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Access to Sporting Facilities by Discrete Indigenous Communities
ACCESS TO SPORTING FACILITIES BY DISCRETE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
The 2006 Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey found that there were 322 discrete Indigenous communities with a population of 50 or more. Of these, 215 (67%) had some form of sporting facilities while 107 (33%) had no sporting facilities.
A total of 72,344 (88%) people living in discrete Indigenous communities with a population of 50 or more, had access to sporting facilities in their community. Larger communities were more likely to have these facilities with 95% of communities with a usual population of 200 or more having at least one sporting facility, compared with 37% of communities with a usual population of 50 to 99.
For those communities with sporting facilities, the most commonly reported were outdoor courts for games such as basketball and netball (79%) and sports grounds (77%).
10.3 Discrete Indigenous communities with a population of 50 or more, Access to sporting facilities - 2006 |
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 | Communities |
| Usual population of 50-99 | Usual population of 100-199 | Usual population of 200 or more | Total | Reported usual population |
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| Sports grounds | 24 | 49 | 92 | 165 | 65 134 |
| Outdoor basketball / netball courts | 30 | 55 | 85 | 170 | 59 620 |
| Indoor or covered facilities | 1 | 6 | 37 | 44 | 32 381 |
| Swimming pool(s) | 1 | 6 | 19 | 26 | 19 293 |
| Other buildings used for sport | 8 | 10 | 38 | 56 | 30 366 |
| Other community sporting facilities | 5 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 8 403 |
| Total with sporting facilities(a) | 46 | 67 | 102 | 215 | 72 344 |
| No sporting facilities | 77 | 25 | 5 | 107 | 9 915 |
| All communities(b) | 123 | 92 | 107 | 322 | 82 259 |
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| (a) Totals may not add up as more than one response is possible. |
| (b) Includes not stated, not applicable if relevant. |
| Source: ABS data available on request, Housing and Infrastructure in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, Australia, 2006. |
Most outdoor basketball/netball courts (69) and sports grounds (68) sporting facilities were reported in the Northern Territory (NT) and Western Australia with 47 and 43 respectively.
The state with the highest proportion of discrete Indigenous communities without access to sporting facilities was New South Wales ( 56% or 22 communities). The state with the lowest proportion of discrete Indigenous communities without access to sporting facilities was Queensland (7.7% or 3 communities).
The Northern Territory had 49 discrete Indigenous communities with no sporting facilities or not stated (i.e. almost half of all communities across Australia with no sporting facilities or not stated) although this only represented 38% of the discrete Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.
10.4 Discrete Indigenous communities with a population of 50 or more, Access to sporting facilities - By state or territory - 2006 |
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| Communities with sporting facilities |
| Sports grounds | Outdoor basketball / netball courts | Indoor or covered facilities | Swimming pool(s) | Other buildings used for sport | Other community sporting facilities (a) | No sporting facilities(a) | All communities |
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| New South Wales | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 39 |
| Queensland | 27 | 26 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 39 |
| South Australia | 16 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 29 |
| Western Australia | 43 | 47 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 25 | 82 |
| Northern Territory | 68 | 69 | 20 | 9 | 25 | 6 | 49 | 130 |
| Australia(b) | 165 | 170 | 44 | 26 | 56 | 21 | 107 | 322 |
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| (a) Includes 'Whether community has sporting facilities' not stated. |
| (b) Victoria and Tasmania included in Australia for confidentiality reasons. The Australian Capital Territory did not have any discrete Indigenous communities. |
| Source: ABS data available on request, Housing and Infrastructure in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, Australia, 2006. |
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