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Sportswatch Summer 2020 What’s Inside From the QSport Office Page 3 Brisbane City Council Water Rebate Program Page 4 Annual General Meetings on 26th March Page 5 25th Annual Queensland Sport Awards The 19th Legend of Queensland Sport Mick Dittman being interviewed by Channel Seven’s Pat Welsh Page 6 at the 2019 Queensland Sport Awards on 30 November last year at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre – a highlight of another successful Awards Presentation. AQIA Symposium going Top jockey and Australian sporting regional Page 8 legend shine at 25th Queensland Changes afoot for sport at Sport Awards national level Page 10 Queensland sport celebrated 25 years of the State’s major program of recognition and promotion of Queensland’s top sporting achievers in another Brisbane Heat star linking well supported annual presentation on November 30 at the Brisbane athletes to coaches Convention and Exhibition Centre. Page 11 Interesting and entertaining interviews conducted by Channel 7 Sport’s longstanding Awards emcee Pat Welsh, first with Australian sporting legend in 25th Annual Queensland Olympian Dawn Fraser and later the newest and 19th Legend of Queensland Sport Awards - on the night Sport in former top jockey Mick Dittman, were highlights. World No. 1 Women’s Page 12 tennis player Ash Barty was named The Courier-Mail Channel 7 Queensland Sport Star of the Year for her first Open Grand Slam victory at the French Open and the Brisbane Bandits the XXXX Queensland Sport Team of the Year for their State continues QSport / fourth consecutive ABL Championship success. members support to mid 2021 And in the tenth year of the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame, former rugby union Page 19 Wallaby flanker Jules Guerassimoff, former top Australian lawn bowler Kelvin Kerkow and Olympian gold medallists in Hockeyroo Angie Skirving nee Lambert Hall of Fame Inductee List and swimmer Libby Trickett nee Lenton were 2019 inductees. as of 2019 More on the Awards inside. Page 22 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: OFFICIAL BEER OF QUEENSLAND’S #1 BEER * *IRI Aztec | Volume (litres) | MAT July 2019 We’re for the blood, sweat and tears, on and off the field Online Apps Paper Robert Craddock, Chief Sportswriter @craddock_cmail From the QSport Office From the The summer edition of this quarterly publication First up it’s local government elections in March and particularly this column is a good deal easier and then in October, a State election with four to put together than other editions each year. year terms the prize for the winners. The recent Sport Awards / Hall of Fame That has implications not only in the lead in but Presentation held a month or so before provides also after the event and it seems we would be plenty of content and enables readers who didn’t better all round if we could see and hear less make this annual event to get a glimpse of what from pollsters and more from politicians eager to transpired on Queensland sport’s “night of the govern, articulating policies as well as dealing with year”. perception. A look back at the past year, a look forward to the All the while I was drafting this column, the next and an observation or two from the writer backdrop has been heat and fire, taking minds on whatever make the task relatively easy. temporarily off drought and water and reminding one that others less fortunate have lost loved The writer will have spent most of the month ones, homes and livelihoods as the majority of us between late December and late January’s take a break from the usual work dominated lives Australian Day holiday weekend away from the we live. QSport Office while my colleague in Operations Manager Kylie Thomson “mans the fort”, so to Rain, rain and good follow up rain for a parched, speak, leading into the annual audit of QSport’s sunburnt country - but not to the extent of finances for the 2019 calendar year. cyclones and floods that also devastate – was an obvious New Year wish, hopefully with more Between Xmas and New Year’s Eve, the writer occurring before the next quarterly edition of spent time in Melbourne at the Boxing Day Test Sportswatch comes your way. cricket at the MCG sitting, watching, listening and always thinking but not very much of the time When it does in autumn 2020, QSport will have about work. conducted an AGM with a mix of new and old faces elected to deal with the task of refining Of course, that’s what leave from work is what the Queensland sports collective does in supposed to do and it moves me to confess that the wake of the initial progression of the State’s I and a few others I know are not always good Activiate! Queensland 2019-2029 Strategy. examples of work / life balance. That’s something that the existing Board So a New Year resolution for me was for more