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Australia's rugby Union (that's the 15 man game) team is called the Wallabies. Australia has won the Rugby World Cup twice since it's inception in 1987. Every year the Australian, New Zealand and South African teams play in the Tri Nations tournament (similar to the Northern Hemisphere's Six Nations). As a part of this competition is a separate series exclusively between Australia and New Zealand called the Bledisloe Cup.
The closest thing that comes in Union to a classic match is the Bledisloe. Interesting because New Zealand is far better at playing really attractive rugby then we are.
Example of a union game. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3kDSiHVbwg\]
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'''[[The Beautiful Game|Soccer]]'''
It's football, but not as you know it.
The early history of the game starts around the 1880's, with a number of clubs starting and playing matches between each other. The sport was relatively popular, but in Melbourne especially, a large push lead to a marginalisation of the pitches required, with football clubs being 'locked out' with areas converted into oval AFL/Cricket areas.
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'''Motorsport'''
In his [[Incredibly Lame Pun|autobiography]], Murray Walker mentioned that touring car racing is basically a religion in Australia – with the caveat that our touring cars aren’t the delicate, high-revving 4-cylinder jobs Europeans associate with the term "touring cars", but [[Rated "M" for Manly|big, heavy, angry, low-revving V8s]] that frighten old ladies and generally make blokes talk like [[Home Improvement (TV series)||Tim Allen]]. We call these beasts the '''V8 Supercars''', shorthand for "is a taxi faster than a police cruiser?"
The [[Spiritual Successor]] to the old Australian Touring Car Championship, the series is realistically just NASCAR with road circuits instead of roundabouts, though it has overcome its reputation as a sport for knuckle-draggers and is actually reasonably exciting and fun to watch. Since Australia is a land of two choices, the V8s come in either [[Arch Enemy|red (Holden) or blue (Ford)]], and your allegiance to one or the other is expected to be absolute and uncompromising. Mention that your favourite brand is BMW, for example, and you’ll be thought of as a wanker at best, and a traitor to your country at worst. Wistful recollections about ‘Godzilla’ (the Nissan Skyline R32), however, are acceptable - doubly so, since the announcement that Nissan will once again field entrants in the championship from the 2013 season!
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Being an island nation with most of the population living on the coast, a relatively large percentage of Australians own a boat of some description, and many participate in sailing as a social and family event. Australians have been known to participate in the America's Cup, and have their own annual Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race.
Although these are the most popular sports in Australia, in general Aussies follow and play in nearly every sport under the sun. Oh, and we place a lot of bets, too. [[Product Placement|Most of these sports (excluding Aussie XI cricket, V8s and Rugby, which are on other channels, and roller derby, which isn't televised at all,) are all on]] [[Network Ten]]'s [[Product Placement|Sport's channel, ONE HD.]]
'''Surf Lifesaving'''
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