Our overall priority is to have exercise, physical activity and fitness considered integral components of Australia’s preventative health thinking and policies
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 % 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
