I would suggest you visit the website of Ice Hockey Australia at the related link below. You might find what you need to know there.
Ice hockey
Hockey was historically not played on ice until around the invention of modern ice hockey. This was well after the creation of modern field hockey, which itself derived from earlier variations. In short: field hockey was first.
The first badminton competition in Australia was played in 1900. The first ice hockey game was also played on July 12 1906 in Melbourne.
Australia has never won the Ice Hockey Olympics.
Ice Hockey is Hockey played on ice; as compared to Field Hockey which is played on grass.
Hockey Just hockey Hockey on ice is called ice hockey
1992
There are photos of women using ice hockey equipment from 1890. The first women's ice hockey games were played in the late 1890s/early1900s.
In field hockey, New Zealand beat Australia 1-0. In ice hockey, the USSR beat Czechoslovakia 4-3.
None. Australia has competed in Olympic ice hockey only once, that being at the 1960 Games.
It is played, they have a national league. But it's nowhere near the standard of NHL etc. Ice hockey doesn't get much publicity down this end of the world