What was the subject of an incident at a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia?
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ComBat The ComBat was an aluminium cricket bat and the subject of an incident that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979.
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WACA Ground The WACA (formally the WACA Ground) is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. The stadium's name derives from the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association.
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Ray O'Connor Raymond James "Ray" O'Connor (6 March 192625 February 2013) was an Australian politician. He served as the 22nd Premier of Western Australia, from 1982 to 1983. He also played Australian rules football for the South Fremantle and East Perth Football Clubs in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). In 1991, he was convicted of fraud as part of the WA Inc scandal, and served a six-month jail term.
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Perth Wetlands The Perth Wetlands, also known as the Perth Great Lakes or the Great Lakes District, was a collection of fresh-water wetlands, swamps and lakes located on the Swan Coastal Plain north of the city of Perth in Western Australia. Over a period of 80 years from the first British settlement in Western Australia in 1829 most of the wetlands were reclaimed for use as housing, parks and market gardens.
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Kent Street, Perth Kent Street in Perth, Australia is a major access road to many facilities and places like Curtin University and the Perth Hockey Stadium.
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Perth (disambiguation) Perth is the capital of Western Australia.
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List of Australian sports controversies This is a list of major sports controversies in Australia or concerning Australian sportspeople. These controversies cover areas such as rules, match fixing, cheating, sportsmanship, doping and sport administration. They have generated large scale media coverage over a period of time and may have resulted in a large scale inquiry. These controversies affect the integrity of sport.
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ABA Stadium Auckland Boxing Association Stadium (also known as ABA Stadium) is a New Zealand venue for combat sports hosting over 150 events in boxing alone. ABA Stadium is also recognized for its grassroots of boxing. The earliest reported professional boxing event according to Boxrec was in June 1992 where Jimmy Thunder fought Craig Petersen for the Australian Title.
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Ashfield Arena Ashfield Arena is a sporting ground located in Ashfield, a northeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
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Canberra Stadium The Canberra Stadium, known also as Bruce Stadium (For sponsorship reasons it is officially known as GIO Stadium Canberra, or simply GIO Stadium) is a facility primarily used for rugby league and rugby union games, located adjacent to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The GIO Stadium Canberra is the largest sports venue by capacity in Canberra.
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Sydney Riot of 1879 The Sydney Riot of 1879 was a civil disorder that occurred at an early international cricket match. It took place in Sydney, Australia, at the Association Ground, Moore Park, now known as the Sydney Cricket Ground, during a match between a touring English team captained by Lord Harris and New South Wales, led by Dave Gregory, who was also the captain of Australia.
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1912 WAFL season The 1912 WAFL season was the 28th season of senior Australian Rules football in Perth, Western Australia.
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1955 WANFL season The 1955 WANFL season was the 71st season of senior football in Perth, Western Australia.
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Perth Football Club The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football club based in Lathlain, Western Australia, currently playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Representing the south-east area of the Perth metropolitan region, the club currently trains and plays its home games at Lathlain Park, having previously played at the WACA Ground between 1899 and 1958 and later in 1987 and 1988.
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Perth Indoor Tennis Tournament The Perth Indoor Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played in Perth, Australia from 1975-1977. The event was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and was played on indoor hard courts.
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Bunbury Speedway The Bunbury Speedway is a motorsport venue located in Bunbury, Western Australia. It features a 530 m dirt oval track.
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Bendigo Stadium Bendigo Stadium is an Australian sports and entertainment centre in Bendigo, Victoria. The stadium is home to the Bendigo Braves (SEABL) and Bendigo Spirit (WNBL). It hosted basketball matches during the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The stadium's facilities include seven indoor sports courts, major exhibition and function areas, a licensed clubroom and associated administration facilities.
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Daily News (Perth, Western Australia) The Daily News, historically a successor of "The Inquirer" and "The Inquirer and Commercial News", was an afternoon daily English language newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia from 1882 to 1990, though its origin is traceable from 1840. A Saturday edition was published as the "Western Mail", which became the "Weekend Mail" and, in the 1960s, the "Weekend News" which ceased to be published in the mid-1980s.
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Leederville Oval Leederville Oval (known as Medibank Stadium under a naming rights agreement between 2006 and 2016) is an Australian rules football ground located in Leederville, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The ground is currently used as a home ground by two clubs: the East Perth Football Club and the Subiaco Football Club, both competing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The ground was previously home to the West Perth Football Club from 1915 to 1993, before the club moved to Arena Joondalup, its current home ground. The ground is serviced by the Joondalup railway line, with the nearest stop being the Leederville station.
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Blacktown International Sportspark Blacktown International Sportspark (formally known as Blacktown Olympic Park) is a multi-sports venue located in Rooty Hill, a suburb in Sydney, Australia. The venue includes two cricket grounds, which has also been used for Australian rules football, an athletics track and field, three baseball diamonds, two soccer fields, four softball diamonds, administration centers and park land.
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Wanderers Oval Wanderers Oval, nicknamed Magic Park, is a multi-use sportsground in Newcastle, Australia. It is mainly used for soccer and is the home ground for the Broadmeadow Magic. The venue is also occasionally used by Newcastle Jets, and the club's women's and youth teams. It was one of 11 training sites for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup. In 2014, it hosted the first televised match of the FFA Cup.
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Ugly Men's Association The Ugly Men's Voluntary Worker's Association of Western Australia Inc., generally shortened to the Ugly Men's Association or Ugly Men was a uniquely Western Australian fund-raising and charitable organisation established in 1917. Previously, a Mrs Alicia Pell had organised an "Uglie Man" competition to raise funds for the Red Cross in Kalgoorlie. The East Perth Football Club then built on the concept to raise funds for the Perth Children's Hospital and the War Patriotic Fund. The football club's work developed into a successful grassroots organisation with the first branch opening in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley and focusing on supporting cases of hardship caused by war.