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If you would like to raise money for your sports club this summer while keeping fit and having fun with your mates at the same time, then keep reading…

This year has been the biggest year for Tag Rugby in London to date, peaking at 91 teams across the capital in the Early Summer season. And what a year it has been!

The last of the Early Winter Tag Rugby competition finals were played out last week at three venues across London.

Last week saw two Early Winter Tag Rugby competition finals played out at Bermondsey and Kingsbury, with some exciting results.

The first of the Try Tag Rugby early winter competition finals will be contested over at Barnes this week between Born to be Taggers & Tag My B Up. Tag My B Up captained by London Australian representative Thomas Parsons will be looking for their first title.

INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: “Everybody is talking about equality at the moment, and it is so exciting that our nation is leading the way with our sport” – Co-Captain Sharni Williams.

Bookmaker lines on who will win the Super Rugby Grand final make pretty grim reading for anyone connected with Australian rugby.

The irony of falling ill in Lourdes of all places is indigestible. People come to Lourdes to get healed and most emphatically not to fall unwell. Remarkably, however, this is exactly what happened to me at the end of my European venture.

Off the back of the successful International Cup tournament for the Aussies, where they lifted the winner’s trophy in the Mixed A grade and Men’s divisions, many Australians will now be looking to don the blue and white jerseys and represent the London Residents next month.

London Australia continued its dominance of Try Tag Rugby’s International Cup, winning both the Mixed A Grade and Men’s divisions at Wasps Twyford Avenue Sports Ground on Saturday.

THE London Tag Rugby community is eagerly awaiting the popular International Cup tournament on Saturday, 9 June at Twyford Avenue Sports Ground in Acton which will see 15 teams battle it out across three divisions. London Australia will be represented in all three divisions which are Mixed A grade, Men’s ...

Try Tag Rugby ran their inaugural Corporate Challenge tournament at London’s iconic Regent’s Park on Friday. Ten teams battled it out in sunny conditions for the title including companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Robert Walters.

On Sunday Jade Elias, niece of New South Wales State of Origin legend Benny Elias, staged an event called the Tag Olympics at London’s Hyde Park with all proceeds going towards mental health charity, ‘Mind’.

With the London Tag Rugby community still waiting for summer to kick in, this hasn’t dampened the spirit of the players with record numbers playing Tag Rugby this year across London & Reading!

The Australian Rugby Sevens team head to Twickenham this weekend to try and finish their IRB World Series year on a high. TIM MARTIN caught up with captain, Ed Jenkins, and coach, Michael O'Connor, in the London Eye to talk footy, Olympics and lofty ambitions.

The Early Summer Tag Rugby season in London & Reading, this season is already the biggest on record.

This week across the capital, Try Tag Rugby’s Early Summer competitions are kicking off! There will surely be some competition for silverware this season with over 20 teams registered for Finsbury Park, 17 at Wandsworth and 14 at Balham.

Try Tag Rugby held their first free taster session on Sunday at Tooting Bec Common in Balham. The taster sessions are a great chance for new players to give Tag Rugby a go before signing up to a league.

Last Sunday was the first of the free Ladies day Tag Rugby sessions for the year. The venue was Tooting Bec Common in Balham, with London turning on another gorgeous day and a great turnout by the girls!

Western Force finally won a close game as they passed the mantle of heartbreak kings onto Australia's other four Super Rugby teams.

With all the Spring competitions off and running and a record 94 teams competing across 10 venues, teams are now eying off the first one day festival of the year to add to their trophy cabinets!

With the last of the Late Winter finals taking place last week at Borough & Rotherhithe, there was a golden point extra time final and a major upset on the cards.

Late Winter finals took place across the capital last week and the Spring Tag Rugby season begins this week, welcoming 88 teams across 10 locations in London. Time to get involved!

In winter Tag Rugby action across the capital, players were glad to be back playing above zero degree temperatures on Thursday producing a lovely 10 degrees. Meanwhile, Finsbury Park will be hosting London’s first one day Tag Rugby festival of the year.

