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Sport portfolio to Treasurer; , Golf and Cowboys score at Sport Awards / Hall of Fame

The Queensland sporting system has entered 2016 with Queensland Cowboys took out the XXXX a new State Minister for Sport in Treasurer Curtis Pitt sponsored Queensland Sport Team of the following the Cabinet reshuffl e prior to Christmas. Year category.

The North Queensland MP for the seat of Mulgrave For more information on the Awards / Hall replaced Rockhampton MP Bill Byrne and adds sport to of Fame, see Pages 13, 15, 16 and 18. his ministerial responsibilities in a year that will see him directly involved in the resolution of support for State level organisational development of sport in 2017 and beyond. Inside The reshuffl e followed hot on the heels of another From the QSport Offi ce Page 3 successful annual Queensland Sport Awards / Hall of Fame Presentation that saw netball and golf to the fore with State support for sport - Page 5 fi ve of the 14 Awards presented and netball’s Vicki Wilson A work in progress elevated to Legend status in the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. ASC Chair’s plan to Page 10 QSport Patron in Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made her transform sport fi rst appearance at Queensland sport’s annual “night of the year”, along with nearly 800 other guests to see some Sport Awards Summary Page 13 of the best in the Queensland sporting system past and Queensland Sport Awards Page 15 present acknowledged for their achievements on and off the fi eld of play.

In what was a big night for netball with Awards going to three of its contenders, golf’s Jason Day was named The Courier-Mail Channel 7 Queensland Sport Star of the Year Award while the NRL Premiership winning North

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This summer edition of Sportswatch should hit the but Australia Day reminds us we have evolved mail boxes and computer screens of its readers in signifi cantly over the past couple of hundred years early to mid-February, as summer is making way to enjoy one of the best existences overall in an for autumn, at least on the calendar. increasingly troubled world.

Like many of those readers, I have returned to Closer to home and what QSport and its member work full time in late January after what has been State sporting organisations are about in part and a fair bit of a breather over the Xmas / New Year to varying degrees of reliance, activities the State festive season break. Government supports have been the subject of external review in terms of the effectiveness of the The day after Australia Day each year signals the funding provided to those bodies over the past fi ve start of the resumption of full on engagement years against the objectives set for that funding by between QSport and its member State sporting the administrations of the day. organisations after the end of year / New Year summer holiday period. The conclusions of such review and reactions to those conclusions will inform the dialogue The fi rst few weeks over Xmas / New Year and into between government and sport at the State level January are generally the best time for the majority about the way forward for sport over the latter of sports’ offi ce bearers, paid and volunteer, to take part of the term of the current Parliament and a well-earned break to recharge before throwing beyond the next State election. themselves back into the fray for another year of sporting involvement. With decisions on what is to happen, why and how in terms of support for State level sport That said, that doesn’t apply to most involved with in 2017 and beyond, beyond the Gold Coast sports which conduct competitions in summer in 2018, the next few such as cricket, surf life saving and swimming and months will be vital to the prospects of ensuring also elite competitions in the likes of the A-League, a satisfactory outcome for sport and government W-League, NBL, WNBL, ABL and in more recent and the Queensland community they both seek to times the Big Bash which, from this year, has had serve. a women’s dimension as well as the men’s version, both doing well in terms of support. Like many others on holidays in December-January, I ate a tad too much, read a lot of non-work related It doesn’t seem all that long ago that there was material and watched with pleasure as young no such thing as the International Tennis and old enjoyed Xmas and then with dismay as Tournament, the Roar and the , all the behaviour of others young and not so young of which point to the evolutionary nature of sport impacted on them and others, their families and and its impact on us. friends and indeed all of us.

Traditional forms of media and now social media There is no doubt that the closer to home violent bring us the good, the bad and the ugly in the incidents occur, the greater the impact. world we live in, including our sporting choices. So when a young water polo player has his life The extended holiday period over summer here snuffed out as a result of another young man generally means a more relaxed environment allegedly wanting to show his friends “something

Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 3 funny” in the early hours of the morning, it That’s not forgetting, and just as importantly for impacts – and so it should. some, whether Kevvie Walters’ Maroons triumph over the Blues, whether the Cowboys, Firebirds The changing face of sport in summer here over and the Townsville Fire go back to back, whether the years demonstrates that innovation in sport is the Roar can beat earlier off fi eld drama to revisit real. premiership glory, whether the Broncs can go one So, too, is progress on more balanced participation better, whether the Reds, Lions and Suns and when one thinks about the arrival of bigger other Queensland sporting teams go well. and better competitions for women and girls in Teams like water polo’s Brisbane Barracudas, so traditionally male dominated sports, a trend that used to success, and baseball’s , will accelerate in the next few years. the latter after their fi rst ABL championship since 2016 will see a Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 2006 and playing the ultimate decider at home for after World Cups last year in cricket, football, the fi rst time in over 20 years. netball and rugby union in which Australian teams And hopefully, in what would be fi tting tribute, performed admirably. in its own way as signifi cant as the Australian Queenslanders will dominate the Australian cricketers’ response to the tragic passing of Phil Olympic team if our traditional sporting strengths Hughes, the Brisbane Barracudas give it their best and past performances are anything to go by. shot to win for Cole Miller.

