The Australian Gold Kangaroos were first coined in 1986 as the Australian Gold Nugget but changed the reverse design in 1989.

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world.

The rivalry was further extended in 2000 when North Melbourne attempted to play " home " games in Sydney to further promote the game of Australian rules football, which was deemed that the Kangaroos were trying to invade Sydney's " territory ".

Fauna includes Emus, Honey Possums, Western Pygmy Possums, Short-beaked Echidnas, Western Grey Kangaroos, Australian Bustards and many reptiles.

There is a local Australian Rules football competition with 3 clubs in the city ; Coffs Swans, North Coffs Kangaroos, Sawtell Saints.

In addition, the Australian Kangaroos represent the country in international matches.

Some of the prominent clubs include the Etobicoke Kangaroos Australian rules football club the Serbian White Eagles FC club, the Stars Diving Club and Toronto Croatia.

They were impressed enough with stand-off Albert Rosenfeld to sign him up that evening along with Australian Dual Code International Pat Walsh one of the best forwards of the Kangaroos.

Australian Rules football was also a big part of Ponting's sporting life, and is a keen follower of the North Melbourne Kangaroos.

Jetstar Airbus A320-232 VH-VQH has special decals to advertise the Kangaroos Australian Rugby League team and its participation in the 2008 World Cup

The first ever rugby league test series was secured by Great Britain at the ground, when they defeated the touring Australian Kangaroos side 6 – 5 on 14 February 1909 in front of a crowd of 9, 000.

* Adam Simpson-Former captain of the Kangaroos Australian rules football club.

In 1869 some of these decided to form the Hotham Football Club that later became a foundation member of the VFA ( Australian rules football ) today known as the North Melbourne Kangaroos.

Started in 2007, funds raised have been used for the conservation of Sumatran Orangutan, Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Elephant, African Painted Dog, Sun Bears, Tree Kangaroos, Javan Gibbons and Australian native species.

An Australian Rules Football club ( Langwarrin Kangaroos ) competing in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League that has one of Victoria's biggest junior football teams, as well as basketball, tennis, netball, cricket and dancing and pony clubs.

The Sunshine Football Club, the Sunshine Kangaroos, are the local Australian Rules football team.

The suburb has an Australian Rules football team, Moorabbin Kangaroos Football Club, competing in the Southern Football League.

Australian RU administrators appeared to be targeting league internationals when in 2001 / 02 Kangaroos Wendell Sailor, Mat Rogers and Lote Tuqiri all switched and soon represented the Wallabies.

The Australian national rugby league team ( or the Kangaroos ) have represented Australia in senior men's rugby league football competition since the establishment of the ' Northern Union game ' in Australia in 1908.

Administered by the Australian Rugby League, the Kangaroos ' are ranked number one in the RLIF World Rankings.

Previously, the Australian team was only referred to as the Kangaroos when on tours of Great Britain or France.

Highlights of his career included a premiership with the Kangaroos, three more with Brisbane, the final best-and-fairest winner with Fitzroy in 1996, and selection in the 1998 South Australian state-of-origin side.

However this figure paled into insignificance when it is remembered that Rosenfeld, a Jewish Australian who had come over to Britain with the 1908 Kangaroos, had scored 80 tries the previous season.

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

* 1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain ( 1994 – 1999 )

Two matches against a combined Australian XI became the first official test matches.

Rare footage includes a nine year old Jamie Redfern ( pre-Young Talent Time ) appearing with ' Happy ' Hammond on a Channel Seven test broadcast of colour television in 1968, seven years before Australian television actually began broadcasting in colour.

Hadlee followed this up with 7 wickets in a loss in the second test, and 11 wickets in a New Zealand victory in the third test, giving his country their first series win on Australian soil and a personal haul of 33 wickets in 3 tests.

In the first test of the return series in New Zealand, Hadlee took his 300th test wicket by trapping Australian captain Allan Border LBW.

* 1960s ( developing ): The US unsuccessfully sought Australian permission to test Sarin and VX gas on 200 " mainly Australian " troops, probably in the Iron Range rainforest near Lockhart River, Queensland.

* Emu Field, South Australia ( alternatively known as Emu or Emu Junction ), site of the first atomic weapons test on the Australian mainland

The Board elected the highly respected former Fitzroy footballer and Australian test cricketer Jack Worrall, then the secretary of the Carlton Cricket Club, to the same position at the football club.

In 1978 he was honoured on a postage stamp issued by Australia Post and features in the Australian citizenship test.

An Australian experiment, conducted by students from Glen Waverley Secondary College, was designed to test the reaction of zero gravity on the web formation of the Garden Orb Spider.

Using a test of death-thought accessibility ( DTA ), involving an ambiguous word completion test ( e. g. " COFF__ " could either be completed as either " COFFEE " or " COFFIN "), participants who had read the essay attacking their worldview were found to have a significantly higher level of DTA than the control group, who read a similar essay attacking Australian cultural values.

The test for unconscionability in the English and Australian courts takes many factors into account, including the behavior, state of mind and circumstances of the parties.

Len Oakes, an Australian psychologist who wrote a dissertation about charisma, had eleven charismatic leaders fill in a psychometric test, which he called the adjective checklist, and found them as a group quite ordinary.

Category: Australian nuclear test sites

Brabham, who first won the Grand Prix in 1955 in an obsolete sports-bodied Cooper T40 Bristol he had brought home from his first foray into English racing, would test new developments for Cooper during the European winter, beginning a flood of Cooper-Climax Grand Prix machinery into Australia and New Zealand before Brabham started building his own cars, as well as the appearance of Lotus chassis as well, finally killing off the Australian ' specials '.

Harvey is the grandson of former Australian test cricketer Merv Harvey and grandnephew of Neil Harvey who was Australia's leading runscorer and century-maker behind Don Bradman.

* United Kingdom: 45 tests ( 21 in Australian territory, including nine in mainland South Australia at Maralinga and Emu Field, some at Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, plus many others in the United States as part of joint test series )

In one notable incident in 1977, Australian test cricketer Greg Chappell spanked an invading streaker named Bruce McCauley with his cricket bat ; McCauley then fell to the ground and was arrested by police.

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.

To receive a Newstart payment, recipients must be unemployed, be prepared to enter into an Employment Pathway Plan ( previously called an Activity Agreement ) by which they agree to undertake certain activities to increase their opportunities for employment, be Australian Residents and satisfy the income test ( which limits weekly income to A $ 32 per week before benefits begin to reduce, until one's income reaches A $ 397. 42 per week at which point no unemployment benefits are paid ) and the assets test ( an eligible recipient can have assets of up to A $ 161, 500 if he or she owns a home before the allowance begins to reduce and $ 278, 500 if he or she does do not own a home ).