Australian Sports Commission Chair John Wylie has "written to national associations and professional clubs across the country imploring board directors to follow new integrity guidelines to help insulate their organisations from the growing risks of match-fixing and doping," according to Chris Barrett of THE AGE. In a five-page document the ASC, which oversees more than A$134M ($99M) of federal government funding to sports, "implores volunteer directors to be vigilant." Wylie said, "The integrity risks to sport are increasing in a range of areas, not just in doping and illicit drugs but in match-fixing and areas like that. ... The risks are going up and that means the reputational risk to directors is increasing so we felt that there is a very important goal there for the sports commission." The ASC's guidelines include advice to directors that at least once a year they "should sit in and hear briefings given by their sport's anti-corruption officials to players." They should also "ask questions relating to sports science and sports medicine, anti-doping, illicit drugs, match-fixing and child protection" (THE AGE, 5/8).