Most of us won’t get to Rio “in the fl esh” but thanks to the Seven Network and News Queensland, we’ll all know what happens there as Peter Cummiskey well as the Paralympics. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

4 Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 State support for sport – A work in progress

As QSport and its member State sporting Whilst a much smaller number of other sports aren’t organisations move towards the next triennial QSport members, their coverage participation wise round of State Government support for their is very small at an estimated less than 5% of total activities, it’s timely to refl ect on the background organised sports participation for the State. to such support by successive State Governments, particularly over the past nearly two and a half With the introduction to Queensland of gambling decades. machines in 1992, substantially increased State Government fi nancial support began to fl ow to For most of the past 25 years, organised sport in organised sport, thanks to a regulated percentage Queensland has benefi ted from not only signifi cant of net revenue to the State from gaming machine community support for elite and participation operations being allocated for sport and recreation levels of sport but also increasing amounts of development. government support for the work of largely volunteer run, not for profi t State, regional and Indeed, governments at all three levels warmed to local sporting bodies in the organised, affi liation sport generally as “good for the local community, based 68 sports that are members of QSport as good for the State, good for the country”, for the major representative body for such sport in a variety of well documented reasons known this State. to most politicians and bureaucrats. Of those

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Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 5 reasons, health and wellbeing of Queenslanders development of Sports Houses adjacent to these and enhancement of the Queensland economy via two major stadiums and in Townsville. events have dominated recent State thinking. Much of the above occurred against the backdrop QSport – the Sports Federation of Queensland of continued State growth and a home Summer Incorporated – was established in 1992 with some Olympics for the country in 2000 in Sydney. 40 member organisations on board and supported Queensland sport produced on and off the fi eld by the State Government of the day, with fi nancial with distinction for that milestone event and support forthcoming within 12 months of beyond and support from government continued establishment and substantially increased support to increase until 2012 and the arrival of the for most member organisations from 1993 Newman LNP Government with its debt reduction onwards, support that has continued to this day. / savings acquisition / value for money mantra.

Elite sport – or more accurately, support for Assisted by the previous ALP administration’s some sports’ elite performers - was enhanced decision to “unhook” State support for sport from via the State’s Queensland Academy of Sport its previously regulated guaranteed support in established in 1987 while support for major facility favour of a commitment to maintain the overall development surged as longstanding requirements level of support per annum, indexed for infl ation, for up to date major oval and rectangular stadiums for the 2009-12 term, the State funding allocation in the populous south east of the State resulted in overall for sport and recreation initially reduced in a slow burn, staged redevelopment of the Gabba 2012-13 (to $133M) and 2013-14 (to $126M) but commencing in the mid 1990’s and a one hit, all increased slightly for 2014-15 (to $128M). up redevelopment of Lang Park in 2001-3. Had the LNP been re-elected at last year’s State Smaller State level sporting bodies also were election, it would have risen again in 2015-16, supported facility wise, including with the with an additional $15M in funds over the next

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6 Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 three years for the Get in the Game program and given the value of sport to the Queensland pledged during the State election campaign. economy, to Queenslanders’ health and wellbeing and to social cohesion in Queensland communities, According to relevant State Budget papers, the there would seem no good reason for the current last year of the Bligh ALP Government in 2011- annual allocation for sport and recreation to be 12 resulted in some $140M being expended on deteriorated. sport and recreation development. With the ALP committed via its 2014 State Conference Indeed, a modest increase in the annual allocation to ongoing fi nancial support for State sporting would enable State sporting bodies to keep organisations and peak bodies, the fi rst Palaszczuk- pace with rising costs through indexation of Pitt State Budget for 2015-16 in July 2015 returned grants while a further modest increase could be the annual allocation to just under $140M and the earmarked for employment generation for sport, upcoming 2016-17 State Budget in June seems delivered in collaboration with QSport and State the point by which the level of ongoing support sporting organisations. for 2017 and beyond can be confi rmed. QSport and its member State sporting organisations The current Government is committed to fi nancial have the same fundamental objectives as support for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth governments espouse in this area of public Games and has made commitments to a major policy, ie increase Queenslanders’ participation sporting facility development in Townsville and a in and involvement with sport. Supporting sport new State Netball Centre in Brisbane. to progress is a win win option for sport and The Government has made employment growth government and the communities they aim to and skilling of Queenslanders central to its strategy, serve. areas that involve its Ministers and Departments The State’s best asset is its people and the efforts and arguably peak bodies like QSport and QORF, of largely not for profi t, volunteer run sporting directly in their own right and in tandem via the bodies need to continue to be supplemented Skills Alliance with that body’s specifi c workforce with supportive organisational and workforce development bent. development to assist build capacity and a whole No Queensland ALP Government over the 24 of government approach to optimise the benefi ts years since 1992 has decreased funding for sport of sport.

