Women's rifle shooting sport in Australia field hockey tournament featuring Australian, Kiwi and Fijian teams was played. In 1940, a study of 314 women in New Zealand and Australia was done. Most of the women in the study were middle class, conservative, Protestant and white. The study found that 183 participated in sport. The ninth most popular sport that these women participated in was squash, with 3 having played the sport. The sport was tied with croquet, billiards, chess, fishing, field hockey, horse racing, squash, table tennis and shooting. Women's rifle shooting sport in Australia Shooting was an important skill for women in the bush to
Women's sport in Australia group on women in sport published a report titled "Women, Sport and the Media" which recommended the creation of the Women's Sport unit within the Australian Sports Commission (ASC). This Unit was established in 1988. In 1992, an "Active Girls" campaign was launched by the ASC in an attempt to reduce the drop out of teenage girls from sport. In 2002, the ASC with $180,000 of funding from the Office of the Status of Women established a grants program to improve the leadership skills of women who deliver sport in rural and remote communities. In the financial year 2013–2014, "Sport