members will consider again when the Board balance, particularly with family and friends. meets at the end of February, not just for QSport but also its members and the wider sport sector, I’m not a prolific reader of books other than at prominent as it is in the active industry space. this time of the year when Xmas lands a few for me from “under the tree”. Santa does know me well, it seems, for the Peter Cummiskey OAM arrivals are always sport or politics related, often Chief Executive Officer biographies. Reading one about the background to the 2019 Federal election result reminded me how far wide of the mark most pollsters and many media were, and that we Queenslanders are again about to head into another period of public and private speculation about yet more elections. Sportswatch - Summer 2020 3 Brisbane City Council Water Rebate Program On 10 September 2019, Council announced new Smart water meters support for not-for-profit organisations leasing Council sports fields and greens to help them Council has also committed to the installation prepare for forecast drought conditions. This of 100 smart water meters at identified sporting support recognises the valuable services these facilities, providing real-time and remotely organisations provide to the community. available information about water usage to help identify and rectify leaks, reducing excess water Water rebate usage and associated costs. Council will provide one-off financial support to For further information about smart water not-for-profit organisations that lease sporting meters, or water funding support; phone Council fields and greens from Council by paying half of on 07 3403 8888 and ask to speak with the the Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) retail water Community Facilities Operations team charges for the 2019-20 financial year, capped at $5000. With a significant number of sporting clubs located in Brisbane, QSport member State Organisations do not need to apply for this sporting organisations have welcomed this rebate. Council is intending to commence support and the ongoing support of all local distribution of this support in line with the next governments. QUU billing cycle in January 2020, backdated to 1 July 2019. Creating more to see and do in a clean and green Brisbane, so you can do more of what you love. Growing your Brisbane lifestyle 4 Sportswatch - Summer 2020 Annual General Meetings on 26th March DATE CLAIMER QSport and the Queensland Olympic Council will hold their upcoming AGMs back-to-back, as has been the case in recent years, again opting for lunch time gatherings at Sports House, Milton, Brisbane on Thursday, 26 March. The Australian Commonwealth Games Association (Queensland) is yet to confirm if its AGM is to follow the QOC meeting which starts at 12.45pm after the QSport meeting commencing at 12noon is 2020 Olympic Team Appeal concluded. Queensland Premier’s Athlete Farewell Dinner The back-to-back meetings enable administrators th of the State’s industry peak body members and Saturday, 16 May, 2020 associates to attend multiple relevant AGMs at the 6.30pm for 7.30pm same venue at the same time, optimising time and Dress: Black Tie the opportunity to network with their colleagues For further information, visit: from across the sector. www.bepartofthejourney.com Formal notices, agendas etc will be forwarded or phone 07 3121 6428 to individual members in line with constitutional requirements. Sportswatch - Summer 2020 5 25th Annual Queensland Sport Awards TENNIS’ ASH BARTY ACES TOP CLASS FIELD FOR SPORT STAR HONOUR AT QUEENSLAND SPORT AWARDS; HORSE RACING GREAT MICK DITTMAN NAMED 19TH LEGEND OF QUEENSLAND SPORT. The world’s number one ranked women’s tennis Lenton) and Hockeyroo Angie Lambert (nee Skirving) player Ash Barty is The Courier-Mail Channel 7 joined Commonwealth Games star lawn bowler Kelvin Queensland Sport Star of the Year Award winner for Kerkow and Wallaby flanker of the 1960’s in Jules 2019, announced at the 25th Annual Queensland Sport Guerassimoff as inductees into the Hall of Fame. Awards / Hall of Fame Presentation in Brisbane on November 30. Swimming provided three Award category winners on the night with World Swimming Championship gold The black tie audience at the Brisbane Convention medal winner Ariarne Titmus adjudged the Queensland and Exhibition Centre heard the announcement of Academy of Sport Peter Lacey Award for Sporting Barty’s win at the end of a night which saw 11 Awards Excellence recipient, her coach Dean Boxall the LGAQ presented for Queensland’s top on and off field Queensland Sport Coach of the Year and junior World sporting performances in the period October, 2018 to Champion swimmer and surf lifesaver Lani Pallister The September, 2019 plus three further Service to Sport Courier Mail Channel Seven Queensland Junior Sport Awards presented for outstanding service.