Outcome 15: Development of a Stronger and Internationally Competitive Australian Sports Sector and Encouragement of Greater Participation in Sport by All Australians

Outcome 15 contributes to a competitive and clean Australian sports sector, based on excellence, integrity and leadership. The outcome also aims to encourage greater participation in sport by all Australians.

The Department helped achieve Outcome 15 in 2007–08 by supporting sport and recreation projects from grassroots to elite levels, and facilitating access to sporting and recreational opportunities for people to promote physical and mental health. The Department also supported activities to help detect and deter doping, and promote water and snow safety.

Responsibility for sport and recreation projects transferred from the former Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts to Health and Ageing in December 2007.

This chapter reports on the major activities undertaken during the year, addressing the performance information published in the Outcome 2 chapter of the 2007–08 Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Portfolio Budget Statements and the Outcome 15 chapter of the 2007–08 Health and Ageing Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements.

Outcome 15 was managed by the Population Health Division.