Position statement on sustainability

The State Government, through the Department of Sport and Recreation, has an expectation that sport and recreation service providers will familiarise themselves with the principles of the State Sustainability Strategy and factor in required responses in future strategic and business planning deliberations.

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The State Government finalised the State Sustainability Strategy in 2003 to meet the needs of current and future generations through integration of environmental protection, social advancement and economic prosperity. The document provides a broad policy framework that requires disciplines and portfolios to interpret practical relevance and the application of the framework in their own context.

Sustainability principles apply directly to the sport and recreation marketplace in all three areas:

• Social sustainability - includes contribution to social capital development, e.g. volunteer management and contribution to social cohesion;
• Economic sustainability - includes elements of organisational and financial sustainability; and
• Environmental sustainability - includes responsiveness to water conservation, energy efficiency and waste minimisation, and ecological footprinting.

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
• Mergers of like State Sporting Associations
• Officiating
• Photographing children
• Physical activity
• Sport/physical education in schools
• Violence in sport
• Volunteers
• Water safety
• Working with Children Legislation