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

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

:* Central Coast Rays, a rugby union club playing in the Australian Rugby Championship

* Ben Darwin ( born 1976 ), Australian international Rugby player

* 1979 – Craig Wing, Australian Rugby League Player

The main types of football that are played are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, Rugby league, and Rugby union.

* GPS Rugby, an Australian rugby union club

Originally built for the Central Coast Bears team in the NRL rugby league competition ( to this day, the seats are arranged to say ' Go Bears '), since 2005 it is now the home of the Central Coast Mariners A-League association football team and was the home venue of the Central Coast Rays rugby union Australian Rugby Championship team

* David Fairleigh – Former Rugby League forward, 1994 Rothman's Medal winner, NSW & Australian representative player, North Sydney Bears " Team Of The Century " second-rower, current coach of the Central Coast Bears

* Des Hasler – Former Rugby league player, NSW & Australian representative player, 1987 & 1996 Manly Sea Eagles premiership player, 2008 & 2011 Manly Sea Eagles premiership coach

* 1985 – Beau Ryan, Australian professional Rugby League footballer

The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

* 1980 – Amos Roberts Australian Rugby League player

* 1980 – Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player

Other transnational competitions include the Pro 12, involving Irish, Italian, Scottish and Welsh teams ; The Rugby Championship, involving South African, Australian, New Zealand and Argentinian Teams ; and the Heineken Cup, involving the top European teams from their respective domestic competitions.

He is also co-owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, an Australian National Rugby League team.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Most major Australian sporting codes are played in Bundaberg, including ; Rowing, Basketball, Cricket, Golf, Lawn bowls, Netball, Tennis, Rugby league, Football, Hockey, Australian Rules Football, and Softball.

Mal Meninga is an inductee of the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame

Play-offs are used to decide the premiers of the National Rugby League ( NRL ) in Australasia, where they are known as finals ( also as semi finals or semis )-as in Australian rules football, the participating teams only come from within a single division, and the tournament is staged as single matches rather than series.

Betfair now has information-sharing agreements with most racing bodies in Australia and most major professional sports, including the Australian Football League, the National Rugby League, the Australian Rugby Union, Football Federation Australia, Cricket Australia, the PGA Tour of Australasia and Tennis Australia.

Albert Park also has the distinction of being the only venue to hold the Australian Grand Prix in both World Championship and non-World Championship formats.

In 1992, he joined County Championship newcomers Durham before retiring midway through the 1993 season, his last match being Durham's match against the visiting Australian XI.

* Australian V8 Superboats Jet Sprint Championship

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

In February and March 1985 the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket was played at the MCG, a One Day International tournament involving all of the then Test match playing countries to celebrate 150 years of the Australian state of Victoria.

He raced in Australian Superbikes in the late 1980s, and also won both races as Superbike World Championship visited Oran Park in.

* Australian Production Car Championship APCC ( CAMS / FIA )-

* Australian Production Touring Car Championship PTCC ( AASA ) -

* July 10 – Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.

Formerly the Australian Touring Car Championship, the current formula was devised in 1993 ( based on Group A regulations ) and branded as ' V8 Supercars ' in 1997.

* Australian Super Touring Championship ran from 1993 to 2001.

* Australian Sports Car Championship – A series which ran from 1969 to 1988.

* Australian GT Championship – A series for GT type cars which ran from 1982 to 1985 and from 2005 to date.

* Australian Nations Cup Championship A series for GT type cars which ran from 2000 to 2004.

It was then renamed for 2005 as the Australian GT Championship.

* Australian Rally Championship

Cars from all three classes would contest the Australian Touring Car Championship as well as non-championship Australian touring car events such as the Bathurst 1000 ; but for the purposes of race classification and points allocation, cars competed in two classes:

Celebrated on this day as it was the practice of prior Australian governments to list 4 August as the birthday of any Indigenous Australian without a listed birth date.

NetAlert, the software made available free of charge by the Australian government, was allegedly cracked by a 16 year old student, Tom Wood, less than a week after its release in August 2007.

Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH ( 8 August 188020 December 1961 ) was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament .< ref >

The play was announced to be broadcast as a radio play to Australian radio audiences in August 2011 by the Vision Australia Radio Network, and also by the RPH-Radio Print Handicapped Network across Australia.

Harold Edward Holt, CH ( 5 August 190817 December 1967 ) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.

The band's second single, " Who Can It Be Now ", was released in June 1981 and reached No. 1 on the Australian singles chart in August that year.

It rose from No. 3 to No. 1 in the week of 17 August on the Australian singles chart.

By August 2004, a report by the Australian Center for Independent Studies suggested that Nauru might consider relinquishing its independent status in favor of becoming an Australian territory.

The militia, worn out and severely depleted by casualties, were relieved in late August by regular troops from the Second Australian Imperial Force, returning from action in the Mediterranean theater.

Two more Australian personnel were seconded as advisers on logistics and personnel matters in August 2006, while an Australian bureaucrat from the Department of Defence is posted to the PNG defence department.

When talking about the album for an Australian interview in August 2012 Parkes said " It might well be my favorite album to date.

Sherrie Veronica Krenn ( born 28 August 1970, Sydney, Australia ) is an Australian actress and singer, known professionally as Sherrié Austin.

* August 13 – Michael Klim, Australian swimmer

* August 19 – Dermott Brereton, Australian rules footballer

* August 1 – Australian banks are deregulated.

* August 8 – WWI – Battle of Amiens: Canadian and Australian troops begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines.

* August 10 – Rica Erickson, Australian naturalist and botanical artist ( d. 2009 )

* August 2 – Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, in which 18 die.

* August 14 – Peter Costello, Australian politician

* August 30 – Harold Gatty, Australian aviator ( b. 1903 )

* August 21 – Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.

* August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck ; however, " The Invincibles " win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.