The New Zealand Athletes Federation’s overall aim is to facilitate and create, in partnership with national sporting organisations, high performance models that have elite athletes at the centre of all their services.

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The specific purposes of the Athletes Federation are to:
Be a source of collective representation and influence

• REPRESENT ATHLETES WHO NEED ADVICE OR SUPPORT
• AID ATHLETE CAREER, EDUCATION, AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
• PROVIDE CITIZENSHIP AMONGST ATHLETES FROM EVERY CODE
• BE A PARTNER TO INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES AND HELP THEM TO LEVERAGE A GREATER GOOD THROUGH SPORT​

Inform the community, businesses, sporting organisations, and government of how a wide range of issues affect the country’s high performance athletes including:

• ANTI-DOPING
• ILLICIT DRUGS
• AGENTS
• DISCIPLINARY RIGHTS
• UNFAIR RESTRICTIONS OF TRADE
• COMMERCIALISATION
• PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY RIGHTS