Commonwealth Games Australia Competitors

CA is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia and our registered office and main office is in East Melbourne, Victoria. Originally formed in 1905 as the 'Australian Board of Control for International Cricket’, we are a not-for-profit organisation and a foundation member of cricket’s world governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC). CA operates all the Australian national representative cricket squads, including the Men's, the Women's, Youth, Indigenous, Inclusion and Indoor teams, and is also responsible for organising and hosting Test tours and One Day Internationals with other nations, as well as scheduling the home and international fixtures. We work in partnership with State and Territory cricket associations and support the development and growth of cricket in the community and globally. We have more than 320 employees, located across East Melbourne (Jolimont Street), the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane and the offices of State associations around the nation. While CA doesn't own nor control any other entities, we share lessons learned with State and Territory associations and other cricket bodies.

Australian Sports Commission is a Commonwealth entity within the Australian Government’s Department of Health portfolio, and incorporating high performance leader the AIS. It was established in 1985 and is governed by a board of commissioners appointed by the Australian Government with the board determining Australian Sports Commission’s overall direction, detailed allocation of resources and policy for delegated decisions. Australian Sports Commission is accountable to the Minister of Sport and to Parliament. Australian Sports Commission is administered from Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Bruce campus. Other AIS operations are located in various capital cities around Australia, as well as the Gold Coast and Varese in Italy. Australian Sports Commission also manages Sporting Schools https://sportingschools.gov.au which is is Australia’s largest school-based participation program to help children foster a lifelong interest in sport.

Athletics Australia is the national governing body for the sport of athletics in Australia. It is recognised as such by World Athletics, Australian Olympic Committee, Paralympics Australia, Commonwealth Games Australia and the Australian Sports Commission. Together with our State and Territory-based Member Associations, we ensure the encouragement and promotion of athletics in Australia and acting in the best interests of the sport of athletics. Athletics Australia also ensures adequate representation of Australia in athletics at the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games and other international meetings. Based at Athletics House in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park, Athletics Australia is a not-for-profit organisation.