Textual narratives explaining key concepts and specific subjects. Cascading from general to specific, eventually they will include variously concept summaries, subject summaries and geographic summaries.
This rather charming memoir of a personal journey along the Kokoda Track is by Ron Turner, former Ranger in Charge and District Ranger in Victoria’s and Queensland’s national parks systems.
Ron is an accomplished writer: see his First Ranger: A Memoir and Cooloola and its Hinterland in our Document Library as well as his lighthouse series (also relevant to PaRC) indexed on the website of the Queensland Science Network.
Click here for the report of the Ministerial Task Force on the Ageing, July 1989, signed by the Queensland Council for the Ageing and prepared under the aegis of the Department of Family Services Queensland.
This report presents the proceedings of a seminar in November 1992 on the Design and Management of Aquatic and Recreation Facilities. It is credited to the Ministry of Sport and Recreation of the Western Australian Government and the City of Gosnells. (7.4 MB). The report is about 66 pages, with the final few pages appearing to have been mis-numbered.
This report Games to Play Sitting presents some 54 games designed for the elderly and disabled. It was released by the Division of Recreation and Sport, South Australia, but the games are credited to the Occupational Therapy Department, St. James University Hospital, Leeds, England. February 1979, about 32 pages.
A Sport and Recreation Policy for the Shire of Herberton is a slim 9 page report arising from Council’s 1994-1995 Corporate Plan.
The State Mountain Bike Plan – Mt Lofty Ranges Region 2001-2005 (24.5 MB) was published by the Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing in October 2001.
This Final Report, Stanthorpe Shire Sport & Recreation Facility Needs Study (9.3 MB), by consultants Sinclair Knight Merz, is dated August 1997. About 82 pages.
This pair of guides for teachers and other leaders, the Get Active Schools Program by Sport and Recreation Queensland, is dated 2004:
Get Active Queensland Schools Program – Primary School (70.1 MB), about 137 pages.
Get Active Queensland Schools Program – Secondary School (65 MB), about 176 pages.
People may ask why PaRC publishes documents written a couple of decades ago dredged up from various private and public collections. Partly this is because some of these old reports and old programs will be useful source material for historians and researchers; partly because they can be cut and pasted into modern documents.
We believe that many modern practitioners are let loose in their local government or departmental office without sufficient mentoring, given the turmoil and turnover in the state and national public services. But we ask PaRC readers to send us modern editions where old documents have been superseded.
SportsFun is a guide to making sports activities appealing.
