Nostalgia

44 years since giant Matilda winked at Australia

On 30 September 1982, Brisbane opened the Commonwealth Games with one of the most gloriously Australian ceremonies imaginable: a kookaburra call, a massive 13-metre mechanical kangaroo called Matilda doing a lap of QEII Stadium and winking at the crowd, before her pouch opened and little “joeys” came running out.

Even better, 6,500 schoolkids formed a map of Australia — without Tasmania.
OOPS!!


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Tennis 1976

Back row (left-right): Sue Barker, Cynthia Doerner, Natasha Chmyreva, Betty Stove, Virginia Wade, Mima Jausovec, Carrie Meyer, Terry Holladay, Olga Morozova and Martina Navratilova.

Front row: Marita Redondo, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Rosie Casals, Chris Evert and Lesley Hunt.


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The shirt and shorts are match worn from the Socceroos v Sweden friendly series in February 1996 at Suncorp Stadium and the Sydney Football Stadium, along with the Collectors Edition Programme.

Sweden defeated the Socceroos in Brisbane 2 - 0 with the Sydney game ending 0 - 0.



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