* Australian Premier League, an online football gaming league

* 1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian football player

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.

Australian soldiers, sailors, and airmen take part in an impromptu game of end-to-end Australian rules football in Central Australia in 1944.

Both World War I and World War II had a devastating effect on the sport of Australian football and on Australian sport in general.

The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

Action from a 1999 Australian football match in Australian rules football in Nauru | Nauru at the Linkbelt Oval

Since 1967 there have been many matches between Australian Football teams ( mainly from Australia ) and Gaelic football teams ( mainly from Ireland ), under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules known as International rules football.

Australian rules football is popular among indigenous communities.

Australian football is a sport rich in tradition and Australian cultural references, especially surrounding the rituals of gameday for players, officials and supporters.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

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 ".

Jardine instructed his fast bowlers, most notably Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, to bowl at the bodies of the Australian batsmen, with the goal of forcing them to defend their bodies with their bats, thus providing easy catches to a stacked leg-side field.

A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten: off-spinner Jim Laker's monumental effort at Old Trafford when he bowled 68 of 191 overs to take 19 out of 20 possible Australian wickets in the Fourth Test.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

Australian English began its development after the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

Second, it is " merely an interpretative provision ", operating to ensure that references to " the Queen " in the Constitution are references to whoever may at the time be the incumbent of the " sovereignty of the United Kingdom " as determined with regard to Australia, following the Australia Act 1986, by Australian law.

A NSW player outmarks a West Australian opponent in the goal square at the 1933 Sydney Carnival | 1933 Australian Football Carnival at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The Australian National Football Council's primary role was to govern the game at national level to facilitate interstate representative and club competition.

Australian Football is played at an amateur level in various countries around the world.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow

-the case for, Australian Prescriber 2005 ( note: pharmaceutical company conflict of interest statement at the end )

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

On the 1932-33 English tour of Australia, Larwood and Voce bowled fast leg theory at the Australian batsmen.

Failure to do so may result in the bankrupt being stopped at the airport by the Australian Federal Police.

Prior to the 1996 Australian Grand Prix, an earlier configuration of the current circuit was used for both the 1953 and 1956 Australian Grands Prix.

Harrison, a dual Australian Champion Beach Sprinter who went on to row in the coxless four at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, had been introduced to rowing after a chance meeting with one of the fathers of modern athletic physiological training and testing, and the coach of the Leichhardt Guinea Pigs, Professor Frank Cotton.

* John Zerunge Young ( born 1956 ), Hong Kong-born Australian artist

* 2010 – Adriana Xenides, Australian television host ( b. 1956 )

* 1956 – Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer

* 1956 – Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian

* 1956 – Mark Evans, Australian bassist ( AC / DC )

* 1956 – Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman

With the advent of Australian television in 1956 daytime television serials followed.

* 1956 – Anne Geddes, Australian photographer

The first Australian state to legalize this style of gambling was New South Wales in 1956 when they were made legal in all registered clubs in the state.

The primary reason for this is that gaming machines have been legal in the state of New South Wales since 1956 and over that time the number of machines has grown to 97, 103 ( at December 2010, including the Australian Capital Territory ).

Long Way to the Top was a 2001 Australian Broadcasting Corporation six-part documentary on the history of Australian rock and roll from 1956 to the modern era.

* James Alexander Allan, Australian poet ( d. 1956 )

* March 16 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian ( d. 1956 )

* Steve Badger ( swimmer ) ( born 1956 ), Australian and later Canadian former swimmer

In 1956, the Australian Opera Company was formed in Sydney under the auspices of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust.

O ' Keefe formed a band in 1956 ; his hit Wild One made him the first Australian rock ' n ' roller to reach the national charts.

* Thomas Bath ( 1875 – 1956 ), Australian politician and trade unionist

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.