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title="National colours of Australia">National colours</a></li> <li> <a href="/wiki/Monuments_of_Australia" title="Monuments of Australia">Monuments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Australia" title="List of World Heritage Sites in Australia">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below" style="border-top:1px solid #00843D;border-bottom:1px solid #00843D;font-size:95%;"> <a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Australia_(converted).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, 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The first of the country's mainstream sports to become established in order of their organisation were <a href="/wiki/Cricket_in_Australia" title="Cricket in Australia">cricket</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_in_Australia" title="Australian rules football in Australia">Australian rules football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union_in_Australia" title="Rugby union in Australia">rugby union</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tennis_in_Australia" title="Tennis in Australia">tennis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soccer_in_Australia" title="Soccer in Australia">soccer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basketball_in_Australia" title="Basketball in Australia">basketball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Netball_in_Australia" title="Netball in Australia">netball</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league_in_Australia" title="Rugby league in Australia">rugby league</a>. According to Ausplay, in 2024 the most practiced physical activities for Australians were walking including <a href="/wiki/Bushwalking" class="mw-redirect" title="Bushwalking">bushwalking</a>, fitness, running <a href="/wiki/Cycling" title="Cycling">cycling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pilates" title="Pilates">pilates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">yoga</a> each practised by more than a million adults.<a href="#cite_note-participation_2024-1">[1]</a> The most played team sports in order of participation are soccer, basketball, Australian rules football, cricket, netball and <a href="/wiki/Touch_football_(rugby_league)" class="mw-redirect" title="Touch football (rugby league)">touch football</a>/rugby league each played by more as many as half a million adults.<a href="#cite_note-participation_2024-1">[1]</a> Soccer and basketball, in particular have more than a million adult players are also the most popular team activities for children.<a href="#cite_note-participation_2024-1">[1]</a> Running, <a href="/wiki/Tennis" title="Tennis">tennis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Golf" title="Golf">golf</a> are the most popular individual sports among Australians with more than a million participants.<a href="#cite_note-participation_2024-1">[1]</a> Running and walking in particular have grown rapidly in popularity with the community organisation <a href="/wiki/Parkrun" title="Parkrun">parkrun</a> registering more than 1 million Australian participants since 2011.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> Sport has shaped the Australian national identity through events such as the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cup" title="Melbourne Cup">Melbourne Cup</a> and the <a href="/wiki/America%27s_Cup" title="America's Cup">America's Cup</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">how?</a>] Australia has a number of professional sport leagues, including the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> (AFL) and <a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">AFL Women's</a> (Australian rules football), <a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">National Rugby League</a> (NRL) and <a href="/wiki/NRL_Women%27s_Premiership" title="NRL Women's Premiership">NRL Women's</a> (rugby league), <a href="/wiki/Super_Rugby_Pacific" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Rugby Pacific">Super Rugby Pacific</a> (Australia/New Zealand) (rugby union), the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Australia)" title="National Basketball League (Australia)">National Basketball League</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_League" title="Women's National Basketball League">Women's National Basketball League</a>, <a href="/wiki/A-League_Men" title="A-League Men">A-League Men</a> and <a href="/wiki/A-League_Women" title="A-League Women">A-League Women</a> (<a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">soccer</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Baseball_League" title="Australian Baseball League">Australian Baseball League</a> (baseball), the <a href="/wiki/Big_Bash_League" title="Big Bash League">Big Bash League</a> (cricket), <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Big_Bash_League" title="Women's Big Bash League">Women's Big Bash League</a> (cricket) and <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Shield" title="Sheffield Shield">Sheffield Shield</a> (cricket), <a href="/wiki/Suncorp_Super_Netball" title="Suncorp Super Netball">Suncorp Super Netball</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Supercars_Championship" title="Supercars Championship">Supercars Championship</a> (<a href="/wiki/Touring_car_racing" title="Touring car racing">touring car racing</a>). Australia has a culture of attendance to sports with some of the highest per capita attendances in the world, however television has the faster growing audience. Australian rules football is the most attended sport with the <a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_season" title="2024 AFL season">2024 AFL season</a> attracting an attendance of more than 8.2 million.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> However rugby league is the most watched on television with a cumulative audience of over 174 million in 2023.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> Cricket and Australian rules football are Australia's <a href="/wiki/National_sport" title="National sport">national sports</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australian national cricket team</a> competed against <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> in the first <a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test</a> match (1877) and the first <a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">One Day International</a> (1971), and against <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand cricket team">New Zealand</a> in the first <a href="/wiki/Twenty20_International" title="Twenty20 International">Twenty20 International</a> (2004), winning all three games.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> It has also won the men's <a href="/wiki/Cricket_World_Cup" title="Cricket World Cup">Cricket World Cup</a> a record six times.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Australia's football culture features a distinct geographical split (known as the <a href="/wiki/Barassi_Line" title="Barassi Line">Barassi Line</a>) between areas where rugby league and Australian rules are the dominant code (the north east and south west respectively) however this has become less evident over time with the expansion of national professional competitions. These two codes are generally played in winter whereas soccer, despite being the most popular in terms of participation, is played in summer to avoid a clash with the two major codes for spectators. As a nation, Australia has competed in many international events, including the <a href="/wiki/Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Olympics">Olympics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paralympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Paralympics">Paralympics</a>. The country has also twice hosted the <a href="/wiki/Summer_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Summer Olympics">Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a> (<a href="/wiki/1956_Summer_Olympics" title="1956 Summer Olympics">1956</a>) and Sydney (<a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" title="2000 Summer Olympics">2000</a>), as well as the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Games" title="Commonwealth Games">Commonwealth Games</a> on five occasions. A third Olympics will be held in <a href="/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a> in 2032. The city of <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a> is famous for its major sports events and has been described as the 'sporting capital of the world',<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> and one of its stadiums, the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a>, is considered the home of <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a> and one of the world's premier Cricket grounds. Australia is considered one of the best sports nations in the world.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_sport_in_Australia" title="History of sport in Australia">History of sport in Australia</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> "Australia's sporting history is marked by great successes, great stories and truly great moments. Sport speaks a universal language in this country – we are a nation of players and enthusiasts." </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">— <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a>, January 2008<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></cite></div> </div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Australianfootball1866.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Australianfootball1866.jpg/220px-Australianfootball1866.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Australianfootball1866.jpg/330px-Australianfootball1866.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Australianfootball1866.jpg/440px-Australianfootball1866.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="698" /></a><figcaption>An 1860s game of <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Yarra_Park" title="Yarra Park">Richmond Paddock</a>. A pavilion of the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> seen on the left in the background. (<a href="/wiki/Wood_engraving" title="Wood engraving">Wood engraving</a> made by Robert Bruce in 1866.)</figcaption></figure> Sport came to Australia in 1810 when the first athletics tournament was held; soon after cricket, horse racing and sailing clubs and competitions started. Australia's lower classes would play sports on public holidays, with the upper classes playing more regularly on Saturdays.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield200314-16">[16]</a> Sydney was the early hub of sport in the colony.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield200315-17">[17]</a> Early forms of football were played there by 1829.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHessNicholsonStewartde_Moore20082-18">[18]</a> Early sport in Australia was played along class lines. In 1835, the British Parliament banned blood sports except fox hunting in a law that was implemented in Australia; this was not taken well in the country as it was seen as an attack on the working classes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew19973-19">[19]</a> By the late 1830s, horse racing was established in New South Wales and other parts of the country, and enjoyed support across class lines. Gambling was part of sport from the time horse racing became an established sport in the colony.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew19973-19">[19]</a> Horse racing was also happening in Melbourne at <a href="/wiki/Batman%27s_Hill" title="Batman's Hill">Batman's Hill</a> in 1838, with the first race meeting in Victoria taking place in 1840.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHessNicholsonStewartde_Moore20081-20">[20]</a> Cricket was also underway with the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Club" title="Melbourne Cricket Club">Melbourne Cricket Club</a> founded in 1838.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHessNicholsonStewartde_Moore20081-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews1979148-21">[21]</a> Sport was being used during the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s as a form of social integration across classes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew19974-22">[22]</a> <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Victorian rules football</a> (later known as Australian rules) was codified in 1859.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews1979236-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrego2003242-24">[24]</a> Australian football clubs still around in the current <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> were founded by 1858.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews1979148-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews1979236-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrego2003242-24">[24]</a> Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877, the SANFL (South Australian National Football League) is the oldest surviving football league of any code in Australia. The <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a>, Australia's largest sporting arena, opened in 1853.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith201196-25">[25]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cup" title="Melbourne Cup">Melbourne Cup</a> was first run in 1861.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTER.I.C._Publications200890–91-26">[26]</a> A <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> team was established at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sydney" title="University of Sydney">University of Sydney</a> in 1864.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTER.I.C._Publications200890–91-26">[26]</a> Regular sport did not begin to be played in South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia until the late 1860s and early 1870s.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield200315-17">[17]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg/200px-Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg/300px-Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg/400px-Ashes_Urn_1921.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1651" /></a><figcaption>Early photo of <a href="/wiki/The_Ashes_Urn:_Its_Origin_and_History" class="mw-redirect" title="The Ashes Urn: Its Origin and History">the Ashes Urn</a>, from the <a href="/wiki/Illustrated_London_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Illustrated London News">Illustrated London News</a>, 1921</figcaption></figure> The first Australian cricket team to go on tour internationally did so in 1868. <a href="/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_cricket_team_in_England_in_1868" title="Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868">The Australian side</a> was an all Aboriginal one and toured England where they played 47 games, where they won 14 games, drew 19 and lost 14.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERollsHalliganMathewsCliff199927-27">[27]</a>Australia's adoption of sport as a national pastime was so comprehensive that <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Trollope" title="Anthony Trollope">Anthony Trollope</a> remarked in his book, Australia, published in 1870, "The English passion for the amusements which are technically called 'sports', is not a national necessity with the Americans, whereas with the Australians it is almost as much so as home."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew19977-28">[28]</a> The first team formally organised soccer team was formed in Sydney in 1880 and was named the Wanderers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERollsHalliganMathewsCliff199942-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews1979203-30">[30]</a> Sport was receiving coverage in Australian newspapers by 1876 when a sculling race in England was reported in the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Morning_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Morning Herald">Sydney Morning Herald</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield200315-17">[17]</a> In 1877, Australia played in the first Test Cricket match against England. In 1882, <a href="/wiki/The_Ashes" title="The Ashes">The Ashes</a> were started following the victory of the <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia national cricket team</a> over England.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTER.I.C._Publications200890–91-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews19799-31">[31]</a> Field hockey teams for men and women were established by 1890.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENaurightParrish2012368–369-32">[32]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Shield" title="Sheffield Shield">Sheffield Shield</a> cricket competition was first held in 1891 with New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia participating in the inaugural competition. The remaining states would not participate until much later, with Queensland first participating in 1926–27, Western Australia in 1947–48 and Tasmania in 1982–83.