Save our Schoolkids: Campaign to save young lives

The plea the Government ignored

THE Queensland Government ignored a desperate plea from the state’s peak water safety organisation to help save children from drowning.

‘When I learned to walk I learned to swim’

AUSTRALIAN swimming’s most famous sisters have joined the push to make swimming lessons compulsory for all Queensland kids.

Parents have no time for swimming lessons

BUSIER parents, increased migration from countries with less affinity for water and a boom in smaller homes are shaping a generation of kids who can’t swim to save themselves, social resea...

Mandatory water skills a stroke of survival

SWIMMING is a way of life in Queensland, yet there are growing fears we are no longer giving children the skills to survive in the water.

News Queensland are kicking off a S.O.S. campaign to ‘save our schoolkids’ and it turns out some Aussie swimming icons are behind the the campaign too.