36-510: The Super Netball League (known predominantly by its sponsored name Suncorp Super Netball ( SSN )) is a professional netball league featuring teams from across Australia . It superseded the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship , which also included teams from New Zealand , as the top-level netball league in Australia in 2017. Since 2019, the league has been governed on behalf of Netball Australia by an independent commission. Its main sponsor
72-597: A team coached by Noeline Taurua , captained by Geva Mentor and also featuring Caitlin Bassett , Karla Pretorius and Stephanie Wood , Sunshine Coast Lightning finished the 2017 season as inaugural champions after defeating Giants Netball 65–48 in the grand final. In 2018 they retained the title after defeating West Coast Fever 62–59 in the grand final. In 2019 , Briony Akle guided New South Wales Swifts to their first Suncorp Super Netball title. Despite losing their new captain, Maddy Proud , to injury early in
108-927: A true giant in Australia, doubling its assets to nearly AUD 85 billion ($ 65 billion). During a retail banking review in 2007, Suncorp determined that its credit card portfolio was a non-core asset and entered into talks to sell its 100,000 card/$ 230 million credit-card portfolio to Citibank. Citibank now handles the operational aspects of credit whilst the Suncorp brand remains on the cards and Suncorp continues to provide customer interaction. As of 2007, Suncorp had assets of over A$ 95 billion, over 9 million customers, and over 16,000 staff. Suncorp operated 232 retail and business banking outlets, predominantly in Queensland. GIO operated 34 agencies in NSW and Victoria. An additional 157 retail branches and services centres were added with
144-813: Is Suncorp Group . Sunshine Coast Lightning were the inaugural Suncorp Super Netball winners. In May 2016, Netball Australia and Netball New Zealand announced that the ANZ Championship would be discontinued after the 2016 season . In Australia , its replacement league – initially known as simply the National Netball League before an official name was decided upon – included the five former Australian ANZ Championship teams ( Adelaide Thunderbirds , Melbourne Vixens , New South Wales Swifts , Queensland Firebirds and West Coast Fever ) plus three brand new franchises: Collingwood Magpies , Giants Netball and Sunshine Coast Lightning . With
180-745: Is an Australian finance, insurance and banking corporation based in Brisbane , Queensland , Australia . It was formed on 1 December 1996 by the merger of Suncorp, Metway Bank and the Queensland Industry Development Corporation (QIDC), and is one of Australia's mid-sized banks (by combined lending and deposits) and its largest general insurance group. Queensland established the State Accident Insurance Office in 1916, to provide mandatory injury compensation insurance to workers in
216-736: Is currently branded Suncorp Stadium. It is a rectangular sporting stadium located in the Brisbane suburb of Milton , and is the home of the Brisbane Broncos and Queensland Reds . Suncorp is also the title sponsor of the Suncorp Super Netball competition in Australia. The naming rights to buildings, including Suncorp Place in Sydney and Suncorp Plaza in Brisbane, are also held by the group. 2023 Suncorp Super Netball season The 2023 Suncorp Super Netball season
252-580: The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission blocked the deal. Suncorp acquired insurance joint ventures with motoring clubs RACQ and RAA in 2001, but chose to divest them in 2010. Suncorp entered into a joint venture agreement with RACT Insurance in Tasmania in 2007, but sold its 50% interest back to RACT in July 2021. Suncorp holds the naming rights for Lang Park , which
288-597: The New South Wales Swifts 60-59 after an extra time Grand Final thriller. This season was the last season to feature the Collingwood Magpies , who withdrew from the competition at the end of the season due to financial difficulties. Important dates in relation to player signings for the 2023 season are: Players were permitted to sign one-year contracts, owing to the expiration of Netball Australia 's collective bargaining agreement with
324-712: The Promina Group in 2007. Tal Australia purchased Asteron Australia from Suncorp in December 2018. On 19 April 2009, Suncorp announced a re-branding of the banking arm of the company to Suncorp Bank , to emphasise that Suncorp was a bank with an insurance arm, not an insurance company with a banking division. In July 2022, Suncorp Group agreed terms to sell Suncorp Bank to the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group for A$ 5 billion . However, in August 2023,
360-527: The Metropolitan Permanent Building Society in 1959. In the late 1980s, Metropolitan joined the trend among Australia's building societies to expand into becoming full-scale banks. In 1988, Metropolitan abandoned its status as a building society to reincorporate as a bank. Metway, as the new bank was called, listed publicly and began acquiring a number of rival banks and building societies. By the mid 1990s, Metway had become
396-655: The Promina acquisition. In June 2013, Goldman Sachs 's Special Situations Group, the proprietary investment unit of the investment bank, purchased some of Suncorp Group Ltd.'s loans for about US$ 863 million. In the summer of 2013 as European lenders were divesting their loans portfolios, in Australia, hedge funds and investment banks were buying them. In 2013, distressed-debt investors , seeking investment opportunities in Asia, particularly in Australia, acquired discounted bonds or bank loans of companies facing distressed debt, with