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew1997x-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews19791999-34">[34]</a> In 1897 the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League_(1897%E2%80%931989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Football League (1897–1989)">Victorian Football League</a>, which later became the AFL the Australian Football League, was founded<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTER.I.C._Publications200890–91-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews1979227-35">[35]</a> after breaking away from the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Football Association">Victorian Football Association</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews1979227-35">[35]</a> The first <a href="/wiki/Badminton" title="Badminton">badminton</a> competition in <a href="/wiki/Badminton_Australia" title="Badminton Australia">Australia</a> was played in 1900.<a href="#cite_note-badmintonsource-36">[36]</a> The first <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> game was played in Melbourne on 12 July 1906 between a local Melbourne team and a team from the crew of the visiting US warship <a href="/wiki/USS_Baltimore_(C-3)" title="USS Baltimore (C-3)">USS Baltimore</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ussaroudnting-37">[37]</a> Motor racing began in the first years of federation with motorcycle racing beginning at the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Cricket_Ground" title="Sydney Cricket Ground">Sydney Cricket Ground</a> in 1901 with automobile motorsport following in 1904 at <a href="/wiki/Aspendale_Racecourse" title="Aspendale Racecourse">Aspendale Racecourse</a> in Melbourne. A dedicated race track was added to Aspendale's horse racing track in 1906, although it fell into disuse almost immediately. Rugby league has been the overwhelmingly dominant rugby code in Australia since 1908 (this position remains unchallenged to this day). When Messenger and the All Golds returned from Great Britain in 1908, they helped the new clubs adapt to the rules of rugby league prior to the inaugural <a href="/wiki/1908_NSWRFL_season" title="1908 NSWRFL season">1908 NSWRFL season</a>. The Queensland Rugby Football League also formed early in 1908 by seven <a href="/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">rugby</a> players who were dissatisfied with the administration of the <a href="/wiki/Queensland_Rugby_Union" title="Queensland Rugby Union">Queensland Rugby Union</a>.<a href="#cite_note-QRLstoryoftheqrl-38">[38]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_union_team" title="Australia national rugby union team">Australia national rugby union team</a> had their first international test against New Zealand in 1903, and first international tour in 1908, earning their nickname of the Wallabies after two British journalists used it to refer to the team.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERollsHalliganMathewsCliff199939-39">[39]</a> The team won gold at the <a href="/wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics" title="1908 Summer Olympics">1908 Summer Olympics</a>; however the majority of the squad joined rugby league clubs upon returning to Australia.<a href="#cite_note-RLHist-40">[40]</a> Women represented Australia for the first time at the <a href="/wiki/1912_Summer_Olympics" title="1912 Summer Olympics">Olympics in 1912</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTER.I.C._Publications200890–91-26">[26]</a> <a href="/wiki/Surfing_in_Australia" title="Surfing in Australia">Surfing</a> came to Australia by 1915<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTER.I.C._Publications200890–91-26">[26]</a> with the first <a href="/wiki/Surf_life_saving" class="mw-redirect" title="Surf life saving">surf life saving</a> competition being held that year.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews1979212-41">[41]</a> <a href="/wiki/Les_Darcy" title="Les Darcy">Les Darcy</a> began his boxing career in 1915, with some of his later fights taking place at <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Stadium" title="Sydney Stadium">Sydney Stadium</a>. The following year, an American promoter encouraged Darcy to go to the United States at a time when Australia was actively recruiting young men for the armed services. Controversy resulted and Darcy died at the age of 21 in the United States. When his body was returned to Australia, 100,000 people attended his Sydney funeral.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews197968-69-42">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-FitzSimons2010-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-Headoned2003-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-Seal2001-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-MacCallum2009-46">[46]</a> Darcy would remain significant to Australians into the 2000s, when <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a> mentioned his story.<a href="#cite_note-MacCallum2009-46">[46]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:StateLibQld_1_292827_Group_of_tennis_players,_ca._1922.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Five women standing with tennis rackets in hand" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/StateLibQld_1_292827_Group_of_tennis_players%2C_ca._1922.jpg/220px-StateLibQld_1_292827_Group_of_tennis_players%2C_ca._1922.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/StateLibQld_1_292827_Group_of_tennis_players%2C_ca._1922.jpg/330px-StateLibQld_1_292827_Group_of_tennis_players%2C_ca._1922.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/StateLibQld_1_292827_Group_of_tennis_players%2C_ca._1922.jpg/440px-StateLibQld_1_292827_Group_of_tennis_players%2C_ca._1922.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="648" /></a><figcaption>Group of tennis players, ca. 1922.</figcaption></figure> In 1922, a committee in Australia investigated the benefits of physical education for girls. They came up with several recommendations regarding what sports were and were not appropriate for girls to play based on the level of fitness required. It was determined that for some individual girls that for medical reasons, the girls should probably not be allowed to participate in tennis, netball, lacrosse, golf, hockey, and cricket. Football was completely medically inappropriate for girls to play. It was medically appropriate for all girls to be able to participate in, so long as they were not done in an overly competitive manner, swimming, rowing, cycling and horseback riding.<a href="#cite_note-evening-post-1922-47">[47]</a> <a href="/wiki/Dick_Eve" title="Dick Eve">Dick Eve</a> won Australia's first Olympic diving gold medal in 1924.<a href="#cite_note-firstmedaldiving-48">[48]</a> In 1924 the Australian Rugby League Board of Control, later to be known as the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Rugby_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Rugby League">Australian Rugby League</a>, was formed to administer the <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_league_team" title="Australia national rugby league team">national team</a> (the Kangaroos), and later as the national governing body for the sport of <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">Rugby league</a>. In 1928 the team also adopted the <a href="/wiki/National_colours_of_Australia" title="National colours of Australia">national colours</a> of green and gold for the first time, having previously used blue and maroon, making the Kangaroos the third national sporting body to do so after <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">cricket</a> (from 1899) and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Olympic_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Olympic team">Australian Olympic team</a> (from 1908).<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> <a href="/wiki/Netball_Australia" title="Netball Australia">Netball Australia</a> was founded in 1927 as the All Australia Women's Basket Ball Association.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTER.I.C._Publications200890–91-26">[26]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg/220px-4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg/330px-4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg/440px-4th_Test_Woodfull.jpg 2x" data-file-width="592" data-file-height="316" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1932%E2%80%9333" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33">1932–33 Ashes</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Woodfull" title="Bill Woodfull">Bill Woodfull</a> evades a bodyline ball at <a href="/wiki/The_Gabba" title="The Gabba">the Gabba</a></figcaption></figure> During the 1930s, the playing of sport on Sunday was banned in most of the country outside South Australia.<a href="#cite_note-Sumerling2011-50">[50]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Bodyline_cricket_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Bodyline cricket series">Bodyline cricket series</a> between Australia and England took place in 1932–33. The English side were determined to win and employed physical intimidation against Australia to ensure victory.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew1997xii-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews197926-52">[52]</a> The bowling style used by the team known as <a href="/wiki/Body-line_bowling" class="mw-redirect" title="Body-line bowling">body-line bowling</a> was devised by <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Jardine" title="Douglas Jardine">Douglas Jardine</a> with advice from <a href="/wiki/Frank_Foster_(cricketer)" title="Frank Foster (cricketer)">Frank Foster</a> in England ahead of the series in order to defeat Australian batsman <a href="/wiki/Donald_Bradman" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Bradman">Donald Bradman</a>. Going into the start of the series, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Voce" title="Bill Voce">Bill Voce</a> told the media "If we don't beat you, we'll knock your bloody heads off." The style of play was such that the Australians contemplated cancelling the series after the Adelaide test.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews197926-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERollsHalliganMathewsCliff199928-53">[53]</a> Following a successful Australian racing career, the race horse <a href="/wiki/Phar_Lap" title="Phar Lap">Phar Lap</a> went to the United States where he died. There were many conspiracy theories at the time and later that suggested people in the United States poisoned the horse to prevent him from winning.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew1997xii-51">[51]</a> Australian women's sports had an advantage over many other women's sport organisations around the world in the period after World War II. <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_sports" title="Women's sports">Women's sports</a> organisations had largely remained intact and were holding competitions during the war period. This structure survived in the post war period. Women's sport were not hurt because of food rationing, petrol rationing, population disbursement, and other issues facing post-war Europe.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStell1991100-54">[54]</a> In September 1949, <a href="/wiki/Australian_Canoeing" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Canoeing">Australian Canoeing</a> was founded as the Australian Canoe Federation.<a href="#cite_note-canoeingaust-55">[55]</a> By the 1960s, Australia had an international identity as a sport-obsessed country, an identity which was embraced inside the country. This was so well known that in a 1962 edition of <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a>, Australia was named the most sports-obsessed country in the world.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew19976-56">[56]</a> In 1967, Australia hosted the second <a href="/wiki/World_Netball_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="World Netball Championships">World Netball Championships</a> in Perth.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAll_England_Netball_Association200960-57">[57]</a> That same year, South Australia became the last state to lift its ban on the playing of sports on Sunday.<a href="#cite_note-Sumerling2011-50">[50]</a> Starting in the early 1970s, Australian sport underwent a <a href="/wiki/Paradigm" title="Paradigm">paradigm</a> shift with sponsorship becoming one of the fundamental drivers of earnings for Australian sport on amateur and professional levels. By the mid-1980s, the need for the ability to acquire sponsorship dollars in sport was so great that job applicants for sport administrator positions were expected to be able to demonstrate an ability to get it.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKay199142-58">[58]</a> During the 1970s, Australia was being routinely defeated in major international competitions as Eastern Bloc countries enjoyed strong government support for sport. The Liberal governments at the time were opposed to similar intervention in Australia's sporting system as they felt it would be government intrusion into an important component of Australian life.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrottyRoberts2008198–205-59">[59]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1974_Australian_federal_election" title="1974 Australian federal election">1974 elections</a>, several Australian sporting competitors endorsed the Liberal party in advertisements that ran on television. Competitors involved included <a href="/wiki/Ron_Barassi" title="Ron Barassi">Ron Barassi</a>, NSWRL player <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Raper" title="Johnny Raper">Johnny Raper</a> and horse trainer <a href="/wiki/Tommy_J._Smith" title="Tommy J. Smith">Tommy Smith</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKay199171-60">[60]</a> That year, the <a href="/wiki/Australia_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="Australia men's national soccer team">Australian team</a> qualified for the <a href="/wiki/1974_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1974 FIFA World Cup">1974 FIFA World Cup</a>, the first successful qualification to the <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> in the country's history after failing to qualify to the 1966 and 1970 tournaments. It would prove to be the only appearance for the Australian team for more than three decades.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERollsHalliganMathewsCliff199942-29">[29]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Australia_national_rugby_league_team_(8_May_2009,_Brisbane).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Australia_national_rugby_league_team_%288_May_2009%2C_Brisbane%29.jpg/220px-Australia_national_rugby_league_team_%288_May_2009%2C_Brisbane%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Australia_national_rugby_league_team_%288_May_2009%2C_Brisbane%29.jpg/330px-Australia_national_rugby_league_team_%288_May_2009%2C_Brisbane%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Australia_national_rugby_league_team_%288_May_2009%2C_Brisbane%29.jpg/440px-Australia_national_rugby_league_team_%288_May_2009%2C_Brisbane%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="683" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_league_team" title="Australia national rugby league team">Australia national rugby league team</a> kicking off a match</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Barassi_Line" title="Barassi Line">regional football code divide in Australia</a> was still present in the 1980s, with <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">rugby league</a> football being the dominant code in <a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australian_Capital_Territory" title="Australian Capital Territory">ACT</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a> while <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a> dominated in the rest of the country. When codes went outside of their traditional geographic home, they had little success in gaining new fans and participants.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew1997x-33">[33]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australian_Institute_of_Sport" title="Australian Institute of Sport">Australian Institute of Sport</a> was founded in 1981.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield2003x-61">[61]</a> In the lead up to and during the <a href="/wiki/1982_Commonwealth_Games" title="1982 Commonwealth Games">1982 Commonwealth Games</a>, the police were called upon to stop protests by <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_land_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Aboriginal land rights">Aboriginal land rights</a> activists who staged protests timed with the event in order to politicise the event.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKay199174-62">[62]</a> Australia had competitors in the <a href="/wiki/America%27s_Cup" title="America's Cup">America's Cup</a> yacht race for a number of years. Going into the 1983 race, the Australian media was not that interested in the race as they expected a similar result and in the media lead-up to the event, made it out to be a race for rich people. This lack of interest continued throughout the early races. Near the end, when Australia finally appeared poised to win it, millions of Australians turned on their television to watch the <a href="/wiki/Australia_II" title="Australia II">Australia II</a> win the competition.