* Australian Soccer Hall of Fame

Soccer Australia was involved in financial problems: the non-existent financial contribution meant that the Australian players had to pay their own way to get to New Zealand, so Scott Chipperfield became the only one of Australia's large European contingent to answer the call and perform for his country in their time of need, resulting in a weak team for the tournament.

This includes Rugby League, Cricket, Athletics, Soccer and Australian Rules Football.

The stadium was not officially opened until June 1999 when the Australian National Soccer team played the FIFA All Stars.

Best played in a friendly for Newry Town against Shamrock Rovers in August 1983 before ending his professional career exactly 20 years after joining Manchester United with a brief four-match stint playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian National Soccer League during the 1983 season.

It is also home to the Sydney United Sports Centre, home of the Croatian backed football ( soccer ) team, Sydney United, which was once a member of the now defunct Australian National Soccer League ( NSL ) and currently plays in the New South Wales Premier League.

The National Soccer League ( NSL ) is the former national association football competition in Australasia, overseen by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association.

In 2005, it was succeeded by the A-League competition, run by Football Federation Australia, the successor to the Australian Soccer Association.

Before 1 January 2005, it was known as the Australian Soccer Association ( ASA ), which succeeded Soccer Australia in this role in 2003.

This body was then superseded by the Australian Soccer Association, which was formed in 1921, with its headquarters in Sydney.

In 1961 the Australian Soccer Federation was formed.

In 2003, following Australia's failure to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, unfounded allegations of fraud and mismanagement were levelled at Soccer Australia by elements within the Australian Press.

Soccer Australia commissioned an independent inquiry known as the Crawford Report as a result of the Australian Government's threat to withdraw funding to the sport.

Emerton was a product of the Australian Institute of Sport and started his career with Sydney Olympic in the National Soccer League in August 1996.

* Lionel Watts Oval provides sports fields for Cricket, Australian Rules Football, Soccer, Rugby League and Netball.

* John Gibson ( footballer ) ( born 1970 ), footballer who played in the Australian National Soccer League

It is the former home of the Football Kingz of the Australian National Soccer League ; however, its A-League successor, the now defunct New Zealand Knights, played on the other side of Waitemata Harbour at North Harbour Stadium.

In the early 1980s, Warner was the target of a hostile takeover bid by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch ; although this attempt did not succeed, Warner sold off several of its assets, among them Atari and Global Soccer, Inc., the subsidiary that operated the Cosmos.

Bundesliga, English Premier League and Football League, Italian Serie A, Spanish La Liga, Portuguese Primeira Liga, French Ligue 1, Dutch Eredivisie, Brazilian Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Mexican Liga MX, American Major League Soccer, South Korean K-League and Australian A-League, allowing the use of real leagues, clubs, and player names and likenesses within the games.

The ground is mostly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but plays host to other sports such as Rugby League and Soccer, and is also used as an entertainment venue for performances expecting large attendance.

In 2005, the Sydney based Australian Soccer Association changed its name to Football Federation Australia ( FFA ), and announced that the official name of the sport in Australia had been changed to " football " to align with the general international usage of the term.

After fasting for four days, Dr. Berris Wink, president of the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association, urged her to stop the test.

In May 2001, " Don't Dream it's Over " was voted 7th in a poll of the Best Australian Songs of Alltime by the Australasian Performing Rights Association.

* Australian National Drag Racing Association ( ANDRA )

* Australian National Drag Racing Association ( ANDRA )

There are several varieties of football, with the most notable being Association football, Gridiron football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby league and rugby union.

Holt responded rashly, questioning the impartiality of the ABC and implying political bias on the part of journalist Mike Willesee ( whose father Don Willesee was an ALP Senator and future Whitlam government minister ) and his statement drew strong protests from both Willesee and the Australian Journalists ' Association.

The International Horror Guild presents its own annual awards, as do organisations such as the Australian Horror Writers Association with its annual Australian Shadows Award.

In 1996, as a result of a three-year research project led by Lindsay B. Yeates, the Australian Hypnotherapists ' Association ( founded in 1949 ), the oldest hypnotism-oriented professional organization in Australia, instituted a peer-group accreditation system for full-time Australian professional hypnotherapists, the first of its kind in the world.

Australian hypnotism / hypnotherapy organizations ( including the Australian Hypnotherapists Association ) are seeking government regulation similar to other mental health professions.

* Australian and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association ( ANZUUA ), 500 members.

1986, The Chronicle of John Malalas: A Translation, Byzantina Australiensia 4 ( Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies ) ISBN 0-9593626-2-2

In February 2004, the Australian Record Industry Association ( ARIA ) announced its own legal action against Kazaa, alleging massive copyright breaches.

National associations of the English-speaking world include the American Library Association, the Australian Library and Information Association, the Canadian Library Association and the Research Libraries UK ( a consortium of 30 university and other research libraries in the United Kingdom ).

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.

* Australian Pump Manufacturers ' Association.

Canberra: Australian Pump Manufacturers ' Association, 1987.

Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

* Australian Sociological Association ( TASA )

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

Susan Boyd, a former Australian High Commissioner to Fiji, strongly criticized the legislation, but Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that it is an " internal matter " and that Australia does not want to get involved.

* Brendon Gale – former Australian Rules Footballer and is the current CEO of the Richmond Football Club

* Bob Brown, retired politician, former leader of the Australian Greens

Whilst Holt stated that his friendship with Johnson was reflected in the strong relationship between Australia and the US, former Australian diplomat and foreign affairs expert Alan Renouf was more cynical in his assessment of the situation.

When the former Australian Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, raised the notion of intelligent design being taught in science classes, the public outcry caused the minister to quickly concede that the correct forum for intelligent design, if it were to be taught, is in religious or philosophy classes.

* John Brown ( Australian rules footballer ) ( born 1937 ), former Australian rules footballer

Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.

* Kevin Bartlett ( Australian rules footballer ), former Australian rules footballer

* Kevin Rudd ( born 1957 ), an Australian politician and former Prime Minister

born 24 February 1981 ) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no.

It was occasionally an effective tactic, but was unattractive for spectators and never became widely used except by a handful of specialists such as Fred Root, the Worcestershire bowler and Warwick Armstrong, the former Australian captain.

The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.

In February 2006, the Mauritanian government denounced amendments to an oil contract made by former leader Maaouiya Ould Taya with Woodside Petroleum, an Australian company.

The largest insurance firm in Moldova, the former state insurance company, is owned by an Australian company.

* 1948 – Jeff Kennett, Australian former politician

He opposed Howard's policy on asylum-seekers, campaigned in support of an Australian Republic and attacked what he perceived as a lack of integrity in Australian politics, together with former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, finding much common ground with his predecessor.

The match was the idea of former Australian bowler and MCC committee member Hans Ebeling who had been responsible for developing the cricket museum at the MCG.

After Australian federation, the six former colonial militias were merged to form the CMF.

* 1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor

Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja AM ( born 9 September 1969 ) is an Australian former politician and former leader of the Australian Democrats.