Sure. Thank you for that question.
Forgive me for my ignorance with respect to how parliamentarians and portfolios work, but from a research lens, we have theory. As a critical theorist, my lens is a certain way. If I am a quantitative researcher, my lens is a different way.
Sport is unhealthy: I think we can all agree. That's why we're all here. That's why all this time and energy is happening. What happens if we change the lens away from pushing for podiums and away from winning at all costs toward one that really is what sport ought to be about?
The Aspen Institute has Project Play. They published a research report that walks through all the benefits that happen with sport. However, because sport remains a commodity and remains about chasing medals, we see that health gets pushed aside. We can see how this is bleeding into the education system. For example, in K-to-12 systems, we now have sport academies. We have children now climbing to get into these programs that really are not a health benefit. They're focused more on competition at an early age. The more we keep going early into this idea of winning medals at younger ages, we're losing the benefits of sport.