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKay199121-63">[63]</a> That year, the Liberals used Australian tennis star <a href="/wiki/John_Newcombe" title="John Newcombe">John Newcombe</a> and race car drivers <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brock" title="Peter Brock">Peter Brock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Jones_(racing_driver)" title="Alan Jones (racing driver)">Alan Jones</a> in their political advertising.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKay199172-64">[64]</a> Athletes would again be used, this time by the Labor Party, in the 1989 elections.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKay199172-64">[64]</a> During the 1980s, Australian soccer players began to start playing regularly in overseas professional leagues, with the most successful player of the decade being <a href="/wiki/Craig_Johnston" title="Craig Johnston">Craig Johnston</a> who scored a goal in the 1986 FA Cup Final for Liverpool.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERollsHalliganMathewsCliff199942-29">[29]</a> During the 1980s, the federal government created a number of sport programs including Aussie Sports and Active Australia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShilburyDeane200189-65">[65]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_field_hockey_team" title="Australia women's national field hockey team">Australia women's national field hockey team</a> began their run as one of the top teams in the world in 1985, a place they would hold until 2000.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENaurightParrish2012368–369-32">[32]</a> In 1990, the Victorian Football League changed its name to the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a>. During the 1990s, <a href="/wiki/Soccer_in_Australia" title="Soccer in Australia">soccer in Australia</a> faced a challenge in attracting youth players because of the ethnic nature of the sport at the highest levels of national competition. The sport's governing body made an effort to make the game less ethnically oriented. At the same time, rival football codes were intentionally trying to bring in ethnic participants in order to expand their youth playing base.<a href="#cite_note-Russell2011p11-66">[66]</a> Doping became a concern during the 1980s and more active steps were taken to combat it in Australia in the early 1990s. In 1990, the Australian Sports Drug Agency Act 1990 was passed and took control of doping test away from the Australian Sport Commission and put it into the hands of an independent doping control agency as of 17 February 1991.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShilburyDeane200188-67">[67]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2000_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony_1.JPEG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/2000_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony_1.JPEG/220px-2000_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony_1.JPEG" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/2000_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony_1.JPEG/330px-2000_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony_1.JPEG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/2000_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony_1.JPEG/440px-2000_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony_1.JPEG 2x" data-file-width="2880" data-file-height="1870" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics_Opening_Ceremony" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony">2000 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony</a> at <a href="/wiki/Stadium_Australia" title="Stadium Australia">Stadium Australia</a> on 15 September 2000</figcaption></figure> In 2006, Melbourne hosted the <a href="/wiki/2006_Commonwealth_Games" title="2006 Commonwealth Games">2006 Commonwealth Games</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMojumdar2009172-68">[68]</a> Later that year, the <a href="/wiki/Australia_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="Australia men's national soccer team">Australian team</a> competed in the <a href="/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2006 FIFA World Cup">2006 FIFA World Cup</a>, their second <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> appearance after 32 years of failing to qualify for the tournament.<a href="#cite_note-Timeline-69">[69]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Black_Caviar_Ascot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Black_Caviar_Ascot.jpg/220px-Black_Caviar_Ascot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Black_Caviar_Ascot.jpg/330px-Black_Caviar_Ascot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Black_Caviar_Ascot.jpg/440px-Black_Caviar_Ascot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Black_Caviar" title="Black Caviar">Black Caviar</a> prior to the 2012 <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Jubilee_Stakes" class="mw-redirect" title="Diamond Jubilee Stakes">Diamond Jubilee Stakes</a> at <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ascot" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Ascot">Royal Ascot</a></figcaption></figure> In 2012, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Rugby_League_Commission" title="Australian Rugby League Commission">Australian Rugby League Commission</a> was formed, bringing to an end the involvement of News Limited in the administration of Rugby League and the media companies' conflict of interests in the sport, finally concluding the fall-out from the <a href="/wiki/Super_League_war" title="Super League war">Super League war</a> in the 1990s.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> From 2008 until 2013, the Australian <a href="/wiki/Thoroughbred" title="Thoroughbred">thoroughbred</a> mare <a href="/wiki/Black_Caviar" title="Black Caviar">Black Caviar</a> was undefeated for her entire 25-race career, a record not equaled in over 100 years.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> Notable wins include the 2012 Diamond Jubilee Stakes, as well as being named the top sprinter from 2010 to 2012 in the <a href="/wiki/World_Thoroughbred_Racehorse_Rankings" class="mw-redirect" title="World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings">World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings</a> and entering the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Racing_Hall_of_Fame" title="Australian Racing Hall of Fame">Australian Racing Hall of Fame</a> while still in training. Another thoroughbred mare, <a href="/wiki/Winx_(horse)" title="Winx (horse)">Winx</a>, though not finishing unbeaten for her career, surpassed Black Caviar's record for consecutive wins by winning the last 33 races of her career, a streak running from May 2015 to April 2019. She also entered the Hall of Fame while in training, and set a world record for most Group 1 wins with 25. Among her wins were four consecutive <a href="/wiki/Cox_Plate" class="mw-redirect" title="Cox Plate">Cox Plates</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organisation">Organisation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Organisation">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Organisation_of_sport_in_Australia" title="Organisation of sport in Australia">Organisation of sport in Australia</a></div> The organisation of sport in Australia has been largely determined by its Federal system of government – <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Australia">Australian Government</a> and <a href="/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia" title="States and territories of Australia">six states and two territories governments</a> and <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Australia" title="Local government in Australia">local governments</a>.<a href="#cite_note-profile-72">[72]</a> State and Territory governments have a department with responsibility for sport and recreation. These departments provide assistance to state sports organisations, develop and manage sporting facilities, provide financial assistance for major sporting events and develop policies to assist sports across their state or territory. Each Australian State and Territory has established its own institute/academy of sport – <a href="/wiki/ACT_Academy_of_Sport" title="ACT Academy of Sport">ACT Academy of Sport</a> (established 1989), <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Institute_of_Sport" title="New South Wales Institute of Sport">New South Wales Institute of Sport</a> (1996), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_Territory_Institute_of_Sport&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northern Territory Institute of Sport (page does not exist)">Northern Territory Institute of Sport</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Queensland_Academy_of_Sport" title="Queensland Academy of Sport">Queensland Academy of Sport</a> (1991), <a href="/wiki/South_Australian_Sports_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="South Australian Sports Institute">South Australian Sports Institute</a> (1982), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tasmanian_Institute_of_Sport&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tasmanian Institute of Sport (page does not exist)">Tasmanian Institute of Sport</a> (1985), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131216093346/http://www.vis.org.au/about-us.html">Victorian Institute of Sport</a> (1990) and <a href="/wiki/Western_Australian_Institute_of_Sport" title="Western Australian Institute of Sport">Western Australian Institute of Sport</a> (1984).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield2003-73">[73]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] There are 560 local councils across Australia. Local governments generally focus on the provision of facilities such as swimming pools, sporting fields, stadiums and tennis courts.<a href="#cite_note-local-74">[74]</a> Government involvement in sport up until the 1970s was fairly limited with local governments playing a major role through the provision of sporting facilities.<a href="#cite_note-profile-72">[72]</a> However, this changed over the next two decades with an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey in 2001–2002 finding that approximately $2 billion was spent on sport by three levels of government – 10 per cent from the Australian Government, 40 per cent from state and territory governments, and the remaining 50 per cent from local government.<a href="#cite_note-crawford-75">[75]</a> State, territory and local government spending was predominantly directed to facilities and their upkeep.<a href="#cite_note-crawford-75">[75]</a> In 1973, the Recreation Minister's Council was established to provide a forum for Australian Government and State and Territory Minister's responsible for sport and recreation to discuss matters of interest.<a href="#cite_note-profile-72">[72]</a> With government's taking an increased involvement in sport, it became the Sport and Recreation Minister's Council.<a href="#cite_note-profile-72">[72]</a> More recently is referred to as Meeting of Sport and Recreation Ministers.<a href="#cite_note-msrm-76">[76]</a> The Meeting is assisted by the Committee of Australian Sport and Recreation Officials (CASRO) previously called the Standing Committee on Sport and Recreation (SCORS).<a href="#cite_note-msrm-76">[76]</a> The Meeting works cooperatively on issues such as match fixing, sport participation and water safety.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> In 2011, Minister's signed the National Sport and Active Recreation Policy Framework.<a href="#cite_note-framework-78">[78]</a> The framework "provides a mechanism for the achievement of national goals for sport and active recreation, sets out agreed roles and responsibilities of governments and their expectations of sport and active recreation partners."<a href="#cite_note-framework-78">[78]</a> In 1993, National Elite Sports Council was established to provide a forum for communication, issues management and national program coordination across the high performance in Australia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield2003-73">[73]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] It includes representatives from AIS, State Institute /Academies, <a href="/wiki/Australian_Olympic_Committee" title="Australian Olympic Committee">Australian Olympic Committee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australian_Paralympic_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Paralympic Committee">Australian Paralympic Committee</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Commonwealth_Games_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Commonwealth Games Association">Australian Commonwealth Games Association</a>.<a href="#cite_note-asc-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-ferguson-80">[80]</a> In 2011, National Institute System Intergovernmental Agreement provides "guidance on how the sector will operate, with a principal focus on the delivery of the high performance plans of national sporting organisations."<a href="#cite_note-nisia-81">[81]</a> The Australian government provided small amounts of funding in the 1950s and 1960s through the support of the <a href="/wiki/National_Fitness_Council" title="National Fitness Council">National Fitness Council</a> and international sporting teams such as the Australian Olympic team.<a href="#cite_note-profile-72">[72]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australian_Government" title="Australian Government">Australian Government</a>'s serious involvement and investment into sport came with it establishing the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Institute_of_Sport" title="Australian Institute of Sport">Australian Institute of Sport</a> (AIS) in 1981.<a href="#cite_note-profile-72">[72]</a> AIS was set up to improve Australia's performances in international sport which had started to decline in the 1960s and 1970s culminating in Australia winning no gold medals at the <a href="/wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics" title="1976 Summer Olympics">1976 Montreal Olympics</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield2003-73">[73]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] In 1985, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Sports_Commission" title="Australian Sports Commission">Australian Sports Commission</a> (ASC) was established to improve the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Government" title="Australian Government">Australian Government</a>'s administration of sport in terms of funding, participation and elite sport.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield2003-73">[73]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] The 1989 Senate Inquiry into drugs in sport resulted in the establishment of the Australian Sport Drug Agency (now called <a href="/wiki/Australian_Sports_Anti-Doping_Authority" title="Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority">Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority</a> (ASADA)) in 1990 to manage Australia's anti-doping program.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield2003-73">[73]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Participation">Participation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Participation">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ABS-6291.0.55.003-LabourForceAustraliaDetailedQuarterly-EmployedPersonsByIndustrySubdivisionSex-EmployedTotal-SportsRecreationActivities-Persons-A2545781V.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/ABS-6291.0.55.003-LabourForceAustraliaDetailedQuarterly-EmployedPersonsByIndustrySubdivisionSex-EmployedTotal-SportsRecreationActivities-Persons-A2545781V.svg/300px-ABS-6291.0.55.003-LabourForceAustraliaDetailedQuarterly-EmployedPersonsByIndustrySubdivisionSex-EmployedTotal-SportsRecreationActivities-Persons-A2545781V.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/ABS-6291.0.55.003-LabourForceAustraliaDetailedQuarterly-EmployedPersonsByIndustrySubdivisionSex-EmployedTotal-SportsRecreationActivities-Persons-A2545781V.svg/450px-ABS-6291.0.55.003-LabourForceAustraliaDetailedQuarterly-EmployedPersonsByIndustrySubdivisionSex-EmployedTotal-SportsRecreationActivities-Persons-A2545781V.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/ABS-6291.0.55.003-LabourForceAustraliaDetailedQuarterly-EmployedPersonsByIndustrySubdivisionSex-EmployedTotal-SportsRecreationActivities-Persons-A2545781V.svg/600px-ABS-6291.0.55.003-LabourForceAustraliaDetailedQuarterly-EmployedPersonsByIndustrySubdivisionSex-EmployedTotal-SportsRecreationActivities-Persons-A2545781V.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></a><figcaption>Total employment in the sports and recreation sector (thousands of people) since 1984</figcaption></figure> The most popular sports in Australia by adult participation are: swimming, athletics, cycling, soccer, golf, tennis, basketball, surfing, netball and cricket.