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The Olympic Games: past present and future Olympic- and sports-related sites Sydney: home of the 2000 Olympic Games Australia: culture, heritage, history Sydney Olympic website (now archived) The Official site of the Games of the XXVII Olympiad Sydney, N...

1956: Australia held its first Olympics in Melbourne. 1993: Sydney, Australia was awarded the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games. Lighting of the Olympic torch The lighting of the Olympic torch will take place at noon, 12 May, 2000 at Olympia, the site ...

Hoopdive, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus. Troupes like the Flying Fruit Fly Circus and Circus Oz have spearheaded a new style of circus performance that features highly physical activities and no animal tricks. Nicole Brackertz, teacher of circus history at...

Cathy Freeman, with the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games identity logo. Photograph courtesy of Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation. The XVIII Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne from 15 to 26 March 2006. ...

While Australia has no single uniform national costume, an Australian national dress style, based on specific local dress styles, has emerged in response to climate, lifestyle and identity. An Australian style can be seen clearly in the main types of loc...

For those living in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, football usually refers to Australian Rules Football. In the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, and Queensland, it could mean rugby league ...

Australian singer Little Pattie and the band, Col Joye and the Joye Boys, perform for soldiers of Headquarters Australian Force Vietnam, in the Free World Military building, Saigon, Vietnam. Like rock music, popular, or pop music had its origins in the 1...

Peter Dodds McCormick's Advance Australia Fair was officially declared Australia's national anthem by the Governor-General on 19 April 1984, close to 160 years after the first alternative anthems were put forward. South Australian Carl Linger wrote Song ...

Since then, Australian television has grown to include: five national free-to-air stations; regional stations; community stations; and countless cable stations. The government-owned Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) also expanded its radio broadca...

When Australian Edward 'Ned' Trickett won the world sculling championship on London's Thames River in 1876, he became Australia's first sporting star. Cashman, R, Sport in the National Imagination, Sydney, Walla Walla Press, 2002, p. Cashman, R, Sport i...

Australia reveres and treasures its sporting heroes. Sporting greats have inspired and united Australians, who have shared, celebrated and rewarded their successes. Since the advent of television in the 1950s, Australians have embraced the opportunity to...

Australia's first official surf lifesaving club - the first in the world - was founded at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, in 1906. They showcase an array of surf life saving disciplines and involve three main areas of competition - beach events, surf swimming ev...

The name was later changed to the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, and in 1991 it changed again to Surf Life Saving Australia. Swimming is one of the eight founding sports of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). Murray Rose is another Austr...

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Athletics Australia (AA)   (more info)

Athletics Australia's role is to develop, organise and promote the sport of athletics in Australia. The implications of this are wide and varied ranging from the involvement in development of junior athletic programs and the organisation and running of th

Totally Active   (more info)

Foundation established to research, design and implement practical resources to encourage a sustainable increase in activities and promote healthier nutritional habits in children. Totally Active and the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education a

Bendigo 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games   (more info)

Website of the Youth Commonwealth Games held in Bendigo, Victoria, in December 2004. Includes news and information about the sports represented, competing countries, opening and closing ceremonies, ticketing and merchandise.

Kicking for Culture   (more info)

A united community presentation, bringing together refugee, migrant, and local youth communities for a day of soccer, dance, music and food.

Deaflympics   (more info)

Official website of the 20th Deaflympics Games to be held in Melbourne, Victoria from 5 to 16 January 2005.

Pan Pacific Masters Games   (more info)

Official site for the Pan Pacific Masters Games.

Australian Masters Games   (more info)

Official website of the Australian Masters Games held biennially at a major city in Australia. Visit for the latest news, online entry, list of sports and venues, visitor information and much more.