Election 2017 - Party Policies - Communities - Sport and Recreation
27th May 17, 9:56am
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Sport and Recreation
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- Promote the development of safe walking and cycling options throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Increase funding to the Department of Conservation to ensure it can protect and conserve our environment for current and future generations.
- Increased funding is available to support the development and maintenance of recreational and sporting facilities and infrastructure, whilst reducing the reliance on revenue from gambling (pokie) machines.
- Ensure that funding of recreational and sporting activities is structured to minimise cost as a barrier to participation where possible.
- Promote the provision of off-road tracks for a range of recreational activities that give access to parks, waterways or connect communities. These tracks can be multiuse but should be designed to minimise conflicting needs (e.g. cyclists, walkers, horseriders), and avoid harm to sensitive ecological and environmental habitats.
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- Continue to invest in community sport and recreation to encourage widespread participation and to help our local clubs thrive.
- Commit to supporting volunteers in the sport and recreation sector by providing resources to assist them in their roles and giving them opportunities to up skill.
- Bring back a focus on physical activity as part of our Health policy; and ensure New Zealanders can be active in everyday life by working with local government and the community to build active living into everyday life.
- Continue to support specialised training for our top athletes, and increase the focus on pre-elite athlete identification so that our pool of high performance athletes can grow.
- Work closely with territorial authorities to ensure that outdoor recreation opportunities are available to all New Zealanders and visitors to New Zealand at a low cost but first-rate quality.
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- Continuing our investment in grassroots sport, and getting more kids active.
- Further strengthen the relationship between sport, health and education. Use sport a vehicle to improve social outcomes.
- Invest in our high performance sport facilities.
- Strengthen the pathways between community sports and our high performance sport system.
- Contribute a further $120m to help build a Multi-Use Arena in Christchurch.
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- Guarantee free access to the conservation estate for all New Zealanders.
- Permit the sustainable hunting to control introduced game species, such as deer, pigs, chamois, tahr, goats and wapiti; and acknowledge the lawful use of firearms and maintain sensible firearms laws.
- Ensure the sustainable management and preservation of rivers, waterways, wetlands, and wilderness areas.
- Ensure the maintenance of sustainable fishing with guaranteed access for recreational fishers and the protection of existing game fish species.
- Oppose any licensing system for recreational saltwater fishers.
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- Empower the Walking Access Commission to advocate directly for public access rather than purely act as a mediator in relation to access negotiations as they do now.
- Provide funding to introduce specific access corridors across private land by negotiating with landowners on a case-by-case basis (these corridors could in many instances be based on the ‘paper roads’ and easements that already exist on many legal property titles but are not always acknowledged by landowners) and allow the WAC to manage these corridors.
- Establish a fund to compensate landowners up front for any damage that members of the public cause to their property (the land access agency can pursue offenders to recover the cost of fund pay-outs separately).
- Maintain and strengthen the New Zealand Outdoor Access Code (via the WAC) that protects property rights and the rights of landowners from people trespassing beyond a legally established corridor, littering, leaving gates open or other nuisances
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