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Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 9 ASC Chair’s plan to transform sport

Many Australians continue to fi nd time on bureaucracies don’t do “revolution” all that often, weekends to browse through the major “evolution”, albeit sooner rather than later, is newspapers’ weekend editions. presumably what the ASC Chair and presumably the ASC Board is after. So for sport administrators, paid and volunteer, who managed to read The Weekend Australian edition That’s not forgetting how the AIS, the ASC, the for 28-29 November last year, an “exclusive” on State sports academies and institutes came to be Page 44 by that paper’s Nicole Jeffrey would have and that sport was perceived to be a more integral made for interesting reading. part of school curriculum.

Some of the content in terms of the direction the All that happened / used to happen in the 1980’s, Australian Sports Commission (ASC) Chairman some 25-35 years ago, as governments moved John Wylie is purportedly heading in is not new in on sport and sport then began to seem to be but other information attributed to him in the moved out of school curriculum or more accurately, article will have been news to most in “Australia’s the curriculum in many government run schools. sporting landscape”. All of this is common knowledge and every few Apart from maintaining a line on the need for years, usually after a couple of Summer Olympics more national sporting organisation structure have come and gone, the Australian sporting and governance reform, a line pursued in the ASC governance reform discussion paper fl oated in the second half of 2015, the ASC Chairman’s “manifesto for reform” includes a wish list of LIVE A proposals that will have given most in sport a good CRYSTAL deal to mull over as they headed into the festive LIFE season break.

The fi ve point manifesto for reform is reportedly “headlined by the proposal to create a national lottery to fund high-performance sport but including several other revolutionary ideas”, with “most of these (ideas)” to be “rolled out” after the Rio Olympics later this year.

If a national lottery for sport, a national organisation to oversee national spending on sports facilities, better coordination between the AIS and State sports academies and institutes, better coordination between national and State sporting associations / organisations and sport as a compulsory part of school curriculum were to come to pass, “revolutionary” would be one way to describe such an outcome.

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10 Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 system that has served us well over the decades is One can understand the twin attractions of teased out by Federal politicians and bureaucrats “leaving something in better shape than when via the likes of the Crawford Report, the Oakley one arrived” and “laying out a vision for change”, Report and other similar exercises before them to particularly to someone appointed to chair a see what Australian sport needs to be maintained national statutory body charged with advancing and enhanced in the national interest. the national interest via sport, an aspect of Australian life that we spend a fair bit of time Last time round, Crawford gave us some 39 engaged with in various ways. recommendations to ponder. As the longstanding CEO of one of the fi ve All bar one – a national lottery for sport, the mainland State sports federations and the notion for which seemed to come in part from Secretary of Community Sport Australia, I would the existence of a UK lottery that supported want to, indeed need to, know more about John sport, among other “for purpose” sectors – was Wylie’s national lottery proposal, given I and my supported for implementation by a gathering at the State counterparts have spent time over the past MCG of some 70 national sporting organisation two years looking at a lottery for community sport, CEOs, State sport and recreation agency heads, as well as other ideas in his manifesto for reform. State sports academy / institute directors and State sports federation CEOs. Having a heads up on where Australian sport post Rio is likely headed is handy, particularly if you When the dust settled and after the usual are expected to refl ect the views of others in the “watering down” to accommodate the usual Australian sporting system. “inter-governmental jurisdictional sensitivities”, another dozen recommendations joined the So, on with the chase for more information in the national lottery for sport on the cutting room fl oor. weeks and months ahead, given post Rio is not that far away. I know. I was one of the 70.

John Wylie’s fi ve point manifesto is worth considering. Indeed, it has to be considered by all in sport because the implications of their Peter Cummiskey implementation, if that came to pass, are yet to be enunciated, let alone accepted.

