Sport
- 31 January – Victoria wins the 1907–08 Sheffield Shield.
- 11 February – Australia regains The Ashes with a 308 run victory over England.
- 20 April – The first New South Wales Rugby League premiership begins in Sydney.
- 29 August – South Sydney win the grand final to become the first NSWRFL premiers
- 3 November – Lord Nolan wins the Melbourne Cup.
- At the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London, Australia forms a team with New Zealand and competes as Australasia. They win a gold medal for rugby football, a silver medal for middleweight boxing, and in swimming a silver medal for men's 400 metre freestyle and bronze medal for men's 1500 metre freestyle – both won by Frank Beaurepaire.
- Australia's national rugby league team sets sail for England on the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)