Introduction

The Australian Sports Commission's Indigenous Sport Program (ISP) aims to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in sport and recreation with a specific community development focus. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations offers the Sporting Chance Program, which focuses on the delivery of projects that use sport and recreation as a vehicle to increase the level of engagement of indigenous students to improve their educational outcomes.
For profiles on indigenous athletes visit the athlete profiles topics page or look under the relevant sport i.e. Cathy Freeman profile will be under Athletics Australia.

Links

• Aborigines in sport by Colin Tatz, in ASSH Studies in Sports History, 1987, No. 3. (PDF)
• Play by the rules website has information for clubs and sporting organisations relevant to harassment, ethics, and discrimination and free online training in a number of these concept areas specifically designed for coaches, officials, administrators, players and parents.
• Influence of Aboriginal players is a short history of Aboriginal involvement in Australian football.
• Selected Bibliography on Indigenous Sport, Sportsmen and Sportswomen 2004

Organisations

• National Aboriginal Sports Corporation Australia.

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Australia is one of only two nations to have competed in every modern Summer Olympic Games.

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