Sydney Cricket & Sports Ground Trust 2011/12 Annual Report For the Financial Year of 1 March 2011 – 29 February 2012 Contents 3 Minister’s Foreword 4 Chairman’s Report 6 Our Vision & Goals 8 Key Outcomes & Progress Achieved During 2011/12 12 Managing the Events 20 Managing the Assets 24 Major Projects 28 Commercial 29 Membership & Marketing 36 Corporate Services 44 Human Resources 50 Multicultural Plan 51 Disability Plan 53 Organisational Chart 54 CEO & General Manager Profi les 56 Trustees Contact Information 60 Trust Charter & Constitution General enquiries: 62 Financial Indicators (02) 9360 6601 64 Independent Auditor’s Report 65 Statement by Members of the Trust Trust Offi ce (open business hours Monday to Friday): 66 Audited Financial Statements Administration Offi ce Level 2, Sheridan Building 124 Consumer Response Moore Park Road Moore Park NSW 2021 126 Right to Information 127 Index Postal Address: GPO Box 150 Sydney NSW 2001 This annual report is available on the Trust website: www.scgt.nsw.gov.au www.sydneycricketground.com.au 3 1 Letter of Submission Minister’s Foreword This decision is well deserved “ recognition of the contribution the SCG makes to our history, the wider sports and tourism industries, as well as the social and economic development of our state. ” The Hon Graham Annesley MP June 2012 Minister for Sport and Recreation I am very pleased to provide the foreword for the The Trust successfully added new events to its The Hon Graham Annesley MP annual report, particularly as this year the Sydney calendar, including securing the return of Wallabies Minister for Sport & Recreation Cricket & Sports Ground Trust has achieved another Tests, major concerts such as the Foo Fighters Level 33 Governor Macquarie Tower 1 Farrer Place historic milestone. and Eminem, while maintaining partnerships with SYDNEY 2000 the sports that call the venue home - the Sydney On the fi eld, we were reminded the Sydney Cricket Roosters, Wests Tigers, Sydney Swans, NSW Ground is one of the world’s most iconic sports Waratahs, Sydney FC, Sydney Sixers and NSW Blues. venues when it became only the third cricket ground Dear Minister internationally to host 100 Test matches. I congratulate the Trust for its support of several community and charity events including the Jane LETTER OF SUBMISSION Many of the game’s living greats were present to enjoy McGrath Day during the Sydney Test match, the SCG 2011/12 Annual Report and refl ect on what makes the venue so unique for Sydney Cricket & Sports Ground Trust Country Cup, the Marathon Cricket event hosted in players and spectators. association with the Primary Club and the traditional The Trust is pleased to submit the Annual Report of the Sydney Cricket and Sports ANZAC Day NRL match at Allianz Stadium. Ground Trust for the year ended 29 February 2012, for presentation to Parliament. The NSW Government has acknowledged the importance of the SCG to the state and in January Overall it has been another successful year, and The Trust’s Annual Report has been prepared in accordance with requirements of the announced it would join with the Trust and the Federal on behalf of the State Government and the people Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984, the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Government to fund the much needed redevelopment Regulation 2010 and the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983. of NSW I congratulate everyone at the Trust for of the Noble, Bradman, and Messenger grandstands. their diligence and professionalism in ensuring one of Australia’s greatest sporting and entertainment This decision is well deserved recognition of the precincts continues to be a show piece of excellence. Yours sincerely contribution the SCG makes to our history, the wider sports and tourism industries, as well as the social and economic development of our state. Commencement of this exciting state-of-the-art JAMIE BARKLEY project marks a new era of world-class facilities for Chief Executive Officer cricket and AFL fans while preserving the SCG’s unique and historic character. The Hon Graham Annesley MP Minister for Sport and Recreation At the Sydney Football Stadium (now Allianz Stadium) a new partnership with Allianz will contribute signifi cantly to the Trust’s plans to update facilities for rugby league, union, football and concert fans. During the year we also witnessed the birth of Rugby League Central on Trust land, which brings together under one roof all bodies responsible for the game’s Level 2, Sheridan Building GPO Box 150 T 02 9360 6601 management from grass roots to the elite professional Moore Park Road Sydney NSW 2001 F 02 9360 1319 Moore Park NSW 2021 www.scgt.nsw.gov.au level. 