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May 6, 2020
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We hope you, your families and your communities are managing during this difficult time. We recognise the importance of athletics in many people’s lives and hope when the time is right we can return to athletics in our community.
The OneAthletics project has been operating in the background during this time and work continues to progress towards developing a strong proposal to unite Athletics Australia and Coles Little Athletics Australia.
With the opportunity to reschedule the pathway to unite into one organisation we are excited to present an updated OneAthletics timeline.
This timeline aligns the project work to key phases anticipated by federal and state government advice in moving away from the social distancing restrictions.
We recognise governments will move at different paces when winding back restrictions. Because of this, we are looking for those who want to engage with the project in small groups through technologies such as video conferencing. This will not replace face-to-face forums with larger groups which we will be returning too once restrictions allow. We believe much can be discussed through these smaller digital forums and your input is important.
We haven’t programmed dates in the OneAthletics timeline because it’s not clear when we can progress to a point where appropriate engagement and forums can occur. Instead, we have locked in minimum days between phases. These will ensure there is adequate time to share key milestones with you and make changes where there is agreement for improvements. Once it becomes clear that phases can be progressed, we will release draft dates for each milestone.
We would love to stay connected but understand it is a challenging time at the moment.
Mark
May 6, 2020
A restructure and rebranding is great but some of these seem to get away from the core issue. At the moment, there are 3 bodies for Athletics. School Sports, Little Aths (both juniors) and Athletics Aust (Seniors). We need one pathway covering all Athletics. At the moment, this is still a pipe dream even with the merger of Aths Aust and Little Aths Aust because an athlete progresses from their state body to this level. Until the state level is engaged and the real issues are engaged, there will actually be no change. The bottom level (clubs and communities) is where the hard work is. I think the restructure and combining at a state and local level should also be happening. Also, just like COVID, I expect mistakes to be made. That’s ok. It’s the overall outcome that should be the vision. That is what should be designed. Not just at a national level but at a state level too. Let’s all help to combine. Many hands make light work.