Welcome to Walking

Welcome to the Walking website. Walking is an enjoyable and cost effective form of transport that benefits our community, environment, health and enables us to save money due to rising fuel costs. This site is a one stop shop on the research, policies, strategies and seminars on walking as well as places to walk to, walking group information and sponsorships.

Why Promote Walking

Walking is an excellent way to get the 30 minutes of physical activity required for optimum health each day. Why we promote walking:

Walking is a great social activity for people of all ages and fitness levels. Walking was reported by both males and females to be the most common form of physical activity. Find out more at the Australian Bureau of Statistics website.
Walking reduces the risk heart disease, diabetes and some cancers, and helps maintain weight.
Walking creates more vibrant and safer neighbourhoods.
Short car trips up to two kilometres are the most fuel inefficient and create more pollution per kilometre.
Walking is low cost form of transport - Save money on petrol costs and walk instead of driving short trips.

What's new
16/06/2009: Walk Week � Walk There Today, 2 to 8 November 2009
Walk Week 2009 registrations are now open. Walk Week is a week of state-wide activities and events promoting walking, including Walk to School Wednesday, workplace walking challenges and community walks. See more information.

Date	Previous news
21/05/2009	Accessible Communities Workshop A workshop on Accessible Communities was held on 7 May 2009. The purpose of the workshop was to improve the delivery of active transport in the planning and delivery of accessible communities. See more information.
12/05/2009	Website Satisfaction Survey Take 5 minutes to help us to improve the Department's walking pages. Click Here to take survey
04/05/2009	Walk Safely to School Day - 15 May 2009 The school community is encouraged to take part in this great national community event, designed to encourage children to develop healthy lifestyle habits at a young age and to educate children on safe pedestrian behaviour. Active kids are healthy kids! See more information.
20/04/2009	Walking E-Newsletter Subscribe to our walking mailing list (right-hand panel) and receive a quarterly Walking E-Newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest walking information regarding research, events, seminars and much more.
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