Building a healthier Australia through Play!
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Our newsroom features PLAY in the news, from around Australia and the globe
For all media enquiries please contact:
- Barb Champion - Executive Director – Play Australia
- (M) 0419 363 666
- (e) barb@playaustralia.org.au
Play Australia Media Releases and Interviews
Become our Partner in Play!
Following the launch of Play Australia’s five year strategy positioning play as a national health priority, the organisation is excited to present three key partnership opportunities over 2020–25, to help grow play within Australian communities and improve the health and wellbeing of all Australians. Read the Full Release as a PDF here.
$3 million to make sport and recreation more accessible in South Australia
Play Australia receives a share of the South Australian Government’s 2020-21 Sport and Recreation Development and Inclusion Program (SRDIP).
This funding is to support Play Australia’s '1000 Play Streets: Empowering a locally led model for our multicultural communities'.
Read more about the announcement on SA Premier Steve Marshall's website here.
Building a healthier Australia through Play!
We want to see a connected and healthy Australia where PLAY is a part of everyone’s daily life
This is the vision that Play Australia is committed to realising as the organisation launches their bold new five-year game plan to build PLAY in Australia as we move toward life post-COVID19.
Barb Champion interviewed on 6PR Morning with Gareth Parker
A terrific interview with our Executive Director, Barb Champion on Radio 6PR about encouraging more children back into our streets and the 1000PlayStreets movement.
'Go Play on Road' by Herald Sun
Play Australia is interviewed by Susie O’Brien from the Melbourne Herald Sun to encourage people to reclaim their suburban streets for play.
Professor Matthew Nicholson is interviewed on Channel 9 News
Professor Matthew Nicholson talks about all the benefits of safe street play on Channel 9 News. This story can be viewed on Twitter.
Play Streets Supports Healthier Kids
With the recent release of the Australian Physical Literacy Framework developed by Sport Australia, the Centre for Sport and Social Impact at La Trobe University, commissioned by Play Australia, have launched a new evidence review: “How Play Streets supports the development of physical literacy in children”.
Why won’t we let our kids walk to school?
"As we are emerging from our homes post COVID-19 and children are getting back to school, now is the perfect time to get our children walking there. But parents still seem hesitant to let them. This era of risk aversion by parents is creating problems for our children’s development.
Instead of being as safe as possible, children need to be as safe as necessary. Read More...
Play Australia responds to World Health Organisation on the state of children’s health
With many families experiencing home isolation and physical distancing, Play Australia is concerned about the impact this is having on children’s mental health, now more than ever. Play Australia has responded to the World Health Organisation’s Draft Discussion Paper ‘Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children and adolescents, adults and older adults’, seeking an increased commitment by governments, schools, the early childhood sector, families and communities to make changes and encourage children to play outside every day, as a matter of urgency. Read our full Media Release here.