Athletics Australia has named its premier track and field meet after the main protagonist in arguably the most shameful chapter of drugs in Australian athletics. 

Maurie Plant was the architect behind a urine substitution action in 1986, involving an Australian athlete providing a urine sample for another Australian athlete with the hope of evading a positive drugs test. This was verified in the 1990 Drugs in Sport Royal Commission. Plant was subsequently banned from holding an official management position with Athletics Australia.

Yet, embarrassingly, Athletics Australia has their premier meet named after Plant, which makes athletics in Australia the laughing stock of world athletics.

 Surely there are some better names from which to name this meet after. A few names spring to mind straight away - Herb Elliott, John Landy, Betty Cuthbert, Cathy Freeman, Steve Hooker, Sally Pearson, Ron Clarke, Ralph Doubell, the list goes on.

This petition calls on Athletics Australia to change the name of this meet to a far more appropriate person