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The Australian Labor Party in its 1983 election sport policy recommended the establishment of a sports commission to provide a more co-ordinated approach to sport. [7] In 1984, an Interim Committee report recommended its establishment. The Australian Sports Commission was formally established by the Australian Sports Commission Act 1985. [5]
The NSIC is funded by the Australian Sports Commission and is housed in the Corporate Services Building of the Australian Sports Commission at the Australian Institute of Sport campus in Canberra. [1] [2] [3] The centre was established in 1982 as the Australian Institute of Sport Information Centre. The centre was renamed the National Sport ...
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. [3] The institute's 66-hectare (163-acre) headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra.
In 1985, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) was established to improve the Australian Government's administration of sport in terms of funding, participation and elite sport. [6] The 1989 Senate Inquiry into drugs in sport resulted in the establishment of the Australian Sport Drug Agency (now called Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority ...
In 1994, it became a partner of the Australian Sports Commission's Olympic Athlete Program, which provided $350,000 to employ eight full-time coaches. [5] In January 1995, there were 11 full and part-time administrators and 10 full-time coaches and a budget of $1 million. [ 8 ]
Through the Australian Sports Commission, the federal government also sponsors OWIA to the tune of more than a million dollars a year. [ 4 ] In 2009, the OWIA lobbied the government to increase its annual budget from A$2.1m to A$29.4m (which is still only a fraction of the A$132m that Canada , the host of the 2010 Olympics is spending.) which ...
The Confederation of Australian Sport (CAS) is the highest national body for sport in Australia. It was established in 1976 to advance the interests of the Australian sports community and to give the industry a united voice in discussions and negotiations with governments and key stakeholders.
A few years later, in 1984, the Australian Sports Commission was created to better address the distribution of funds to support sport. [90] It had a budget of A$109 million in 2000. [59] By 2009, the Australian Sports Commission had a budget of A$150 million, up from A$5 million when it first was created. [90]