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Australia and won
In 1987, Animalia won the title of Honour Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book.
With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002.
Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious.
Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.
At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.
Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.
Australia promptly seized the initiative, won the First Test convincingly and inaugurated a dominant post-war era.
Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.
Of the 20 Tests played during the four series, Australia won four and England three.
Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.
Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.
The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.
The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.
With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.
After a rain-affected draw at Edgbaston, the fourth match at Headingley was convincingly won by Australia by an innings and 80 runs to level the series.
England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.
The Lions won all their games in Australia except for their final fixture against a New South Wales XV in Newcastle.
They won both tests against Australia, in Brisbane and in Sydney.
The Lions easily won both tests against Australia and lost the first three tests against the All Blacks, but did find victory ( 9 – 6 ) in the final test.
The tour was very successful for the Lions, who won all eight non-tests and won the test series against Australia, two to one.
In Australia, the group has won eleven ARIA Awards from 26 nominations, including the inaugural Best New Talent award in 1987.
Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles.
The tournament was won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lord's.

Australia and Third
Australia came back with a victory at Perth in the Third Test.
* Saturday 6 July 2013, AustraliaThird Test, ANZ Stadium, Sydney
His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.
Botham made his Test début for England on 28 July 1977 in the Third Test against Australia, where he took five wickets for 74 runs in the first innings.
After taking four wickets in the drawn Second Test in Bombay, Benaud bowled Australia to victory in the Third Test in Calcutta, sealing the series 2-0.
After Harvey led the team to victory at Lord's, Benaud had an unhappy return in the Third at Headingley scoring two runs in two innings and taking match figures of 2 / 108 as Australia lost within three days.
In Easter 1918 he was one of the speakers at the Third Inter-State Peace Conference, an event organised by the Australian Union of Democratic Control for the Avoidance of War, a group that was deeply opposed to the plans by Prime Minister Billy Hughes ( then the leader of the centre-right Nationalist Party of Australia ) to introduce conscription for Australian males.
Australia again took a first innings lead in the Third Test, but could not force a result, as Malik scored another second innings century to ensure safety and a 1 – 0 series win.
After the Second Test was a rained-out draw, the West Indies beat Australia inside three days on a " green " Trinidad pitch in the Third Test.
In the Third Test in Sydney, he made 59 as Australia collapsed for 172 in the second innings and conceded the match.
Australia went on to win the Third, Fourth and Fifth Tests and retain the Ashes 3 – 2.
The first two matches were won by 186 runs and an innings, while the Third Test ended with Australia one wicket from victory after almost two day's play was washed out.
Taylor carried his bat for 169 in the first innings of the Third Test at Adelaide which helped Australia to draw the match and clinch the series.
Australia won the Third Test in Bangalore by eight wickets, with Taylor scoring an unbeaten 102 in a second innings run chase.
The match ended in a draw, as did the Third Test, so Australia won the series and Taylor ended with 513 runs at 128. 25 average.
In 1930 – 31, against the first West Indian side to visit Australia, Bradman's scoring was more sedate than in England — although he did make 223 in 297 minutes in the Third Test at Brisbane and 152 in 154 minutes in the following Test at Melbourne.
Waugh scored 187 in the Third Test at Melbourne as Australia won 1 – 0.
Returning to Australia, he solidified his position by scoring an unbeaten 147 against New Zealand in an innings victory in the Third Test at Brisbane, ending the series with 216 runs once dismissed.
Waugh played in the Third Test at Adelaide Oval in late January with Australia trailing 1 – 0.
In one of the most famous Test series in history, the final three matches are full of drama with Victor Trumper scoring a century before lunch in the Third Test, Australia winning the Fourth Test by just 3 runs and England winning the Fifth Test by one wicket following a century in only 75 minutes by Gilbert Jessop.
In January 1972, in the Third ( unofficial ) Test between Australia and the Rest of the World XI at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Sobers played an innings of 254 which was described by Don Bradman as " probably the greatest exhibition of batting ever seen in Australia ".
Prominent Third Camp groupings include the Workers ' Liberty grouping in Australia and the United Kingdom and by the International Socialist predecessor of Solidarity.

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