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 ".

The Australian team from the 1911 – 12 tour.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

* 1948 – The Australian cricket team completed a 4 – 0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour.

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

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.

The modern form of AAS was largely developed during the 1950s by a team of Australian chemists.

The Australian press dubbed the tactic Bodyline, and claimed it was a deliberate attempt by the English team to intimidate and injure the Australian players.

* Buffaloes, nickname of the South Africa national Australian rules football team

* Darwin Buffaloes, an Australian Rules Football team in Northern Territories, Australia

* Australia national basketball team, officially nicknamed " Australian Boomers "

Bundaberg Rum is a major sponsor of the Australian Wallabies rugby union team and also sponsors the Bundaberg Rum Rugby Series.

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

The victory song of the Australian national cricket team is entitled " Under the Southern Cross I Stand ".

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 ).

A large crowd of over 10, 000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup Hat-trick # Cricket | hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.

* Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, an Australian National Rugby League team

A Great Britain national Australian rules football team | British Bulldog player is chased down and tackled by a Nauru national Australian rules football team | Nauru Chief opponent as he tries to get a kick away.

The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

It was proposed by the Beazley led Australian Labor Party opposition in a 2006 press release, with the intention of protecting children who were vulnerable due to claimed parental computer illiteracy.

The discouragement felt by Katayama as regards his prospects at Nissan, led to his going on the verge of resigning, when Datsun ’ s 1958 Australian Mobilgas victories vaunted him, as leader of the winning Datsun teams, to national prominence in a Japan bent on regaining international status.

The variety of different ways to contest possession in Australian rules has led to first time observers of the game regarding it as having " no rules " or as some Australians unfamiliar with the game colloquially term it " Rafferty's Rules ".

After being appointed as mine manager at the age of 23, he led a major program of expansion for the Sons of Gwalia gold mine at Gwalia, Western Australia, and brought in many Italian immigrants to cut costs and counter the union militancy of the Australian miners.

In 1996, as a result of a three-year research project led by Lindsay B. Yeates, the Australian Hypnotherapists ' Association ( founded in 1949 ), the oldest hypnotism-oriented professional organization in Australia, instituted a peer-group accreditation system for full-time Australian professional hypnotherapists, the first of its kind in the world.

His successes in midgets and Australian and New Zealand road racing events led to him going to the United Kingdom to further his racing career.

Although English bowlers did aim at the batsmen's body in the opening tour matches, they did not follow through by packing the leg-side field until Bill Woodfull led an Australian XI against the tourists in Melbourne on 18 – 22 November, in what was effectively a Test rehearsal.

Up until the fourth tour in 1877, led by Lillywhite, touring teams had played first-class games against the individual colonial sides, but Lillywhite felt that his side had done well enough against New South Wales to warrant a game against an All Australian team.

The Liberal National Party led by Lawrence Springborg went on to lose the March 2009 election to Anna Bligh's Australian Labor Party.

A team of Oxford research scientists led by Australian Howard Florey and including Ernst Boris Chain and Norman Heatley devised a method of mass-producing the drug.

Together, the Liberal / National coalition defeated the Australian Labor Party, led by Kristina Keneally, at the 2011 election.

A research team led by Australian engineers has created the first working " quantum bit " based on a single atom in silicon, invoking the same technological platform that forms the building blocks of modern day computers, laptops and phones.

Labor led by John Curtin refused Menzies ' offer to form a war coalition, and also opposed using the Australian army for a European war, preferring to keep it at home to defend Australia.

In the next Shield match against Victoria, led by Australian captain Lindsay Hassett, Benaud came in for attack.

The veteran Australian politician Billy Hughes led the party following Robert Menzies ' resignation during the World War II | Second World War.

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

* March 24 – In the Australian federal election, the Australian Labor Party, led by Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke, clings to power with a reduced majority.

* January 22 – The Australian Country Party is officially formed, led by Nelson Pollard.

The subsequent introduction of a second variety of GM cotton led to increases in GM cotton production until 95 % of the Australian cotton crop was GM in 2009 making Australia the country with the fifth largest GM cotton crop in the world.