Independent Sport Panel Report (Crawford Report)

Committee

• David Crawford – retired national chairman of KPMG and director of several major companies, including BHP Billiton, Foster’s Group, Lend Lease, National Foods and Westpac Banking Corporation
• Anthony Separovich – creator of Wizard Home Loans and Sydney Rooster Rugby League Club board member
• Sam Mostyn – background in law and corporate affairs, and Australian Football League commissioner
• Pam Tye – Hockey Australia President and former Australian Sports Commission board member
• Colin Carter – senior adviser to the Boston Consulting Group and director of several companies, including Wesfarmers and World Vision

  Objectives

• Ensure Australia’s continued sporting success
• Better place sport and physical activity as a key component of the government’s preventative-health approach
• Strengthen pathways from junior sport to grassroots community sport to elite and professional sport
• Maintain Australia’s approach to sports science, research and technology
• Identify opportunities to increase and diversify the funding base for sport through corporate sponsorship, media and any recommended reforms, such as enhancing the effectiveness of the Australian Sports Foundation

  Outcomes

• Defining the national sports vision
• Reforming the Australian Sports Commission to lead the sports system
• Merging institutes of sport
• Building the capacity of national sporting organisations
• Putting sport and physical activity back into education
• Building community sport with people and places
• Ensuring Australia's sports system is open to all
• Sustaining the funding base for sport