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Government involvement in sport up until the 1970s was fairly limited with local governments playing a major role through the provision of sporting facilities. [1] However, this changed over the next two decades with an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey in 2001–2002 finding that approximately $2 billion was spent on sport by three levels of government – 10 per cent from the Australian ...
The organization was founded by 42 individual sporting organizations. By 1985, the organization had 123 affiliates. These organizations represent 5.8 million Australians. [3] In November 2009, CAS announced that it was stepping back from its role as an advocate and governing body for the Australian sports industry. [4]
Sport is an important part of Australian culture and dates back to the early colonial period. The first of the country's mainstream sports to become established in order of their organisation were cricket, Australian rules football, rugby union, tennis, soccer, basketball, netball and rugby league.
In 1990, the Australian Sports Drug Agency Act 1990 was passed, which took control of the doping tests away from the Australian Sports Commission and put it into the hands of an independent doping control agency as of 17 February 1991. [64] Rugby league in the 90s was dominated by structural problems resulting in the Super League war. Following ...
Women's sports organisations in Australia (3 C) Pages in category "Sports organisations of Australia" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia, [1] headquartered in Sydney.Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only established in 1961 as the Australian Soccer Federation.
Australia's Winning Edge strategy provides a new leadership direction for the AIS, with national sports organisations taking full responsibility for AIS sports programs at the end of 2013. [10] 2013: AIS Combat Centre established. 2014: Australian Institute of Sport launched a new brand and logo. [11] Annual awards renamed AIS Sport Performance ...