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> The highest rates of participation for Australian sport and recreation are informal, non-organised sports with bike riding, skateboarding, rollerblading or riding a scooter topping the list of activities for children, with 66% of all boys bike riding and 55.9% of all boys skateboarding, rollerblading or riding a scooter in 2009 and 2010. Girls also participated in these activities at high rates with 54.4% of them doing bike riding and 42.4% skateboarding, rollerblading or riding a scooter. Other sports popular for Australian girls include dancing, which had 26.3% participation, swimming with 19.8% participation and netball at 17%. For boys, the other popular sports for participation included soccer with a rate of participation of 19.9%, swimming with a participation rate of 17.2%, Australian rules at 16%.<a href="#cite_note-abs20092010-83">[83]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GKRP_bike.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/GKRP_bike.jpg/220px-GKRP_bike.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/GKRP_bike.jpg/330px-GKRP_bike.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/GKRP_bike.jpg/440px-GKRP_bike.jpg 2x" data-file-width="605" data-file-height="454" /></a><figcaption>Bicycle riding is one of the most popular forms of physical recreation in Australia</figcaption></figure> Participation rates for adults in Australia were much lower than that of Australian children. For adult women in Australia, the number one sport activity they participate in is walking with 30% having done this in 2009 and 2010. The second most popular form of exercise and sport was Aerobics/fitness/gym with a rate of 16.7%. The third most popular for adult women was swimming and diving with 8.4%. For men, the most popular sport activity was also walking with a participation rate of 15.6%. This was followed by Aerobics/fitness/gym with 11.2%. The third most popular sport for adult males was cycling/BMXing with a participation rate of 8.2%.<a href="#cite_note-abs20092010-83">[83]</a> There are 34,000 athletes, officials and coaches currently registered with the <a href="/wiki/Athletics_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletics Australia">Athletics Australia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-report-84">[84]</a> A 2007 estimate claimed that Australian football had 615,549 participants,<a href="#cite_note-realfooty2007-85">[85]</a> Basketball has become one of the most popular participation sports in Australia. In <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_(Victoria)" class="mw-redirect" title="Melbourne (Victoria)">Melbourne</a>, particularly, it has more participants than any other sport.<a href="#cite_note-gelongaobover-86">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-heraledsunthing-87">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-heraldsun.com.au-88">[88]</a> Australia's warm climate and long coastline of sandy beaches and rolling waves provide ideal conditions for water sports such as <a href="/wiki/Swimming_(sport)" title="Swimming (sport)">swimming</a>. The majority of Australians live in cities or towns on or near the coast, and so beaches are a place that millions of Australians visit regularly.<a href="#cite_note-culture.gov.au-89">[89]</a> According to the National Cricket Census, a record 1,650,030 people played <a href="/wiki/Cricket_in_Australia" title="Cricket in Australia">Cricket across Australia</a> in 2018–19. Women participation also reached record figures in growing to 496,484 players.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Amateur_sport">Amateur sport</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Amateur sport">edit</a>]</div> Amateur sport in Australia follows a corporate management system, with the national tier composed of national sport organisations that support and fund elite sport development. These organisations include the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Institute_of_Sport" title="Australian Institute of Sport">Australian Institute of Sport</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Sports_Commission" title="Australian Sports Commission">Australian Sports Commission</a>. Below them is the state level, which includes state sporting organisations, state institute of sport and state departments of sport. The last level is district/regional associations and local clubs and community sports along with local government.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShilburyDeane2001121-91">[91]</a> At the national level, the national sport organisations govern most sports in Australia, with over 120 different national sports organisation overseeing sport in Australia.<a href="#cite_note-YearBookAustraliap390-92">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-YearBookAustraliap391-93">[93]</a> The role of government in this structure is important<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShilburyDeane2001121-91">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-YearBookAustraliap392-94">[94]</a> as government funding for most sport in Australia comes from the national government, state and territory governments, and local governments. In the late 1990s, government support for sport was double that of public non-financial corporations.<a href="#cite_note-YearBookAustraliap392-94">[94]</a> Amateur sport was transformed in Australia in the 1980s with the creation of the AIS <a href="/wiki/Australian_Institute_of_Sport" title="Australian Institute of Sport">Australian Institute of Sport</a>. The institute, formally opened by <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Fraser" title="Malcolm Fraser">Malcolm Fraser</a> in 1981, was designed to make Australian amateur sport at major world competitions, like the Olympics, competitive with the rest of the world and increase the number of medals won by the country.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBennettCarter2001239–240-95">[95]</a> A few years later, in 1984, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Sports_Commission" title="Australian Sports Commission">Australian Sports Commission</a> was created to better address the distribution of funds to support sport.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoyeNicholsonWesterbeekSmith201229-96">[96]</a> It had a budget of <a href="/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar">A$</a>109 million in 2000.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShilburyDeane200189-65">[65]</a> By 2009, the Australian Sports Commission had a budget of <a href="/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar">A$</a>150 million, up from <a href="/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar">A$</a>5 million when it first was created.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoyeNicholsonWesterbeekSmith201229-96">[96]</a> Amateur sport has been able to draw large audiences. In the 1950s, 120,000 fans would go to the MCG to watch major athletics events.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoy_Scouts_of_America,_Inc.195647-97">[97]</a> Australian amateur sport has dealt with financial problems. In the 2000s, <a href="/wiki/Athletics_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletics Australia">Athletics Australia</a> was facing duel problems of financial problems and failure for the sport to consistently medal at major international sporting events compared to other sports and their representative organisations like <a href="/wiki/Swimming_Australia" title="Swimming Australia">Swimming Australia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rowing_Australia" title="Rowing Australia">Rowing Australia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoyeNicholsonWesterbeekSmith2012294-98">[98]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="National_Leagues">National Leagues</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: National Leagues">edit</a>]</div> Major professional sports leagues in Australia are similar to <a href="/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada" title="Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada">major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada</a> in that they are <a href="/wiki/Closed_league" title="Closed league">closed leagues</a> that do not practice <a href="/wiki/Promotion_and_relegation" title="Promotion and relegation">promotion and relegation</a>, unlike sports leagues in Europe and Latin America. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Male_Major_Leagues">Male Major Leagues</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Male Major Leagues">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>League </th> <th>Sport </th> <th>Teams </th> <th>Season </th> <th>Popularity by state </th> <th>Established </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a> </td> <td>18 </td> <td>March – September </td> <td>Most popular winter sport in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania. </td> <td>1897 </td> <td>Most attended sport<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/A-League_Men" title="A-League Men">A-League Men</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Soccer</a> </td> <td>12 </td> <td>October – May </td> <td>Moderately Popular nationwide </td> <td>2004 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Big_Bash_League" title="Big Bash League">Big Bash League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> </td> <td>8 </td> <td>December – January </td> <td>Most popular summer sport nationwide </td> <td>2011<a href="#cite_note-100">[o 1]</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Australia)" title="National Basketball League (Australia)">National Basketball League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td>10 </td> <td>September – March </td> <td>Moderately popular nationwide </td> <td>1979 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">National Rugby League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby League">Rugby League</a> </td> <td>17 </td> <td>March – October </td> <td>Most Popular winter sport in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory. </td> <td>1908 </td> <td>Most watched sport by TV<a href="#cite_note-101">[100]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Female_Major_Leagues">Female Major Leagues</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Female Major Leagues">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>League </th> <th>Sport </th> <th>Teams </th> <th>Season </th> <th>Popularity by state </th> <th>Established </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">Australian Football League Womens</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a> </td> <td>18 </td> <td>September – December </td> <td>Most popular winter sport in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania. </td> <td>2017 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/A-League_Women" title="A-League Women">A-League Womens</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Soccer</a> </td> <td>12 </td> <td>October – April </td> <td>Moderately Popular nationwide </td> <td>2008 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Big_Bash_League" title="Women's Big Bash League">Womens Big Bash League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> </td> <td>8 </td> <td>October – December </td> <td>Most popular summer sport nationwide </td> <td>2015 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Suncorp_Super_Netball" title="Suncorp Super Netball">Suncorp Super Netball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Netball" title="Netball">Netball</a> </td> <td>8 </td> <td>March – July </td> <td>Popular nationwide </td> <td>2017 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_League" title="Women's National Basketball League">Womens National Basketball League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td>8 </td> <td>November – March </td> <td>Popular nationwide </td> <td>1981 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/NRL_Women%27s_Premiership" title="NRL Women's Premiership">National Rugby League Women's</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby League">Rugby League</a> </td> <td>17 </td> <td>July – October </td> <td>Most Popular winter sport in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory. </td> <td>2018 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_Significant_National_Leagues">Other Significant National Leagues</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Other Significant National Leagues">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>League </th> <th>Sport </th> <th>Teams </th> <th>Popularity by state </th> <th>Established </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_Baseball_League" title="Australian Baseball League">Australian Baseball League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">Baseball</a> </td> <td>6 </td> <td>Minor sport </td> <td>2009 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_Ice_Hockey_League" title="Australian Ice Hockey League">Australian Ice Hockey League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ice_Hockey" class="mw-redirect" title="Ice Hockey">Ice Hockey</a> </td> <td>8 </td> <td>Minor sport </td> <td>2000 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hockey_One" title="Hockey One">Hockey One</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Field_Hockey" class="mw-redirect" title="Field Hockey">Field Hockey</a> </td> <td>7 </td> <td>Minor sport </td> <td>2019 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Supercars_Championship" title="Supercars Championship">Supercars Championship</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Touring_Car_Racing" class="mw-redirect" title="Touring Car Racing">Touring Car Racing</a> </td> <td>N/A </td> <td>Popular nationwide </td> <td>1997 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Super_Rugby" title="Super Rugby">Super Rugby</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby Union">Rugby Union</a> </td> <td>4<a href="#cite_note-102">[o 2]</a> </td> <td>Popular in New South Wales and Queensland </td> <td>1996 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Super_W" class="mw-redirect" title="Super W">Super W</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby Union">Rugby Union</a> </td> <td>5 </td> <td>Popular in New South Wales and Queensland </td> <td>2018 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output 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The teams of Fiji and the Pacific Islands joined in 2022. </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spectators">Spectators</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Spectators">edit</a>]</div> Australian sport fans have historically attended events in large numbers, dating back to the country's early history. An early football game played in Melbourne in 1858 had 2,000 spectators.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHessNicholsonStewartde_Moore200860-103">[101]</a> By 1897, tens of thousands of spectators attended an early Australian rules football match at a time when top level soccer matches in England would draw six thousand fans. A finals match between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood in 1938 drew 96,834 fans.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuttmann200786–87-104">[102]</a> In 1909, at a time when <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> had not yet become professionalised, 52,000 people in Sydney attended a game between New South Wales and New Zealand. The spectators accounted for 10% of the total population of Sydney at the time. 60,922 fans attended the <a href="/wiki/1943_NSWRFL_season" title="1943 NSWRFL season">1943 NSWRFL Grand Final</a> between <a href="/wiki/North_Sydney_Bears" title="North Sydney Bears">Norths</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newtown_Jets" title="Newtown Jets">Newtown</a>, and 78,056 attended the <a href="/wiki/1965_NSWRFL_season" title="1965 NSWRFL season">1965 Grand Final</a> between <a href="/wiki/South_Sydney_Rabbitohs" title="South Sydney Rabbitohs">Souths</a> and the then 9-time champion <a href="/wiki/St_George_Dragons" class="mw-redirect" title="St George Dragons">St George</a>, although estimates including those who climbed onto roofs and over the perimeter fence put the actual crowd as high as 200,000.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndreffSzymański2006438-105">[103]</a> A world record was set for cricket attendance on 30 December 1932 when 63,993 fans watched England take on Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClark1993544-106">[104]</a> In 2010, the <a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">National Rugby League</a>'s premiership set its record for regular season attendance, with 3,490,778 attending across the season, at an average of 17,367 people at each match.<a href="#cite_note-107">[105]</a> Total average game attendance for the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">National Rugby League</a> increased between 1970 and 2000, with the AFL going from an average attendance of 24,344 people per match in 1970 to 27,325 by 1980 to 25,238 in 1990 and 34,094 by 2000. The National Rugby League had an average per game attendance of 11,990 in 1970, saw a decrease in 1980 to 10,860 but increased to 12,073 by 1990 and improved on that to 14,043 by 2000. Founded later, the National Basketball League had an average per game attendance of 1,158 in 1985, increased this to 4,551 by 1990, and kept attendance steady with 4,636 average fans per game in 2000.