Everyone has the right to participate in a sport and recreation environment that is fun, safe and healthy and to be treated with respect, dignity and fairness.
- Harassment in sport and recreation denies participants these rights.
- Harassment can diminish an individual's working/athletic performance and can affect their physical and emotional health.
- Harassment in sport and recreation can also result in action against an individual as well as an organisation.
The
Australian Sports Commission has developed a range of publications relating to the Anti-Harassment in Sport Strategy and are available for a small charge.
Harassment-free Sport: Guidelines for Sport and Recreation Organisations.
Harassment-free Sport: Guidelines for Sport Administrators (condensed version of above).
Harassment-free Sport: Guidelines for Athletes.
Harassment-free Sport Guidelines for Coaches.
Harassment-free Sport: Anti-disability Discrimination: Guidelines for Sport and Recreation Providers.
Play By The Rules
Play by the Rules provides information and online learning
about how to create safer and deal with discrimination, harassment and child
abuse for the sport and recreation industry.
Play by the Rules
is a partnership between the Australian Sports Commission and all
State/Territory sport and recreation and anti-discrimination agencies.
Play by the Rules provides information and online learning about how to prevent and deal with discrimination, harassment and child abuse for the sport and recreation industry.
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How climate change is affecting sport and recreation now and in the future.
The Western Australian Government has stated that drug cheats operate well outside the spirit of competition that Western Australians have come to accept.
It has been twenty-one years since a dedicated review was undertaken of country sport and recreation in Western Australia. In that
period there has been rapid change across Western Australia's social, economic and environmental contexts.
A review of recreation in drinking water catchments in South Western Australia.
Any form of violent behaviour outside the rules of a sport or recreational activity should not be condoned.
Organisations need to clearly articulate their stance on violent behaviour.
The Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) supports initiatives that aim to minimise the risk of children being harmed within the sport and recreation industry.
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