball ACT, Basketball Northern Sporting events Territory, Basketball NSW, Basketball Identification, training and development camps Queensland, Basketball South Australia, Basketball Victoria, Basketball WA Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Brumbies Rugby Identification, training and development camps Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Capital Football Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Country Junior Rugby Union of NSW Identification, training and development camps Identification, training and development camps Equestrian Federation of Australia Coaching and officiating camps Football Federation Australia Identification, training and development camps Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Capital Football, Football NSW, Sporting events Northern NSW Football, Football West, Identification, training and development camps Football Queensland, Football Victoria Limited Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Identification, training and development camps International Federation – Sporting Events Oceania Judo Federation of Australia Inc Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Modern Pentathlon Australia Identification, training and development camps National Association of Speedway Identification, training and development camps Racing Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Netball ACT, Netball Tasmania Identification, training and development camps Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Netball New Zealand Identification, training and development camps Northern Territory Institute of Sport Identification, training and development camps NSW Wheelchair Sports Identification, training and development camps Sporting events NSWIS Identification, training and development camps Coaching and officiating camps Olympic Winter Institute of Australia Identification, training and development camps

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Orienteering Australia Identification, training and development camps Polocrosse Association of Australia Inc Identification, training and development camps Inc Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Rugby WA Identification, training and development camps Shooting Australia Identification, training and development camps Ski and Snowboard Australia Identification, training and development camps Identification, training and development camps Softball State and Territory Identification, training and development camps Associations South Australian Rugby Union Sporting events Squash Australia LTD Identification, training and development camps Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Swimming NT Inc Identification, training and development camps Synchronised Swimming Australia Inc Identification, training and development camps Table Identification, training and development camps Tennis Australia Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Tenpin Bowling Australia Identification, training and development camps Australia Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Victorian Institute of Sport Identification, training and development camps Volleyball Australia Identification, training and development camps Centre of Excellence program Coaching and officiating camps Sporting events Volleyball ACT, Volleyball Queensland Identification, training and development camps Sporting events Australia Identification, training and development camps Various local and interstate clubs Local & national competitions Regular training Schools and school sport associations Athletics carnivals Swimming carnivals Water polo tournaments

Other various local and interstate clubs currently utilise the AIS including: • Basketball clubs • Football & futsal clubs • Gymnastics clubs • Netball clubs • Swimming clubs • Volleyball clubs • Water Polo clubs

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Individual schools and regional school sport associations are expected to use the AIS in 2019 for the following: • Athletics school and regional carnivals • Swimming school and regional carnivals • Water polo local, regional and inter-state tournaments

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Type of Question: Written Question

Question:

Which sports have made temporary use of the AIS campus over the last 12 months and which sports have full time residential programs?

Answer:

The National and State Sporting Organisations that have made temporary use of the AIS campus over the 12 month period 1 January to 31 December 2018 are: • ACT Athletics (incl veterans / masters) • Inc • Athletics Australia • Australian Canoeing Inc • Australian Fencing • Australian Karate Federation • Australian Paralympic Committee • Australian Rugby Union • Australian Taekwondo • Australian Water Polo Inc • Australian Weightlifting Federation Inc • Basketball Australia • Basketball Queensland • Boxing Australia • Brumbies Rugby • Capital Football • Country Junior Rugby Union of NSW • Cricket Australia • Equestrian Federation of Australia • Football Federation Australia & States • Gymnastics Australia Limited • Hockey Australia • Judo Federation of Australia Inc • Modern Pentathlon Australia • National Association of Speedway Racing • Netball Australia • Netball New Zealand • Northern NSW Football • Northern Territory Institute of Sport • NSW Gymnastics • NSW Wheelchair Sports • NSWIS • Olympic Winter Institute of Australia • • Polocrosse Association of Australia Inc • Rowing Australia Inc • Rugby WA • Shooting Australia • Ski and Snowboard Australia • Softball Australia • South Australian Rugby Union • Squash Australia LTD • Swimming Australia • Swimming NT Inc • Synchronised Swimming Australia Inc • • Tasmanian Rugby Union • Tennis Australia • Tenpin Bowling Australia • • Victorian Institute of Sport • Victorian Rugby Union • Volleyball Australia • Volleyball Queensland •

Other various local and interstate clubs have utilised the AIS over the 12 month period 1 January to 31 December 2018 including: • Basketball clubs • Football & futsal clubs • Gymnastics clubs • Netball clubs • Swimming clubs • Volleyball clubs • Water Polo clubs

Individual schools and regional school sport associations have also utilised the AIS over the 12 month period 1 January to 31 December 2018 for the following: • Athletics school and regional carnivals • Swimming school and regional carnivals • Water polo local, regional and inter-state tournaments

The following sports currently have a full time residential program: • Athletics, Canberra High Performance Program • Basketball, National Development Program • Boxing, National High Performance Program • Gymnastics, Men’s Training Centre • Volleyball, Men’s and Women’s National Training Centre • Rowing, Men’s National Training Centre • Swimming, National Training Centre with Paralympic athletes The AIS also hosted a number of international athletes for training camps or attendance at sporting events over the 12 month period 1 January to 31 December 2018, particularly in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games, including: • Canada and Japan Athletics; • Russia Rugby 7s; • Oceania Taekwondo; • Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Ireland, Wales, New Zealand and India Boxing; • New Zealand Cycling; • National Basketball Association (NBA) Global Academy • Fiji Rugby Union; and • Guernsey, England and New Zealand Fencing.

