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The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is the Australian Government commission responsible for supporting and investing in sport in Australia. The Commission incorporates the Australian Institute of Sport. From 2018 to 2022, it was known as Sport Australia. [4]
Sport is an important part of Australian culture and dates back to the early colonial period. The first of the country's mainstream sports to become established in order of their organisation were cricket, Australian rules football, rugby union, tennis, soccer, basketball, netball and rugby league.
The Roar is an Australian sports opinion website. It was established by brothers Zac and Zolton Zavos in late 2006. [1] Initially, The Roar was a blog to host writing from their father, Spiro Zavos who was a rugby columnist with Fairfax Media at the time. It quickly developed into a site which combines expert sports opinion articles with edited ...
Government involvement in sport up until the 1970s was fairly limited with local governments playing a major role through the provision of sporting facilities. [1] However, this changed over the next two decades with an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey in 2001–2002 finding that approximately $2 billion was spent on sport by three levels of government – 10 per cent from the Australian ...
Australia currently hold the world record for the largest win and the most goals scored by a player in an international match. [135] Both records were achieved during the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification match against American Samoa on 11 April 2001. Australia won 31–0 with Archie Thompson scoring 13 goals and David Zdrilic scoring 8.
Australia and New Zealand: 4: 109,688 Rugby league: 1985–1988: World Cup: Australia: Several countries including Australia: Rugby league: 1989–1992: World Cup: Australia: Several countries including Australia: Rugby league: 2017: World Cup: Australia and New Zealand: Rugby union: 1987: 22 May – 20 June: World Cup: Australia and New ...
Optus Sport is an Australian group of sports channels, owned by Optus launched on 13 July 2016. Optus created the service after it outbid Foxtel for the English Premier League broadcasting rights in Australia.
Fox Sports Australia Pty Limited (formerly Premier Media Group Pty Limited) is the division of Foxtel that owns and operates the Fox Sports television networks and digital properties in Australia. The group operates nine Fox Sports Channels as well as Fox Sports News , Fox Cricket , Fox League , Fox Footy , Watch AFL and Watch NRL.