Later in 1882, following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, Bligh led an England team to Australia, as he said, to " recover those ashes ".

The Australian team from the 1911 – 12 tour.

This Australian team, led by Bradman, who turned 40 during his final tour of England, has gone down in history as The Invincibles.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

* 1948 – The Australian cricket team completed a 4 – 0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour.

In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.

In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

The modern form of AAS was largely developed during the 1950s by a team of Australian chemists.

The Australian press dubbed the tactic Bodyline, and claimed it was a deliberate attempt by the English team to intimidate and injure the Australian players.

* Buffaloes, nickname of the South Africa national Australian rules football team

* Darwin Buffaloes, an Australian Rules Football team in Northern Territories, Australia

* Australia national basketball team, officially nicknamed " Australian Boomers "

Bundaberg Rum is a major sponsor of the Australian Wallabies rugby union team and also sponsors the Bundaberg Rum Rugby Series.

A reserves team has played in the Northern Conference of the North East Australian Football League since the competition was established in 2011.

The victory song of the Australian national cricket team is entitled " Under the Southern Cross I Stand ".

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

A large crowd of over 10, 000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup Hat-trick # Cricket | hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.

* Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, an Australian National Rugby League team

A Great Britain national Australian rules football team | British Bulldog player is chased down and tackled by a Nauru national Australian rules football team | Nauru Chief opponent as he tries to get a kick away.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has also paid homage to the film in two of her concert tours, KylieFever2002 and KylieX2008.

The Australian Ballet, whose headquarters are in Melbourne but which performs regularly in Sydney, is known and tours internationally.

Both tours produced sub-standard Australian performances, and both were led by Kim Hughes.

Greatly affected by the punk explosion of 1976 which saw Australian bands The Saints and Radio Birdman making their first recordings and tours, The Boys Next Door, as they were now called, began performing punk and proto-punk cover versions, such as " Blitzkrieg Bop " and " Gloria ", and a few original songs.

* An Australian team tours England and plays a Test series of three matches.

Come Taste the Band was released in late 1975, and Australian, US and Japanese tours ensued.

He has worked in the major European concert cities, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm and Vienna, as well as in Russia, the Far East and Australasia ( including several Australian Broadcasting Corporation tours ).

The so-called ' Golden Age ' of Australian test cricket occurred around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the team under the captaincy of Joe Darling, Monty Noble and Clem Hill winning eight of ten tours it participated in between the 1897 – 98 English tour of Australia and the 1910 – 11 South African tour of Australia.

The years leading up to the start of World War I were marred by conflict between the players, led by Clem Hill, Victor Trumper and Frank Laver, the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket ( formed in 1905 ), led by Peter McAlister, who were attempting to gain more control of tours from the players.

When World War I broke out, Lauder was in Melbourne on one of his Australian tours.

Illuminating tours need guiding lights in The West Australian, 17 March 2007

They were the first Australian band to reach $ 1 million in record sales in Australia ; the first Australian band to turn their merchandising into a huge industry ; and they pioneered the concept of massive regional tours.

The group has supported Australian tours by The Offspring, Bad Religion, and Blink-182.

The group were the local support act on the Australian leg of separate tours by United States punk rockers Bad Religion, The Offspring and Blink-182.

Jerk embarked on a national tour in 2003 to promote the album, and performances included support slots for Marilyn Manson, Insane Clown Posse, Killing Joke and Disturbed on the Sydney leg of their Australian tours.

Local attractions include an angora goat stud and knitting mill, an iris nursery, and a wildlife conservation park, which operates evening tours which allow visitors to see endangered Australian animals.

Kim Salmon and the Surrealists were an Australian indie rock band formed by Kim Salmon in 1987 when he was living in Perth between the final two tours by The Scientists.

In September 2010, Avary confirmed that The Rocket Summer would be joining the annual Australian music festival Soundwave in 2011 which tours the country's capital cities.

In 2003 / 04, he has supported a number of well-known acts on their Australian tours including 50 Cent, G-Unit and Sean Paul and Justin Timberlake.

The Australian Railway Historical Society, with the approval of the State Rail Authority, has given tours of the tunnels, but many people have visited the tunnels by entering along the subway tracks.

Although there were some initial misgivings about his captaincy, Jardine led England in the next three cricket seasons and on two overseas tours, one of which was the Australian tour of 1932 – 33.

Early in 1993, the band supported Sonic Youth and Pavement on their Australian tours.