Girls who are 15 now will be about 21 when Brisbane 2032 rolls around. But many will have walked away from sports by then.
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For Australia to build on its record-breaking Winter Olympics, it will need continued facility development, cheaper access and more pathways.
Ahead of the Brisbane Olympics, Australia must step up by developing esports talent pathways and investing in infrastructure.
Young women drop out of sport and many never return, but there are ways to encourage them to get back into it.
Backyard cricket is a key entry point for cricket participation but it is facing many challenges, including apartment living and modern technology.
The latest national survey of sports participation and engagement offers an insight into Australians’ physical activity choices.
A controversy involving a man dressing as a woman to access cheaper golf memberships highlights the challenges facing the sport, and women golfers, in Australia.
Some of the world’s best soccer players started off by playing futsal, an indoor variant of the sport. It’s growing fast in Australia, too.
So much is going right for soccer in Australia at the national level and in grassroots participation. But the A-League is struggling to convert its opportunities into wins.
Young LGBTQI+ people are much less likely to play sport than the broader population, new Australian research has revealed.
Many people are suffering due to cost-of-living pressures but have they impacted sports participation rates in Australia?
Although disabled students are supposed to have equal access to school sports, questions remain about whether they participate at the same rate as their nondisabled peers.
The popularity of cricket is not as dependent on TV broadcasts as you might think.
Girls in primary school are just as physically capable as their male classmates, our research shows.
There is much work to do if Australia is to eradicate various barriers to participation in sport.
The commonly believed mechanism for increasing sport participation assumes that elite sport performances result in a greater number of people taking up sport.
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