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Australia: Recreation and Travel: Sport

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Australian Olympic Committee
This official website includes information about Australia's involvement in the latest and upcoming Olympic Games, various full-text reports, and other resources.
Australian Football League
Official website for the professional Australian rules football league, with news, fixtures, results during the current season (which generally runs from March to September), and links to individual club websites.
Australian Open
Official website for Australia's Grand Slam professional tennis tourney.
Australian Sports Commission
The government agency responsible for coordinating government policy on sport administers the National Sport Information Centre, a library and resource center with a full-text archive of papers and reports; maintains a free online directory of Australian sport organizations; and provides a searchable catalog of their publications, most of which must be purchased from the Commission.
Cricket Australia
Official website for cricket in Australia, with general information about the sport, fixtures, match results, and other information.
Football Federation Australia
Official website for the national soccer association, with information about Australia's national soccer sides, the Socceroos (men) and the Matildas (women); and the A-League, the national professional soccer league.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Official website for one of Australia's most venerated sporting venues, with an extensive history section and facts and figures about the stadium.
National Rugby League
Official website for the rugby league code in Australia, with news, fixtures, results during the season (which generally runs from March to September), and links to individual club websites.
Rugby.com.au
Official website for the rugby union code in Australia, with news, fixtures, links to individual club websites, and information about the Wallabies, the national rugby union side.
Tennis Australia
Official website for Australia's principal professional tennis organization.
This Sporting Life
Weekly radio program satirizing the Australian obsession with sport and Australian popular culture in general (complete with fake commercials). The show is hosted by writer/performers Grieg Pickhaver and John Doyle in their stage personæ as "H.G. Nelson and Rampaging Roy Slaven" offering ribald, hyperbolic commentary on the week in sport. The website includes downloadable MP3s of past programs. From Triple J, the ABC's youth-oriented broadcasting service.

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