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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 ...
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour. [ 2] In present-day Australia, the government Australia Day Council organises ...
James Douglas Packer (born 8 September 1967) [ 1] is an Australian billionaire businessman and investor. Packer is the son of Kerry Packer AC, a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer AC. He is the grandson of Sir Frank Packer. He inherited control of the family company, Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, as well as investments in Crown ...
In his younger days growing up in Australia, years before he became Washington State's staple at punter, Haberer was about to sign with a team in the Victorian Football League (similar to the ...
The Australian government of John Howard had advised the Queen on the timing. [41] In 1994, Charles III then Prince of Wales, visited Australia. He was giving a speech in Darling Harbour during the Australia day celebrations. David Kang ran up to the Prince and fired two blanks before falling onto the ground; he was arrested by many police ...
This day is now celebrated as Australia Day. In a ceremony at sunset Phillip and the officers drank to the health of the king and the royal family, and success to the new colony. In the meantime, La Perouse entered Botany Bay as the remaining British ships prepared to leave. 27 January: Convicts disembarked at Sydney Cove and helped clear the ...
The 1958–59 Ashes series consisted of five cricket Test matches, each scheduled for six days with eight ball overs. It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1958–59, and the matches outside the Tests were played in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The England team led by Peter May was labelled the strongest ever to leave England.
Australia Day Live Concert (ABC 2004–2011, Network 10 2012–2018, ABC 2019–) Carols by Candlelight (Nine Network 1952–) Carols in the City (Nine Network 1970s–2008, Network 10 2009–) Carols in the Domain (Seven Sydney/Disney Channel 1982–) Channel Seven Perth Telethon (Seven Perth)