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Josh Addo-Carr
Joshua Addo-Carr (born 28 July 1995), nicknamed "The Foxx", is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a er for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League and Australia at international level. Addo-Carr is a dual premiership winner 2017 and 2020 with the Melbourne Storm and 2021 World Cup winner. He began his career with the Wests Tigers in the NRL. Addo-Carr won the 2017 and the 2020 NRL Premiership with the Storm. At representative level he has played for the Indigenous All Stars, NSW City and helped New South Wales win the 2018 State of Origin in his Origin debut series. He is known as one of the fastest players in the NRL. Early life Addo-Carr was born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, and is of Aboriginal descent from Gunggandji, Birrbay and Wiradjuri people. Addo-Carr first picked up a football playing for the Doonside Roos as a three-year-old, before his family moved to Earlwood, New South Wales, where he began playing rug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blacktown
Blacktown is a suburb in New South Wales, Australia, west of the Sydney central business district. It is one of the most multicultural places within Sydney, Greater Sydney. History Before the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, the area of today's Blacktown was inhabited by different groups of the Darug people including the Warmuli, based around what is now Prospect, New South Wales, Prospect, and their neighbours the Gomerigal from the South Creek (New South Wales), South Creek area and the Wawarawarry from the Eastern Creek, New South Wales, Eastern Creek area. It is estimated that fifty to ninety percent of the Darug died of smallpox and other introduced diseases within a few years of the British arrival. Governor Arthur Phillip began granting land in the area to white settlers in 1791. In 1819 Governor Lachlan Macquarie granted land to two Indigenous men, Colebee (Boorooberongal), Colebee and Nurragingy Reserve#Land grant, Nurragingy as payment for their service to The Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 NRL Grand Final
The 2020 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2020 National Rugby League season held at Sydney's ANZ Stadium on October 25. The match was contested between minor premiers Penrith Panthers and second-placed Melbourne Storm. Melbourne led the game 22-0 at half-time before holding off a late Penrith comeback to win 26-20, claiming their fourth premiership title. Melbourne fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen was awarded the Clive Churchill Medal as the official man of the match. The match was attended by 37,303 spectators due to an enforced limit to stadium capacity by the NSW government as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The game would be the last for Melbourne hooker and captain Cameron Smith after announcing his retirement in the following year, making him the most-capped player in the NRL with 430 games, and the most for a single club. The match was preceded by the 2020 NRL Women's Premiership Grand Final, where the Brisbane Bronco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Youth Competition (rugby League)
The NRL Under-20s (known commercially as the Holden Cup due to sponsorship from Holden) was the top league of professional rugby league for players aged 20 years or younger in Australasia. Contested by sixteen teams, the Under-20s competition commenced in 2008 and was originally known as the Toyota Cup. The competition runs parallel to Australasia's professional competition, the National Rugby League, with NYC matches played immediately prior to the NRL games. Similar to the NRL, the NYC enforces a salary cap and puts a heavy focus on life outside football for the players. The New Zealand Warriors were the most successful club in the competition's short history, with three premierships from four Grand Final appearances; in 2010, 2011 and 2014. In 2018, the NRL Under-20s was replaced by state-based under-20s competitions in New South Wales and Queensland. History The NRL Under-20s succeeded the Jersey Flegg Cup in 2008, which existed from 1961 to 2007. The competition was admini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the Sutherland Shire of Southern Sydney, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. Cronulla compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby league competition. The Sharks, as they are commonly known, were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, predecessor of the Australian Rugby League and the current National Rugby League competition, in January 1967. The club competed in every premiership season since then and, during the Super League war, joined the Super League (Australia), rebel competition before continuing on in the re-united NRL Premiership. The Sharks have been in competition for 58 years, appearing in four NRL Grand Final, grand finals, winning their first premiership in 2016 NRL Grand Final, 2016 after defeating the Melbourne Storm at Stadium Australia. History In 1967 the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) added two new clubs to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney District Rugby League Football Club, also known as the South Sydney Rabbitohs, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra, New South Wales, Maroubra that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL). They are often nicknamed ''Souths'' or ''the'' ''Bunnies''. The club was formed in New South Wales Rugby League season 1908, 1908, as one of the founding members of the New South Wales Rugby Football League, making it one of Australia's oldest rugby league teams. It is one of only two NSW foundation clubs still present in the NRL, the other being the Sydney Roosters. South Sydney's traditional heartland covers the once typically working-class suburbs of inner-south Sydney. The club is based in Maroubra, where its administration and training facilities are located, however it has long held a wide supporter base spread all over New South Wales. The team's home ground is currently Stadium Australia in Sydney Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moore Park, New South Wales
