The very first interstate match was held between the two states in 1879.
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"Kick a Vic" became the later South Australian catchcry in State of Origin football.
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In the early days of the Iraq War, Wollongong Lord Mayor Alex Darling led a delegation to the Consul General of France asking them to accept Wollongong's defection to France in protest at Sydney (and Canberra's) stance.
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