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#1732779576051432-454: The SEN bid was preferred by broadcasters Fox Netball over the alternate bid put forward by Netball Victoria , which suggested a regional team 'floating' between Geelong , Bendigo or Ballarat . The following table shows a list of all of venues that have been used throughout the 2023 Suncorp Super Netball season . Where venues have had other/sponsored names, only those names in place from when
468-500: The SGIO's privatisation came in 1985. Under new legislation, the company dropped the SGIO name and became Suncorp, and its employees lost their status as civil servants. At the same time, Suncorp became an independent corporation, although still government controlled. By the mid 1990s, Suncorp was an allfinanz (i.e. with combined banking, financial, and insurance operations) group and had assets of nearly $ 10 billion. Metway Bank started as
504-499: The closing date, according to media reports. On 21 July 2023, the league announced that the Sports Entertainment Network (SEN) , led by chief executive Craig Hutchison , was awarded the license for a team to be based in south-east Melbourne . As part of the licensing agreement, Netball Australia will operate the team for the rest of 2023 before transitioning to SEN for 2024 and beyond. ABC News reported that
540-453: The company also trimmed its retail network, shutting down a number of redundant branches. After its integration phase, Suncorp-Metway adopted a new strategy. It decided to launch itself on a truly national scale, replacing its allfinanz model with a new financial conglomerate strategy. The company wanted to expand, particularly in its more profitable insurance division. It made its first acquisition in 2001 by taking over GIO General Ltd , which
576-679: The grand final they defeated Melbourne Vixens 70-59. In May 2023, news reports disclosed that the Collingwood Magpies were in financial distress, and later that month the Collingwood Football Club announced it would withdraw its netball team at the conclusion of the 2023 season . The 2023 premiership was won by the Adelaide Thunderbirds, defeating the Swifts 60–59 after extra time was required in
612-590: The grand final. It was the Thunderbirds' first national league premiership in a decade, and came off the back of years of lowly finishes in Super Netball. Following the demise of the Magpies, speculation circled as to who would be awarded the eighth license for the 2024 season and beyond. Submissions for the new license closed on 20 June 2023, with as many as six initial bids being whittled down to two by
648-436: The group became subject to state regulatory oversight. In 1971, the SGIO took another step toward full-fledged corporate status, forming its own board of directors. At that time, the operations involving injury compensation for workers were placed under a separate board. By 1976, as SGIO's insurance operations took on a more commercial orientation, and the company closed down its building society operations. The next move toward
684-584: The largest Queensland-based bank. Its operations extended into the other eastern Australian states and the assets of the bank were more than $ 7 billion. QIDC had its origins in Agbank, which was a state government farming financier inaugurated in 1902. In 1986, new Queensland legislation incorporated and regulated the bank as the Queensland Industry Development Corporation. By the mid 1990s, QIDC had assets of approximately $ 3 billion. In response to sweeping changes in Australia's financial and insurance industries in
720-435: The mid-1990s, and especially the increasing convergence of the banking and insurance sectors, the state owned QIDC and Suncorp were amalgamated with Metway Bank in 1996. The new company, Suncorp-Metway, became one of the largest insurance and finance groups in Australia, ranking fifth in the national market. By 1998, the company's combined assets exceeded $ 22 billion. The Queensland government initially controlled 68 percent of
756-659: The middle of the decade. It acquired 50 percent of the Queensland-based RACQ Insurance, a joint venture originally formed between AMP and RACQ . Suncorp bought out AMP's share of the joint venture in 2002. Also in 2002, Suncorp purchased half of RAA Insurance from the RAA . In 2004, the company purchased Tasmania's RACT Insurance from the RACT . Suncorp then began preparations for a still larger takeover of insurance giant Promina Group Limited . By early 2007,
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#1732779576051792-546: The new company, but quickly made good on its promise to sell most of its stake. In 1997, the company conducted a public offering that reduced the government's stake in Suncorp-Metway to 4 percent, with the last remaining government shares sold a year later. In 1999, Suncorp-Metway completed the integration of the Metway, QIDC and Suncorp operations, and launched a single unified Suncorp-Metway brand. As part of that process,
828-744: The notable exception being health insurance. It is the largest banking and insurance corporation headquartered in Brisbane. Suncorp is the parent company of insurance company GIO , which is mainly used as a general insurance company representing Suncorp outside Queensland, offering similar products to the Suncorp branded insurance product in Queensland. Suncorp trades under a number of brands, including AAMI , Apia, Shannons, InsureMyRide, Vero, Terri Scheer, Bingle, CIL and Tyndall insurance brands in Australia, and Vero, Asteron, Guardian Trust, Tyndall, Vero Liability, AA Insurance, SIS, CMV/AXIOM and Autosure brands in New Zealand. Those assets were acquired with
864-432: The players. The following table is a list of players who moved clubs/leagues into Super Netball, or were elevated to a permanent position in the senior team during the off-season. It does not include contracted players who were re-signed by their original Super Netball clubs. Di Honey (AC) For the second consecutive year, the pre-season Suncorp Team Girls Cup competition was staged. The round-robin and playoff tournament