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFortFizel2004309-108">[106]</a> In March 1999, 104,000 fans attended a double header match in the National Rugby League at <a href="/wiki/Stadium_Australia" title="Stadium Australia">Stadium Australia</a> four days after the venue formally opened.<a href="#cite_note-Statistics-109">[107]</a> In 2000, during the soccer gold medal match between Cameroon and Spain, 114,000 fans watched the game live inside Stadium Australia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHigham201299-110">[108]</a> In the 2006–07 season, the <a href="/wiki/A-League" class="mw-redirect" title="A-League">A-League</a> <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Victory" class="mw-redirect" title="Melbourne Victory">Melbourne Victory</a> averaged 27,728 people to their home matches throughout the season. The <a href="/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310_A-League" title="2009–10 A-League">2009–10 regular season</a> was considerably lower.<a href="#cite_note-somealeageusource-111">[109]</a> In 2019, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> achieved its highest total attendance for any season of 7,594,302, a record for the competition, at an average attendance of 36,687 for each match.<a href="#cite_note-112">[110]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Big_Bash_League" title="Big Bash League">Big Bash League</a> (BBL) was established in 2011. The first season attracted an average of 18,021 spectators per match. In the 2014–15 season, the average attendance for each match was 23,590 with the <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Strikers" title="Adelaide Strikers">Adelaide Strikers</a> attracting a record average home crowd of 36,023 spectators each game.<a href="#cite_note-113">[111]</a><a href="#cite_note-The_Roar-114">[112]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2015_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2015 Cricket World Cup">2015 Cricket World Cup</a> final was played in front of 93,013 spectators, a record crowd for a day of cricket in Australia. BBL in its <a href="/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_Big_Bash_League_season" title="2016–17 Big Bash League season">sixth season in 2016–17</a>, drew an average crowd in excess of 30,000 for the first time in history, with overall count crossing 1 million for 35 matches. In April 2024, the <a href="/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_A-League_Women" title="2023–24 A-League Women">2023–24 A-League Women</a> season set the record for the most attended season of any women's sport in Australian history, with the season recording a total attendance of 284,551 at 15 April 2024,<a href="#cite_note-115">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[116]</a> and finishing with a final total attendance of 312,199.<a href="#cite_note-119">[117]</a> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="text-align: center;"> <caption>National League attendance of team sports – latest season (Bolded Competitions are Women's Leagues) </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Competition </th> <th>Sport </th> <th>Total spectatorship </th> <th>Average attendance </th> <th>Year </th> <th>Ref </th></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian football</a> </td> <td>8,139,464 </td> <td>36,396 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_season" title="2023 AFL season">2023</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-120">[118]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">AFL Women's</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian football</a> </td> <td>283,922 </td> <td>2,868 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_Women%27s_season" title="2023 AFL Women's season">2023</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Big_Bash_League" title="Big Bash League">Big Bash League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> </td> <td>1,212,696 </td> <td>21,505 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_Big_Bash_League_season" title="2023–24 Big Bash League season">2023-24</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-121">[119]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Big_Bash_League" title="Women's Big Bash League">Women's Big Bash League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> </td> <td>852,549 </td> <td>6,478 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022-23_Women%27s_Big_Bash_League_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2022-23 Women's Big Bash League season">2022</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/A-League_Men" title="A-League Men">A-League Men</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Soccer" class="mw-redirect" title="Soccer">Soccer</a> </td> <td>1,309,087 </td> <td>7,982 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_A-League_Men" title="2022–23 A-League Men">2022–23</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/A-League_Women" title="A-League Women">A-League Women</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Soccer" class="mw-redirect" title="Soccer">Soccer</a> </td> <td>137,602 </td> <td>1,336 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022-23_A-League_Women" class="mw-redirect" title="2022-23 A-League Women">2022–23</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_Baseball_League" title="Australian Baseball League">Australian Baseball League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">Baseball</a> </td> <td>14,899 </td> <td>16,55 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022-23_Australian_Baseball_League_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2022-23 Australian Baseball League season">2022–23</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">National Rugby League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">Rugby league</a> </td> <td>4,265,289 </td> <td>20,605 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_NRL_season" title="2024 NRL season">2024</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-122">[120]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/NRL_Women%27s_Premiership" title="NRL Women's Premiership">NRL Women's</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">Rugby league</a> </td> <td>98,442 </td> <td>8,204 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_NRL_Women%27s_season" title="2022 NRL Women's season">2022</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Australasia)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball League (Australasia)">National Basketball League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td>970,704 </td> <td>6,303 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022-23_NBL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2022-23 NBL season">2022–23</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-123">[121]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_League" title="Women's National Basketball League">Women's National Basketball League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td>24,630 </td> <td>3,079 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_WNBL_season" title="2022–23 WNBL season">2022–23</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Super_Netball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Netball League">Super Netball League</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Netball" title="Netball">Netball</a> </td> <td>266,197 </td> <td>– </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Suncorp_Super_Netball_season" title="2023 Suncorp Super Netball season">2023</a> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"> <caption>Other Major Competitions/Leagues/Games attendance (Bolded Competitions are Women's Competitions) </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Competition </th> <th>Sport </th> <th>Total Spectatorship </th> <th>Average Attendance </th> <th>Year </th> <th>Ref </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/AFLX" title="AFLX">AFLX</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFLX" title="AFLX">AFLX</a> – <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian Football</a> </td> <td>42,730 </td> <td>14,243 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_AFLX_competition" title="2018 AFLX competition">2018</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/E._J._Whitten_Legends_Game" title="E. J. Whitten Legends Game">E. J. Whitten Legends Game</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian Football</a> </td> <td>8,000 </td> <td>8,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/E._J._Whitten_Legends_Game" title="E. J. Whitten Legends Game">2018</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_JLT_Community_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 JLT Community Series">JLT Community Series</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian Football</a> </td> <td>92,333 </td> <td>5,130 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_JLT_Community_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 JLT Community Series">2018</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Boxing_Day_Test" title="Boxing Day Test">Boxing Day Test</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> (<a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">test cricket</a>) </td> <td>261,335 (88,173 Boxing Day) </td> <td>52,267 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Ashes_series" title="2017–18 Ashes series">2017</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/State_of_Origin_series" title="State of Origin series">State Of Origin</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">Rugby league</a> </td> <td>192,255 </td> <td>64,085 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_State_of_Origin_series" title="2022 State of Origin series">2022</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/State_of_Origin_series" title="State of Origin series">Women's State Of Origin</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">Rugby league</a> </td> <td>11,321 </td> <td>11,321 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_State_of_Origin_series" title="2022 State of Origin series">2022</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Rugby_Championship" title="The Rugby Championship">The Rugby Championship</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">Rugby union</a> </td> <td>433,657 </td> <td>36,138 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_Rugby_Championship" title="2018 Rugby Championship">2018</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Super_Rugby" title="Super Rugby">Super Rugby</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">Rugby union</a> </td> <td>773,940 </td> <td>19,348 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_Super_Rugby_season" title="2015 Super Rugby season">2012</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-124">[122]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_Grand_Prix" title="Australian Grand Prix">Formula One Grand Prix</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Motorsport" title="Motorsport">Motorsport</a> </td> <td>419,114 (128,294 Race Day) </td> <td>- </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_Australian_Grand_Prix" title="2022 Australian Grand Prix">2022</a> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="text-align: center;"> <caption>Total attendance by sport </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Sport </th> <th>Total spectatorship </th> <th>Average attendance </th> <th>Year </th> <th>Ref </th></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian football</a> </td> <td>8,139,464 </td> <td>36,396 </td> <td>2023 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-125">[123]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">Rugby league</a> </td> <td>3,604,108 </td> <td>16,609 </td> <td>2022 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-126">[124]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Soccer" class="mw-redirect" title="Soccer">Soccer</a> </td> <td>2,502,789 </td> <td>13,242 </td> <td>2015–16 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-127">[125]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> </td> <td>1,756,131 </td> <td>24,734 </td> <td>2016–17 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-128">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[127]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td>1,073,643 </td> <td>7,304 </td> <td>2019–20 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-130">[128]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">Rugby union</a> </td> <td>359,266 </td> <td>Not available </td> <td>2022 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-131">[129]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports_media">Sports media</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Sports media">edit</a>]</div> Media coverage of Australian sport and athletes predates 1876. The first all Australian sport publication, The Referee, was first published in 1886 in Sydney.<a href="#cite_note-sport-media-gov-132">[130]</a> The major newspapers for sport coverage in the country include the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Morning_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Morning Herald">Sydney Morning Herald</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Courier_Mail" class="mw-redirect" title="The Courier Mail">The Courier Mail</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Herald_Sun" title="Herald Sun">Herald Sun</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_West_Australian" title="The West Australian">The West Australian</a>.<a href="#cite_note-sport-media-gov-132">[130]</a> There is a long history of television coverage of sports in Australia. From 1957 to 2001, the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a> was the network for the Australian Football League. The only year that Seven was not the network for the league was in 1987 when the AFL was on the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">Australian Broadcasting Corporation</a> (ABC). An exclusive deal was agreed upon by Seven in 1976 for a five-year deal worth A$3 million.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFortFizel2004310-133">[131]</a> The media plays an important part in Australia's sporting landscape, with many sporting events televised or broadcast on radio. The government has <a href="/wiki/Anti-siphoning_laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-siphoning laws">anti-siphoning laws</a> to protect free-to-air stations. Beyond televising live events, there are many sport-related television and radio programs, as well as several magazine publications dedicated to sport. Australian sport has also been the subject of Australian-made films such as <a href="/wiki/The_Club_(1980_film)" title="The Club (1980 film)">The Club</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australian_Rules_(film)" title="Australian Rules (film)">Australian Rules</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Final_Winter" title="The Final Winter">The Final Winter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Footy_Legends" title="Footy Legends">Footy Legends</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Series_Cricket" title="World Series Cricket">World Series Cricket</a> was a break away professional <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a> competition staged between 1977 and 1979 and organised by <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Packer" title="Kerry Packer">Kerry Packer</a> for his TV network, <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Nine</a>. The matches ran in opposition to international cricket. It drastically changed the nature of cricket and its influence continues to be felt today.<a href="#cite_note-134">[132]</a> Not all sports have had favourable deals with networks. The first television offer for the National Basketball League was worth A$1 in an offered made by Seven that the league accepted. The deal made by <a href="/wiki/Ten_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Ten Network">Ten Network</a> to the <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Rugby_League" title="New South Wales Rugby League">New South Wales Rugby League</a> was worth considerably more, worth A$48 million for a five-year deal that also included broadcasting rights for the State of Origin and the <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_league_team" title="Australia national rugby league team">Australia national rugby league team</a>. This deal was terminated early because the network could not afford to pay out.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFortFizel2004311-135">[133]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1967_NSWRFL_season" title="1967 NSWRFL season">1967 NSWRFL season</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Grand_final" title="Grand final">grand final</a> became the first football grand final of any code to be televised live in Australia. The <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Nine Network</a> had paid $5,000 for the broadcasting rights.