The Sports Federation of Queensland - QSport

• need for a rationalised three tiered program of integrated assistance to sport
• acknowledging sport enhances physical and mental health, quality of life, community values, individual and team based personal development, role model provision and economic activity
• needs to be integrated with policy and program support for recreation and other elements of broader sector
• needs to present physical and financial resources allocated as investment in socio economic activity, reflecting growing industry size (including gambling related revenue factor), providing more employment and (with gambling related revenue) more tax revenue, justifying ongoing enhanced extended funding cycles
• needs to be collaboratively and consultatively driven with organised sport structure based on partnership with peak industry bodies
• needs to have bipartisan support and involve longer term planning/ database eg. State Government Ten Year Sporting Facilities Development Plan, with three year funding cycles and visible access/ decision making processes

* NB: Federal Government Support - (major) elite/ participation, major facilities, NSO's, Sport Industry Australia;
State Government Support- elite/ participation, major facilities, SSO's, SFQ;
Local Government Support- (minor) elite/ participation, minor facilities, clubs and schools.

• need to encourage participation for sport related benefits to individual growth in formative, pre-adult life
• needs to be a value dominated national policy on sport for all over time for resourcing and positioning of junior sport as fundamental base of sport pyramid
• needs to emphasise the importance of the community based, participant driven system to long term health of sport
• needs to properly manage the increasing emphasis on extracting talented young/ elite performers and its impact on playing standard/ enjoyment level of majority participant base
• needs to have government agencies specialising on elite talent identification and development accountable to and inclusive within overall strategies (not operating exclusive to sport structure)
• needs to address teenage participation and retention issues via greater involvement of target market

• needs to be ownership of training for sport to ensure quality and service delivery
• need for sporting bodies to become familiar with and support the work of training bodies in areas of needs analysis and development of vocational training packages
• needs to be enhanced effort to obtain, train and retain volunteers, using training and recognition of training as selling points, with cost to be reasonable and delivery streamlined and accessible
• need for tertiary level training to be wider in application/ relevance across sports to optimise limited but growing employment opportunities

• need for community, including governments, to take balanced approach to Olympic dimension vis a vis participation base being properly resourced, with sport to optimise opportunities short and longer term of major events such as Sydney Olympics
• need for specialist government agencies dealing with elite dimension to be accountable to sports and providing more support for those sports not directly involved in programs
• need for talent identification and development opportunities for individuals/ teams aspiring to optimise potential to create public interest to drive community support and government/ industry involvement
• need for sports to manage ownership of and relationship with first tier dimensions eg. national leagues, to ensure second and third tiers not deteriorated but changed in a managed way
• need to emphasise that national leagues are "means to an end" for sports and "not end in themselves" at unreasonable expense of more amateur, volunteer resourced support structure
• need for elite dimension facility requirements to be qualified by revenue earning capacity relative to other less resourced dimensions
• need for elite dimension's domination of media/ sponsor resources to be balanced against needs of other less resourced dimensions

• need for sports to plan for rationalisation of traditional club locations relative to market forces within and without sport eg. changed competition structures, demographics
• need for clubs to plan for acquisition and development of administrators, coaches etc to run viable clubs, recognising the still essential nature of volunteers
• need to identify tasks expected of volunteers (and paid employees) and to ensure training and recognition of effort etc occur
• need to optimise school to club participant pathway in maintaining participation
• need to coordinate planning and development with local authorities eg. councils, schools, other sporting and recreational activities, other community interests and groups, including for shared usage of facilities

• need to plan for ageing population and potential to retain sports' participants on and off field for own benefit and of younger junior/ adult levels
• need for specialist government agencies to involve sport in planned approach to nature and level of Masters Games promoted in markets
• need to have sports adopt the principles of "Play On" report in relation to conduct of masters sport
• need for sports to be ultimate determinant of extent and coverage of masters sport activity within markets

• need for sports to analyse the nature and extent of coverage of sport by media concerns and the rationale for that involvement
• need for sports to be pragmatic in approach to media for coverage
• need for sport to emphasise to media owners/ editorial dimensions the benefits sport brings to the community media survives on at all levels of sport

• need for sports to be professional and pragmatic in approaches to and expectations of sponsors
• need for sports to demonstrate "value for money" on appropriate levels of sponsorship sought, be it a retail/ sales outcome or a profile raising related benefit sponsors seek

• need for sports to embrace principles of sport for all, recognising realistic constraints in some activities but encouraging appropriate involvement of all where reasonable

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• need for sport to emphasise concept of more active, sport involved Australia as positive for well being of community and individuals in it, reducing call on public health system by reducing incidence of mental and physical deterioration through active "on and/or off field" involvement in sport