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Submission by Dr Bob Such, MP on 06 November 2008.
1. Ensure Australia's continued elite sporting success
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2. Better place sport and physical activity as a key component of the Government's preventative health approach
I welcome the opportunity to provide comment to the Sport Panel. With a view to improving community access and increasing broad participation in both sport and physical activity, I propose the following: • Conduct an audit of sporting facilities available to the public in local government areas, including those for individual and school activities, as well as team sport. • Establish guidelines for minimum sporting facilities, eg: swimming pools for communities with a given population level; off-road cycling tracks; gymnasiums adequate for the school population of both primary and high school campuses. • Negotiate with schools for their facilities to be made available for use by the wider community. • Ensure people have access to community sporting facilities on an informal basis, eg impromptu use of local tennis courts. • Ensure that existing and proposed facilities are kept in good condition, eg tennis court maintenance at the local level. • Establish a fund to provide assistance for young people to attend and participate in sporting competitions, both locally and interstate. • With fewer parents being available to coach or manage school sport due to the economic necessity to work, provide physical education teachers at primary school level where children are first exposed to a range team sports and group physical activities.
3. Strengthen pathways from junior sport to grassroots community sport right through to elite and professional sport
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4. Maintain Australia's cutting edge approach to sports science, research and technology
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5. Identify opportunities to increase and diversify the funding base for sport through corporate sponsorship, media and any recommended reforms, such as enhancing the effectiveness of the Australian Sports Foundation
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