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Below is a list of current Australian records in athletics as ratified by the national governing body, Athletics Australia.There are two types of Australian records. An Australian record is the best time recorded anywhere in the world by an athlete or team holding Australian citizenship whilst an Australian All Comers record is the best time recorded in Australia by an athlete or team.
List of high commissioners of Australia to the United Kingdom; List of the first women appointed to Australian judicial positions; List of ambassadors and high commissioners of Australia; List of prime ministers of Australia; List of longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia; People who have served in both Houses of the Australian ...
National All sports -,Indigenous Hall of Fame Athletics Australia Hall of Fame [10] National Athletics: Hall of Fame Managed by Athletics Australia: Stawell Gift Hall of Fame [11] Stawell, Victoria: Athletics: Museum Australian Football Hall of Fame [12] National Australian football: Hall of Fame Located at the National Sports Museum.
Memorial to Australian recipients of the George Cross, George Cross Park, Canberra. The George Cross (GC) is the highest civil decoration for heroism in the United Kingdom. . Australia as a member of the Commonwealth of Nations through the Governor-General of Australia was eligible to recommend awards, with the last GC recommended in 1972, on the advice of the Australian Prime Minister, for ...
The Sport Australia Hall of Fame was established on 10 December 1985 to recognise the achievements of Australian sportsmen and sportswomen. [1] The inaugural induction included 120 members with Sir Don Bradman as the first inductee and Dawn Fraser the first female inductee.
Joe Flick (c.1865 - 1889) Indigenous Australian outlaw who shot dead a Native Police officer; Gnunga Gnunga Murremurgan (c.1773 - 1809) Eora man who was the first Indigenous Australian to travel across the Pacific Ocean; Kapiu Masi Gagai (c. 1894 - 1946) a Torres Strait Islander man who worked as a pearler, boatman, mission worker and soldier
The Australian Athletics Championships have been conducted since 1890. [1] The most successful athlete at the Championships has been thrower Warwick Selvey who won 19 championships events. [2] Below is a list of Australian champions in athletics by event. [1] [3] Through 1965, the distances run were in Imperial units (yards).
This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which Indigenous Australians have been able to break through in some degree.