Sport
- 21 May – Anthony Cook wins the men's national marathon title, clocking 2:20:44.6 in Ballarat.
- St Kilda defeats Collingwood in the VFL Grand Final
- Galilee wins the Melbourne Cup
- NSW yacht Cadence wins the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
- The St George Dragons win their 11th consecutive NSWRL premiership defeating the Balmain Tigers
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)