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The Australia men's national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team.
Australia currently has no national club competition. The first attempt at such a competition, the Australian Rugby Championship, was launched in 2007 with eight teams, but lasted only one season before the nation's governing body, the Australian Rugby Union (now Rugby Australia), decided to discontinue the competition due to financial losses.
The name "Wallabies" was chosen by the 1908 rugby union side, making its first tour of the Northern Hemisphere. [4] British newspapers had already nicknamed the 1905 New Zealand touring team the "All Blacks" from their sporting uniform predominant colour; [ 5 ] the 1906 South African tourists had adopted "Springboks". [ 6 ] "
Australia national rugby team may refer to national teams in the different varieties of rugby: Australia national rugby union team, often nicknamed the Wallabies, administered by the Australian Rugby Union. Australia national rugby sevens team compete in the World Sevens Series; Australia national rugby league team, often nicknamed the ...
The NSW team, 1883. The Australia national team in 1899. Accounts of rugby being played in the Colony of New South Wales date back to the 1840s. Some settlers would have been familiar with earlier forms of the game even before it was formally codified at Rugby School in 1845.
Australia national rugby union team (7 C, 8 P) R. Rugby union teams in Australia by state or territory (7 C) W. Women's rugby union teams in Australia (1 C, 11 P)
List of Australia national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Australia national rugby union team. [ 1 ] Note that the "position" column lists the position at which the player made his Test debut, not necessarily the position for which he is best known.
Pages in category "Australia national rugby union team" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...