Newsroom
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
Building a healthier Australia through Play!
Play Australia Media Releases and Interviews
Become our Partner in Play!
Submitted by Admin on 30 June, 2020 - 13:07Following 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
Submitted by Admin on 26 June, 2020 - 10:38Play 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!
Submitted by karenwilliams on 14 June, 2020 - 15:06“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.
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Barb Champion interviewed on 6PR Morning with Gareth Parker
Submitted by karenwilliams on 9 June, 2020 - 15:20A terrific interview with our Executive Director, Barb Champion on Radio 6PR about encouraging more children back into our streets and the 1000PlayStreets movement.
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'Go Play on Road' by Herald Sun
Submitted by karenwilliams on 9 June, 2020 - 00:00Play Australia is interviewed by Susie O’Brien from the Melbourne Herald Sun to encourage people to reclaim their suburban streets for play.
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