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Sport has always been a part of Australians day-to-day life, from playing beach cricket on a hot summers day to sitting on the couch for around seven hours on Bathurst 1000 day. Australia’s sport history starts back to when the indigenous Australians, including aboriginals and Torres strait islanders played sport for cultural reasons and leisure. An example of indigenous Australians sport included hunting for food, wrestling stick games, spear throwing and more. In around the 1800’s, the European settlers brought sports such as horse racing, sailing, cricket and rowing into New South Wales.
Sport has had a big impact on defining Australia’s culture, Australia has been recognised as one of the most diverse sporting environment around the world. Australia has multiple big sporting events throughout the year such as Bathurst 1000 which is a 1,000 kilometre car race which usually lasts around 7 hours which happens early October every year, The Ashes which is a cricket tournament that happens between the Australian and England cricket team which consist of five match series, Australian Open where the biggest and best tennis players from around the world come to Melbourne to compete against each other from 14 – 27th of January every year, The State of Origin series which consists of three games of NRL (National Rugby League) a year between the New South Wales Blues and Queensland Maroons and whoever wins the most of the three games wins that year. There are many, many more sporting events through the year which include basketball, baseball, netball, horseracing, grand finals of sports and more. This love for sport Australia has, also includes love for the players. Australia has a lot of sports legend who are known world-wide for their talent.
There are lots of local sports team all over Australia. The local football club near me is Newtown Jets, which was founded in 1908 and trains at Henson Park. The local cricket team near me is Randwick Petersham Cricket Club which was founded in 2001 and trains at either Coogee Oval, Petersham or Kensington Oval. The local bush care group is Bush Regeneration at Centennial Parklands. The local Dance School is Brent Street which is the school I attend, located in the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.
Newtown Jets is the local football team for Newtown and has won six premiership games, the first being in 1910 and the most recent being 2019. They compete in the Canterbury cup NSW. The Canterbury Cup started in 1908 and now consists 12 teams competing in the competition. Some of those teams include Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles, New Zealand Warriors, North Sydney Bears and more.
The Newtown Jets have been a significant part of the local Newtown Community. The Jets are seen as an irreplaceable part of the local history, story and Pride. The Locals have actually developed a type of Tribalism around this team & brand, one that now expands right around the Inner West.
Some questions that locals may have about the Newtown jets include: Does this group encourage Membership? Yes, Newtown jets does have a membership. Another question is, can anyone join this group? Yes, anyone can become a member and help support the local team. Another question is, does this group openly reflect the local community spirit and promote local Pride? Yes. On the 8th of June, Newtown Jets have a Saturday Pride and Diversity Day, which pays tribute to the contribution made by the LGBTIQ community to the Newtown, on this day they say that ‘everyone is welcome’.
Newtown is a very open to everything suburb and is known for their gay pride, Newtown jets is a good reflection for that. Every Saturday, the Jets have a pop up merchandise store on the main street of Newtown where they offer merchandise for all shapes and sizes and have the option for membership.
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