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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education for Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 students. Students will engage with a rich selection of sources and be challenged to draw their own conclusions about the role of sport in Australia’s culture and history.

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The first recorded games between Empire athletes coincided with the coronation of King George V in 1911.

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Today, at the Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games, tennis tournaments and a host of other sporting events, men and women can compete at elite levels. But this has not always been the case for sports and recreational physical pursuits.

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The first Australian cricket team to tour overseas was an Aboriginal one.

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With new people and cultures come new ideas and practices. These could be new foods, new religions, new art forms or even new sports.

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Explore a rich selection of sources and challenges them to draw their own conclusions about the role of media in World War 1.

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Tensions were building across the Balkans throughout the early nineteenth century. Six great powers ruled Europe, including Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria–Hungary and Serbia, all of which were looking to expand their territories.

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The Gallipoli campaign came about because of the deadlock on the Western Front, which turned Britain’s attention towards other possible theatres of war.

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After Gallipoli, the AIF reorganised 2 divisions into 5 and troops were sent to the Western Front in France. 

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The Ypres Offensive (1917) was a brutal campaign on the Western Front aimed at capturing key Belgian ports.

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By late 1918, the Allied forces had won a series of key battles that forced the German troops into retreat.

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Historian Dr. Jennifer Wellington explores the similarities and differences of commemorative ceremonies in Australia with the rest of the world and unpacks the question of whether what we are commemorating is based in truth or myth.