* 1987 – Alipate Carlile, Australian rules footballer

* 1983 – Ashley Hansen, Australian rules footballer

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

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.

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.

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.

Australian rules football is popular among indigenous communities.

Australian rules is the national sport of Nauru.

These include Kick-to-kick ( and its variants such as " End to End Footy " and " Markers Up "), Auskick, Rec Footy, Women's Australian rules football, 9-a-side Footy, Masters Australian Football, handball and longest-kick competitions.

* Australian rules football attendance records

* Australian rules football positions

* List of Australian rules football clubs

* List of Australian rules football terms

* 1990 – Taylor Walker, Australian rules footballer

* Australian Premier League, an online football gaming league

* 1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian football player

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.

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

Some elements of Aboriginal languages have been adopted by Australian English — mainly as names for places, flora and fauna ( for example dingo ) and local culture.

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

* 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.

After a stalemate on the Gaza — Beersheba line between March and October 1917, Beersheba was captured by the Australian Mounted Division's 4th Light Horse Brigade.

Either way, the trend is toward the modern Australian environment of highly flammable open sclerophyllous forests, woodlands and grasslands, none of which are suitable for large, slow-moving browsing animals — and either way, the changed microclimate produces substantially less rainfall.

In the early hours of 17 July, the Australian 24th Brigade — supported by 44th Royal Tank Regiment (" RTR ") and strong fighter cover from the air — assaulted Miteirya ridge ( known as " Ruin ridge " to the Australians ).

By this time he had been an MP for almost 31 years — the longest wait of any non-caretaker Australian Prime Minister.

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

Teachers and learners of English as a second language also find it an attractive idea — both often concerned that their English should be neutral, without American or British or Canadian or Australian coloring.

Australian broadcast stations officially have — but do not use — the VL prefix, and Canada uses Chile's CB for its own Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations.

He was supported by his father and by the Redex fuel additive company, although his commercially aware approach — including the title RedeX Special painted on the side of his Cooper-Bristol — did not go down well with the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport ( CAMS ), which banned the advertisement.

In 1915 the three Murray states — New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia — signed the River Murray Agreement which proposed the construction of storage reservoirs in the river's headwaters as well as at Lake Victoria near the South Australian border.

After the war, CMF units continued to form the bulk of the peacetime army, although the creation of standing infantry units — such as the Royal Australian Regiment — from 1947, meant that the regular army grew in importance.

* — Australian news groups

Many city and suburban pubs gained renown for their support of live music, and many prominent Australian bands — including AC / DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels and The Dingoes — cut their teeth at these venues in the early days of their careers.

For example the Australian language Guugu Yimithirr only uses absolute directions when describing spatial relations — the position of everything is described by using the cardinal directions.

By 2004 Neighbours was regularly attracting just under a million viewers per episode — low for Australian prime time television.

Support acts for the first concert included The Church, Mental as Anything, The Party Boys, The Sunnyboys, and Midnight Oil — who acknowledged, " Hooks were the only Australian band they would let top the bill above them ".

* 1990 – Adelaide Kane, Australian actress

As a result of this policy, Adelaide does not share the convict settlement history of other Australian cities like Sydney, New South Wales ; Brisbane, Queensland and Hobart, Tasmania.

Following a burglary, a murder, and two attempted murders in Adelaide during March 1838, Governor Hindmarsh created the South Australian Police Force ( now named South Australia Police ) in April 1838 under 21-year-old Henry Inman.

Trade links with the rest of the Australian states were established with the Murray River being successfully navigated in 1853 by Francis Cadell, an Adelaide resident.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

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

He also fell out publicly with other players, including fellow England opener Geoff Boycott, Somerset captain Peter Roebuck, and Australian batsman Ian Chappell, with whom he had an altercation in an Adelaide Oval car park during the 2010 – 11 Ashes series.

* Frank John Ford ( born 1949 ), Australian theatre director, playwright and festival administrator, long associated with Adelaide ; Order of Australia 1999 ; Centenary Medal 2001

On 27 May 2009, Caltex Oil Australia Ltd. announced it would be acquiring 302 Mobil service stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, subject to approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

In 1993, Bevan Morris campaigned for a seat in a district in suburban Adelaide for the Australian House of Representatives on the NLP ticket.

The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) ( in which they are known as the Power ) and the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) ( in which they are known as the Magpies ).< ref >

His responsibility for the revival and growth of university life in Australia was widely acknowledged by the award of honorary degrees in the Universities of Queensland, Adelaide, Tasmania, New South Wales, and the Australian National University and by thirteen universities in Canada, the United States and Britain, including Oxford and Cambridge.

More than half of Australia's wines are produced in the South Australian wine regions which principally include: Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, the Riverland and the Adelaide Hills.

An Australian tour 2010 – 2011 is being performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide.

* May 24 – The Port Adelaide Football Club plays their first match of Australian rules football at Buck's Flat, Glanville, South Australia.

The 1908 split between the Chicago and Detroit factions in the United States was echoed by internal unrest in the Australian IWW from late 1908, resulting in the formation of a pro-Chicago local in Adelaide in May 1911 and another in Sydney six months later.

Wayne Carey ( born 27 May 1971 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne and Adelaide Football Clubs in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Carey played rugby league as a junior but began playing Australian Football at age eight and, in his early teens, moved to Adelaide, where he attended The Heights School, Modbury Heights and continued playing junior football for North Adelaide.

* Myke Cook ( born 1989 ) is an Australian Rules football player who plays for the Adelaide Crows.

The Clipsal 500 is held in Adelaide on a shortened version of the former Australian Grand Prix Circuit.

** City of Adelaide, the South Australian local government area covering the city centre, North Adelaide and the parklands