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Sport and the media - Australia's Culture PortalWhen Australian Edward 'Ned' Trickett won the world sculling championship on London's Thames River in 1876, he became Australia's first sporting star. Cashman, R, Sport in the National Imagination, Sydney, Walla Walla Press, 2002, p. Cashman, R, Sport i...
Sir Donald Bradman is an Australian sporting legend. During his 21 years of first-class cricket, Bradman achieved everything that was possible in the sport - he captained his South Australian Sheffield Shield team; was a State selector; Test selector; an...
For those living in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, football usually refers to Australian Rules Football. In the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, and Queensland, it could mean rugby league ...
Photograph courtesy of the Victoria Racing Club. Melbourne Cup Day is Australia's most famous Tuesday. At 3.00 pm AEST, on the first Tuesday in November, Australians everywhere stop for one of the world's most famous horse races - the Melbourne Cup....
Australia reveres and treasures its sporting heroes. Sporting greats have inspired and united Australians, who have shared, celebrated and rewarded their successes. Since the advent of television in the 1950s, Australians have embraced the opportunity to...
The Australasian Lawn Tennis Association (ALTA) was Australia's first national tennis body. Australia has a long and successful tradition of Davis Cup competition, with the first Australasian Davis Cup crown won in 1907. Margaret Smith Court won a singl...
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Games team arrives home - 7th August 2002 - Sport - Daily - News & Media - Melbourne Guide - Only Melbourne (website Only Melbourne )Australia's triumphant Commonwealth Games team touched down in Melbourne this morning, after their record medal haul in Manchester. > > Welcoming the team home were Prime Minister John Howard and Qantas chairwoman Margaret Jackson. > > Melbourne will st...
> > ONE OF football's most embarrassing, and costly, deals will end quietly next month when Richmond finally stops paying for discarded Kangaroo David Bourke. > > So in two seasons, Bourke has cost Richmond $293,000, while the Kangaroos have paid out only...
Information ABC sports presenter Angela Pippos. > > ABC Television's plan to replace its weeknight sports bulletin with a pre-recorded national wrap from Sydney showed a lack of insight into the significance of Victoria's sporting culture, Sports Ministe...
The 1956 Melbourne Olympics were the first to be held in Oceania, the only time ... HeraldSun reports THE State Government defended delays in key projects as it marked 1000 days to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Melbourne Storm will be hoping to u...
The 1956 Melbourne Olympics were the first to be held in Oceania, the only time ... FORMER Hawthorn coach Ken Judge dropped a bombshell yesterday when he claimed dual premiership captain and current Hawks director Don Scott asked him to deliberately lose ...
The 1956 Melbourne Olympics were the first to be held in Oceania, the only time ... Melbourne newspaper headlines [Tusday 1st July 2003] show little support for a local lad, Mark Philippoussis! > > The SCUD (Melburnian) blasts his way past the No 1 player...
> > Port Adelaide chief executive Brian Cunningham claimed Collingwood had "pinched" its famous black-and-white colours and magpie emblem from South Australia's inter-colonial team in 1897. > > But last night, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire countered...
> > According to Geyer, the World Sevens could uncover some new faces capable of causing quite a stir in the NRL this year, with former Penrith fullback Steve Turner topping Geyerís list of players to watch. > > ìIím really excited to see Steve Turner run...
1000 Days to Opening Ceremony - Wednesday 15th March 2006> > HeraldSun reports THE State Government defended delays in key projects as it marked 1000 days to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. > But as countdown clocks were unveiled in Melbourne and C...
When Australian Edward 'Ned' Trickett won the world sculling championship on London's Thames River in 1876, he became Australia's first sporting star. Cashman, R, Sport in the National Imagination, Sydney, Walla Walla Press, 2002, p. Cashman, R, Sport i...
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Television coverage of women’s sport in 1996 was 2%. Commercial network television coverage of women’s sport was 0.2%. Phillips, MG, An illusory image: a report on the media coverage and portrayal of women's sport in Australia, Canberra, Aust...
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