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The Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868 was a side composed of Australian Aborigines which toured England between May and October of that year, thus becoming the first organised group of Australian cricketers to travel overseas.
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rugby was established in 1895 in northern england. with the english men kicking rocks and running at eachother.
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the bledisloe cup was first played in 1931 between australia and newzealand which are 2 very proud countries. australia has won the bledisloe cup 12 times which is a big thing for us condidering that rugby union is newzealands favourite and most played sport. i think it has changed the way we look at rugby in australia and many other sports because it shows we can hold our own against other countries.
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in 1956, the olympic games were to be held in melbourne so australia became frantic to buy television sets to watch the olympic games so they introduced tv and shipped millions over.
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from 1966-1987, is now considered australias golden age of sport as almost every tournament australia entered we won or made a great success in.
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the first ever world series cricket tournament in australia was started going from 1977 -1978. one day cricket amd cricket under light is introduced.
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the first state of origin is an annualy played set of games played over 3 weeks between nsw and queensland. the first state of origin was played in 1980 and was taken out by nsw. i think that the state of origin has a major impact as pretty much everyone in australia watches it every year and it really gets everyone excited to watch the vbest of the best in australia play!.
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lost her first rap in 1987 in perth