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Type of Question: Written Question

Question:

Please provide the following information: a) How many staff are currently engaged by the ASC? Please group this by job roles. b) How many ASC staff are ordinarily resident in Canberra? How many ASC staff are ordinarily resident overseas? c) How many ASC staff within each job role are ordinarily resident overseas? d) Please provide a year by year count of Senior Executive staff employed by the ASC over the past 10 years. Answer:

a) As at 14 December 2018, Sport Australia (known legally as the Australian Sports Commission) had an ASL of 426.34, compared to a budget of 491: • 381.83 ongoing and fixed-term employees excluding Board Members; and • 44.51 casual employees.

ASL has been calculated using the paid ASL inclusions and exclusions definition in the Australian Public Service Commission appendix for workforce metrics. Staff roles by Division have been clustered into Major Group under the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). Please see tables below.

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Fixed and Ongoing Employees at 14 December 2018

Organisational Unit ASL AIS Site Strategy 3 Australian Institute of Sport 102.56 CEO 3 Corporate* 133.55 Government Relations** 13.36 Marketing, Customer Insights & Analytics*** 78.09 Sport Business 48.27 Total 381.83 *Including Site Services totaling 53.03 ASL **Including Sport Infrastructure and Strategic Partnerships totaling 9.76 ASL ***Including Site Commercial totaling 39.47 ASL

Casual Employees at 14 December 2018

Organisational Unit ASL Australian Institute of Sport 1.94 Corporate 6.41 Marketing, Customer Insights & Analytics* 35.37 Sport Bus 0.79 Total 44.51 *Including Site Commercial totaling 35.37 ASL

b) At time of reporting a total of ASL of 376.45 (331.94 ongoing and fixed-term and 44.51 casual employees) are ordinarily resident in Canberra. ASC employees ordinarily resident overseas accounted for 4.7 ASL. c) Overseas Employees Australian Institute of Sport 4.7

d)

Senior Executive employees at 31 December each year (by headcount)

Year 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Count 22 17 16 19 17 21 15 15 18 18

The recent increase in SES numbers has been to resource the additional deliverables committed to in the 2018-22 Sport Australia Corporate Plan and Sport 2030 strategy. Figures include employees engaged in the positions of Deputy General Manager, General Manager or in equivalent senior officer positions. 2

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Type of Question: Written Question

Question:

In the hearing you said that of the 600 beds, only 50 were ordinarily occupied with an average occupancy rate of 35%. Can you please identify how that occupancy level has changed over the past decade? a) What is the current cost to a sport of staying in the residential accommodation per bed per night? b) How much was the cost 5 years ago? c) How was accommodation charged and administered five years ago? d) Are there any plans to refurbish the indoor facility? Could it be refurbished as either a full competition venue or as a training institution? How much would this cost?

Answer:

The following graph highlights the occupancy rate at the AIS Residences over the ten year period 2009 to 2018. Whilst there may only be 50 athletes staying on site on a long stay arrangement, approximately 9,000 athletes, coaches, officiators and administrators from the High Performance Sport Sector stay on site in any given year.

Whilst the average occupancy in 2018 has been 35%, this rate should be interpreted with the following details: • the average is calculated across the whole of the calendar year, including public holidays and Christmas season which are traditionally very low occupancy periods; • the demand for accommodation is driven by availability of athletes (particularly school aged athletes), timing of benchmark sporting events (eg preparing for the Olympics / Paralympics, Commonwealth Games, World Cup, National trials etc), travel arrangements, peak school group travel period (school terms 2 and 3) etc; • allocation of beds takes into consideration segregating groups based on training schedules, adult supervision, gender and age, which consequently results in some beds deliberately remaining unoccupied.

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The AIS Residences occupancy over the ten year period can also be summarised as follows:

Average occupancy by calendar year from 2009 to 2018

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Average occupancy by month of the year over the ten period from 2009 to 2018

Average occupancy by day of the week over the ten period from 2009 to 2018

a) The current cost to a sport of staying in the residential accommodation per bed night.

The general cost applicable to National and State Sporting Organisations (NSO) for 2019 is $92 per bed night (including GST). This cost includes: • full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner); and • full access to AIS sporting venues, fields and meeting rooms for daily training environment purposes. From 1 January 2019, a reduced rate of $70 per bed night (including GST) will also be offered for: • all NSO high performance sports where the majority of participants (>50%) are nationally categorised athletes; and

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• targeted NSO Pre-Elite Talent Induction camps. With regards to other sports staying at the AIS (eg clubs, associations, schools), the current cost (including GST) for 2019 is as follows:

Rate Type 2019 Single $125 Twin, Triple $95 Bunk $95 Flats – AIS Athletes Village $130 Pods – AIS Residence of Champions $130

The cost includes full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner). Access to venues, fields, conference facilities or other services is subject to additional charges.

b) The cost for National and State Sporting Organisations (NSO) in 2014 was $88 per bed night (including GST).

With regards to other sports staying at the AIS (eg clubs, associations, schools), the cost in 2014 (including GST) was as follows:

Rate Type 2014 Single $105 Twin, Triple $80 Bunk $80 Flats – AIS Athletes Village $110 Pods – AIS Residence of Champions $120

c) The charging and administration for accommodation five years ago was the same as is now: • All accommodation bookings are coordinated through the Sport Australia Events and Sports Camps team; • All bookings are recorded in the Sport Australia Residential Property Management System and the Event and Booking Management System; • An invoice is issued to the relevant group after conclusion of their stay at the AIS incorporating all accommodation charges as well as hire of facilities and venues (if any) and any other incidental charges (eg additional catering, vehicle hire etc); • Monitoring, receipt and follow up of payment of all charges owing is then managed by the Sport Australia Finance Branch. d) There are no current plans to refurbish the indoor facility. Future uses of facilities on the AIS Campus will be the subject of further due diligence and consideration by Government and it would not be appropriate to comment on what these options may be at this stage.

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