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2018/2019 Annual Report Annual Report | 2018 - 2019 Contents • Sport Australia Report • President’s Report • CEO Report • Finance Report • Member Organisation Reports REPORT Sport Australia John Wylie AM - Chair Message from Sport Australia Sport and physical activity has enormous influence on our nation’s health, education, social, economic and diplomatic outcomes. It’s why Sport Australia and the AIS remain steadfast in our vision: to make Australia the world’s most active There is no success without integrity. We continue to sporting nation, known for its integrity, sporting success encourage environments that are inclusive and and world-leading sports industry. welcoming. Increasing diversity in our industry is critical and we want to make sport the benchmark for a more Australia’s commitment, outlined in the Australian equitable society. Government’s national sport plan, Sport 2030, is to reduce physical inactivity by 15 per cent. It’s a huge All this work is emphasised by our national behaviour challenge Sport Australia enthusiastically accepts. change campaign, Move It AUS. Our call to action is to ‘Find Your 30’ minutes of physical activity every day, and We are making significant progress and Sport Australia’s enjoy the benefits. programs are benefitting sport, as well as broader community health and wellbeing, including tackling We are continuing to build the capability of the sports issues such as obesity. Our partnerships with National industry, addressing governance reform to bring out the Sporting Organisations (NSOs) remain fundamental, but very best in our sporting organisations. The One we are also engaging more than ever with other networks Management project looks at helping sports align their to grow our sporting industry. Collaboration with physical strategy, workforce and financial management. activity providers, health, education and various levels of Government can deliver more for sport and all The AIS, in partnership with the National Institute Australians. Network and National Sporting Organisations, is aligning Australia’s high performance sport strategy too. The This was highlighted in 2018-19 when Sport Australia, on National High Performance Sport Strategy 2024 signals behalf of the Australian Government, delivered the first time all Federal and State/Territory sports $150million in new participation programs. The agencies have signed up to a joint high performance $100million Community Sport Infrastructure grants strategy. program is enhancing hundreds of grassroots facilities across Australia. The $28.9million Participation grants In November 2018, the AIS announced an updated program is encouraging innovative programs that help investment model for high performance sport and break the down barriers to physical activity. The new through this improved framework, Olympic, Paralympic $22.9million Better Ageing grants program is helping and Commonwealth Games sports will benefit from a senior Australians 65 and older to get more active and longer term approach to funding. Instead of annual socially connected. grants to sport, for the first time the AIS is providing longer-term funding commitments to give sports more Our national Sporting Schools program remains a key stability and certainty to plan ahead. platform to address childhood inactivity and drive generational change. We have funded 7300 schools and recorded more than 5.2million attendances since its All of this work is important with the 2020 Tokyo launch in mid-2015. We continue to look at ways to Olympics and Paralympics drawing near, and the 2022 maximise the impact of Sporting Schools and link it with Beijing Winter Games and Paris 2024 beyond that. our work in physical literacy. By teaching our children to run, throw, jump or kick, we put them on the path to better lives. Enhancing athlete pathways and athlete wellbeing are primary areas of focus for the AIS, and are keys to creating long-term sustainable success. We have embedded 20 Athlete Wellbeing Managers across National Sporting Organisations, and, working closely with the AIS Wellbeing and Engagement team, are delivering key programs and support from mental health programs, through to career guidance and connection to Australians at the community level. The AIS is also leading collaborative sports research, applied technology and innovation initiatives including the Gold Medal Ready program, a unique partnership with the Australian Army to help athletes perform under pressure. From backyards to benchmark international events, we believe unquestionably in the power of sport and physical activity to reflect the very best in our culture and to be a powerful vehicle for change. Thank you for all you do for Australian sport and best wishes for the year ahead. REPORT Sport Inclusion Australia President It is my absolute pleasure to be presenting my first annual report for such an amazing Organisation. The first twelve months as President has flown!! What a busy year we have had with so many exciting projects undertaken. I would like to thank Wayne Bird who has led the organisation as President for the past 7 years. Wayne