Congratulations to our South West Healthway Smarter than Smoking Country Sport Scholarship Recipients for 2009. Sixty-eight South West athletes involved in 20 different sports competing at national and international level were awarded scholarships this year from a pool of over 200 applicants state-wide.

Come & Try days are a great way for people with disabilities to get involved in sport and recreation, and with several events coming up offering a range of sports there's never been a better time to come along and have a try!

The latest Sports CONNECT forum was held on 25 September 2009 and was attended by 45 people representing the sporting and disability sector.

2010 will see a new integrated league for Australian Rules football in Western Australia. This exciting development for players with an intellectual disability has been developing over the past three years.

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) recently commissioned the University of Technology Sydney to extend the work that it had initiated on the factors influencing the participation of people with disabilities in sport and physical recreation.

Riding high is an apt way to describe the 24 participants who tried their hand at paracycling on Saturday 17 October, as the Australian Paralympic Committee in conjunction with Cycling WA held its first come and try day for the sport.

MOSAIC Community Care Inc service users, their family members and staff were presented information on Sports CONNECT and games from the Sports Ability inclusive games kit on 8 October 2009.

The Community Inclusion Project aims to assist community sport and recreation organisations to increase their capacity to further embrace the participation of people with a disability. This will be achieved through engaging, supporting and facilitating partnerships between organisations and people with a disability.

The Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) Library collects books and journals covering a range of subjects in sport and recreation.

The Certificate IV – Workplace Training and Assessment course was conducted by McLaughlin Consultancy at the Department of Sport and Recreation's metropolitan office on 6–9 October 2009.

RSS is a file format that is used to let people know when a certain website or part of a website has been updated with new content.

News and information on the development of a set of minimum standards for conducting leader dependent outdoor recreation activity in Western Australia.

Latest coaching and officiating news

The DSR Widget is a small application that displays and rotates through a list of news items from a list of sports related news feeds.

The latest funding deadlines and announcements for the sport and recreation industry.

News and information for healthy active workplaces

News and information for regional Western Australia.

South West Academy of Sport articles in the South Western Times

A regular check of our Sport and Recreation Update is a great way to keep up-to-date with what's happening in sport and recreation in your region and across WA.

Latest news on sport and recreation opportunities for people with disabilities.

The Chronicle is a regular newsletter of the Indigenous Sport Program.

This regular e-newsletter will keep you up to date with current research, information and events relating to active recreation in Western Australia.

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

A list of resources for sport and recreation publications

Podcasts are downloaded audio files that can be played on computers or MP3 players.

Video footage

Issues affecting the sport and recreation industry.