Following the recent 2014 Commonwealth Games, the Board of Athletics Australia Limited, in partnership with the Australian Sports Commission, commissioned an independent review of the design, delivery and administration of Athletics in Australia to gather and evaluate evidence about their strengths and weaknesses and provide recommendations to Athletics Australia (AA) on how best to address them.

The Panel considers a controlled and transparent implementation of the recommendations in this report the most critical outcome of the review. Oversight and reporting systems need to be established to ensure AA implements the recommendations in line with the proposed Implementation Plan set out in the report. This must be done in an open and detailed manner.