Cycling:  Getting Australia Moving report and the presentation of the National Bicycling Achievement Awards was held on Wednesday 4th June 2008, at Old Parliament House, Canberra.

Key Note Speaker: Rob Moodie, Professor of Global Health, Nossal Institute for Global Health. 

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, The Hon Peter Garrett AM, MP presented the Bicycling Achievement Awards

The Hon Peter Garrett AM, MP at the launch announced a grant of $45,000 for the development of a national cycling training scheme to encourage more people to choose two wheeled transport.

• Click here for the media release about the announcement.
• Click here to listen to the ABC Radio National Interview with Professor Chris Rissell co-author of the report.
• Click here to listen to an ABC Radio National Interview with Elliot Fishman and Cr. Jane Prentice, Chair Brisbane City Council's Public and Active Transport Committee on strategies to encourage more people to cycle.
• Click here to listen to an ABC Radio interview on Life Matters with Associate Professor Chris Rissel, co-author of the report
• Click here to listen to the Life Matters talk back program on cycling with Dr. Matt Burke and Ben Wilson from Bicycle QLD

• Rosemarie Speidel: Program Director, Cycling Promotion Fund, Ph: 0407 537 760       
• Elliot Fishman: Spokesperson and Policy Advisor, Cycling Promotion Fund, Ph:  0438 547 450       
  

• Click here to download the media release (PDF, 36kb)
• Click here to download Cycling: Getting Australia Moving (PDF, 3.1M)
• Click here to download Cycling: Getting Australia Moving - executive summary (PDF, 1.7M)