Over in the Land Down Under, a 17-year-old girl has riled up the world of Australian football with her digital revenge.
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He was a standard bearer for Australian football in an era when Australian Rules Football, the two rugby codes and cricket were dominant back home.
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Their ranks were swelled by football teams from Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast in Queensland and Forbes, an outback town in New South Wales, celebrating the end of the Australian football season.
In fact, Perth is obsessed with sport - with cricket, football, rugby and Australian rules football attract crowds throughout the year.
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Ms Gillard also gave Mr Obama a souvenir Australian Rules football.
In January a new SportsCenter debuted in Australia and New Zealand, opening with a montage of clips from homegrown sports like rugby and Australian Rules football matches.
Earlier this month, the government released a report from the country's crime commission containing allegations of "widespread" doping across a range of sports, but mainly Australian Rules Football and rugby league.
According to a recent study, the signature anthem for Australian Rules football team Collingwood is one of the most popular funeral songs in Melbourne, together with Frank Sinatra's My Way and Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World.
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And Australia's bid has the backing of all the country's main sporting bodies, after the government managed to secure a memorandum of understanding from Australian Rules Football (AFL), rugby league and rugby union authorities over the use of the nation's best stadiums should the country win the right to hold the event.
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The AFL, the NRL, the Football Federation of Australia, Australian Rugby Union and Cricket Australia have agreed to establish integrity units and have called on athletes to own up and co-operate in return for reduced sanctions.
Despite losing out in the first round of voting for 2022, Australia's Football Federation chief executive Ben Buckley thought the Australian bid had strengthened his country's reputation.
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