Senate debates
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Sports Culturre
9:36 am
Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- recognises:
- (i)
- the need for cultural change within some sporting organisations relating to problems including violence and attitudes towards women, and
- (ii)
- the high regard in which professional sportspeople are held in this country, and the role model status that they hold for young Australians; and
- (b)
- calls on the Government to:
- (i)
- facilitate dialogue of representatives from all sporting codes to discuss best practice in managing behaviour, and the possibility of establishing a universal code of conduct in professional sport, and
- (ii)
- invest in educational programs to promote more positive behaviours and attitudes.
Question agreed to.
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