Australia first qualified for football at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. They did not qualify again until the 1988 Games in Seoul and the men's team has qualified for every Olympics since then. The women's team qualified for the Olympics in 2000 and 2004. Australia has never won a medal in Olympic football.
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The major wars Australia has been involved in are the following:Boer WarWW1WW2Korean WarVietnam WarWar on Terror
Australia has not had a war. The country has been involved with other wars around the world, but Australia has not had a civil war.
Australia is one of two nations that have been in every modern Olympic Games.
The Winter Olympics have never been held in Australia. To date, only the Summer Olympics have been held in Australia: in Melbourne in 1956 and in Sydney in 2000.
The Olympic Summer Games have been held in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. The 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be the first held in South America. Neither Africa nor Antarctica has yet hosted the Olympic games. The Olympic Winter Games have been held in Europe, Asia, and North America.
The 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games (officially known as I Summer Youth Olympic Games) is the inaugural Youth Olympic Games and will be held in Singapore between 14 - 26 August 2010. The entries have not yet been received for this yet as it is still over a year away so it is not known which countries will be involved
Only five countries-Greece, Australia, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland-have been represented at every Summer Olympic Games.
They are both native animals in Australia. The kangaroo is the national symbol of Australia, it is also on the tails of the national airline - Qantas. The platypus has been used as a mascot for the Olympic Games.
Seeing as Australia had been at war since 1939, the attack at Pearl Harbour, December 7 1941, obviously, had no effect on Australia's being involved in the war in the pacific.
There have been two Olympic Games held in Australia - Melbourne - from 22-Nov-1956 to 8-Dec-1956 Sydney - from 15-Sep-2000 to 1-Oct-2000