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Steve Larkin

Sports must meet women boardroom targets or lose funds

Sport minister Anika Wells (centre), with Matildas players, wants more women in sporting boardrooms. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian sporting organisations will lose government funding if half their board members aren't women within three years.

The federal government says under a new policy, 50 per cent of board directors and chairs, and also sub-committee members, must be women or gender diverse from 2027.

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