<a href="#cite_note-roymasters-136">[134]</a> <a href="/wiki/Special_Broadcasting_Service" title="Special Broadcasting Service">SBS</a> and FoxSports are two of the most important television networks in Australia in terms of covering all Australian sports, not just the popular professional leagues.<a href="#cite_note-sport-media-gov-132">[130]</a> Administrators for less popular spectator sports, such as basketball and netball, believe that getting additional television and newspaper coverage is fundamental for the growth and success of their sports going forward.<a href="#cite_note-sport-media-gov-132">[130]</a> <a href="/wiki/Anti-siphoning_laws_in_Australia" title="Anti-siphoning laws in Australia">Anti-siphoning laws in Australia</a> regulate the media companies' access to significant sporting events. In 1992, when the country experienced growth in paid-subscription media, the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia" title="Parliament of Australia">Parliament of Australia</a> enacted the Broadcasting Services Act that gave free-to-air broadcasters preferential access to acquire broadcasting rights to sporting events. The anti-siphoning list is a list of major sporting events that the Parliament of Australia has decided must be available for all Australians to see free of charge and cannot be "siphoned off" to pay TV where people are forced to pay to see them. The current anti-siphoning list came into effect in 2006 and expires 31 December 2010. The Minister for Communications can add or remove events from the list at his discretion. There are currently ten sports on the anti-siphoning list plus the Olympic and Commonwealth Games. Events on the anti-siphoning list are delisted 12 weeks before they start to ensure pay TV broadcasters have reasonable access to listed events, if free-to-air broadcasters decide not to purchase the broadcast rights for a particular event. Any rights to listed sporting events that are not acquired by free-to-air broadcasters are available to pay TV. For multi-round events where it is simply not possible for free-to-air networks to broadcast all matches within the event (e.g. the Australian Open) complementary coverage is available on pay television. The Federal Government is obliged by legislation to conduct a review of the list before the end of 2009. The current anti-siphoning list requires showing listed sports on the broadcaster's main channel.<a href="#cite_note-keepsortsfrea-137">[135]</a> Rugby league, which includes NRL, State of Origin and national team matches, had the highest aggregate television ratings of any sport in 2022<a href="#cite_note-tvratings-138">[136]</a> (also 2009<a href="#cite_note-Newstalk_ZB-139">[137]</a> and 2010.<a href="#cite_note-aggreagat-140">[138]</a>) Also, in a world first, the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Nine Network</a> broadcast <a href="/wiki/Free-to-air" title="Free-to-air">free-to-air</a> the first match of the <a href="/wiki/2010_State_of_Origin_series" title="2010 State of Origin series">2010 State of Origin series</a> live in <a href="/wiki/3D_television" title="3D television">3D</a> in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.<a href="#cite_note-byrnes-141">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-tvtonight-142">[140]</a> It has consistently been a highly watched sports event in the country over the last decade in terms of television ratings and is currently the highest rating sport competition in Australia as at 2022.<a href="#cite_note-tvratings-138">[136]</a> <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">Rugby union</a> is currently aired on numerous <a href="/wiki/Nine_Entertainment" title="Nine Entertainment">Nine Entertainment</a> platforms, including <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Channel 9</a>, <a href="/wiki/9Gem" title="9Gem">9Gem</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stan_Sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Stan Sport">Stan Sport</a>, as part of a A$100 million deal starting in 2021.<a href="#cite_note-143">[141]</a> <a href="/wiki/Super_Rugby" title="Super Rugby">Super Rugby</a> games are broadcast on <a href="/wiki/9Gem" title="9Gem">9Gem</a> every Saturday, while all other games are available on <a href="/wiki/Stan_Sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Stan Sport">Stan Sport</a>. Within a year of the deal starting, the Super Rugby Final had increased its ratings by 13-fold to 1.3 million, with Wallabies International games also experiencing growth.<a href="#cite_note-144">[142]</a> <a href="/wiki/Cricket_Australia" title="Cricket Australia">Cricket Australia</a> announced an unprecedented $590 million deal with free-to-air television networks <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Nine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ten_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Ten Network">Ten</a> in 2013 to broadcast the sport – a 118 per cent increase on the previous five-year contract.<a href="#cite_note-145">[143]</a> <a href="/wiki/Big_Bash_League" title="Big Bash League">BBL</a> games are currently broadcast in Australia by the free-to-air <a href="/wiki/Network_Ten" class="mw-redirect" title="Network Ten">Network Ten</a>. In 2013 Ten paid $100 million for BBL rights over five years, marking the channel's first foray in elite cricket coverage.<a href="#cite_note-146">[144]</a> <a href="/wiki/Fox_Sports_(Australia)" title="Fox Sports (Australia)">Fox Sports</a> had previously covered the Big Bash League. Network Ten's BBL coverage has become a regular feature of Australian summers and last season attracted an average audience of more than 943,000 people nationally in <a href="/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_Big_Bash_League_season" title="2014–15 Big Bash League season">2014–15 season</a>, including a peak audience of 1.9 million viewers for the final between the <a href="/wiki/Perth_Scorchers" title="Perth Scorchers">Perth Scorchers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Sixers" title="Sydney Sixers">Sydney Sixers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-147">[145]</a> There are a number of Australian sport films. They include <a href="/wiki/The_Club_(1980_film)" title="The Club (1980 film)">The Club</a>. The film was based on a play produced in 1977, in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>. It has been in the senior English syllabi for four Australian states for many years.<a href="#cite_note-antoehrverification-148">[146]</a> The film was written by David Williamson, directed by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Beresford" title="Bruce Beresford">Bruce Beresford</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/John_Howard_(Australian_actor)" title="John Howard (Australian actor)">John Howard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(actor)" title="Jack Thompson (actor)">Jack Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Graham_Kennedy" title="Graham Kennedy">Graham Kennedy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Wilson_(Australian_actor)" title="Frank Wilson (Australian actor)">Frank Wilson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-moretheclubstuff-149">[147]</a> Another Australian sport film is <a href="/wiki/The_Final_Winter" title="The Final Winter">The Final Winter</a>, released in 2007. It was directed by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Andrews_(director)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Andrews (director) (page does not exist)">Brian Andrews</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jane_Forrest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jane Forrest (page does not exist)">Jane Forrest</a> and produced by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Coffee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Coffee (page does not exist)">Anthony Coffee</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Russell" title="Michelle Russell">Michelle Russell</a>, while independently produced it is being distributed by <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>. It was written by <a href="/wiki/Matt_Nable" title="Matt Nable">Matt Nable</a> who also starred as the lead role 'Grub' Henderson. The film, which earned praise from critics,<a href="#cite_note-wilalisnans-150">[148]</a> focuses around Grub who is the captain of the <a href="/wiki/Newtown_Jets" title="Newtown Jets">Newtown Jets</a> <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">football</a> team in the early 1980s and his determination to stand for what rugby league traditionally stood for while dealing with his own identity crisis.<a href="#cite_note-movie_focus-151">[149]</a> Other Australian sport films include <a href="/wiki/Australian_Rules_(film)" title="Australian Rules (film)">Australian Rules</a> and <a href="/wiki/Footy_Legends" title="Footy Legends">Footy Legends</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SimpsonMurawska2009p43-152">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECollinsDavis200445-153">[151]</a> Sport is popular on the radio. <a href="/wiki/This_Sporting_Life_(radio_program)" title="This Sporting Life (radio program)">This Sporting Life</a> was a culturally iconic <a href="/wiki/Triple_J" title="Triple J">Triple J</a> radio comedy program created by actor-writer comedians <a href="/wiki/John_Doyle_(comedian)" title="John Doyle (comedian)">John Doyle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greig_Pickhaver" title="Greig Pickhaver">Greig Pickhaver</a>, who performed as their characters <a href="/wiki/Roy_and_HG" title="Roy and HG">Roy and HG</a>. Broadcast from 1986 to 2008, it was one of the longest-running, most popular and most successful radio comedy programs of the post-television era in Australia. It was the longest-running show in Triple J's programming history and commanded a large and dedicated nationwide audience throughout its 22-year run.<a href="#cite_note-somenlassourcne-154">[152]</a> <a href="/wiki/2KY" class="mw-redirect" title="2KY">2KY</a> is a commercial radio station based in Sydney, broadcasting throughout <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales,_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="New South Wales, Australia">New South Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canberra,_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Canberra, Australia">Canberra</a> on a network of over 140 <a href="/wiki/Narrowcast" class="mw-redirect" title="Narrowcast">narrowcast</a> transmitters as well as the main 1017 AM frequency in Sydney. 2KY broadcasts live commentary of <a href="/wiki/Thoroughbred_racing_in_Australia" title="Thoroughbred racing in Australia">thoroughbred</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harness_racing_in_Australia" title="Harness racing in Australia">harness</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_racing#In_Australia" title="Greyhound racing">greyhound</a> racing. Over 1500 races are covered each week, including the pre and post <a href="/wiki/Form_(horse_racing)" title="Form (horse racing)">race form</a> and <a href="/wiki/Totalizator_Agency_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Totalizator Agency Board">TAB</a> betting information.<a href="#cite_note-2ykspournce-155">[153]</a> There are a number of Australian sport magazines. One is the <a href="/wiki/AFL_Record" title="AFL Record">AFL Record</a>. The magazine is published in a sports magazine style format. Eight different versions, one for each game, are published for each weekly round, 60,000 copies in total, and <a href="/wiki/Roy_Morgan_Research" class="mw-redirect" title="Roy Morgan Research">Roy Morgan Research</a> estimates that the Record has a weekly readership of over 200,000.<a href="#cite_note-roy-morgan-156">[154]</a> As of 2009, the week's records are published and are able to be viewed in an <a href="/wiki/Online_magazine" title="Online magazine">online magazine</a> format.<a href="#cite_note-asflerecords-157">[155]</a> Another Australian sporting magazine is <a href="/wiki/Australia%27s_Surfing_Life" title="Australia's Surfing Life">Australia's Surfing Life</a>, a monthly magazine about <a href="/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing">surfing</a> published in Australia. It features articles about surf trips in Australia and overseas, surfing technique, <a href="/wiki/Surfboard" title="Surfboard">board</a> design and <a href="/wiki/Wetsuit" title="Wetsuit">wetsuits</a>. The magazine was founded in 1985.<a href="#cite_note-cneyclopeidaofsurging-158">[156]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_competitions">International competitions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: International competitions">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Australia_national_baseball_team_on_March_2,_2013.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Australia_national_baseball_team_on_March_2%2C_2013.jpg/250px-Australia_national_baseball_team_on_March_2%2C_2013.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Australia_national_baseball_team_on_March_2%2C_2013.jpg/500px-Australia_national_baseball_team_on_March_2%2C_2013.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="530" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_baseball_team" title="Australia national baseball team">Australia national baseball team</a> during the <a href="/wiki/2013_World_Baseball_Classic" title="2013 World Baseball Classic">2013 World Baseball Classic</a>.</figcaption></figure> Australian representative teams participate in many international competitions, such as the <a href="/wiki/Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Olympics">Olympics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Games" title="Commonwealth Games">Commonwealth Games</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cricket_World_Cup" title="Cricket World Cup">Cricket World Cup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_World_Cup" title="Rugby World Cup">Rugby World Cup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_League_World_Cup" title="Rugby League World Cup">Rugby League World Cup</a>, <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a>, the Basketball World Cup for both <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Basketball World Cup">men's</a> and <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Women%27s_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">women's</a>, <a href="/wiki/INF_Netball_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="INF Netball World Cup">Netball World Cup</a>, <a href="/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic" title="World Baseball Classic">World Baseball Classic</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Hockey_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="Hockey World Cup">Hockey World Cup</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia national cricket team</a> have participated in every edition of the <a href="/wiki/Cricket_World_Cup" title="Cricket World Cup">Cricket World Cup</a>. Australia have been the most successful in the event, winning the tournament six times out of thirteen editions held.<a href="#cite_note-159">[157]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_league_team" title="Australia national rugby league team">Australia national rugby league team</a> have also participated in every edition of the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_League_World_Cup" title="Rugby League World Cup">Rugby League World Cup</a>. Australia have been very successful in the event, winning the tournament a record 12 times.<a href="#cite_note-160">[158]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_union_team" title="Australia national rugby union team">Australia national rugby union team</a> have participated in every <a href="/wiki/Rugby_World_Cup" title="Rugby World Cup">Rugby World Cup</a>. Australia have been very successful in the tournament, winning it two times<a href="#cite_note-161">[159]</a> despite it not being the most popular sport in Australia. Australia's women have repeatedly won at the highest level. The <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_netball_team" title="Australia national netball team">Australia national netball team</a> have won the Netball World Cup a record 11 times.<a href="#cite_note-162">[160]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_cricket_team" title="Australia women's national cricket team">Australian women's national cricket team</a> have won the Women's Cricket World Cup a record five times.<a href="#cite_note-163">[161]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_field_hockey_team" title="Australia women's national field hockey team">Australian women's national field hockey team</a> have won the gold medal at the Olympics and the Women's Hockey World Cup three and two times respectively.<a href="#cite_note-164">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-165">[163]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Australia women's national basketball team">Australia women's national basketball team</a>, known as the Opals, regularly compete well against the world elite at the <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Women%27s_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup</a>, having won the event in <a href="/wiki/2006_FIBA_World_Championship_for_Women" title="2006 FIBA World Championship for Women">2006</a>, finished second in <a href="/wiki/2018_FIBA_Women%27s_Basketball_World_Cup" title="2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">2018</a> and finished third three times, and at the <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the Summer Olympics">Summer Olympics Basketball Tournament</a>, where they have won silver medals three times and bronze medals twice.