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This message remains simple – it has never been more important to stay active to help keep our mental health in check. We hear this time and time again, but intention needs to be put into physical action! Read more here.
Why is Play Australia collaborating in the National Sports Convention in 2020?
An open letter to Play Australia's diverse members and stakeholders from Kieran Brophy, Assistant Director of Play Australia. Read Here.
A disturbing editorial from the UK suggests that 'children are experiencing additional harm due to social isolation, lack of protective school placements, increased anxiety and a drop in service provision from health services,' due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Where there are children, there is play. It is a universal impulse, as old as humanity. Physical play, verbal play, friendship play, solitary play – it is the exercise of body and imagination, marked by humour, challenge, invention and exploration. As essential to childhood as food and drink.
Dr. June Factor
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.
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.
“We want to see a connected and healthy Australia where PLAY is a part of everyone’s daily life.” – Play Australia
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.
A terrific interview with our Executive Director, Barb Champion on Radio 6PR about encouraging more children back into our streets and the 1000PlayStreets movement.
Play Australia is interviewed by Susie O’Brien from the Melbourne Herald Sun to encourage people to reclaim their suburban streets for play.