Moore Park is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney located from the Sydney central business district, CBD, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of local government area of the City of Sydney. Moore Park is also a large area of parkland that is part of Centennial Parklands, a collective of three parks being Moore Park, Centennial Park and Queen's Park. Centennial Parklands is administered by the Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust, a Government of New South Wales, NSW government agency. The only exception is the land on which the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium (2022), Sydney Football Stadium are sited; these stadiums are managed by the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust. History Originally known as the Sydney Common it covered some 153 hectares to the South East of the town and was designated as one of Australia's earliest parks in 1866, the following year it was named after Charles Moore, the Mayor of Sydney City Council. In 1867 several of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Perouse United
The La Perouse United are an Australian rugby league football team based in La Perouse, New South Wales a suburb of south-central Sydney they play in the South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League. The club was formed in the early 1950s and has a rich history within the South Sydney district, nurturing local talent and contributing to the development of rugby league in the region. La Perouse United has been a vital part of the local Indigenous community, and over the years, it has produced several notable players who have gone on to represent Australia at the international level. Some of the club's standout alumni include Eric Simms and Russell Fairfax, both of whom made significant contributions to the sport at the highest levels. The club continues to play a pivotal role in fostering grassroots rugby league talent. Notable Juniors * Chick Donnelley (1946–47 St George Dragons) * Eric Simms (1965–75 South Sydney Rabbitohs * Russell Fairfax (1974–81 Sydney Rooster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doonside Roos
Doonside Roos Rugby League Football Club is an Australian rugby league football club based in Doonside, New South Wales formed in 1968. Notable Juniors Notable First Grade Players that have played at Doonside Roos include: * Jarrod Sammut (2007– Penrith, Celtic, Bradford, Wakefield, London & Wigan) * Andrew Fifita (2010–22 Wests Tigers & Cronulla Sharks) * Tim Simona (2011–2016 Wests Tigers) *Blake Austin (2011– Penrith Panthers, Wests Tigers & Canberra Raiders) * David Fifita (2014– Cronulla Sharks) * Latu Fifita (2015–16 Workington Town) *Josh Addo-Carr (2016– Melbourne Storm & Wests Tigers) * Jesse McLean (2023- Penrith Panthers) * Casey McLean (2024- Penrith Panthers) See also *List of rugby league clubs in Australia *Rugby league in New South Wales Rugby league in New South Wales is the most popular spectator sport in the state A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a definite territory. Government is considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiradjuri
The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions. They survived as skilled hunter-fisher-gatherers, in family groups or clans, and many still use knowledge of hunting and gathering techniques as part of their customary life. In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin, Peak Hill, Narrandera and Griffith. There are significant populations at Wagga Wagga and Leeton and smaller groups at West Wyalong, Parkes, Dubbo, Forbes, Cootamundra, Darlington Point, Cowra and Young. Name The Wiradjuri autonym is derived from , meaning "no" or "not", with the comitative suffix or meaning "having". That the Wiradjuri said , as opposed to some other word for "no", was seen as a distinctive feature of their speech, and several other tribes in New South Wales, to the west of the Great Dividing Range, are similarly named after their own words for "no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birrbay
The Birrbay people, also spelt Birpai, Biripi, Birippi and variant spellings, are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. They share a dialect continuum with the Worimi people. Language The Gathang language (aka Gadjang or Worimi) is the speech of the Birrbay centred in Port Macquarie. Birpai is spelt Biripi in southern areas, such as Taree. Gathang was a community language spoken by the six tribes of the Worimi when required to meet. W. J. Enright found four elderly speakers of Gathang at Wauchope in 1932. Country Birbay are the traditional owners of some of Mid North Coast land, from Gloucester eastwards to the coast where the Manning River debouches into the Pacific at Taree. They were mainly located north of the Manning, and on the Forbes, Hastings (''Dhungang'') and Wilson rivers. Social organisation The Birrbay, according to A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, had no moieties, but did divide their hordes into four intermarrying groups, 4 male phratries: * ''Wombo' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunggandji
The Guŋgañji, also transcribed Gungganyji, Gunggandji, Kongkandji, and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland. Language The Guŋgañji speak Gungay, a dialect of the Yidiny language. Country Norman Tindale's estimate of Guŋgañji lands sets them at . They are rainforest Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree Canopy (biology), canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforests can be generally classified as tropi ... people, living around the Cape Grafton peninsula, west of the Prior Range, and their southern extension runs down to Palmer Point (''Wararitji'') and the mouth of Mulgrave River. Alternative names * ''Kunggandji, Kunggandyi'' * ''Kungganji, Kungandji, Koongangie'' * ''Goonganji, Goonganjee'' * ''Gunggay'' * ''Kooganji'' * ''Koo-gun-ji'' * ''Gurugulu'' Notes Citations Sources * * * * {{authority control A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups, which include many ethnic groups: the Aboriginal Australians of the mainland and many islands, including Aboriginal Tasmanians, Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islanders of the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, located in Melanesia. 812,728 people Aboriginality, self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these Indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal, 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander, and 4.4% identified with both groups. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