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12 Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 The 2015 Queensland Sport Awards Presentation Fame in Jason Akermanis (AFL); the late Eddie was successfully conducted by QSport on Monday Bonis (rugby union) represented by QRU President 30 November 2015 in the Plaza Ballroom Hall at the and Hall of Famer Tony Shaw; the late Max Howell Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The (sport historian) represented by his widow Lingyu night maintained QSport’s profi le and standing in Xie and Chris Scott (cycling). sport and wider circles with another professional presentation in front of 785 attendees. Numerous Publicity for the event was extensive with signifi cant congratulations and compliments have been coverage from News Queensland, Channel 7 and received as well as positive feedback from guests 4BC. The Sunday Mail ran a series of articles on the and sponsors. Hall of Fame inductees as well as fi nalists for the Eleven Award category winners were announced Sports Star of the Year. They also ran substantial including golfer Jason Day named the Courier- editorial pieces on Vicki Wilson. Similarly Channel Mail Channel 7 Queensland Sport Star of the Year. 7 promoted the other Sports Star fi nalists in the week leading up to the Awards in its nightly news. Winners covered eight sports, with netball and golf to the fore taking out three and two categories As part of QSport’s sponsorship agreement respectively. with News Queensland, advertisements in The Former Australian netball captain Vicki Wilson was Courier-Mail promoting the Awards ran from 18 installed as the 15th Legend in the Queensland to 24 November and concluded on 1 December, Sport Hall of Fame and was there on the night the day after the Awards with an advertisement with family and friends to accept the award. acknowledging the winners, inductees and There were four new inductees to the Hall of sponsors.

Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 13 14 Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 Awards MC’s Pat Welsh, Shane Webcke & Victoria Carthew kept the night running smoothly.

Robert Craddock interviewed Vicki Wilson who was named the 15th Legend of Queensland Sport.

Hall of Fame Inductees From left to right- Hall of Sponsor Recognition Awards were presented Fame Inductees: Jason Akermanis (AFL); Tony Shaw to: Hon. Annastacia Palaszczuk MP, Premiers representing Eddie Bonis (rugby union); Premier of Queensland (20 years); Ray Phillips, Clubs Annastacia Palaszczuk; Chris Scott (cycling); Lingyu Queensland (15 years); Nicole Pensko, Xie representing her late husband Max Howell (sport Canterbury (10 years); Ross Giudice, City of historian). Gold Coast (5 years).

Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 15 The Coca-Cola Channel 7 Junior Sport Star of The Courier-Mail Channel 7 Sport Star of the the Year went to swimming’s Minna Atherton Year winner was golfer Jason Day, who was who accepted the award from Mitch Lenaghan, overseas on the night. The trophy was presented General Manager Sales, Coca -Cola and Max to his mother Dening Day by Karl deKroo, Head Walters Managing Director, Channel 7 (right). of Sport, News Queensland (left) & Channel 7’s Managing Director Max Walters.

Service to Sport Award Winners from L to R: John Bright (softball); Trevor Dowdell (gymnastics); Jim Geiger (cricket). Coach Paul Green accepted the award for Sport Team of the Year from Lion Sponsorship Manager David Bruhn.

Max Whitten (left) from Maleny Golf Club Graham Burns (left) from Basketball Queensland received the Brisbane City Council Queensland accepted the Administrator of the Year Award Sport Volunteer of the Year Award from Lord from Arthur J Gallagher Sports Manager, Mayor Graham Quirk. Steve Van Leewuen.

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Sportswatch - Summer 2015-16 17 The Coach of the Year was awarded to Catherine Clark, CEO of Netball Queensland Queensland Firebird’s Roselee Jencke and accepted the award for the Brisbane Convention presented by Minister for Sport, Bill Byrne. and Exhibition Centre Queensland Sport Event of the Year, the Trans-Tasman Netball Final. The award was presented by Shaun Mitchell, Director of Sales at BCEC.

Konica Minolta’s Queensland Manager, Matt The Queensland U18 Netball Team were the Jones presented the trophy to Jo Oxenford winners of the Junior Sport Team of the Year representing her husband Bruce Oxenford Award. Di Farmer, Member for Bulimba (right) from Queensland Cricket who was overseas on presented the trophy to Captain Kimberley the night, winner of the Konica Minolta Sport Jenner. Offi ciator of the Year Award.

Swimmer Brenden Hall capped off a stellar year, QSport Staff & Volunteers from L to R standing: winning the Athlete with a Disability Award Karissa Knight, Natalie Rapisarda, Kylie Thomson, for the third time, presented by Rod Chiapello obyn White, Amy Nicol. Sitting L to R: Cameron representing McDonald’s Australia (left) and Karl Knight, Mitchell Thomson. deKroo, News Queensland Head of Sport (right).

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