900-677: The potential of profitable returns if the companies' performance or their debt-linked assets improves. In 2013 Australia was one of the biggest markets for distressed-debt investors in Asia. Suncorp Business Services appointed its new CEO, Matt Pancino, on 13 June 2014. Pancino formerly worked as the Chief Information Officer for the group. Suncorp was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2020, Suncorp admitted to wage theft dating back to 2014. In June 2023, it
936-693: The same venue. Locations to have hosted the tournament so far include Brisbane , Melbourne and the Gold Coast . The regular season is played across 14 rounds, with the league's eight teams playing each other twice in home and away fixtures. In January 2019, Netball Australia announced it would form an independent commission to become the governing body of Suncorp Super Netball. In April 2019 they named five commissioners which included Marne Fechner, Netball Australia's CEO. Two more commissioners were appointed in May and August 2019. In October 2016, Suncorp Group
972-528: The season as both minor premiers and overall champions. In the grand final they defeated West Coast Fever 66–64. In 2021 , with a team coached by Briony Akle and co-captained by Maddy Proud and Paige Hadley , New South Wales Swifts won their second Suncorp Super Netball title. In the grand final they defeated Giants Netball 63–59. In 2022 , head coach Dan Ryan and captain Courtney Bruce led West Coast Fever to their first premiership . In
1008-447: The season, Swifts finished the regular season in second place. In the major semi-final, they lost to Sunshine Coast Lightning . However, they then defeated Melbourne Vixens in the preliminary final. In the grand final they faced Lightning again but this time defeated them 64–47 to emerge as champions. In 2020 , with a team coached again by Simone McKinnis and co-captained by Kate Moloney and Liz Watson , Melbourne Vixens finished
1044-499: The state's business sector. New legislation soon after created a larger insurance body, the State Government Insurance Office (SGIO) which took over the State Accident Insurance Office. General insurance, third party and life products were added. SGIO later expanded into building society operations, superannuation, and finance. In 1960, new legislation established the SGIO as a separate corporation, and
1080-442: The titular campaign established in 2017 that aims to decrease the dropout rate in junior netball. The league's eight teams are divided into two pools, where they play each of their fellow pool members once. A fourth round is then held to determine final placings across the combined pools, and a champion is crowned from the match held between the two top-ranked pool teams. Matches are held over three consecutive days and are all played at
1116-495: The two companies had agreed the terms of a merger deal valued at AUD 7.9 billion ($ 5.9 billion), which represented one of the largest acquisition deals completed in Australia's financial sector since the beginning of the new century. Promina was formerly part of the UK-based insurance giant Royal and Sun Alliance until it spun off the business in Australia as a separate public company in 2003. The merger transformed Suncorp into
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1152-496: The venue was being used in the league have been listed. The following table shows a list of all of venues that have been used throughout the entirety of Suncorp Super Netball. Where venues have had other/sponsored names, only those names in place from when the venue was being used in the league have been listed. Beginning in 2019, a structured round-robin tournament known as the Team Girls Cup has been conducted, named for
1188-557: Was announced as Netball Australia 's principal partner from 2017 to 2021. The agreement included naming rights to the new league. In August 2021 this agreement was renewed for another five years. Other sponsorship partners include the Australian Institute of Sport , Nissan Australia , Origin Energy , HCF , ASICS , Cadbury and Gilbert Netball . Suncorp Group Suncorp Group Limited , known simply as Suncorp ,
1224-494: Was announced that remediation of the theft amounted a total $ 32 million in wages, misappropriated from 15,800 staff. Suncorp has been granted a MySuper authority, enabling it to continue to receive default superannuation contribution from 1 January 2014. Suncorp covers nearly all areas in wealth and banking, including life insurance, general insurance, commercial insurance, Compulsory Third Party (CTP), banking, finance, superannuation agricultural banking and business banking,
1260-653: Was the seventh season of the premier netball league in Australia . The season commenced on Saturday 18 March and concluded with the Grand Final on Saturday 8 July at John Cain Arena . The defending premiers were the West Coast Fever , who were eliminated in the Preliminary Final by the New South Wales Swifts . The Adelaide Thunderbirds won their first premiership in 10 years, narrowly defeating
1296-522: Was then part of AMP . That purchase made Suncorp-Metway the second-ranked in Australia in terms of income from general insurance in annual premiums. The company carried out another rebranding exercise in 2002, adopting the Suncorp name for all of its Queensland operations, and for non-insurance operations outside of the state. The company's insurance operations, excluding Queensland, took on the GIO name. Suncorp continued to build up its insurance portfolio into
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