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Sporting greats - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian of the Year Award - Australia's Culture Portal

2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Michael Dodson. Image courtesy of the National Australia Day Council. On Australia Day - 26 January - each year, the Prime Minister of Australia announces the Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year, Se...

Don Bradman - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Football in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

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 ...

Melbourne Cup - Australia's Culture Portal

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....

Sport and the media - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Tennis - Australia's Culture Portal

The first recorded tennis tournament played in Australia was held in January 1880 on the courts of the Melbourne Cricket Club. The Australasian Lawn Tennis Association (ALTA) was Australia's first national tennis body. Australia has a long and successfu...

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Cairns Festival   (more info)

21 days of celebrations, food, wine, art, performance, music, family fun and sport. Points of celebration includes the Great Barrier Reef, the surrounding World Heritage Rainforest and the relaxed tropical lifestyle in Cairns, Queensland. Find out more de

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SIMA | hear & now | (music)culture | (music)culture | Art | Sport and the Great Jazz Renunciation   (website Sydney Improvised Music Association Inc (SIMA) )

You rock, he rocks, she rocks, it rocks: rock and roll! Long before that, Latin music, Afro Cuban music, the bossa nova, classical music both Indian and western all influenced jazz. > Ellington, Charles Mingus and Miles Davis all declared that they did n...

Sport's Great Underdogs - NRL Premiership - Fox Sports   (website Fox Sports )

> LOOK: Can you find the ball? Fantastic performance-enhancing career opportunities for you! Grab a sporting bargain on eBay today and start saving now. ...

Book - The Champions: Australia's Sporting Greats - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Angus & Robertson, North Ryde (NSW), 1990, 234 pp &copy Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...

Sporting Great Mark Ella Backs Grass Roots Sports Fundraising Initiative   (website Australian Baseball Federation ABF )

SportCard is a response to the fundraising challenge faced by sporting clubs nationally - a grass roots fundraising programme designed for anyone involved in sport. The brainchild of Ian Lowe, sports dad and 20-year marketing veteran, SportCard will revo...

Sporting greats - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Australia reveres and treasures its sporting heroes. Sporting greats have inspired and united Australians, who have shared, celebrated and rewarded their successes. Australians flock to see their sporting heroes in tickertape parades in capital cities fo...

National Sports Museum - Great prize on offer for MCG's two millionth footy fan this weekend.   (website National Sport Museum )

Tonight,Äôs Collingwood-Hawthorn AFL match could see the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) break the two million patron mark for the 2008 AFL home and away season and one lucky footy fan will walk away with a fabulous prize. >>,ÄúSharp Corporation Australia ...

National Sports Museum - Sporting greats launch National Sports Museum   (website National Sport Museum )

For more details about the National Sports Museum, please visit www.nsm.org.au. >>Some of the biggest names in Australian sport today launched the National Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), prior to the official opening to the public. ,...

National Sports Museum - Australia's sporting greats launch National Sports Museum   (website National Sport Museum )

Some of the biggest names in Australian sport today launched the National Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), prior to tomorrow,Äôs official opening to the >public. The National Sports Museum will showcase a range of sporting subjects, in...

National Sports Museum - The Great Mark   (website National Sport Museum )

MARK Kavanagh's spring of despair turned full circle when Shocking gave the trainer his first Melbourne Cup. UPDATE 3.50PM: MELBOURNE trainer Mark Kavanagh has revealed didn't expect Emirates Melbourne Cup winner Shocking to win the race. Aboriginal and T...

National Sports Museum - Sporting greats launch National Sports Museum   (website National Sport Museum )

For more details about the National Sports Museum, please visit www.nsm.org.au. >>Some of the biggest names in Australian sport today launched the National Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), prior to the official opening to the public. ,...

National Sports Museum - The Great Mark   (website National Sport Museum )

Find this page online at:>http://www.nsm.org.au/Whats On/Media/Photo Gallery/The Great Mark.aspx The National Sports Museum is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Department of Health and Ageing. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is...

Bradman Foundation - Shop - A Perfect Ten - Sporting Greats of the 20th Century   (website Bradman Foundation Australia )

Celebrating the performances of ten people who have become legends of sport. This great book looks at sporting greats such as Sir Donald Bradman, Micheal Jordan, Carl Lewis, Dawn Fraser, Jack Nicklaus, John Eales, Muhammad Ali, Nadia Comaneci, Pele and R...