Australian sports clubs targeted to lead by example and effect social change | Alana Schetzer

Given sport’s elevated role in society, behavioural changes at grass roots level can help combat systematic problems

Sport’s powerful role in Australia cannot be denied; more than 5.6 million women, men and children play some kind of sport regularly. It is not just the players, but the coaches, sports administrators, family and friends who provide an essential network that allows those millions to play sport every week.

It is this enormous web – affixed to possibly every person in Australia – that is being tapped into in the hope of addressing the colossal and systematic problems of family violence, bullying, racism and violence across the country.

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