The ANZAC Test is a rugby league match played annually around ANZAC Day between Australia and New Zealand. It was first played in 1997. Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby, the other being rugby union. ... hahahhaahahahahahaha chicken. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1997(MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Controversy
The ANZAC Test was controversial when conceived for its use of the term ANZAC and its comparison of professional sportsmen with soldiers. Bruce Ruxton featured in commericals for the inaugural ANZAC Test, proclaiming The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (popularly abbreviated as ANZAC) was originally an army corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front. ...
"Mark my words, Australia is still in grave danger from one of our so-called neighbours. The Kiwis were once our allies and now they’re on the other side - at least for 80 minutes". [1]
Results
2005: Australia def. New Zealand 32-16
2004: Australia def. New Zealand 37-10
2000: Australia def. New Zealand 56-0
1999: Australia def. New Zealand 20-14
1998: New Zealand def. Australia 22-16
1997: Australia (Super League) def. New Zealand 34-22
The AnzacTest was controversial not only for its use of the word "Anzac" but also for the manner in which the advertisements cast the participating athletes in the gladiatorial mould currently in vogue for the promotion of professional sports, suggesting in some way that they were modern "Anzacs".
If the AnzacTest and other such promotions are allowed to proceed in their current form, absent specific amendments to the Regulations permitting those activities, then the spectre of pulling up to the drive-through for a $5 Anzac Feast ("a dinkum meal for diggers") looms, or perhaps even worse.
Anzac Day 1999 saw the continuation of the "AnzacTest", but although the advertising was much diluted from the previous years, this was probably only because the promoters of the event have already achieved their purpose – namely cementing the event in the minds of the public as being intrinsically linked to Anzac day.
The situation of substitution for ANZAC Day where it falls on a Sunday in six of eight States and Territories and substitution for ANZAC Day where it falls on a Saturday in one of eight States and Territories does not constitute a "national consensus" or "national standard", as claimed by the applicant unions.
ANZAC Day (25 April) is set as a holiday, with no automatic substitution where it falls on a Saturday or Sunday.
Such a general cost would be markedly increased in respect of ANZAC Day 2004 in light of the limited time available to employers to adjust arrangements were we to grant the applicant unions' claim in respect of 2004 at this late stage.
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