Federal Election: ALFA's Call to Action

National aquatic and recreation peak body, the Australian Leisure Facilities Association (ALFA) is calling on all political parties to commit to supporting the local leisure industry in providing more programs, opportunities and services than "all of sport put together."

In a pre-Federal election statement, ALFA highlights that there are an estimated 263 million visits per year to aquatic and recreation centres and that these visits improve the health and wellbeing of the local communities.

Highlighting the findings of the Federal Governments 'Crawford Review' and the 'National Preventative Health Task Force' reports, ALFA points out that "Australia's preventative health needs to be a critical focus.

"Yet our industry is ignored in terms of funding and understanding, each Party has an opportunity to build this into their election Policy."

ALFA requests that each Party demonstrates a commitment to the following in order to make a real contribution to preventative health within Australia:

• Prioritising locally delivered grassroots participation in physical activity as a preventative health action;
• Investing in the infrastructure that delivers community based physical activity;
• Investing in industry training for the aquatics, recreation and leisure facilities industry so that we can keep quality people in our industry;
• Working with leisure facilities to break down barriers to participation, making it more accessible and more enjoyable for every Australian to participate in the community physical activity and/or program of their choice, thereby increasing participation rates in physical activity.

For the full call to action, go to www.alfaleisure.org.auhttps://www.ausleisure.com.au/images/pdfs/ALFA%202010%20Federal%20Election%20Call%20To%20Action.pdf 

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