AUSactive’s strategic priorities for all levels of government to be presented at Senior Management Summit

Having evolved from Fitness Australia at the end of last year, AUSactive will be staging its inaugural Senior Management Summit next month, presenting an opportunity for business owners, corporate staff, key operating personnel and marketing professionals from across the industry to come together and learn from keynote speakers, expert panels and international leaders.

Being held in Sydney from 10am on 21st October, in advance of the AUSactive National Awards Gala that evening, the Summit will be a day of tailored content carefully crafted exclusively for anyone in the health and exercise industry who is passionate about what they do and is looking to accelerate their learning and knowledge for the future.

Summit sessions will include:
Session One - Movement for Movement
Over the past 2.5 years, exercise and fitness have been pushed into the spotlight in terms of looking after physical and mental health and wellbeing. As we continue to work towards further alignment with the preventative health sector, this session will hear from Huw Edwards, who will share his insights on ukactive’s journey of integration with the UK Health department and reflections from Ginni Mansberg on the role GPs play for prescribing exercise to their patients.

Additionally, we will speak to our Private Health Fund partners about initiatives benefiting personal trainers and fitness businesses.

Session Two - Let’s Go
What will sustainability, regulation and growth mean in the future of our industry and what crucial role will we as individuals and business play? Join us to hear from our panel of thought leaders who will each share their perspective, provide insights and tips on how our we can lift our game.

Session Three - Belonging
Health and fitness are for everyone, but how can our industry better harness diversity, equity and inclusion? Our keynote speakers will address these issues while our panel of subject matter experts will answer questions and provide further insights.

Government Advocacy strategic priorities
AUSactive recently set out the strategic priorities it aims to achieve in its government advocacy based on a priorities to have exercise, physical activity and fitness considered integral components of Australia’s preventative health thinking and policies.

These priorities include:

Local Government priorities
• To advocate that new developments and urban renewal projects provide sufficient open space for physical activity
• To advocate for the continued provision and/or establishment of community leisure facilities
• To advocate for public spaces to be available for exercise programs supervised by appropriately qualified AUSactive Exercise professionals
• To advocate that when an AUSactive professional is conducting a program in public space at no cost to participants any licence fee be waived
• To advocate for local government investment to deliver accessible group-based exercise programs and physical activations within community settings, facilitated by appropriately qualified AUSactive Exercise professionals (i.e., ‘Movement for Movement Action Plan’)
• To advocate for council owned facilities to operate with the highest quality standards by meeting the requirements of the AUSactive Quality Business Accreditation program

State Government priorities
• To advocate for AUSactive business member facilities and individual programs be classified as 'Essential Services'
• To advocate for recognition of AUSactive as the relevant State’s peak health and fitness body
• To encourage the provision of physical activity vouchers for all Australians
• To advocate for membership of relevant state government exercise and physical activity consultative groups
• To advocate for updating and harmonising the Fitness Code of Practice in all jurisdictions, including adoption in jurisdictions where not currently legislated

Federal Government Priorities
• To advocate for a national public preventative health campaign encouraging physical activity
• To increase interaction between the exercise sector and the Department of Health and for the exercise/fitness industry to be recognised under the Health portfolio
• To advocate for the implementation of the GAPPA commitment; more Australians more active more often
• To advocate for changes to the private health legislation recognising the role AUSactive members have in enhancing the nation’s wellbeing through preventative physical and mental health programs
• To advocate for Medicare to recognise the role AUSactive members have in enhancing the nation’s wellbeing through preventative physical and mental health programs
• To advocate for an increase in government investment in prevention (as a percentage of the health budget), with a clear focus on reducing physical inactivity
• To advocate for increased government investment in vocational education for Fitness occupations that are delivered under the nationally recognised fitness training package

Click here for tickets for the AUSactive Senior Management Summit.

Click here to book tickets for the AUSactive National Gala Awards.