Sport Integrity Australia (SIA)

Sport Integrity Australia, opens in a new tab (SIA) is the Australian Government agency responsible for addressing all sport integrity issues, this includes providing advice and assistance to counter the use of use of prohibited substances and methods in sport.

The agency focusses on policy development, intelligence, investigations (primarily of doping cases), education, outreach, and capability building, and is Australia's National Anti-Doping Organisation.

• National Integrity Framework (NIF), opens in a new tab, (accessed 1 September 2025). The Framework creates a consistent approach for sports to: protect their members; keep their sport safe and fair; deal with integrity threats and manage complaints; hold people who do the wrong thing accountable. It provides a suite of policies designed to target areas in most need of protection, including:
  • The Improper Use of Drugs and Medicines Policy, opens in a new tab (updated July 2025). Designed to protect athletes from harm caused by the improper use of medicines, supplements and illegal drugs.
• Supplements advice for athletes and sports, opens in a new tab, (accessed 28 August 2025).
• Sport Integrity Australia apps and VR, opens in a new tab are available free online or for Apple and Android devices.
  • The Sport Integrity App was originally developed with the goal to help Australian athletes compete clean. Since its launch in 2018, the app has been improved to meet the needs of athletes.
  • Health Effects of Doping app was developed in collaboration with Drug Free Sport New Zealand. It uses Augmented Reality (AR) to explore the health effects of performance enhancing drugs.
  • Virtual Reality Learning Resources are fun, educational and offered free online. They include 'Doping Control VR experience' and 'Ethical Decision Making in Sport VR experience'.
• Online education, opens in a new tab. Free and easy-to-use tool featuring online courses, videos and learning updates about the key areas of anti-doping such as prohibited substances and methods, Therapeutic Use Exemptions, doping control, intelligence and investigations. Courses include:
  • Clean Sport Basics (15-minute introductory course)
  • Anti-Doping 101
  • Annual Update course
  • Parents’ course
  • Coaches’ courses
• Regulation and anti-doping risk of supplements, opens in a new tab. SIA have developed resources designed to assist Sports Doctors and Sports Dieticians working with athletes to understand the regulation and anti-doping risk of medicines, medical and performance supplements.

Research

In 2022, SIA commissioned, opens in a new tab research to purchase and analyse 200 sports supplement products available online in Australia. The aim of the survey was to assess the likelihood of athletes accidentally purchasing a product containing one or more World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited Substances.

• 35% of tested products contained one or more WADA Prohibited Substances, demonstrating the high risk to athletes of using sports supplements.
• 57% of the products that tested positive for prohibited substance/s did not list the ingredient/s on either packaging or website - which can make athletes vulnerable to unknowingly breaching anti-doping regulations.
• The most likely products to be contaminated were those marketed as pre-workouts, fat burners, and muscle building.
• The full results and analysis of this survey were published in the international journal Drug Testing and Analysis, opens in a new tab in April 2025.