DSR Annual Report 2004/2005
2004/2005 reports and financial statements, including the year's highlights, Director General's report, corporate overview, grants approved.
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Highlights:
- Secured funding for the further redevelopment of Members Equity Stadium in partnership with the Town of Vincent to accommodate the Super 14 Rugby team Western Force. This will take the former Perth Oval re-development to Stage 2 and increase capacity to above 22,000.
- Provided $11.3 million in funding to Western Australian sport through the Sports Lotteries Account for sport development in Western Australia. This included $770,000 to support sport development initiatives in regional Western Australia.
- Completed the new State Baseball Park at Tom Bateman Reserve, with the official opening occurring in February 2005. The facility has already successfully hosted a number of major events.
- Secured $27 million in funding to assist the Western Australian Cricket Association, the Western Australian Football Commission, WA Netball and HockeyWA to retire debt related to facilities development.
- Presentation of the National Leaders in Sport Conference in November 2004. The conference, held every two years, was an initiative of the Sport and Recreation Minister’s Council which provided the opportunity for the nation’s sports leaders to debate and discuss the best way forward for Australian Sport. The conference also incorporated the statewide conference Active 2004 as a program stream.
- Further planning development for facilities for netball, gymnastics, rowing and canoeing.
- Initiated development of a facility-mapping project designed to map all sport and recreation facilities in the metropolitan area that will enable improved strategic facility planning at a sport and government level.
- Facilitation of the reform of soccer in Western Australia, which led to the creation of a new state body, the Western Australian Soccer Association, trading as Football West.
- Contributed $435,000 to the re-surfacing of Ern Clark Athletics Centre in the City of Canning featuring the synthetic track used at the 2004 Athens Olympics. This improvement brings the track up to the International Association of Athletics Federation’s standard and means it is now a contingent facility should Perry Lakes Stadium be unavailable for competition.
- The department continued to host the Standing Committee on Recreation and Sport and the Sport and Recreation Minister’s Council secretariat to 31 December 2004 and was invited to continue for a further year.
- The department held a persistent position on a number of national agenda issues such as fare equalisation and national championships rotation and management of the SCORS Governance Review of the impact of new and emerging governance models on sport and recreation service delivery.
- The department continued to embrace and promote Strategic Directions for Western Australian Sport and Recreation 2003-2005 (SD3). A review of the SD3 was completed and planning commenced for the preparation of the industry’s Strategic Directions for 2006-2008 (SD4).
- Through the Country Sport Enrichment Scheme the department provided funding of $209,000 for country and regional communities to access state and national level sporting events.
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