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Children playing a traditional Indigenous game
Children playing a traditional Indigenous game

The Indigenous Sport Program was developed to encourage Indigenous people to be more active and to play sport at all levels. The program also works to increase opportunities for Indigenous people to learn the skills needed to organise, deliver and manage community-based sport, and to ensure that talented Indigenous sportspeople are able to access the support they need to reach their sporting goals.

The Indigenous Sport program has a network of Indigenous Sport Development Officers who work with state and territory departments of sport and recreation. These officers look at the sporting needs of Indigenous communities and then develop programs, often in partnership with other sporting organisations, to deliver community-based sporting opportunities and services.

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Did you know?

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

Quick numbers

113 thousand people have so far completed the ASC online coaching course.
10 current or former AIS athletes won medals at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
56 current or former AIS athletes won medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
35 thousand kilometres were swum by Petria Thomas while at the AIS.
21 thousand people have so far completed the ASC online officiating course.
0.5 million people visit the AIS each year.