276 including women and men.
The players on the Australian women's beach volleyball team at the 2008 Olympics are Tamsin Barnett and Natalie Cook. Barnett was on the indoor volleyball team at the 2000 Olympics. Cook is a veteran, having won the Gold at the 2004 games and Bronze at the 2000 games in beach volleyball. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics#Volleyball
There are alot of athletes that went to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. 433 athletes went to the 2008 Olympics, which is the second most amount of Australian athletes that have gone to the Olympics Athens was first with 482 Australian athletes that went.
Australian women first competed in the Olympics at the 1912 Games in Stockholm. Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie were allowed to compete in swimming provided they paid their own expenses to and from the Games and while at the Games. Durack won gold in the 100 meter freestyle and Wylie won silver in the 100 meter freestyle.
Australian women won 23 medals (8 gold, 7 silver, 8 bronze) at the 2008 Games in Beijing. Australian women won 12 medals in swimming, 2 medals in canoeing and triathlon, and 1 medal in athletics, basketball, cycling, diving, sailing, softball, and water polo.
Australian snowboarder Torah Bright has competed in 2 Olympics, the 2006 Games in Turin and the 2010 Games in Vancouver. She won gold in women's halfpipe at the 2010 Games and finished 5th in women's halfpipe at the 2006 Games.
Women can take part in the olympics.
Sydney.
No, women were not allowed to enter the olympics.
Australian Women's Weekly was created in 1933.
Women's Australian Open was created in 1974.
Australian Women's Weekly is published by Australian Consolidated Press (ACP)