In another week of Tag Rugby action across the capital that was played in sub zero temperatures, players were out in full force at the venues where play hadn’t been cancelled due to the frozen conditions.

With a record 45 teams registered in the Late Winter Try Tag Rugby competitions across London, the expected cold snap in the capital won’t deter any eager players as they brave the colder temperatures this week with a high of four degrees.

The Late Winter Try Tag Rugby competitions kicked off last week across the capital with a record 45 teams (over 500 players) braving the colder weather to battle it out across five different venues.

The Late Winter Try Tag Rugby competitions all commence this week across the capital at the following venues: Barnes, Bermondsey, Borough, Kingsbury, Rotherhithe and Wood Green.

With less than a week to go until the Late Winter Tag Rugby competitions commence across the capital, the London Tag Rugby community are in for a treat in 2012!

The London Tag Rugby community last week braved temperatures as cold as minus three degrees in round three of the Try Tag Rugby Late Winter competitions which take place at five venues across the capital.

With the first of the Early Summer Tag Rugby competitions commencing next Monday, 30 April, this week is the last chance to get your teams or individual registrations together for most leagues.

Last Saturday, 14 Tag Rugby teams battled it out over two divisions for the Finsbury Park Tag Rugby Festival A grade and Social grade titles.

RIGHT SAID ED | And so you have safely negotiated another New Year's Eve! Well done and welcome Australian Times - 2012. What a year we have to look forward to.

Against a global backdrop of cancelled sports leagues, and as part of their season opening, National Rugby League (NRL) fans recently packed the stands of Townsville’s new Queensland Country Bank Stadium.

If you are relocating to New Zealand, you might take comfort in understanding the culture around leisure activities and how you can expect to spend your free time.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: We should not have one model of special protection for religious faith and a lesser model of protection for all other people.

SPECIAL FEATURE: It’s possible to overthink Scott Morrison. A long-time associate and friend says “what you see is what you get”.

So you are coming to live in London. How do you find a place to live, find a job, get a UK mobile phone, open a bank account, register with a doctor and make new friends?

ANALYSIS; Even though the set piece theatre is about community building and cooperation, the reality is that China and the US have irreconcilable visions for the region and its future. The only question is how much they are willing to pay to prevail in the contest for Asia’s future.

Are you considering moving to the land down under? Australia is a beautiful land with a favorable climate and great people. Spend your days wandering through the outback or tanning on a sunny beach, Australia has it all.

Q&A: Conservative candidate for London Mayor, Zac Goldsmith, discusses the value of Aussie migrants to the city and if beer should be chilled, with Chloe Westley.

It will be hard to describe to future generations of London expats what made The Church so special. Like faith, you can’t prove it. You just have to believe in it.

Can you speak ‘Strayan? Fair dinkum, have a gander at this list of Aussie slang terms and phrases and see if you get the lingo.

You think you know passion? You haven’t met the European football fans.

In 2014 there are plenty of events Aussie sports fans living in the UK simply can’t miss. Check out our top picks below, and start making plans to ensure you don’t miss out!

THE EXPAT FACTOR | Sydney raised Jonathan Pfahl is the founder and Managing Director of the Rockstar Group, the UK’s largest entrepreneur and mentoring firm. It’s Rockstar by name and by nature - Jonathan has taken the business world by storm with his professional passion, energetic style and finance acumen.

Nicola Samer is a theatre director and co-founder of IronBark in the UK. IronBark presents the best new Australian writers to UK audiences using the talents of local cast and creative teams. Next week we talk to Zoe Caldwell, associate producer and co-founder of IronBark.

The Gold Coast has seen an influx in star power in recent weeks. Zara Phillips, as ambassador for the Magic Millions carnival’s Racing Women initiative, has gone head to head with princess of pop Mariah Carey for the local affections of the Sunshine Coast.

The full text of the speech Tony Abbott presented to the Oxford University Australia and New Zealand Society at Queens College, Oxford University on Friday 14 December.

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