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Submission by Hunter Surf Industry Cluster Inc on 30 March 2009.
2. Better place sport and physical activity as a key component of the Government's preventative health approach
- Examine Government frameworks to ensure an on-going focus on grassroots and community sport and physical activity.
examine effective ways of ensuring good acces to good safe facilities exist and where coastal works are needed or have been done to ensure that amenity is included as positive outcome of the process
- Examine Government programs to increase participation rates in sport and physical activity, including analysis of existing programs.
participation rates in surfing depends only on acess to safe and reliable circumstances our group as a thinktank has identified the possibility of using powre station waste water as awave creating device for a 'wavefarm
- Identify and recommend opportunities to break down barriers to participation at junior, adult and senior ages with a view to making it simpler and easier for Australians to participate in the sport or physical activity of their choice, including for women, the disabled and Indigenous people.
our cluster is engaged in a feasiblity of utilising the waste water from NSw's largest coal burning power plant . This water represents 63% of the coal burnt at coal powered electricity generation
- Recommend strategies to increase the effectiveness of the promotion of sport by the Federal Government to better communicate positive health and activity messages to the broader community.
for our sport -24/7 facilty using the filtered heated areated water to give ideal wave farms conditions in a wave basin
3. Strengthen pathways from junior sport to grassroots community sport right through to elite and professional sport.
- Examine the capacity of the system to ensure optimal and efficient delivery of the athlete and coach pathway for any given sport.
without certainty of circumstances -surfing as a sport means much travelling and left to chance of circumstances occuring tha are favourable
- Recommend the most effective support and recognition for the coaches, officials, umpires, administrators and volunteers who keep our community clubs alive.
to bepaid properly for their efforts
- Examine how relationships between the Commonwealth Government and National Sporting Organisations, State Sporting Organisations and Australia’s peak representative bodies at key multi-sports competitions may be strengthened to deliver better performance outcomes.
cooperation at all levels is essentual for any progressive initiative - especially our thoughts on ""sythetic wave basins ' BASED ON WASTE ENERGY.
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
OURS IS A ""NO BRAINER"" ENOUGH ENEGY GETS WASTED THRU THE 10,000 MEGALITRES A DAY OF WATER REPRESENTING 63% OF COAL BURNT.
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