Australia's Sporting Identity

By Fred Way

  • Cricket Began

  • First Athletics

  • Early forms of football

    Early forms of football

  • The first Australian cricket team to go on tour internationally1868

    The Australian side was an all Aboriginal one and toured England where they played 47 games, where they won 14 games, drew 19 and lost 14

  • First test cricket match against England

  • First formal Australian football team (Wanderers)

    First formal Australian football team (Wanderers)

  • Rugby league began

  • AFL was founded

    AFL was founded

  • Women represented Australia for the first time at the Olympics

    Women represented Australia for the first time at the Olympics

  • Australia won the Davis Cup 8 times in the 1950s (1950, 1951 , 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959)

  • Stand against racism Peter Norman in the OLYMPICS

  • Australia wins their first rugby world cup

  • Australia wins their second rugby world cup

  • Cathay Freeman wins the 400meters

  • Steven Bradbury

    Bradbury wins on the back of opponents mistakes