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This is a list of major sports controversies in Australia or concerning Australian sportspeople. These controversies cover areas such as rules, match fixing, cheating, sportsmanship, doping and sport administration. They have generated large scale media coverage over a period of time and may have resulted in a large scale inquiry.
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Sport historian Colin Tatz, in his 1995 research into Indigenous Australian athletes wrote: "they're Australians when they're winning, and Aborigines at other times", in summarising the history of racism in Australian sport. [1] In his book Obstacle race: Aborigines in sport (1995), Tatz traces racism in Australia sport back to the 1800s. [2]
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This real-time information was relayed by the team captain over the radio to the Australian pilots. This was the first time in the sport's history that an entire team had been penalised for unsporting behaviour, with the Competition Director applying a penalty of 25 points per pilot per day.
Australia's Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to New Zealand's Brian McKechnie while observed by keeper Rod Marsh and non-striker Bruce Edgar. The underarm bowling incident of 1981 is a sporting controversy that took place on 1 February 1981, when Australia played New Zealand in a One Day International cricket match, the third in the best-of-five final of the 1980–81 World Series Cup, at the ...
As a result of the Senate Drugs in Sport Inquiry held 1989–1990, the Australian Government established the Australian Sports Drug Agency through the Australian Sports Drug Agency Act 1990. On 14 March 2006, Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) replaced the Australian Sports Drug Agency. Besides education and testing, ASADA was ...
Pages in category "History of sport in Australia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... List of Australian sports controversies; D.