<a href="#cite_note-archive.fiba.com-166">[164]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:N.Jawai_2014.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/N.Jawai_2014.JPG/250px-N.Jawai_2014.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/N.Jawai_2014.JPG/375px-N.Jawai_2014.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/N.Jawai_2014.JPG/500px-N.Jawai_2014.JPG 2x" data-file-width="624" data-file-height="459" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Jawai" title="Nathan Jawai">Nathan Jawai</a> (right) represented Australia at the <a href="/wiki/2014_Basketball_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Basketball World Cup">2014 Basketball World Cup</a></figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Australia_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="Australia men's national soccer team">Australia national soccer team</a>, nicknamed the Socceroos, have appeared at the <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> in <a href="/wiki/1974_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1974 FIFA World Cup">1974</a>, <a href="/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2006 FIFA World Cup">2006</a>, <a href="/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2010 FIFA World Cup">2010</a>, <a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2014 FIFA World Cup">2014</a>, <a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2018 FIFA World Cup">2018</a> and <a href="/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2022 FIFA World Cup">2022</a>. At the <a href="/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2006 FIFA World Cup">2006 World Cup</a>, the Socceroos surprised many by reaching the Round of 16, losing 1–0 in injury time to the eventual champions, <a href="/wiki/Italy_national_football_team" title="Italy national football team">Italy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-fifathing-167">[165]</a> At the <a href="/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2022 FIFA World Cup">2022 World Cup</a>, an unfancied Socceroos team again advanced to the knockout stage after winning 2 of 3 group stage matches, including a 1–0 upset victory against <a href="/wiki/Denmark_national_football_team" title="Denmark national football team">Denmark</a>.<a href="#cite_note-168">[166]</a> In the round of 16 they were defeated 1–2 by eventual champions <a href="/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a>.<a href="#cite_note-169">[167]</a> They also hold the unusual distinction of having won continental soccer championships of two confederations – Oceania's <a href="/wiki/OFC_Nations_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="OFC Nations Cup">OFC Nations Cup</a> four times between <a href="/wiki/1980_OFC_Nations_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="1980 OFC Nations Cup">1980</a> and <a href="/wiki/2004_OFC_Nations_Cup" title="2004 OFC Nations Cup">2004</a> and, after moving to the <a href="/wiki/Asian_Football_Confederation" title="Asian Football Confederation">Asian Football Confederation</a> in 2005, the <a href="/wiki/AFC_Asian_Cup" title="AFC Asian Cup">AFC Asian Cup</a> in <a href="/wiki/2015_AFC_Asian_Cup" title="2015 AFC Asian Cup">2015</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_soccer_team" title="Australia women's national soccer team">Australia women's national soccer team</a>, the Matildas, have appeared in all <a href="/wiki/FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="FIFA Women's World Cup">FIFA Women's World Cups</a> except the first in <a href="/wiki/1991_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="1991 FIFA Women's World Cup">1991</a>. They have advanced past the group stage in each of the last four editions of the competition (<a href="/wiki/2007_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="2007 FIFA Women's World Cup">2007</a>, <a href="/wiki/2011_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="2011 FIFA Women's World Cup">2011</a>, <a href="/wiki/2015_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="2015 FIFA Women's World Cup">2015</a> and <a href="/wiki/2019_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="2019 FIFA Women's World Cup">2019</a>), losing in the quarter-finals in the first three of these editions and the round of 16 in 2019. In 2015, they became the first senior Australian national team of either sex to win a World Cup knockout stage match, specifically in the round of 16, newly instituted for the Women's World Cup in that year. The Matildas have also enjoyed success at the <a href="/wiki/AFC_Women%27s_Asian_Cup" title="AFC Women's Asian Cup">AFC Women's Asian Cup</a>, advancing at least to the semi-finals in all five competitions since joining the AFC in 2006 and winning in <a href="/wiki/2010_AFC_Women%27s_Asian_Cup" title="2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup">2010</a>. Australia co-hosted the <a href="/wiki/2023_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="2023 FIFA Women's World Cup">2023 FIFA Women's World Cup</a> alongside <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, finishing with a best-ever fourth-place result.<a href="#cite_note-170">[168]</a> Their run in the tournament attracted widespread community support, dubbed by the media as "<a href="/wiki/Matildas_fever" title="Matildas fever">Matildas fever</a>". Australia are the most successful side at the <a href="/wiki/Underwater_Hockey_World_Championships" title="Underwater Hockey World Championships">Underwater Hockey World Championships</a>, winning 25 titles including 11 men's elite championships and 8 women's elite championships. Australia has also hosted the <a href="/wiki/2003_Rugby_World_Cup" title="2003 Rugby World Cup">2003 Rugby World Cup</a>, with the event generating around A$1 billion in economic activity while bringing in 2 million visitors to the country.<a href="#cite_note-SummersMorgan2005p12-171">[169]</a> Australia has also hosted a number of major international sporting events, including the <a href="/wiki/1956_Summer_Olympics" title="1956 Summer Olympics">1956 Summer Olympics</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" title="2000 Summer Olympics">2000 Summer Olympics</a>. The country also regularly hosts a major tennis <a href="/wiki/Grand_Slam_(tennis)" title="Grand Slam (tennis)">Grand Slam</a> event, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Open" title="Australian Open">Australian Open</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Formula_One" title="Formula One">FIA Formula One World Championship round</a> (<a href="/wiki/Australian_Grand_Prix" title="Australian Grand Prix">Australian Grand Prix</a>), motorcycle <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_motorcycle_racing" title="Grand Prix motorcycle racing">MotoGP</a> round (<a href="/wiki/Australian_motorcycle_Grand_Prix" title="Australian motorcycle Grand Prix">Australian motorcycle Grand Prix</a>), as well as rounds of the <a href="/wiki/Superbike_World_Championship" title="Superbike World Championship">Superbike World Championship</a>, <a href="/wiki/World_Rally_Championship" title="World Rally Championship">World Rally Championship</a> alongside major domestically created, internationally recognised events including the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cup" title="Melbourne Cup">Melbourne Cup</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_to_Hobart_Yacht_Race" title="Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race">Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew1997xii-51">[51]</a> Australia has hosted the <a href="/wiki/1992_Cricket_World_Cup" title="1992 Cricket World Cup">1992 Cricket World Cup</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2015_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2015 Cricket World Cup">2015 Cricket World Cup</a> along with New Zealand.<a href="#cite_note-ESPNCricinfo.com-172">[170]</a> The 2015 Cricket World Cup generated more than <a href="/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar">A$</a>1.1 billion in direct spending, created the equivalent of 8,320 full-time jobs, and had a total of 2 million bed nights across the two host countries.<a href="#cite_note-173">[171]</a> Australia is the most successful team in the <a href="/wiki/Cricket_World_Cup" title="Cricket World Cup">ICC Men's Cricket World Cup</a>, finishing as champions 6 times in <a href="/wiki/1987_Cricket_World_Cup" title="1987 Cricket World Cup">1987</a>, <a href="/wiki/1999_Cricket_World_Cup" title="1999 Cricket World Cup">1999</a>, <a href="/wiki/2003_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2003 Cricket World Cup">2003</a>, <a href="/wiki/2007_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2007 Cricket World Cup">2007</a>, <a href="/wiki/2015_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2015 Cricket World Cup">2015</a> and <a href="/wiki/2023_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2023 Cricket World Cup">2023</a>. It has also won the <a href="/wiki/ICC_Men%27s_T20_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="ICC Men's T20 World Cup">ICC Men's T20 World Cup</a> once in <a href="/wiki/2021_ICC_Men%27s_T20_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup">2021</a>. The <a href="/wiki/1868_Aboriginal_cricket_tour_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England">1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England</a> was the first tour by any sports team from Australia.<a href="#cite_note-174">[172]</a> <a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart20059-175">[173]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Olympics">Olympics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Olympics">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Australia_at_the_Olympics" title="Australia at the Olympics">Australia at the Olympics</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P33_-_Investing_in_our_future_sporting_champions.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="graph" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/P33_-_Investing_in_our_future_sporting_champions.jpg/300px-P33_-_Investing_in_our_future_sporting_champions.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/P33_-_Investing_in_our_future_sporting_champions.jpg/450px-P33_-_Investing_in_our_future_sporting_champions.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/P33_-_Investing_in_our_future_sporting_champions.jpg/600px-P33_-_Investing_in_our_future_sporting_champions.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1181" data-file-height="484" /></a><figcaption>Australia's Olympic medal totals</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bobridge,_meares_and_kelly.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Bobridge%2C_meares_and_kelly.jpg/250px-Bobridge%2C_meares_and_kelly.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Bobridge%2C_meares_and_kelly.jpg/330px-Bobridge%2C_meares_and_kelly.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Bobridge%2C_meares_and_kelly.jpg/500px-Bobridge%2C_meares_and_kelly.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1418" data-file-height="915" /></a><figcaption>Australian track cyclists <a href="/wiki/Jack_Bobridge" title="Jack Bobridge">Jack Bobridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Meares" title="Anna Meares">Anna Meares</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shane_Kelly" title="Shane Kelly">Shane Kelly</a>.</figcaption></figure> The Olympic movement in Australia started out during the 1900s and 1910s. The first organisations for the Olympics in Australia came out of the athletics governance system and resulted in the creation of state based Olympic committees. The first national governing body for Australian Olympics was created in 1914 and was a joint effort with New Zealand though New Zealand was a less than able partner. The movement in Australia then stagnated as a result of the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">Great War</a>. The New Zealand and Australian organisation was disbanded and an Australian only national organisation was founded in 1920 called the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Olympic_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Olympic Federation">Australian Olympic Federation</a>. The early goals of the organisation were to ratify team selection and to fundraise to assist Olympians in paying for their travel to compete at the Games. By the 1980s, the organisation had issues on the international level as the IOC wanted them to re-structure; until this time, the organisation followed governance models similar to that of other Australian sporting organisations with a federated model of governance. Changes were made the organisation ended up with an executive board with a president, two vice presidents, a secretary general and a 14-member executive board which had 10 elected members, 4 IOC members and 2 members of the Athlete's Commission.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShilburyDeane2001153-176">[174]</a> Australia has hosted the Olympics twice, in 1956 in Melbourne and in 2000 in Sydney. These were the first Games hosted in the southern hemisphere.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdairVamplew1997xiii-177">[175]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart200546-178">[176]</a><a href="#cite_note-ThompsonMcGovern2008p102-179">[177]</a> Brisbane will host the 2032 Summer Games.<a href="#cite_note-180">[178]</a> Australia has been influential in the Olympic movement, with four Australian representatives who are members of the <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShilburyDeane2001153-176">[174]</a> The government has provided monetary support for the Olympics. In the lead up to the 1924 Games, they provided 3,000 pounds and in 1936 provided 2,000 pounds. This support was seen as a way of supporting national identity, but no formal system existed for the funding wider sport at the time.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart200539-181">[179]</a> The 1956 Games were the first time Australia had an <a href="/wiki/Equestrian_at_the_Summer_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Equestrian at the Summer Olympics">Equestrian</a> competitor when Victorian Ernie Barker competed.<a href="#cite_note-ThompsonMcGovern2008p102-179">[177]</a> Australia has generally been a world power in Olympic swimming since the <a href="/wiki/1956_Melbourne_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="1956 Melbourne Olympics">1956 Melbourne Olympics</a>: swimmers like <a href="/wiki/Shane_Gould" title="Shane Gould">Shane Gould</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dawn_Fraser" title="Dawn Fraser">Dawn Fraser</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ian_Thorpe" title="Ian Thorpe">Ian Thorpe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kieren_Perkins" title="Kieren Perkins">Kieren Perkins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ariarne_Titmus" title="Ariarne Titmus">Ariarne Titmus</a> have taken multiple gold medals.<a href="#cite_note-corpoarateaocsutf-182">[180]</a> Australia performed relatively poorly at the <a href="/wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics" title="1976 Summer Olympics">1976 Summer Olympics</a>. This upset the nation as it challenged a fundamental part of Australian identity. The following Olympics, the <a href="/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics" title="1980 Summer Olympics">1980 Summer Olympics</a>, some Australian sports sat out as part of a boycott<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBloomfield2003x-61">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart200553-183">[181]</a> and the country earned only nine medals, two of them gold, in Moscow.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrottyRoberts2008198–200-184">[182]</a> To prevent a recurrence of this, the Australian Institute of Sport was created to help improve Australia's medal tally at the Games.