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Kate McCarthy
Kate McCarthy (born 24 October 1992) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions#AFL Women's team, Brisbane Lions, St Kilda Football Club (AFL Women's), St Kilda Football Club, and Hawthorn Football Club (AFL Women's), Hawthorn Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early and personal life McCarthy played for Yeronga Football Club, Yeronga South Brisbane in the AFL Queensland Women's League, QWAFL before signing for the Lions. She has represented Australia for touch rugby league to at least as high as the under-20s age group. As of 2017, she works as a mathematics and physical education teacher at Clairvaux MacKillop College. She has required an implanted artificial cardiac pacemaker, pacemaker since the age of ten. AFL Women's career McCarthy was taken with the number 82 pick by Brisbane Lions (AFL Women's), Brisbane in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the Lions' inaugural game against Melbourne Football Club (AFL Women's), Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker
An artificial cardiac pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the natural cardiac pacemaker) or pacemaker is a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to the chambers of the heart either the upper atria, or lower ventricles to cause the targeted chambers to contract and pump blood. By doing so, the pacemaker regulates the function of the electrical conduction system of the heart. The primary purpose of a pacemaker is to maintain an adequate heart rate, either because the heart's natural pacemaker is not fast enough, or because there is a block in the heart's electrical conduction system. Modern pacemakers are externally programmable and allow a cardiologist, particularly a cardiac electrophysiologist, to select the optimal pacing modes for individual patients. Most pacemakers are on demand, in which the stimulation of the heart is based on the dynamic demand of the circulatory system. Others send out a fixed rate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 AFL Women's Season
The 2021 AFL Women's season was the fifth season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured fourteen clubs, ran from 28 January until 17 April, and comprised a 9-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top six clubs. The premiership was won by the for the first time, after it defeated by 18 points in the AFL Women's Grand Final. Format The previous two AFLW seasons were formatted with the assistance of conferences, which split the league's clubs into two ranking tables. The AFL elected to remove the conferences for the 2021 season and revert to a single ladder. Under the terms of the existing contractual bargaining agreement between the players and the AFL, teams will play nine regular season matches, before a three-week finals series for the top six teams occurs. Owing to the fact clubs will not get the opportunity to play all of their opponents once, the AFL pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 AFL Women's Season
The 2020 AFL Women's season was the fourth season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured fourteen clubs, with four new teams joining the league: , , and . The season ran from 7 February until 22 March. It was intended to comprise an 8-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top six clubs; however, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 saw the season curtailed and finally abandoned. No premiership was awarded. Background New teams Four new teams, , , and , joined the competition, bringing the total number of teams to fourteen. This followed on from the inclusion of and in the previous season. Collective bargaining agreement Prior to the season commencing a collective bargaining agreement failed to pass the player's association, with only 70% agreeing, falling short of the required 75% threshold. One of the demands of the dissenters was to have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 AFL Women's Season
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2018 AFL Women's Season
The 2018 AFL Women's season was the second season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 2 February until 24 March, and comprised a 7-game home-and-away season followed by a grand final featuring the top two clubs. The premiership was won by the for the first time, after it defeated the by six points in the AFL Women's Grand Final. Rule changes Three rules were changed heading into the 2018 season: *A free kick is paid against a player who last touches the ball before it goes out of bounds under the following conditions, :*A free kick will be awarded against a player who kicks or handballs the football over the boundary line without the football being touched by another player; :*Except where a player who does not have possession stops the football being touched by an opposition player by shepherding the football across the boundary line where the football could ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawthorn, making it the youngest Victorian-based team in the AFL. Hawthorn is the only club to have won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In total, it has won 13 senior VFL/AFL premierships. The team play in brown-and-gold vertically striped guernseys. The club's Latin motto is '' spectemur agendo'', the English translation being "Let us be judged by our acts." Upon inception and until 1973, the Hawks played home matches at Glenferrie Oval in Hawthorn; they subsequently shifted home matches to Waverley Park and the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The club moved its training and administration facilities from Glenferrie to Waverley Park in 2006, which by that point was no longer hosting AFL mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telstra
Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other products and services. It is a member of the S&P/ASX 20 and Australia's largest telecommunications company by market share. Telstra is the largest wireless carrier in Australia, with 18.8 million subscribers as of 2020. Telstra has a long history in Australia, originating together with Australia Post as the Postmaster-General's Department upon federation in 1901. Telstra has transitioned from a state-owned enterprise to a fully privatised company and has recently focused on diversified products and emerging technologies. History Australia's telecommunications services were originally controlled by the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), formed in 1901 as a result of Australian Federation. Prior to 1901, telecommunications were administered by each colony. On 1 July 1975, separate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Kilda Football Club
The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier league. The club's name originates from its original home base in the bayside Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, Victoria, St Kilda in which the club was established in 1873. The club also has strong links to the south-eastern suburb of Moorabbin, Victoria, Moorabbin, due to it being the long-standing location of their training ground. St Kilda were one of five foundation teams of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), now known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), and later became one of eight foundation teams of the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), original Victorian Football League in 1897, now known as the AFL. Additionally, St Kilda are in an alignment with the Sandringham Football Club in the modern VFL. St Kilda have won a single List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telstra Media
Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other products and services. It is a member of the S&P/ASX 20 and Australia's largest telecommunications company by market share. Telstra is the largest wireless carrier in Australia, with 18.8 million subscribers as of 2020. Telstra has a long history in Australia, originating together with Australia Post as the Postmaster-General's Department upon federation in 1901. Telstra has transitioned from a state-owned enterprise to a fully privatised company and has recently focused on diversified products and emerging technologies. History Australia's telecommunications services were originally controlled by the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), formed in 1901 as a result of Australian Federation. Prior to 1901, telecommunications were administered by each colony. On 1 July 1975, separat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Exon
Natalie Exon (born 7 December 1992) is an Australian rules footballer playing for St Kilda Football Club (AFL Women's), St Kilda in the AFL Women's. Early life Exon was born in 1992. She was playing for the Darebin Falcons when she was drafted. AFL Women's career Exon was recruited by Carlton Football Club (AFL Women's), Carlton as a rookie player before the 2017 season. She made her debut in the Blues' inaugural game against Collingwood Football Club (AFL Women's), Collingwood at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park on 3 February 2017. Exon's brother, Ryan, plays for the Coburg Lions in the men's VFL. On 25 May 2017, Exon was, along with Bella Ayre, traded to Brisbane Lions (AFL Women's), Brisbane in a complex trade involving four teams, five players, and a draft pick. In April 2019, Exon joined expansion club St Kilda Football Club (AFL Women's), St Kilda along with fellow Brisbane player Kate McCarthy. It was revealed Exon had signed on with the Saints for one more year on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and New South Wales South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid paper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' and the afternoon broadsheet paper '' The Herald''. It was first pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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