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Gymnastics Victoria are the inaugural winners of Australian Sports Commissions Play by the Rules Award. The Award recognises organisations that make a significant contribution to safe, fair and inclusive sport.

Poor sideline behaviour can have a significant impact on how much kids enjoy sport - it can even determine if our kids continue in sport. When you are a kid you want to have fun, be with your friends and be supported by parents and spectators. Listen to how poor sideline behaviour impacts on these kids!  

A 30 second community service announcement - Let Kids Be Kids - kids talk about their experiences playing sport and poor sideline behaviour.

Sporting stars talk about their personal experience of poor sideline behaviour when they were kids with the simple message 'let kids be kids'. 

A host of Australian sporting stars talk about the impact of poor sideline behaviour when they were young. 

Sporting stars and kids talk about the impact of poor sideline behaviour on participation in sport with the simple message, Let Kids Be Kids

Australian sports icons and kids talk about the impact of poor sideline behaviour at junior sport in this 30 second community service announcement, as part of the Let Kids Be Kids campaign.  

Usman Khawaja talks about how it was sometimes tough as a kid copping sideline abuse.

Ellyse Perry from the Southern Stars talks about when sport stops being fun for kids when parents behave badly.

Caitlin Thwaites talks about the pressure that parents from the sideline can put on kids in sport.

A community service announcement for Let Kids Be Kids - just say 'good job', 'great pass' or 'you are doing great'.

Sam Thaiday as a talented youngster was targeted as a kid by parents wanting to put him off his game. He has the simple message, just 'let kids be kids'.

Ange Postecoglou recounts his experience as a kid in football where sideline behaviour nearly turned him away from the game.

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Andrew Purchas from the Bingham Cup talks about homophobia in sport and the Pride in Sport Index at the 2016 Diversity and inclusion in Sport Forum. 

Patty Kinnersly from OurWatch talks about addressing violence against women through OurWatch's Sports Engagement Program.

Assmaah Helal from Football United talks about the inclusion of people from different cultural backgrounds into sport

Peter Downs talks at the 2016 Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Forum on how parents are excluding kids from sport. 

Carmel Guerra from the Centre for Multicultural Youth talks about their Game Plan for Young People and Refugees in Sport

Peter Hyndal from Tran-formative Solutions talks about the inclusion of transgender and intersex participants in sport.