The race is a quality handicap for horses 3 years old and over, run over a distance of 3,200 metres, on the first Tuesday in November at Flemington Racecourse. The minimum handicap weight is 49 kg. Th ...
The name Phar Lap derives from the common Zhuang and Thai word for lightning: ?????? , lit. 'sky flash'.Phar Lap was called the "Wonder Horse", "Red Terror", "Bobby" and "Big Red" (the latter ni ...
Bradman first met Jessie Martha Menzies in 1920 when she boarded with the Bradman family, to be closer to school in Bowral. The couple married at St Paul's Anglican Church at Burwood, Sydney on 30 Apr ...
During the 1938 tour of England, Bradman played the most consistent cricket of his career. He needed to score heavily as England had a strengthened batting line-up, while the Australian bowling was ov ...
Donald Bradman was the youngest son of George and Emily (née Whatman) Bradman, and was born on 27 August 1908 at Cootamundra, New South Wales (NSW). He had a brother, Victor, and three sisters—Islet ...
In 1885 the first inter-colonial tennis match was held at the SCG when Victoria played New South Wales although forms of the game were no doubt played in Australia from its colonial beginnings. All co ...
The SCG has hosted over 1,100 top-level premiership rugby league games – more than any other ground. Between 1913 and 1987, the NSWRFL Premiership Final was always played at the SCG, unless circumsta ...
In 1811, the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, established the second Sydney Common, about one-and-a-half miles wide and extending south from South Head Rd (now Oxford St) to where Randw ...
The Player of the Year award is announced at the end of each season. Since its inception in 1976 it has been awarded to the best-performed player/s over the season, as determined a panel of judges. Vi ...
In 1891–92 the Earl of Sheffield was in Australia as the promoter of the English team led by W. G. Grace. The tour included three Tests played in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide.At the conclusion of t ...
The wheatbelt encompasses a range of ecosystems and, as a result, there are a range of industries operating in the region.In the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia there are a number ...
The suburb of Paddington is considered to be part of the land associated with the stories and rituals of the Cadigal people. These people belonged to the Dharug (or Eora) language group, and were also ...
Woollahra is an Aboriginal word meaning camp or meeting ground or a sitting down place. It was adopted by Daniel Cooper (1821–1902), the first speaker of the legislative assembly of New South Wales, ...
The Lowenstein Oral History Collection consists of at least 741 hours of interviews recorded between 1969 and 1999. The interviews in the collection cover a diverse range of topics from the social eff ...
The Sydney Institute, founded in 1989, is a privately funded, Australian current affairs forum. The institute took over the resources of the Sydney Institute of Public Affairs which ceased activity in ...
