* 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.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

This Australian team, led by Bradman, who turned 40 during his final tour of England, has gone down in history as The Invincibles.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

The ACT has internal self-government, but Australia's Constitution does not afford the territory government the full legislative independence provided to Australian states.

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.

Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

As the size of the Australian diaspora has increased, so has the number of clubs outside Australia.

This foundation includes the Clinton Foundation HIV and AIDS Initiative ( CHAI ), which strives to combat that disease, and has worked with the Australian government toward that end.

Currently scoring blows in amateur boxing are subjectively counted by ringside judges, but the Australian Institute for Sport has demonstrated a prototype of an Automated Boxing Scoring System, which introduces scoring objectivity, improves safety, and arguably makes the sport more interesting to spectators.

The word bunyip has been used in other Australian contexts, including The Bunyip newspaper as the banner of a local weekly newspaper published in the town of Gawler, South Australia.

* Yowie, or Wowee, a creature that has its origins in Australian Aboriginal mythology

A reserves team has played in the Northern Conference of the North East Australian Football League since the competition was established in 2011.

The Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation has been working with the University of Sydney to develop baits to train native animals not to eat the toads.

Since its original introduction, the cane toad has had a particularly marked effect on Australian biodiversity.

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

The Australian Internet Safety Advisory Body has information about " practical advice on Internet safety, parental control and filters for the protection of children, students and families " that also includes public libraries.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

In Australian slang the term for an English person is " pommy ", which has been proposed as a rhyme on " pomegranate " rhyming with " immigrant ".

In contrast to other common law nations, Australian double jeopardy law has been held to extend to the prevention of prosecution for perjury following a previous acquittal where a finding of perjury would controvert the previous acquittal.

Australian Rules Football has had a presence in the city since 1999 and there are now three clubs in the Capital ; the Dublin Demons, the South Dublin Swans and the West Dublin Saints.

Darcsyde Productions is a small-scale Australian web development and publishing concern, based in Melbourne, which has specialised in creating websites and role-playing games ( RPGs ).

Based on the VT Commodore architecture, the coupe attracted worldwide attention after being shown as a concept car at Australian auto shows.

Resource development projects in Australia attracted Japanese capital, as did trade protectionism by necessitating local production for the Australian market.

Lyons and Fenton's opposition to the economic policies of the Scullin Labor Government had attracted the support of prominent Australian conservatives, known as " the Group ", whose number included future prime minister Robert Menzies.

" Firestick farming " amongst northern Australian people was used to encourage plant growth that attracted animals.

Lady Gaga's previous videos have also attracted criticism for their sexually suggestive content ; the video for " LoveGame " was refused play on the Australian video music program Video Hits, however, other Australian programs aired the video uncensored.

As a result of its strong research culture, the University recently attracted more competitive research funding-on a per capita basis of staff involved in research-than any other Australian university.

Until 2009, St Kilda was home to the Community Cup festival which celebrates grassroots Australian rules football having attracted record attendances of up to 23, 000 and raising money for local charity the Sacred Heart Mission.

On 16 April 1938, Mount Panorama attracted 20, 000 spectators to its first race, The Australian Tourist Trophy and in 2006 the crowd figure reached 194, 000 for the 3 day Bathurst 1000 event.

The 1999 Bledisloe Cup rugby union match between the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks attracted a then-world record rugby union crowd of 107, 042.

An online biography based on the O ' Dwyer and Randolph books asserts that the engine Whitehead purportedly used in Pittsburgh attracted the attention of Australian aeronautical pioneer, Lawrence Hargrave, who in 1889 invented a rotary engine: " This steam machine was so ingenious that several years later Lawrence Hargrave told of using miniature designs of " Weisskopf-style " steam machines, as well as the " Weisskopf System " for his model trials in Australia.

The first live performance attracted disappointing ratings when broadcast, attracting only 850, 000 in Australian mainland capitals, finishing behind American Idol on Network Ten and shows on the Nine Network.

During the Ashes Test in 2009 at Lords Patel also attracted the Australian actor Russell Crowe into the TMS box, while his cousin the former Kiwi test cricketer Jeff Crowe was serving as the Match Referee.

The move attracted opposition from the Public Transport Users Association, Australian Greens and Bicycle Victoria.

Towards the end of his career Arnoux attracted some controversy ; he was frequently accused of blocking faster cars in qualifying and when being lapped, even taking off a number of cars as well, such as race leader Gerhard Berger at the 1988 Australian Grand Prix

Until the 1990s the festival attracted mostly Flemish people, but in recent years it has become more and more international with an especially large influx of Dutch, French, Walloon, British and a notable Australian and South African contingent.

His natural Australian football ability attracted the attention of all twelve VFL clubs.

After several early television roles, including The Henderson Kids, he attracted notice in his breakout film, The Year My Voice Broke ( 1987 ), winning him the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor.

According to retailers, it was not just the footwear that attracted consumers, but the " made in Australia " tie-in as the boots were a unique product only available from Australia and Australian products were at that time very popular.

The move attracted opposition from the Public Transport Users Association, Australian Greens and Bicycle Victoria.

The three pioneering heavy metal bands, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple, were all British and, while gaining little critical acclaim, they and the next generation of metal groups, which included American, Australian and continental bands beside British acts Judas Priest, Motörhead and Rainbow, attracted large audiences and record sales.

In September 1978 she released her first single " You Know That I Love You ", which reached the top 100 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart, and attracted some national radio airplay and positive reviews.

According to Father Gerard Patterson, Karen later took a position at Our Lady of Dolours School for Ridiculously Slow Learners, in South Sydney, while her brother Craig was employed for the Australian Wheat Board, where, in 2008, his work had “ recently attracted unfair publicity ”.

This premiership was not only the first Australian Labor Party government ; it was the first parliamentary socialist government anywhere in the world, and it attracted international newspaper coverage.