Patrons

Rodney Cavalier AO
Rodney Cavalier won the NSW Parliament seat of Fuller in October 1978 and subsequently held the seat of Gladesville after an electoral redistribution which abolished the seat of Fuller in 1981. He was Minister for Energy and Planning in the Wran ministry and later Minister for Education in both the Wran and Unsworth governments until his electoral defeat in March 1988. Prior to his election to the NSW Parliament Rodney Cavalier was employed as a trade union official and was an advisor to the Federal Minister for Labour (1973). He was a member of the NSW Administrative Committee of the ALP from 1975 to 1978.
Following his parliamentary career Rodney Cavalier worked for two years as a journalist with The Australian Financial Review. He is currenlty the Chair of the CEW Bean Foundation and Chairman of the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust.

 

 

 

 

 

Greg Chappell MBE
Greg Chappell played 87 test matches and captained Australia 48 times. He retired from test cricket in January 1984 as the highest run-getter in Australian test history (7,110) surpassing the previous record held by Sir Donald Bradman (6,996). This milestone was reached in his last test appearance at the Sydney Cricket Ground, where he also set a new catching record for fieldsmen (122).
He received an MBE in 1979 for services to cricket and was inducted into the Australian Sport Hall of Fame in December 1986.
Since his retirement from cricket, Greg Chappell has served as a Board member on the Australian Cricket Board and Queensland Cricket, as well as serving as an Australian cricket selector for three years. He has also worked as a cricket commentator and he is a best-selling author. He is Patron and a Board Member of the Leukaemia Foundation of South Australia.