Annual Report 1999 2000 Australian Sports Commission Annual Report 1999 2000 © Australian Sports Commission 2000 ISSN 0816–3448 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the Australian Sports Commission. Requests and enquiries concerning reproduction should be directed to Publication Services Manager Australian Sports Commission PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 For general enquiries concerning the Australian Sports Commission tel: (02) 6214 1111 fax: (02) 6251 2680 or visit our web site: www.ausport.gov.au Designed by Di Walker Design, Canberra Printed by Goanna Print anii nAustralianua Sportsl Commission r e– Annualp Reporto1999-2000rt letter of transmittal Letter of Transmittal The Hon Jackie Kelly MP Minister for Sport and Tourism Parliament House Canberra ACT 2601 I have pleasure in presenting to you the Annual Report for the Australian Sports Commission for 1999–2000. The Report has been prepared to conform to the requirements of the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 (CAC Act) as required under section 48 of the Australian Sports Commission Act 1989. The Commissioners of the Board are responsible under section 9 of the CAC Act for the preparation and content of the Report of Operations in accordance with the Finance Minister’s Orders. The Board resolved to adopt the Report of Operations at its meeting on 23 August 2000 as a true and concise portrayal of the year’s activities. As our athletes fine-tune their performances for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Commission looks to the culmination of six years of preparing Australian athletes for their greatest challenge. The additional government funding provided through the Olympic Athlete Program has given our athletes improved training and competition opportunities and I anticipate that this investment will be justified by Australian performances at the Games. This report highlights the continuing success of the programs of the Australian Sports Commission (including the Australian Institute of Sport) and provides for the first time an assessment of performance against an outcome/output framework as agreed with government. I commend this report to you as a record of our achievements. Yours sincerely Peter T Bartels Chairman Australian Sports Commission 12 October 2000 iii aniv nAustralianua Sportsl Commission r e– Annualp Reporto1999-2000rt contents Contents Letter of Transmittal iii Mission Statement 2 Report of Operations Chairman's Review 4 The Board 6 Executive Director's Report 9 Overview 15 Organisation Structure 16 Budget 18 Planning and Accountability Framework 19 Internal and External Scrutiny 19 Legislative Reporting Requirements 20 Enterprise Agreement 20 Social Justice and Equity 20 Occupational Health and Safety 21 Indemnities and Insurance for Officers 21 Customer Service Charter 21 Freedom of Information 21 The Australian Sports Foundation 22 Outcome Reports 23 Outcome 1: An Effective National Sports Infrastructure 25 Outcome 2: Improved Participation in Sports Activities by Australians 33 Outcome 3: Excellence in Sports Performances by Australians 41 Appendixes 1 Financial Statements Australian Sports Commission 50 Australian Sports Foundation 82 2 Staffing Overview 105 3 Grant Allocations to Sports 107 4 AIS Scholarship Program Performances 1999–2000 111 5 Recent International Successes for Australian Sports 117 6 Performances of Summer Olympic Sports 1999–2000 121 7 Summary of Compliance 124 8 Contact Officers 125 9 Sponsors 126 10 Acronyms and Abbreviations 128 Index 129 1 mMissioniss iStatementon statement To enrich the lives of all Australians through sport Objectives The Strategic Plan for 1998–2001 sets out the Commission’s primary objectives as: • the development and maintenance of an effective national sports infrastructure • improved participation in quality sports activities by Australians • excellence in sports performance by Australians These encapsulate the more detailed objects of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) as stated in the Australian Sports Commission Act 1989. Seven major strategies support the ASC’s objectives and are outlined in the Strategic Plan: • Provide national leadership and direction in enhancing the management capabilities of sports delivery agencies • Provide high quality national integrated7 support programs for athletes and sporting organisations • Promote ongoing improvement in international sporting performances • Encourage more people to play sport through the implementation of all the sports elements of Active Australia • Examine avenues to diversify and increase the sport resource base • Further develop our information, research and management capabilities to assist in meeting our responsibilities as national leaders in the development and support of sport • Continue to improve the internal effectiveness and efficiency of the Commission, increasing its responsiveness to its stakeholders’ requirements an2 nAustralianua Sportsl Commission r e– Annualp Reporto1999-2000rt ReportReport of Operations Chairman’s Review In writing my report this year I am mindful of the With the completion of the Olympics, funding through the many challenges and changes that the Australian OAP will cease. However, during the year the Board of the Sports Commission (ASC) has had to address in ASC has strived to ensure that the Commission will be recent years. In the coming month, Australia and the strategically placed to take the sports industry into the new world will be witness to the success of the programs millennium, and I am confident that the Federal the Federal Government has set in place through the Government will continue to support Australian sport. ASC. Seven years ago the announcement was made that Sydney would host the Olympic Games in 2000. The ASC Board of Directors was acutely aware that without Within twelve months, an assistance program, the intervention, the ASC’s appropriation could fall from $90 Olympic Athlete Program (OAP), was put in place to million to $26 million per year. We worked hard to have ensure that Australia, as host nation, would optimise that artificial base level of funding increased by its results at an Olympic competition. incorporating previous funding levels into a new level of base funding. The Federal Government has now delivered Through the OAP, additional funding was provided to an ongoing base level of $86 million for Australian sport implement High Performance Programs for all summer providing security for the years ahead. Olympic and Paralympic sports. Under the programs, athletes were given financial assistance and access to the In addition to the base funding, in 2000/01 the ASC highest professional coaching to advance their sporting received $5 million for Olympic sports through to the careers. Additional support services and programs were Sydney Games and a further $5 million has been introduced, including sports science and medicine provided to assist sports in the transition to new funding support, increased international competition arrangements. The Board commends the Sports opportunities, the appointment of High Performance Minister, Jackie Kelly, on helping win this additional Managers to oversee athlete preparation, the introduction Federal funding. of career and education advice and the provision of additional resources for sport science research and In looking forward to the post Olympic environment, the information services. Australian team and individual Board instigated a major review of the structure and performances over the past year can leave no doubt that functions of the ASC. The recommendations of the review the OAP has been highly successful. were endorsed by the Board at its meeting in May and the new structure will take effect from 1 July 2000. This has A further priority for the ASC was to ensure that sporting been the most extensive review of the Commission in its organisations would also benefit from the additional history. It took into consideration the philosophy that most funding under the OAP by becoming more efficient, self sports were now better prepared to manage their own reliant and strategically focussed as the sports industry affairs and that the ASC would take on a less prescriptive moved towards a post Olympic era. There is clear evidence and more advisory role in its relationships with sports. that this too has been achieved, particularly through the Management Improvement Program. To ensure that the benefits gained through the OAP were not lost, a new High Performance Program for all sport Preparation of our athletes for the Olympic Games has been (based on the OAP) has been introduced to enable elite outstanding and all involved deserve the highest praise for sport to continue to prosper. All AIS programs will be delivering to the Games a truly magnificent team. retained. In fact, new programs for sailing, triathlon and women’s cricket will be added and programs for boxing, archery and women’s soccer, which were introduced with funding from the OAP, will be retained after the Olympics. an4 nAustralianua Sportsl Commission r e– Annualp Reporto1999-2000rt The organisational structure of the ASC was also reviewed The Board of Directors of the ASC has been diligent in its and streamlined with savings in the vicinity of $4 million duties over the past year and together we have achieved a identified to be diverted back into the high performance great deal. I thank them for their commitment and program. Funding