has remained on our Board, his support in the transition and ongoing business has been amazing. Without a doubt the biggest challenge during 2019 was Alison Scott as Head coach and Jay Schuback as Team the INAS Global Games held in Brisbane last October. manager. While this fell outside the reporting year, it is important to highlight the immense organisation in the lead up and Not long after returning from Paris, Archie Graham was delivery of the Games - with over 1,000 athletes from 48 awarded Tennis Australia’s Most Outstanding player with countries competing in 10 different sports across 7 days, a disability award at the Newcombe Awards night. This this amazing event captured the hearts of everyone was the second year in a row that Archie has been involved and provided a wonderful opportunity for our recognised. outstanding athletes from around the world to shine and has built a strong platform for Sport Inclusion Australia in this next financial year. The positive influence Sport Inclusion Australia has had in Oceania and Asian regions has meant that for the first time New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mongolia and Singapore all became involved with INAS. I was very proud to be involved both as President of Sport Inclusion Australia and as a Director of the Global Games Sports Company Board and have many wonderful lasting memories. A sincere thank you to the Australian Government, QLD Government, Brisbane City Council and sponsors for Australian athletes competed in the INAS Half Marathon their generous support and also to the many National Championships in Portugal for the first time. The Sporting Organisations for their support and assistance. women’s team of Chloe Turner, Georgia Powning and Montana Whiteley took out the women’s teams award My thanks also to our CEO, Robyn Smith and all our with the men’s team of Harry Mezger, Carlo Manolitsas dedicated staff and volunteers involved in delivering this and Monty Cooper finishing 4th in the Men’s team highly successful world class event. Also, congratulations competition. to the Chair of the Global Games Sports Company, Rob Peak and all Board Directors for their outstanding Paralympic Silver medallist Sam von Einem maintained commitment and dedication. his place on the International Podium with a Bronze medal at the ITTF Para World Championships in Slovenia The 2018-2019 year was a relatively quiet year on the in October International sporting scene with athletes competing in events in Portugal, Canada, France and via video in Sui Watts competed in the second INAS Equestrian Video Equestrian. competition collecting her second Silver medal. Sui has been our sole competitor in the event and we look Archie Graham continued his dominance of tennis forward to growing the number of equestrian th winning his 4 consecutive Men’s Singles title in Paris. competitors. Kelly Wren and Carla Lenarduzzi took out the women’s doubles to help the Australian team win both Men’s and Andre Rivett represented Australia at the SU-DS World Women’s teams events and finish on top of the medal Champs in Portugal with his best result being 4th in the tally. The full Australian team was Archie Graham, men’s shot put. Mitchell James, Damian Phillips, Joshua Holloway, Kelly Wren and Carla Lenarduzzi were well supported by I would also like to acknowledge the Down Syndrome pleased to advise that Sport Inclusion Australia has now Swimming Australia team who competed at the DSISO established a governance committee to oversee this Swimming World Championships in Canada. important function. The team of 20 swimmers dominated the competition In conclusion l would like to take this opportunity to winning 22 gold 9 silver and 7 bronze medals and setting thank our CEO Robyn Smith for her support and 4 World records along the way. Australia’s Aran Miller friendship, Kellie Keen and Michael Thomson for their was named the Male swimmer of the meet. outstanding commitment and dedication to this Organisation. I would like to acknowledge Tennis Australia which in 2019 became the first National sport to introduce the A big thank you to my fellow Board members for their new VIRTUS II-2 category to Australian Tennis continued support, commitment and friendship. Championships, and which in 2020 have now also Luke Van Kempen - Vice President introduced the II-3 category for high functioning athletes Wayne Bird with Autism. Lorraine Landon OAM Aaron Morse Sport Inclusion Australia has also been very successful in Rob Peak - Finance Director obtaining significant funding on top of the 1.8 million Jaquie Scammell -Chair, Governance provided for the INAS Global Games and Next Generation Athlete program. The Sport Australia funding for Better ageing and Community participation was due to the collaboration initiatives commenced with Deaf Sport Australia and Blind Sport Australia. This funding will be utilised to facilitate inclusive practices within the sporting and recreational sector to ensure athletes and people with an intellectual, hearing and visual impairment have the opportunity to participate in sport from grass roots to elite levels.
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