Editing Hurling (section)

===Australia===
{{Further|Australasia GAA}}
The earliest reference to hurling in Australia is related in the book "Sketches of Garryowen". On 12 July 1844, a match took place at Batman's Hill in [[Melbourne]] as a counterpoint to a march by the [[Orange Order]]. Reportedly, the hurling match attracted a crowd of five hundred Irish immigrants, while the Orange march shivered out of existence.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Seamus J.|last=King|title=The Clash of the Ash in Foreign Fields: Hurling Abroad|year=1998|isbn=978-0-9533513-0-5|page=139|publisher=S.J. King }}</ref>

Several hurling clubs existed in [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]] in the 1870s including Melbourne, Collingwood, Upper Yarra, Richmond and Geelong.

In 1885, a game between two Sydney-based teams took place before a crowd of over ten thousand spectators. Reportedly, the contest was greatly enjoyed despite the fact that one newspaper dubbed the game "Two Degrees Safer Than War".<ref>{{Cite book|first=Seamus J.|last=King|title=The Clash of the Ash in Foreign Fields: Hurling Abroad|year=1998|isbn=978-0-9533513-0-5|pages=139–140|publisher=S.J. King }}</ref>

[[Arden Street Oval]] in [[North Melbourne]] was used by Irish immigrants during the 1920s.
The game in Australasia is administered by [[Australasia GAA]].