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- Should successful athletes have to pay back the AIS 10 Jun 2009
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- Organ donation it's the greatest gift of all 21 Sep 2008
- Is safe sex message falling on deaf ears 31 Aug 2008
- Grassroots funding is key to Olympic glorys 10 Aug 2008
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- Trailblazer Natasha leaves lasting legacy 29 Jun 2008
- Heavy hitters boost our World Cup hopes 01 Jun 2008
- Youth Forum Discussion Paper 17 May 2008
- We can't take sport for granted 11 May 2008
- Women truly can do anything be anything 20 Apr 2008
- Let the Games begin with all our athletes 30 Mar 2008
- Proud past but future a challenge for women 09 Mar 2008
- Young people will be heard at highest level 17 Feb 2008
- Our nation has changed dramatically in three weeks 16 Dec 2007
- Mobile Phone Towers 23 Sep 2007
- Bradken Foundry 01 Jul 2007
- Full Fees 03 Jun 2007
- Eating Disorders 17 Dec 2006
- Iraq 27 Jul 2006
- Electoral Laws 26 Jun 2006
- Dental 08 Jan 2006
- Make Poverty History 18 Sep 2005
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2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 200801 May 2008 - World Anti-Doping Agency Makes Investigations A Priority
Australia can play a leading role to coordinate international sports drug cheat investigations, the Minister for Sport, Kate Ellis, told the World Anti-Doping Agency's third international symposium in Sydney today.
PDF printable version of World Anti-Doping Agency Makes Investigations A Priority (PDF 24 KB)"Less than 100 days out from the Beijing Olympics, this meeting comes at an important time," Ms Ellis said.
"The Australian Government invests almost $13 million a year to protect the integrity of Australian sport through anti-doping activities and our country has long been a world leader on anti-doping.
"There's much we can teach other countries and indeed there is plenty we can continue to learn from overseas experiences.
"The Sydney symposium will allow countries to work together to develop protocols and proposals for best practice in information sharing and investigative practices into anti-doping."
In welcoming the international and Australian experts participating in the symposium, Ms Ellis said sports bodies could no longer rely on testing alone as the major weapon against doping in sport.
"While I am pleased to report that ASADA has all the necessary equipment, training and procedures in place to make full use of the new test for human growth hormone, we have to go even further," Ms Ellis said.
"As doping becomes more sophisticated, its detection needs to go beyond individual testing and laboratory analysis, to identify other serious violations such as use, possession and trafficking.
"We have extended our anti-doping systems beyond the traditional approach of catching an athlete with a substance in their body to the more subtle, complex and effective strategy of investigations to determine whether prohibited substances have been used, possessed or passed on by an athlete.
"Australia also recognises the need for an integrated global response based on coordinated investigations and the responsible sharing of information between national anti doping organisations, the sporting movement and relevant law enforcement bodies," she said.
Ms Ellis said those attending the symposium included high-level representatives from UNESCO, government, policing and Olympic bodies - including law enforcement agencies and Interpol.