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrottyRoberts2008198–200-184">[182]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart200553-183">[181]</a> Channel Seven had exclusive Australian <a href="/wiki/Free-to-air" title="Free-to-air">free-to-air</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pay_television" title="Pay television">pay television</a>, <a href="/wiki/On-line_and_off-line" class="mw-redirect" title="On-line and off-line">online</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mobile_phone" title="Mobile phone">mobile telephone</a> broadcast rights to the <a href="/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics" title="2008 Summer Olympics">2008 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>. The live telecast of the 2008 Summer Olympics was shared by the Seven Network and <a href="/wiki/SBS_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="SBS Television">SBS Television</a>. Seven broadcast the opening and closing ceremonies and mainstream sports, including <a href="/wiki/Swimming_(sport)" title="Swimming (sport)">swimming</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sport_of_athletics" title="Sport of athletics">athletics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rowing_(sport)" title="Rowing (sport)">rowing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cycle_sport" title="Cycle sport">cycling</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gymnastics" title="Gymnastics">gymnastics</a>. In contrast, <a href="/wiki/SBS_(Australian_TV_channel)" title="SBS (Australian TV channel)">SBS TV</a> provided complementary coverage focused on long-form events such as <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">soccer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Road_bicycle_racing" title="Road bicycle racing">road cycling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Volleyball" title="Volleyball">volleyball</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Table_tennis" title="Table tennis">table tennis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-sbsetelevion-185">[183]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Paralympics">Paralympics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Paralympics">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Australia_at_the_Paralympics" title="Australia at the Paralympics">Australia at the Paralympics</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:16_ACPS_Atlanta_1996_Australian_Swim_Team_Training.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Swimmers posed in a group shot around the edge of a pool" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/16_ACPS_Atlanta_1996_Australian_Swim_Team_Training.jpg/220px-16_ACPS_Atlanta_1996_Australian_Swim_Team_Training.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/16_ACPS_Atlanta_1996_Australian_Swim_Team_Training.jpg/330px-16_ACPS_Atlanta_1996_Australian_Swim_Team_Training.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/16_ACPS_Atlanta_1996_Australian_Swim_Team_Training.jpg/440px-16_ACPS_Atlanta_1996_Australian_Swim_Team_Training.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2362" data-file-height="1542" /></a><figcaption>Australian swimmers at the training pool at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games</figcaption></figure> Australia has attended every Summer Paralympics and hosted the <a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Paralympics" title="2000 Summer Paralympics">2000 Sydney Games</a>. Australia sent a delegation of 170 athletes to compete at the <a href="/wiki/2008_Summer_Paralympics" title="2008 Summer Paralympics">2008 Summer Paralympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>,<a href="#cite_note-smhparagrams-186">[184]</a> and a team of 11 competitors to compete in two disciplines at the <a href="/wiki/2010_Winter_Paralympics" title="2010 Winter Paralympics">2010 Winter Paralympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vancouver,_British_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Vancouver, British Columbia">Vancouver, British Columbia</a>, Canada.<a href="#cite_note-athletes-187">[185]</a> A team of 161 members <a href="/wiki/Australia_at_the_2012_Summer_Paralympics" title="Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics">was sent</a> to the <a href="/wiki/2012_Summer_Paralympics" title="2012 Summer Paralympics">2012 Summer Paralympics</a> in London.<a href="#cite_note-188">[186]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commonwealth_Games">Commonwealth Games</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Commonwealth Games">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Australia_at_the_Commonwealth_Games" title="Australia at the Commonwealth Games">Australia at the Commonwealth Games</a></div> Australians take the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Games" title="Commonwealth Games">Commonwealth Games</a> seriously because, on one level of national thinking, the event offers the country an opportunity to prove they are superior to the "original country", the United Kingdom.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENaurightParrish2012368–369-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShilburyDeane2001167-173-189">[187]</a><a href="#cite_note-mothersareyes-190">[188]</a><a href="#cite_note-theseonlygmaes-191">[189]</a> By the <a href="/wiki/1938_British_Empire_Games" title="1938 British Empire Games">1938 British Empire Games</a>, Australia's combined medal total was already greater than that of the <a href="/wiki/Home_Nations" title="Home Nations">Home Nations</a> tallies combined. Australia would go on to beat England in total medals at the Commonwealth Games in 1950, 1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENaurightParrish2012368–369-32">[32]</a> This rivalry with England continued to be an important component of the games up until the mid 2010s.<a href="#cite_note-mothersareyes-190">[188]</a><a href="#cite_note-theseonlygmaes-191">[189]</a> Since then the importance of the Commonwealth Games has declined in the minds of the Australian public, due to the decreasing relevance of the Commonwealth in Australia as well as the perceived lack of competition. The Olympics Games has now become the primary way for Australians to measure themselves against the world.<a href="#cite_note-192">[190]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Events">edit</a>]</div> January <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Cup" title="United Cup">United Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_International" title="Brisbane International">Brisbane International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_International_(tennis)" title="Adelaide International (tennis)">Adelaide International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hobart_International" title="Hobart International">Hobart International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Open" title="Australian Open">Australian Open</a></li></ul> February – August <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Rugby" title="Super Rugby">Super Rugby Season</a></li></ul> March – August <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suncorp_Super_Netball" title="Suncorp Super Netball">Super Netball Season</a></li></ul> March – September <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">NRL Season</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">AFL Season</a></li></ul> March – November <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supercars_Championship" title="Supercars Championship">Supercars Championship</a></li></ul> June <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-League_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="A-League Grand Final">A-League Grand Final</a></li></ul> June – July <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_of_Origin_series" title="State of Origin series">State of Origin series</a> (rugby league)</li></ul> July – October <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NRL_Women%27s_Premiership" title="NRL Women's Premiership">NRL Women's Season</a></li></ul> August – November <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">AFL Women's Season</a></li></ul> September <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Grand_Final" title="AFL Grand Final">AFL Grand Final</a></li></ul> September – February <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_domestic_limited-overs_cricket_tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament">One-Day Cup</a></li></ul> September – March <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Shield" title="Sheffield Shield">Sheffield Shield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Cricket_League" title="Women's National Cricket League">Women's National Cricket League</a></li></ul> October <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NRL_Grand_Final" title="NRL Grand Final">NRL Grand Final</a></li></ul> October – November <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Big_Bash_League" title="Women's Big Bash League">WBBL Season</a></li></ul> October – January <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_League" title="Women's National Basketball League">WNBL Season</a></li></ul> October – March <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Australia)" title="National Basketball League (Australia)">NBL Season</a></li></ul> October – April <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-League_Men" title="A-League Men">A-League Men Season</a></li></ul> November <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Open_(golf)" title="Australian Open (golf)">Australian Open, Golf</a></li></ul> November – February <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Baseball_League" title="Australian Baseball League">ABL Season</a></li></ul> December – January <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Big_Bash_League" title="Big Bash League">BBL Season</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics_and_Sport">Politics and Sport</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Politics and Sport">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Endorsements">Endorsements</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Endorsements">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>AFL Club </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Australian_Marriage_Law_Postal_Survey" title="Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey">Same-sex marriage</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/2023_Australian_Indigenous_Voice_referendum" title="2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum">Voice to parliament"</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions</a> </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon Football Club</a> </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne Football Club</a> </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fremantle_Football_Club" title="Fremantle Football Club">Fremantle Football Club</a> </td> <td>Neutral </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn Football Club</a> </td> <td>Neutral </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne Football Club</a> </td> <td>Neutral </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Port_Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Port Adelaide Football Club">Port Adelaide Football Club</a> </td> <td>Neutral </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond Football Club</a> </td> <td>Neutral </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast Eagles</a> </td> <td>Neutral </td> <td><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Concussions_in_Australian_sport" title="Concussions in Australian sport">Concussions in Australian sport</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_demographic">By demographic</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: By demographic">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_sport_in_Australia" title="Women's sport in Australia">Women's sport in Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_rural_and_regional_Australia" title="Sport in rural and regional Australia">Sport in rural and regional Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disabled_sport_in_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Disabled sport in Australia">Disabled sport in Australia</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_social_and_cultural_context">By social and cultural context</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_in_Australia&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: By social and cultural context">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_national_sports_team_nicknames" title="Australian national sports team nicknames">Australian national sports team nicknames</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aussie_Aussie_Aussie,_Oi_Oi_Oi" title="Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi">Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Australians#Recreation_and_sport" title="Indigenous Australians">Indigenous Australians#Recreation and sport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sports_museums_and_halls_of_fame_in_Australia" title="List of sports museums and halls of fame in Australia">List of sports museums and halls of fame in Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_international_sports_events_in_Australia" title="List of international sports events in Australia">List of international sports events in Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_sports_controversies" title="List of Australian sports controversies">List of Australian sports controversies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_sports_songs" title="List of Australian sports songs">List of Australian sports songs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_sports_films" title="List of Australian sports films">List of Australian sports films</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 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New York: Prentice Hall. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7248-1080-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7248-1080-2"><bdi>978-0-7248-1080-2</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/24408455">24408455</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=No+pain%2C+no+gain%3F+%3A+sport+and+Australian+culture&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Prentice+Hall&rft.date=1991&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F24408455&rft.isbn=978-0-7248-1080-2&rft.aulast=McKay&rft.aufirst=Jim&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASport+in+Australia" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMojumdar2009" class="citation book cs1">Mojumdar, Ram Mohun (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eBEeH8xAvWQC&pg=PT172">History of Physical Education and Sports</a>. Pinnacle Technology. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61820-459-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-61820-459-2"><bdi>978-1-61820-459-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+Physical+Education+and+Sports&rft.pub=Pinnacle+Technology&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-61820-459-2&rft.aulast=Mojumdar&rft.aufirst=Ram+Mohun&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DeBEeH8xAvWQC%26pg%3DPT172&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASport+in+Australia" class="Z3988">[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">permanent dead link</a>‍]</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFNaurightParrish2012" class="citation book cs1">Nauright, John; Parrish, Charles (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&pg=PA384">Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice</a>. 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Australia">Forests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Australia" title="Geology of Australia">Geology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Australia" title="List of islands of Australia">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountains_in_Australia" title="List of mountains in Australia">Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Australia" title="List of regions of Australia">Regions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Reserve_System" title="National Reserve System">Protected areas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Australia" title="List of rivers of Australia">Rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Australia" title="List of World Heritage Sites in Australia">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative divisions of Australia">Subdivisions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia" title="States and territories of Australia">States and territories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_capital_cities" title="List of Australian capital cities">Capitals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia" title="List of cities in Australia">Cities</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Australia" title="Politics of Australia">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" 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Australia">Liberalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_nationalism" title="Australian nationalism">Nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republicanism_in_Australia" title="Republicanism in Australia">Republicanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialism_in_Australia" title="Socialism in Australia">Socialism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Public_Service" title="Australian Public Service">Public Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_and_government_in_Australia" title="Women and government in Australia">Women</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_heads_of_government_in_Australia" title="List of female heads of government in Australia">Government leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_cabinet_ministers_of_Australia" title="List of female cabinet ministers of Australia">Government ministers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_(Australia)" title="Opposition (Australia)">Shadow Cabinet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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