2 3 Chairman’s Report That new stand will be a marvel “ on completion. Again the Trust voted for a significant contribution of its own resources in order to make the project possible. ” Rodney Cavalier AO Chairman The Trust exists to serve the glory of sport. For without a popular following, NSW had facilities in regional and suburban venues that stating the case events had to move quickly, approvals for capital 150 years, from the creation of a cricket ground by the wrong part of its capital city. In all the rest of the was stating the obvious. Capital invested at the SCG spending had to happen regardless of a budget the North Devonshire Regiment on military land to world, the trend to the business districts is inexorable. and the football stadium makes a return from the fi rst context. the south of Victoria Barracks through more than The other mainland Australian states followed that day of operations suffi cient to meet maintenance and a century of responsibility by a statutory trust, the trend. The consequence is that, in 2012, NSW is the depreciation and then some. Any other location in The two ministers for sport acted within the following grounds relied upon the revenues generated by sick man of Australian sport. That assessment is not NSW, capital investment requires subsidies unending week. Mr Annesley drafted a letter of the instant their own activities to meet ongoing costs. Capital open to objective dispute. from government, municipalities, codes or banks. No and hand-delivered it to the Premier. Understanding expenditure relied on accumulated savings and other venue in NSW operates at a surplus and none that any delay was a fi nal delay, all approvals had to borrowings on which interest and repayment were met The other states invested billions in their traditional ever will. The viability of these grounds became an happen within weeks or the construction would miss out of revenues generated. grounds, sometimes spending to achieve a total excuse not to meet an obligation in advancing their a completion prior to the Ashes series of 2013-14, the reconstruction. Melbourne has sports precincts potential. It was as if the glory of these venues was merits of the projects overcome the entrenched and In 2000, the NSW Government generously advanced serviced by multiple modes of public transport reason in itself to leave the venues to the capable predictable opposition. $2 million to assist in the total reconstruction of the that are among the fi nest in the world. The NSW people responsible for their care, control and Unlike any other foreword I have composed in these playing surface of the Sydney Cricket Ground. The Government, with Commonwealth assistance, management. grant was in recognition of the central role the SCG did provide the funding that made possible the years that I have had the honour of being Chairman, had played in the celebration of the inauguration of the construction in 2008 of the Victor Trumper Stand. The The moment that these two projects became possible these words are devoted solely to an expression of Commonwealth 100 years earlier. By 2000, outlays proportion of costs paid by the SCG Trust was higher both occurred at an AFL grand fi nal in Melbourne. In thanks to the leaderships of two governments who by state governments to assist sports grounds, stadia than either government. 2006 the Federal Minister for Sport, Rod Kemp, asked collaborated to make good. My thanks to those and other sports facilities had grown from next to Trust CEO Jamie Barkley and myself: “Why don’t named and my thanks to the splendid people behind nothing to multiple billions of Australian dollars. None The SCG Trust built the SCG and football stadium to you blokes ever ask for money? Are you afraid you’ll them who kept moving the paper amid obstacles and of that money included the SCG and the football an asset value of more than $600 million. Government get it?” We did ask and we did get it. The Trust had attempted delays until all approvals were in place. stadium. The spending by state governments on contributions until this year were $52 million. cause to pay tribute to Senator Kemp and the Howard What will come out of the ground on the northern end sports facilities has grown exponentially since. Government, to Morris Iemma and his government. of the Sydney Cricket Ground will be for the glory of Having completed the Victor Trumper Stand in 2008, sport. The major sports grounds in or near to the central the Trust then directed its attention to the three stands Meandering in circles seemed to have become the business districts, the places beloved by sports fans, opposite. fate of the project to replace the Bradman and the were redeveloped by those tax dollars. The strategy Noble stands. NSW Treasury had been opposed to The NSW Government, assisted by the was not complex: build facilities for sports that people an investment in these facilities.