Sport Governance Benchmarking Report 2023

Since 2021 the Australian Sports Commission has released an annual sport governance benchmarking report. The governance skills of Australian sporting staff are seen as increasingly important to develop. This best practice report is indicating progressive governance skill development across 9 measurement principles. The 2023 report shows an improvement in governance performance across 32 national sporting organisations with an overall increased focus on sport integrity and child safeguarding, and a drop in board diversity and evaluation processes.