The Association's aim is to act as a collective voice to promote the interests and protect the welfare of Australia's elite netballers, as well as provide education and support to those players.
The remaining members of the ANPA's board are Hannah Petty, Jo Harten, Maddy Turner, Gabi Simpson, Sophie Garbin and Sasha Glasgow.
[3] Beginning in February 2023, the ANPA and Netball Australia were engaged in a pay dispute, with the current collective bargaining agreement due to expire on 30 September 2023; the ANPA had demanded a greater revenue share, which Netball Australia argued wasn't possible and signalling that it did not intend to increase Super Netball player wages as part of a new agreement, citing the organisation being $4.2 million in debt and following losses of more than $7 million in the past two years.
[4][5] The ANPA is exploring a partnership model with Netball Australia in the hope that it will lead to an increase in player salaries.
The ANPA rejected three year and one-year deal offers from Netball Australia; the three-year deal, which would have provided players with private health insurance and a three per cent increase in base salary, was rejected on the basis that the deal ran a very severe risk of locking players into an unsatisfactory deal for a long time owing to a lack of clarity on the finances and uncertainty regarding a strategic direction for netball, and the one-year deal, which would have provided a two per cent increase in base salary, was rejected on the basis that it failed to include any ‘upside’ mechanism which allows player to share in extra revenue they help generate for the game.