The long-awaited new Australian Rugby League Commission has been officially launched by chairman John Grant and hailed as a great new era for rugby league by chief executive David Gallop.
The commission, which has been almost four years in the making, will take over the game with immediate effect with the former ARL dissolved at a meeting at 8.30 (AEST) on Friday morning ahead of a media conference which also commemorated the opening the code’s new HQ at Moore Park.
Long-standing NRL chief executive David Gallop will assume a similar role with the new commission which is made up of seven other members from the business world.
The new set-up also brings to a close News Limited’s 17-year involvement in the running of the NRL.
The new board members are Gary Pemberton, the man widely credited with securing record broadcasting rights for the Sydney Olympics, Harris Farm founder and chairwoman Catherine Harris; brand strategist Ian Elliot and business heavyweights Peter Gregg and Jeremy Sutcliffe.
Highly-respected indigenous educationalist Dr Chris Sarra – Queensland’s Australian of the Year in 2009 and a key figure in the Indigenous All Stars concept – is also on board along with former NSW skipper Wayne Pearce.
The end of the current ARL will not affect the NSWRL and QRL, who will continue to oversee representative sides in their respective states.
The Country Rugby League will merge with the NSWRL and be based at the new HQ in Sydney.
Also on Friday, the NRL’s new $20 million headquarters were officially opened in a move Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese saying Rugby League Central would become the home of the sport in Australia.
The Federal Government chipped in $11 million of the $20 million needed to build the four-storey building at Moore Park, with the NRL funding $7.5 million and the NSW Government $1.1 million.
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