Week 5: State and Local Government

Question 1

Structure of Sport Top to Bottom

Answer 1

NSO
SSO
Local Clubs/Community

Question 2

Structure of Elite Sport Top to Bottom

Answer 2

AIS
VIS
Regional Academies

Question 3

What is the role of Sport and Recreation Victoria?

Answer 3

• Ensuring greater access and opportunities for participation in sport and recreation by all Victorians
• Maintaining Victoria’s reputation as Australia’s leading state for sporting and major events
• Ensuring Victoria continues to be the home of the sport and recreation industries and administration
• Developing and improving the quality of community sport and recreation facilities
• Investing in major sports facilities to support high performance pathways

Question 4

VicSport:

Answer 4

• Independent member-based organisation
•Network of 40,000 clubs and associations and over 1.8million participants ,workers and
volunteers.
Key roles Include 
– Advocate
– Inform policy development
– Facilitate program delivery
– Build member’s capacity
– Research

Question 5

What is the mission of VicSport?

Answer 5

to lead the sport, active recreation and associated health agendas into the future.

Question 6

What problem has a users pay principle caused?

Answer 6

It has resulted in an increase in charges to community members for using recreation facilities and local playing fields.