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An international governing body was formed to oversee the sport globally, now called the International Netball Federation (INF). [46] At the INF Congress 2013 in Glasgow, the INF announced that the Rules of Netball would be freely available online for individual use to assist the growth and development of the sport. [1]
In Australia 80% of all netball played is played at netball clubs. [4] The number of Netball Clubs around Australia has been in decline since the 1940s. [ 15 ] Between 1985 and 2003, only two Western Australian towns decreased the distance that Netball players had to travel in order to compete; these towns were Brookton and Pingelly . [ 16 ]
Netball Australia was founded on 26/27 August 1927 as the All Australia Women's Basket Ball Association during an interstate women's basketball carnival. Its founding members included the Sydney City Girls' Amateur Sports Association (New South Wales), the Australian Ladies Basket Ball Association (), the South Australian Women's Basket Ball Association (South Australia), the Melbourne Girls ...
Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own.
Australia has competed in every edition of the men's competition in the Fast5 Netball World Series. They lost the 2022 and 2023 finals to New Zealand, by scorelines of 25-29 and 34-51 respectively. Australia won their first Fast5 World Series title in 2024, defeating New Zealand 32-30 in the final.
The 2018 Fast5 Netball World Series was the ninth staging of the annual Fast5 Netball World Series, and the sixth to be played under the new Fast5 rules, which replaced the older fastnet rules introduced in 2009. The tournament was held in Australia for the third time at Melbourne Arena in Melbourne, Victoria. [1]
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.
Australia has competed at every netball tournament at the Commonwealth Games. In 1990 they defeated New Zealand in a one-off match when netball was a demonstration sport . Between 1998 and 2022 they have played in every tournament final, winning four gold and three silver medals.