A quarter of a century of hitting a little white plastic ball back and forth across a tennis table paid off for Derbarl Yerrigan Stolen Generation Officer Edward Brown when he landed a silver medal at the World Transplant Games on the Gold Coast in August.

The evaluation of the Indigenous Sport Program is an investigation and reporting process on the current status of the program from the perspective of the current partners and stakeholders.

The Annual Gascoyne Kickstarters Riverdash is a three day event of motorcycles, buggies and four wheel drives that ride over 500 kilometres through the harshest and most rugged parts of the Gascoyne, including through the Gascoyne River bed.

Twelve of the best young Indigenous netball talents Western Australia has to offer and three coaches travelled to Brisbane in July (13th–17th) to hone their skills at a five-day State Indigenous Netball Development Camp.

Julie Jackson in the latest person to join the Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) team in the role of Indigenous Sport Development Officer (ISDO).

A national Indigenous Sport Development Officers (ISDO) Conference held in Adelaide in February gathered ISDOs from all over Australia to provide networking, workshops, and opportunities to share ideas.

Indigenous Sport Development Officer Pilbara

The appointment of a new Indigenous Sports Development Officer (ISDO) is one of the immediate and exciting outcomes of a major review into the sport and recreation services and opportunities available to Indigenous communities throughout the Western Desert.

Wide-ranging issues were the focus of attention for Indigenous Sport Development Officers from throughout the State when they attended a two-day professional development workshop at the Department of Sport and Recreation's offices in Leederville in February.

The Chronicle is a regular newsletter of the Indigenous Sport Program.

The Indigenous Sport Development Officers work in cooperation with the Department of Sport and Recreation and the Australian Sports Commission's Indigenous Sport Program to help develop and promote sport and recreation amongst the Indigenous community of Western Australia.

The Indigenous Sports Program is focused on creating an environment to increase Indigenous participation in organised sport and recreation from local grass root through to elite levels.