Events
Perth has hosted a number of international and national sporing events, including:
- the 1921, 1937, 1956, 1972 and 1979 Australian National Football Carnivals
- the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- the 1979 Australian Grand Prix
- the 1991 and 1998 World Aquatics Championships
- the 2006 Gravity Games
- rounds in the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship
- rounds in the V8 Supercars
- the Avon Descent (annually)
- the City to Surf (annually)
- the Hopman Cup (annually)
- the Rottnest Channel Swim (annually)
- the Tom Hoad Cup (annually)
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)