Test cricket's most famous controversy was the 1932-33 tour of Australia by the English - the Bodyline tour - who introduced a form of bowling aimed high at the batsman, designed to attack the batting genius of Australia's Don Bradman.
In 1944 1100 Japanese POWs, based in Cowra, charged over a barbed wire fence and into the firing line of Australian guards. 230 prisoners were killed and the massacre was kept secret for 30 years.
Australia, a few years from now: urban society is in terminal decay. The inter-city highways have become white line nightmares. The arena for a strange, apocalyptic death game between nomad bikers and a handful of young cops in souped-up pursuit cars.
Sequel to Mad Max. Now Max is a lonely, unhappy man in a cruel and ugly world. He becomes a protector to a group of neo-hippies who are producing petrol, the last natural resource worth fighting for.