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    Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls contributed a great deal to Australian society, he was a person for all people not just for the Indigenous community. After his football career ended he devoted his life for the advancement of the Indigenous community. His work as a pastor, social worker and later in political life demanding audiences with people like Sir Henry Bolte convincing them of the needs for greater support. Adam Goodes is the individual I will be comparing with Doug. Both individuals had the common theme of sporting achievements in their earlier lives. They also experienced racism in varying forms, Doug during his football career from within his own team and out on the field. Adam experienced racism throughout his life, this focused in the later part of his football career, constant booing occurred when he approached the ball in the 2015 season. In a show of solidarity many clubs in late July and early August of 2015 wore their Indigenous jumpers with Bob Murphy from the Western Bulldogs changing his jumper number to Adam’s 37 before the start of the game. Both individuals have displayed a strong sense of identity to their Indigenous origins, enabling them to overcome different…

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    Melbourne is connected to the rest of the world based on the information shown on your graph. From looking at the graphs it can be seen that Melbourne is connected with the rest of the world. Task 7: Data Comparison Compare and contrast the data collected by our class with the data provided by Tourism Victoria and Tourism Australia. You may like to present your comparison in the form of a table, a Venn diagram showing similarities and differences, or in a paragraph. Similarities Differences •…

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    When the AFL decided to add the West Australian side, the West Coast Eagles in 1987, this was huge for Western Australia. Prior to this addition, the WAFL was the most elite level that anyone could achieve in WA. The WAFL was the biggest competition in WA and would pull large numbers of crowds to games. The WAFL grand final in 1979 produced a record crowd of 52,781 people, the closest attendance of recent times was in 2010, 24,638 people. The steep decline in popularity and attendance is a…

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    6, I was serving hot dogs and canned drinks to the hungry players in the canteen, and updating the scoreboard for each new goal. Since age 6, I was roped into endless games of jack in the pack and kick to kick with my brothers. At age 6, the thought of playing football never crossed my mind, not ever. It was not until 6 years later my local club introduced an U’15s girls football team. I was 12 at the time, and 4 years later I was still playing and saw the growth and recognition of the game – 3…

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    Newtown Jets have pulled off one of the most amazing comebacks in rugby league history, running out 40-38 victors over a strong Manly Sea eagles side at Henson Park on Saturday afternoon. It was all one way traffic for 60 minutes of the game, the score running out 38-12 in what was a dominant display from the Manly Sea Eagles, but the scenes were that of a fairy tale after the Newtown Jets scored 5 unanswered tries in the final stretch to steal victory in a remarkable game of Rugby League. The…

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    The No. 1 East Catholic boys’ basketball team were able to hold off and pull away from the No. 2 Windsor team in the final minutes to clinch their third consecutive CCC Boys’ Basketball championship title. The Eagles (23-0) defeated the Warriors (18-5) to a final score 95-81 on Thursday night at Bulkeley High School. “The guys played great, they really responded, threw a couple of runs and all stuck together all year so I am really happy for them,” Eagles coach Luke Reilly said. “They are a…

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    North Sydney Bears claimed their third win of the season, defeating a poor Newcastle Knights outfit 24-10 in a brutal encounter at TG Milner Oval. It was an error fuelled game with a great amount of ill-discipline and mistakes from both teams, but it was the outstanding goal-line defence late in the game for North Sydney proving to be the difference after nearly allowing Newcastle back into the game in the later stages of the second half. Tautalatasi Tasi was a shining light for North…

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    the Essendon Football Club (Essendon) found by the Court of Arbitration (CAS) to have breached clause 11.2 of the Australian Football League (AFL) anti-doping code as a result of their part in the Essendon supplements saga in 2012. Hibberd, along with 33 other past and present Essendon footballers were “sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of two years as of 31 March 2015”. Currently, Hibberd is serving a provisional suspension from all competition expiring on 13 November 2016. As a result…

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    Coca-Cola became the official sponsor of the FIFA 2014 World Cup that was held in Brazil. In this campaign, the company took advantage of the international football fans who were enthusiastic about the game. The use of football as a unifying sport allowed Coca-Cola to reach fans from over 90 countries (Minguez, 2014). As compared to Pepsi’s campaign, Coca-Cola had a greater impact on the soccer fans because it made use of…

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