The Australian Clearinghouse for Sport is the pre-eminent information and knowledge-sharing platform for Australian sport.
The Clearinghouse brings together Australia’s leading sport and active recreation agencies, using Sport Australia as the principal information coordinator, to share news, evidence and insights about sport, human performance and physical activity. The Clearinghouse works to:
- Identify and acquire information of relevance to the Australian sport and active recreation sectors;
- connect people in sport and active recreation with complementary expertise;
- inform Australian sport practitioners (such as athletes, coaches, physical educators, scientists, medical providers, researchers, administrators, students, facility managers, policy makers, volunteers, and sporting officials) about good and promising practice in sport and active recreation;
- provide Australian governments at all levels with comprehensive and policy relevant analysis of research relating to sport and active recreation, and its value to the community; and
Provide Clearinghouse members with high quality information on sport, physical activity and active recreation.
The Clearinghouse is a central access point for knowledge about the Australian sport sector and for communication between sportspeople and sporting organisations. It is an entity of the Australian Sports Commission, itself an agency of the Australian Government. Access its website https://www.clearinghouseforsport.gov.au/ here.
Given the existence of the Clearinghouse with its focus on ‘active’ recreation and sport, the PaRC document library and this PaRC narratives website have purposely focused on ‘passive’ recreation, open space and park management, although of course no clear distinction can be maintained.
The Clearinghouse’s useful list of definitions of key terms in sport, for example, has been extracted and converted to a durable PDF format in a post in PaRC.
Canadian Sport Information Resource Centre
The Canadian equivalent is an excellent source of technical knowledge about sports played in that country. Click on SIRC Resources or its French version.
