Position statement on mergers of like State Sporting Associations

The Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) considers there should be no financial benefit to a sport from any form of structural separation, i.e. by age, by gender, by geography or by activity.

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The State Government considers funding support to sports taking a "whole-of-sport" approach as a sound investment. Most such organisations have a strong volunteer base and are a crucial part of our State's social capital.

The State Government, through DSR, has encouraged organisations, whether funded or not, to develop a “whole of sport” approach. The benefits of this approach include:

• Improved service coordination and delivery.
• Securing economies of scale, e.g. pooling insurance, bulk purchasing. administration efficiencies, etc.
• Improved integration of sectional interests.

Where would you like to go next?

• Alcohol and physical activity
• Child protection
• Coaching
• Companion card for people with a disability
• Drugs in sport
• Fare equalisation
• Funding national sport organisations for operations
• Governance
• Harassment-free sport
• Hosting national championships - national leagues
• Inclusivity (substantive equality)
• Indigenous participation
• Integrity in sport
• Junior sport sponsorship from alcohol companies
• Mature-aged sport and recreation
• Officiating
• Photographing children
• Physical activity
• Sport/physical education in schools
• Sustainability
• Violence in sport
• Volunteers
• Water safety
• Working with Children Legislation