JULY NEWSLETTER 2021

Hello friends,

1956 Melbourne 🥇 
2000 Sydney 🥇
2032 Brisbane! 🥇

Whilst there was no euphoric "the winner is... Sydney" moment, hosting the 2032 Olympic Games is a significant moment in Australian sport and gives us another golden opportunity to establish a significant global legacy – Reconciliation.

A hallmark of the Olympic games is to lean into the values of Olympism: "excellence, friendship and respect", where the Olympics lead a movement "to promote sport, culture and education with a view to building a better world". 

These values will help drive our pursuit of reconciliation and demonstrate to the world that we live with deep respect for people at all times (something that wasn't on display with the AOC President John Coates humiliating a female Premier and then saying she was grateful to him for doing so). 

Australian sports have come a long way since the 2000 Sydney Olympics where Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic cauldron. The national reconciliation movement has grown and developed powerful resources that can help community groups and sports clubs. Chelsey Taylor’s Steps towards reconciliation in community sport clubs provides practical tips to make all sports club more inclusive for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Our feature article for the month focuses firmly on respect. In Respect Trumps Harmony: Lessons for Sport, Patrick Skene interviews Rachael Robertson (author of Respect Trumps Harmony). What happens to ‘respect’ when we don’t necessarily get along with another person? Do we need to like a person to be respectful to them? What are the consequences for sports clubs when we don’t get along with a coach, referee or parent?

Regards,
Tarik Bayrakli 
Manager, Club Respect

CR JOURNAL

Respect Trumps Harmony: Lessons for Sport
Rachael Robertson, Interviewed by Patrick Skene

"Putting on a front that says: “We’re a big happy family and side by side we stick together” and all of that pressure to get along hides and creates a reluctance to confront mental health issues at an individual level and confront real problems at an organisational level."

Steps towards reconciliation in community sport clubs
By Chelsey Taylor

"Include a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) in the strategic planning for your club committee. This can ensure your club is acknowledging the broader role it plays in embracing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and have a sound framework to achieve goals around reconciliation and inclusion. Reconciliation Australia provide some further resources on RAPs and strategies your club can utilise in this space. "

2032 OLYMPIC GAMES

[VIDEO] Brisbane's bid to host the Olympics | Australian Olympic Committee

Remarkable: Mitch Tambo’s Indigenous language version of John Farnham’s You’re The Voice.

CLUB RESPECT TOOLS

The Parent | Club Respect

Club Respect places a 'right actions' lens over each role in the club. Print out all 8 info sheets and hand them out to your club members. This month we feature 'The Team Manager'.

We respectfully acknowledge the wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their custodianship of the lands and waterways.