2016 election Liberal Party policy on supporting healthier lifestyles through sport. Healthier lifestyles contribute to better and longer lives for Australians. Unfortunately, almost two-thirds of Australians are overweight, including one in four children. Three-quarters of Australian kids spend their spare time watching television, yet only one third of children are getting the recommended hour of...

Townsville Enterprise, a group comprising the Council, local businesses and stakeholders has been actively seeking funding commitments from both the State and Federal Govern-ments and Opposition to replace the ageing stadium. Labor expects stadium construction to commence by early 2018 with the ground complete for the 2020 NRL season.

The inaugural Women's Big Bash League cricket competition scored a bigger TV audience than the men's A-League soccer season, the vice-captain of the Australian women's cricket team claims.

Australian cities have a history of state-supported major sporting stadiums. This has intensified into the neo-liberal era dating from the 1980s with state funding of major stadium development, despite the greatly increased professionalization of the various sporting codes using the stadiums and the presumable scope for funding of stadium infrastructure by these codes. The last...

Creating and regulating high performing cultures has emerged as a critical function of high performance sport management, however there is limited theoretical or practical clarity surrounding these organisational phenomena and processes (Cruickshank & Collins, 2013; Cruickshank et al., 2014; Fletcher & Arnold, 2011; Frontiera, 2010; Sotiriadou, 2013).