Sport Integrity Blog

Sport Integrity Australia’s commitment to learning from athlete experiences was evident again today at the Athlete Advisory Group meeting in Sydney.

This week Dr Gemma Payne attended the 23rd Triennial Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (IAFS).

Our National Integrity Manager Network met in Melbourne again this week to share their sport-specific issues, the commonalities across sport and their ideas and solutions.

Understanding the risk environments within sport will go a long way to creating a safe and supportive environment for children and young people.

The new Sport Integrity Australia Advisory Council met for the first time today.

Sport Integrity Australia's Head of International Relations, Strategic Policy and Intelligence, Darren Mullaly, attended the International Anti-Doping Arrangement (IADA) meeting in Paris earlier this week on Australia's behalf.

Our Sports Partnership Manager Richard Nicholson was honoured at the AIS today for his contribution to the Australian Paralympic Movement with a commemorative Paralympic Pin.

From 1 January 2024, the drug Tramadol is being added to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List.

Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) help increase our understanding of risks, vulnerabilities and threats to the integrity of sport in Australia and around the world.

Every year Sport Integrity Australia revises its Anti-Doping Education Plan in accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code International Standard of Education. The plan details our goals, objectives, resources, target audiences, interventions, and key activities for anti-doping education for each financial year. It helps us ensure Australian athletes and sports personnel are getting the best education possible in this space.

Surf Life Saving is where participants dedicate their time to protecting others. But how do they protect their participants?

Mental Health Awareness Month (October) encourages all of us to think about our mental health and wellbeing.

Whether you’re involved in sport at the elite level or watching a team of enthusiastic five-year-olds bouncing, passing or kicking a ball in the grassroots environment, it’s possible you might have seen poor sideline behaviour in sport at some stage.

In March 2022 Sport Integrity Australia and Victoria University (VU) ran the first Managing Integrity in Sport course to raise awareness and understanding of integrity threats and to upskill participants in sport integrity management as it relates to the National Integrity Framework (NIF).

Our inclination was to believe that grooming wouldn’t happen in our own backyard “but that attitude is what can enable abuse to occur”.

Our Safeguarding in Sport Continuous Improvement Program provides a nationally consistent approach to child safeguarding in sport.

Sport Integrity Australia is committed to Australian sport environments that are safe, supportive and friendly for children and young people.

Coming from a family of scientists, our Medical Advisor Laura Lallenec always knew her future would be in science.

What does Swimming Australia, Disability Sports Australia, AusCycling, Softball Australia and Basketball Australia have in common?

Sport Integrity Australia staff were privileged to have had separate visits this week from both the Dutch Minister for Sport, Conny Helder, and the newly-appointed Canadian Minister for Sport and Physical Activity, Carla Qualtrough.