While we're on high-profile organisations with image problems, Cricket Australia's FY16 financial filings is definitely worth a casual look-over. It turns out the key management personnel – and that's chairman David Peever, current directors Earl Eddings, former Wesfarmers chair Bob Every, Melbourne F1 boss John Harndem, token Tasmanian Tony Harrison, Qantas director Jacquie Hey, former Aussie paceman Michael Kasprowicz, former captain Mark Taylor and former Vocation director Michelle Tredenick, as well as former directors Wally Edwards, the late John Bannon and Kevin Roberts (who left the board in that fiscal year for an executive role and is considered successor to chief executive James Sutherland), plus "the executives with the authority for the strategic direction and management of the Company" took home $5.6 million in fiscal 2016. On that last definition, it could be Sutherland and his CFO, or it could be 25 managers. Piss-poor disclosure by anyone's standards. Either way, they took home less than the $6.06 million collectively trousered in FY15.
But crucially, as recently as the last home Ashes (with the next one on our shores this coming summer), CA directors received zero remuneration. All but the chairman were volunteers. That could have changed without disclosure but, has it not, Peever, Sutherland and an unidentified number of executives "with the authority" etc, are making off with hatfuls, all while the players cop shit for holding the line on the profit-share agreement Tubby himself inked 20 years ago. We'll be sure to look into this further for you, our dear readers. Standby.
