Professional sport
Report
Out of bounds: coal, gas and oil sponsorship in Australian sports
Many Australian sport organisations are beginning to take action to reduce their climate pollution footprint and leverage their significant media profiles to promote environmentally positive behaviours. This report quantifies the number and value of fossil fuel sponsorships in Australian sport.
Discussion paper
Review of the anti-siphoning scheme: consultation paper
The Albanese Government committed to undertake a review of the television anti-siphoning scheme during the 2022 federal election campaign. This consultation paper initiates the review and sets out a range of issues associated with the regulation of sports coverage.
Discussion paper
Getting ahead of the game: athlete data in professional sport
This discussion paper aims to ignite a conversation about the current reality that Australian professional sports are collecting extraordinary amounts of personal information about athletes. Concerningly, this data—which is continuous, personal, sensitive, and can be intimately revealing—amounts to excessively more information than has been shown to be beneficial to athletes, or to be capable of...
Guide
Guidelines for addressing spectator racism in sports
These guidelines are intended to promote best practice responses to spectator racism at the professional sporting level. They identify actions that can be taken consistently across sporting codes to ensure that spectators, officials and players are safe, and to promote awareness of what to do and how to respond to incidents of spectator racism.
Report
AFL fans' perception of climate change and of AFL action on climate change
This report documents the findings of a survey of 567 Australians and their views on AFL action on climate change. The research was undertaken by the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub on behalf of FrontRunners, a movement of athletes working to protect the future of sport.