Australia’s sporting Institutes and Academies have come together to adopt a new national strategy for dealing with high performance sports to help deliver a unified approach to support elite sport in Australia.
Minister for Youth and Sport, Senator Richard Colbeck announced the initiative following a meeting of Sport and Recreations Ministers in Adelaide recently.
“The National High Performance Sports Strategy (NHPSS) is about delivering a unified approach to high performance sport in Australia,” Senator Colbeck said.
“It was developed to support the priority of achieving sporting excellence,” he said.
“With under a year to go until Tokyo 2020 and a range of major international sporting events on home soil in coming years, it’s the perfect time to lock in our national strategy for sporting success at the highest level.”
Senator Colbeck said the NHPSS was a joint strategy of the National Institute Network (NIN), National Sporting Organisations (NSOs), and other system partners and positioned Australia’s high performance Institutes and Academies, athletes and coaches under a national framework which would strengthen relationships with communities, academic institutions, Government, industry and the private sector and embrace the common goal of National Pride and Inspiration through International Sporting Success.
Chief Executive of the Australian Institute of Sport, Peter Conde, acknowledged the efforts of the NIN, and leaders across the high performance system.
“A tremendous amount of energy and effort has been devoted over many months to reach this point and I congratulate all of our system partners in unifying to ensure the sustainability of high performance sport in Australia,” Mr Conde said.
“In particular, I’d like to pay tribute to work by Directors of the National Institute Network, along with our team at the AIS.”
He said the NHPSS was representative of the role of the AIS in leading and enabling the Australian high performance system
The 9-page National High Performance Sports Strategy can be accessed at this PS News link.
