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Australia's lower classes would play sports on public holidays, with the upper classes playing more regularly on Saturdays. [9] Sydney was the early hub of sport in the colony. [10] Early forms of football were played there by 1829. [11] Early sport in Australia was played along class lines.
Soccer, also known as football, is the most played outdoor club sport in Australia, [2] [3] and ranked in the top ten for television audience as of 2015. [4] The national governing body of the sport is Football Australia (FA), which until 2019, organised the A-League Men, A-League Women, and still organises the Australia Cup, as well as the men's and women's national teams (known as the ...
A person born in Australia would be both an Australian citizen and a British subject. [19] British subjects under the previous meaning who held that status on 1 January 1949 because of a connection with the United Kingdom or a remaining colony became Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC). CUKC status was the principal form of ...
Australian culture is of primarily Western origins, and is derived from its British, Indigenous and migrant components. Indigenous peoples arrived as early as 60,000 years ago, and evidence of Aboriginal art in Australia dates back at least 30,000 years. [1] The British colonisation of Australia began in 1788 and waves of multi-ethnic ...
Prior to the introduction of Australian citizenship, Australians had the status of "British subjects". [34] The High Court of Australia in Potter v Minahan (1908) stated that "Although there is no Australian nationality as distinguished from British nationality, there is an Australian species of British nationality." [35]
English Australians, also known as Anglo-Australians, [3] are Australians whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. In the 2021 census, 8,385,928 people, or 33% of the Australian population, stated that they had English ancestry (whether sole or partial). [1] It is the largest self-identified ancestry in Australia. [1]
This is a list of Australian Football League players who have multicultural ancestry (which includes players born overseas or who had one parent born overseas). [1] In 2020, about 15 per cent of AFL players were born overseas or had one parent born overseas. This was up from 13 per cent in 2019, according to AFL data. [2]
Athletics is a popular sport in Australia, with around 34,000 athletes, officials and coaches currently registered with the national association. [ 2 ] Though not as high-profile as sports such as Cricket , Rugby league or Rugby Union in Australia, athletics has produced many world sporting legends, including Edwin Flack , Betty Cuthbert , Herb ...