Australia ignited the 2000 Sydney Olympic cauldron on Tuesday on the 20th anniversary of the Games' opening ceremony as athletes and organisers looked back in pride at the nation's success in hosting ...

Dr Joshua Black is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Australia Institute. The world had its eyes on Sydney in 2000. A million people lined the harbour to ring in the new millennium (though some ...

Australia's biggest city clinched the rights to host the Olympics in September 1993 in a historic vote in Monte Carlo, where John Coates, then head ...