Sportswatch Spring 2018 What’s Inside From the QSport Office Page 3 Sport Award Finalists list released at QSport Sponsors Function Page 5 2018 Hall of Famers / 18th Legend announced QSport Members at Strategy Consultation Workshop in the Skyline Lounge at Suncorp Stadium in September Page 5 QSport and Local More sport and active Governments look to future at LGAQ Conference recreation for more healthier, Page 8 happier Queenslanders Good governance has never The QSport Board will back a call for key decision makers in both been more crucial government and the sport sector to consider afresh how support for sport Page 10 and active recreation can better contribute to better outcomes for more Queenslanders. Integrity in Sport Panel Acknowledging the Palaszczuk Government’s commitment to a consultation Highlight of QSport sourced basis for the development of a State Sport and Active Recreation Conference Strategy for a growing, diverse Queensland population over the next Page 12 decade, the QSport submission lodged with Sport Minister Mick de Brenni anticipates continued collaboration between government and the sector, building on increased dialogue over the past 18 months with the Minister 2018 Sport Awards Finalists and his officers. Page 16 Whilst the enhanced dialogue is both appreciated and useful, in the end, what the strategy expected to surface in the first half of the next year leads to ultimately will determine the degree of success or otherwise of an increasingly important, indeed vital, piece of public policy, given features of the current Queensland landscape that more sport and active recreation for more Queenslanders can contribute to with positive effect. Overcoming barriers to engagement real and perceived will need to consume a good deal of what has to be done if more Queenslanders are to be healthier and happier citizens. 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] From the The coming and going of footy finals across the Thankfully we seem no longer fixated on ”top five” nation always has me thinking about the country’s finishes at Olympics at the expense of other more two biggest sporting competitions and the significant features of a national sports system impact they have on such a sizable slice of the that can do with more support and not just in the population. run up to a Federal election as history shows is often the case. Whilst the last weekend in September had me locked in at game time to the MCG and then ANZ Some of the things that current governments Stadium, the long weekend provided some quiet want to overcome via sport and active recreation time to reflect on draft responses for QSport and are indictments on a nation and its adult citizens the Fitness, Sport and Recreation Skills Alliance (in and their inabilities to properly position physical which QSport is a major player) to the invitation activity in the home and in schools, the two key from State Minister for Sport Mick de Brenni to environments where children are set up for life in submit views on what would be in a Queensland the proper fundamentals for living positively. Sport and Active Recreation Strategy for the next decade. Ensuring industry and commerce, big and small, is not ever allowed to only profit at any cost is With such submissions due by 12 October, another. Are Royal Commissions the only way to any such quiet time away from the hustle and maintain a reasonable moral compass? bustle of the QSport Office before the receipt of nominations for this year’s Sport Awards program There’s plenty for all, in government and industry, was a bonus. to do if plans and strategies are to succeed, succeed where earlier versions have been unable Rounding up sponsorship support for this annual to keep up with the pace of change, earlier showcase for Queensland sport was just as versions like, for instance, “Active Australia” of vital short term as was taking the opportunity years past - a strategy, a program, a brand that to put the sport sector’s collective “best foot sounds like what governments are after now by forward” to a Government of the day on what it, in another name. collaboration with the sector, can do to enhance the level of participation and engagement with In the case of the Federal Government and the the sector and beyond via physical activity Australian Sports Commission, the latter’s name enhancement. now is Sport Australia and its now released Corporate Plan 2018-2022 is its first phase in Significantly, it is those who are not involved and the pursuit of the Sport 2030 national sports engaged with sport and active recreation that the plan released by Federal Sport Minister Senator Government’s strategy aims to address from next Bridget McKenzie back in August. year on for some time into the future. Collaborating and partnering effectively with Notwithstanding the Federal Government’s everybody else is one of their big challenges, national sport plan espousing the need to focus something the Community Sport Australia beyond sport to make a favourable impression on General Meeting in Perth in early October those not participating in enough regular physical attended by me and other member State Sports activity for their own individual and governments’ Federation CEOs spent time considering following collective good, the need for a State counterpart imput from Sport Australia CEO Kate Palmer. strategy and more locally targeted action plan, matched by complementary local government Finding out more about how the Feds intend support, is sensible given restricted Federal progressing change is the next step. support for sport. PETER CUMMISKEY OAM Chief Executive Officer Sportswatch - Spring 2018 3 Make 2018 your most active and healthy year! There are thousands of activities for all fitness abilities and interests, and all are free or low-cost. For a full list of activities and locations search brisbane.qld.gov.au/activeandhealthy CA17-1107660-04-3121 © BrisbaneCA17-1107660-04-3121 City Council 2017 4 Sportswatch - Spring 2018 Sport Award Finalists list released at QSport Sponsors Function Details of contenders for this year’s Queensland recently concluded consultation phase of the Sport Awards (except The Courier-Mail Channel projected Queensland Sport and Recreation 7 Sport Star of the Year) were released at the Strategy for the next decade, including conclusion of QSport’s Sponsors Function at the affordability of sport, a theme he took up a few Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on days with Commonwealth and State Ministers for Wednesday evening, 24 October. Sport meeting in Sydney following the Invictus Games. The function, co-sponsored by Clubs Queensland and the Local Government Association of Minister de Brenni argued for the Commonwealth Queensland, was attended by over 70 of QSport’s to provide vouchers for children in low income growing family of sponsors and supporters, the families, complementing those already provided majority of their support going to defray the by the State Government. costs of the annual Queensland Sport Awards / Hall of Fame Presentation to be conducted on In welcoming attendees at the function, Wednesday evening, 28 November in the Plaza LGAQ CEO Greg Hallam pointed out the Ballroom at the centre. $700M contribution that local governments in Queensland make annually to sport and Numerically, the size of the sponsoring group has recreation and the useful dialogue between never been greater with no less than 28 sponsors QSport and function co-sponsors LGAQ and signed on for 2018. Clubs Queensland, particularly at CEO level. Speakers at the function included Minister for LGAQ has increased its sponsorship support of Sport Mick de Brenni who spoke about some of QSport in 2018, extending naming rights support the key findings beginning to emerge from the to the Queensland Sport Coach of the Year. 2018 Hall of Famers / 18th Legend Q ueensland sport announced Two of the biggest names ever in Queensland And the remarkable multisport administrator Tom sport have made it into the Queensland Sport Welsby who figured in the birth and rebirth of Hall of Fame, along with two pioneers for sport Queensland Aussie Rules and Rugby Union and here between 90 to 140 years ago. the establishment of the forerunner to the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron will be the next And a Queensland Great in the one and only General category member. Mal Meninga is to be elevated from Hall of Fame Athlete Member to Legend status at Rugby League’s Queensland Origin and Australian the upcoming Sport Awards / Hall of Fame Kangaroos centre Meninga who is the current Presentation on Wednesday evening, 28 Kangaroos coach was the only player to go on November at the Brisbane Convention and from Kangaroo tours to Great Britain and joins Exhibition Centre. code greats in Origin teammates Wally Lewis and Arthur Beetson as a Legend. Brisbane Lions AFL triple premiership star forward Jonathan Brown and dual Olympic Meninga, Brown and Meares will all attend their gold medal winning world cycling champion induction on 28 November in Brisbane. Anna Meares go in as Athlete Members, along with women’s tennis Australasian women’s For tickets, go to http://www.qsport.org.au/cms/page. championship back to back winner in the 1920’s asp?ID=9 in Margaret “Mall” Molesworth.