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First fleet
first fleet arrive and bring British sport with them -
First athletics carnival
First athletics carnival in Australia -
First soccer game
Early forms of soccer -
First cricket game
Cricket was played for the first time in Australia -
Rugby
Early form of rugby -
AFL
First Game of AFL was codified -
The Melbourne cup
The Melbourne Cup was first run -
Rugby Union
The first game of Rugby Union at Sydney Uni -
Basketball
Basketball was first played in Adelaide, South Australia in 1900 -
Ice Hockey
The first recorded game of ice hockey in Australia was on Tuesday July 17, 1906 -
Boxing Champ
Les Darcy began his boxing career in 1915 -
Yacht Race
At noon on Boxing Day 1945, the inaugural Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race began -
Davis Cup
Australia won the Davis Cup 8 times in the 1950s: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1959 -
Netball
In 1967, Australia hosted the second Netball World Championships in Perth -
Basketball
In 1979, the National Basketball League was introduced -
Aleague
In 1989, the Victorian Football League decided to rebrand themselves as a national league and renamed the league the Australian Football League -
Olympics
In 2000, Sydney hosted the Summer Olympic Games at a cost of $6.6 billion. Australia finished fourth on the medal tally with 58 medals, 26 of them gold. -
Commonwealth games
n 2018, Gold Coast hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games.