How can government provide support to a sector that is already under-resourced and funded?

• The purpose of this paper is to offer solutions for declining volunteer levels in community sport in Australia.
• What do sport administrators need to do?
• What impact will there be on the future of sport governance?
• How can government provide support to a sector that is already under-resourced and funded?
• Does sport need to look outside its own ‘backyard’ and form partnerships to access volunteers?
• Is money or non-cash benefits a way to promote volunteers back?
• What role does digital play?
• How can we reduce face-to-face operations with online digital solutions?
• Demonstrate the theoretical and practical application of CR as a new methodological perspective in research on sport volunteering.
• To date, much of sport volunteering research has been underpinned by a polarity of positivist and interpretivist methodologies which has contributed to narrow ontological perspectives of the sport volunteering phenomenon.
• What solutions can be offered and enhanced through a CR lens?