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== Sport ==
Australia is often known as a sporting nation with success worldwide in swimming, tennis, rugby league and rugby union, cricket, netball and even speed ice skating. Australians are very keen horse racers with the [http://www.melbournecup.com.au Melbourne Cup] attracting up to 120,000 spectators at Flemington Race Course. There is even a public holiday for the cup race in Melbourne.
Unique to Australia is a game known as [[Australian rules football]]or Aussie Rules which is played on a cricket oval in winter and draws huge crowds across Australia.
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(1)[http://www.ncls.org.au/default.aspx?docid=2250&track=82083 National Church Life Survey 2004]
(1)[http://www.ncls.org.au/default.aspx?docid=2250&track=82083 National Church Life Survey 2004]