[1] It was given a million-dollar annual budget and for the first time, Australia had a federal government-funded full-time training program to accompany the AIS.
[2] This led to a steady rise in the number of Australians who have won medals at World Cup events in the immediate years after the OWIA's creation.
This occurs through funding of the OWIA, grants for athletes to travel overseas to compete, and by providing monetary awards to athletes and their coaches if they win medals at World Cup events or World Championships in the lead up to the Olympics.
[3] Through the Australian Sports Commission, the federal government also sponsors OWIA to the tune of more than a million dollars a year.
[4] In 2009, the OWIA lobbied the government to increase its annual budget from A$2.1m to A$29.4m (which is still only a fraction of the A$132m that Canada, the host of the 2010 Olympics is spending.)