2006 Media Releases
Monday, 6 March 2006
La Trobe University holds ‘Sport Policy Summit’ on Games’ eve
La Trobe University’s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management is hosting a 'Sport Policy Summit' on Monday 13 March.
The conference involves a top-level sport delegation from the Dutch government, who will be in Melbourne for the Commonwealth Games.
Head of La Trobe Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Dr Hans Westerbeek, said the conference will also celebrate 400 years of relations between the Netherlands and Australia.
In 1606 Dirk Hartog landed on the West Australian Coast on board the Duyfken, a trading vessel of the Dutch East India Company.
The conference will be held from 10 am to 2.30 pm on Monday 13 March 2006, at the John Scott Meeting House on the La Trobe University main Melbourne campus at Bundoora.
It will be opened by La Trobe University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian Stoddart, an internationally acknowledged sports historian and sociologist, and author of Saturday Afternoon Fever: Sport in the Australian Culture.
Dr Westerbeek says topics to be covered include the Australian sporting system, sports policy development and governance, and corporate social responsibility through sport. There will also be a session on sport and the media ‘Public representation and propaganda?’ by La Trobe University’s Dr Matthew Nicholson.
The conference concludes with a case study of sporting policy development in the Netherlands by Mr Roel Bekker, Secretary General of that country’s Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sport.
For further information:
A copy of the program is attached. Further details from Andrew Wilson, tel: 03 9479 2136 or email: andrew.wilson@latrobe.edu.au