6. Go out to Australia cricket poster
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'Go out to Australia for the test matches' was a promotional poster produced by 
the Australian government to encourage British tourists to Australia for the 
1932 Ashes tour. Little did they know this series would become one of the most 
famous and infamous, in cricketing history.

Sport has played an important role in the social fabric of Australia and it is 
a huge part of our national identity. In 1882 Australia defeated England. This 
loss, on English soil, was unexpected and shocked a nation. The bails were 
cremated as a symbol of the death of cricket and twenty years later, the term, 
'the Ashes', started to be used to describe the regular Australia-England Test 
series. 

In the early 1930s English captain Douglas Jardine developed the 'fast leg 
theory', that became known as 'Bodyline'. The tactic was designed to intimidate
and prevent Australia's Donald Bradman from scoring runs. Bradman was one of 
the world's greatest cricketers, and Jardine's greatest threat to Ashes glory. 
The tactic meant fast balls were aimed directly at the body. Australian crowds 
condemned the tactic as vicious and unsporting and tensions ran high between the 
nations.

Although the English team won the Ashes, Bodyline was eventually banned with 
England's Marylebone Cricket Club committee pronouncing it 'an offence against 
the game'. The Melbourne Cricket Ground or MCG has been the stage for many epic 
cricket tests, and was the setting for some of the Bodyline clashes. It is a 
place Australian associate with some of our nation's greatest sporting moments 
and is included in the National Heritage List.