2013 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Räikkönen won from Alonso and Vettel completed the podium. Massa was fourth after having to back off in the latter stages to conserve his tyres. Hamilton fifth ahead of Webber. Sutil, despite the badly worn super-softs, still held on for seventh ahead of his teammate di Resta. The battle for ninth was ultimately won by Button, with Grosjean taking the final point, holding off Pérez and Jean-Éric Vergne. Esteban Gutiérrez was the best placed rookie in 13th, one place ahead of Valtteri Bottas. Jules Bianchi was 15th, comfortably ahead of his teammate and the two Caterhams. Ferrari took the lead in the Constructor's Championship, with Lotus-Renault second and Red Bull-Renault third.


2013 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
The win was the twentieth of Räikkönen's career, tying him with Finnish compatriot Mika Häkkinen. It was also his last until the 2018 United States Grand Prix.


2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
The 2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was an Australian motor racing series for modified production touring cars. It comprised two CAMS sanctioned national championship titles, the Australian Manufacturers’ Championship (for automobile manufacturers) and the Australian Production Car Championship (for drivers). The 2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was the 28th manufacturers title to be awarded by CAMS and the 19th to be contested under the Australian Manufacturers' Championship name. The 2013 Australian Production Car Championship was the 20th Australian Production Car Championship. The Manufacturers title was awarded to Mitsubishi and the Australian Production Car Championship to Garry Holt.


2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
Australian Manufacturers Championship Pty Ltd was appointed by CAMS as the Category Manager for the championship.


2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Points system
Each manufacturer scored points towards the Australian Manufacturers' Championship title from the two highest placed automobiles of its make, in any class (excluding Class I). The title was awarded to the manufacturer that scored the highest total number of class points over all rounds of the championship.


2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Points system
Points towards the Australian Production Car Championship outright title were awarded to drivers based on outright finishing positions attained in each race. Points were awarded using the same two scales as used for the Australian Manufacturers' Championship with the addition of two points for the driver setting the fastest qualifying lap in each class at each round.


2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Points system
Points towards the Australian Production Car Championship class titles were awarded to drivers based on class finishing positions attained in each race. Points were awarded using the same two scales as used for the Australian Manufacturers' Championship with the addition of two points for the driver setting the fastest qualifying lap in each class at each round.


2013 Australian Open
The 2013 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place in Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 14 to 27 January 2013. It was the 101st edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments.


2013 Australian Open
All four of the main events in singles and same-sex doubles were won by the top seeds—Novak Djokovic in men's singles, Victoria Azarenka in women's singles, Bob and Mike Bryan in men's doubles, and Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci in women's doubles. This year's Australian Open was the first Grand Slam event since that tournament's 2004 edition in which the women's singles and doubles were won by the top seeds, and the first Grand Slam event since the 1997 Wimbledon Championships in which the men's and women's singles and doubles were all won by the top seeds. In addition, this year's Australian Open remains the most recent Grand Slam where the men's and women's singles titles were both successfully defended.


2013 Australian Open, Point and prize money distribution, Point distribution
Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.


2013 Australian Open, Point and prize money distribution, Prize money
The 2013 Australian Open featured a significant increase in prize money in comparison with previous years, with all players competing for a share of AUD$30 million, becoming the highest paying tournament of all time. This was the result of an ATP players' meeting, primarily focusing on the money received by players who exit the competition in the earlier rounds. All prize money is in Australian dollars (AUD).


2013 Australian Open, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles
Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Robin Haase /  Igor Sijsling, 6–3, 6–4


2013 Australian Open, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles
Sara Errani /  Roberta Vinci defeated  Ashleigh Barty /  Casey Dellacqua, 6–2, 3–6, 6–2


2013 Australian Open, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Jarmila Gajdošová /  Matthew Ebden defeated  Lucie Hradecká /  František Čermák, 6–3, 7–5


2013 Australian Open, Champions, Juniors, Boys' Doubles
Jay Andrijic /  Bradley Mousley defeated  Maximilian Marterer /  Lucas Miedler 6–3, 7–6(7–3)


2013 Australian Open, Champions, Juniors, Girls' Doubles
Ana Konjuh /  Carol Zhao defeated  Oleksandra Korashvili /  Barbora Krejčíková 5–7, 6–4, [10–7]


2013 Australian Open, Champions, Wheelchair tennis, Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Michaël Jeremiasz /  Shingo Kunieda defeated  Stefan Olsson /  Adam Kellerman 6–0, 6–1


2013 Australian Open, Champions, Wheelchair tennis, Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Jiske Griffioen /  Aniek van Koot defeated  Lucy Shuker /  Marjolein Buis 6–4, 6–3


2013 Australian Open, Champions, Wheelchair tennis, Wheelchair Quad Doubles
David Wagner /  Nicholas Taylor defeated  Andrew Lapthorne /  Anders Hard 6–2, 6–3


2013 Australian Open, Players, Seniors, Singles Seeds
Seeds and Rankings are as of 7 January 2013 and Points are as of 14 January 2013.


2013 Australian Open, Players, Seniors, Main Draw Qualifiers Entries
The following players received entry from a lucky loser spot:


2013 Australian Open, Protected ranking
The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:


2013 Australian Open, Withdrawals
The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries or personal reasons.


2013 Australian Open – Boys' Doubles
Liam Broady and Joshua Ward-Hibbert won the event in 2012. Jay Andrijic and Bradley Mousley won this year's edition 6–3, 7–6(7–3) against Maximilian Marterer and Lucas Miedler.


2013 Australian Open – Boys' Singles
Luke Saville was last year's champion; however, being no longer a junior player, he did not defend his title. Compatriots to Saville and home players, Nick Kyrgios and wildcard Thanasi Kokkinakis played off in the final. Kyrgios, who was also a winner of Roland Garros and Wimbledon in junior doubles, defeated Hopman Cup player Kokkinakis, 7–6(7–4), 6–3.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries
The 2013 Australian Open described in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (14 January)
In men's singles, on the opening day, play began with the defending champion and world no. 1, Novak Djokovic, dismantling Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu. The other top seeds cruised through with 4th-seed David Ferrer winning over Olivier Rochus and 5th-seed Tomáš Berdych over Michael Russell. Last year's quarterfinalist Kei Nishikori also came through over Victor Hănescu. Former finalist Marcos Baghdatis struggled to get past Spaniard Albert Ramos, winning in five sets; another seed in Fernando Verdasco, who was a former semifinalist, was also pushed to his limits, winning in 5 over David Goffin.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (14 January)
All other seeds came through with the exception of 11th seed Juan Mónaco who lost to Andrey Kuznetsov after suffering from a back injury. The Australians didn't have a good day with all three that competed in the day losing. The first of which was Matthew Ebden falling to 23rd seed Mikhail Youzhny despite leading 2 sets to 0. His exit was followed by Australian wildcard John Millman who fell also in five to Tatsuma Ito. In the final men's match of the day, 8th seed Janko Tipsarević defeated former world no. 1 Lleyton Hewitt in three tight sets.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (14 January)
In women's singles, world no. 2 and last year's finalist Maria Sharapova defeated compatriot Olga Puchkova in 55 minutes. 4th seed Agnieszka Radwańska struggled but got through Australian wild card Bojana Bobusic to protect her record of 10–0 matches won all in straight sets in 2013. Other Australians fell as well with Ashleigh Barty losing to 15th seed Dominika Cibulková, Casey Dellacqua losing to Madison Keys, Sacha Jones losing to Kristýna Plíšková, and Olivia Rogowska losing to Vesna Dolonc.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (14 January)
The only Australian to win in the day was 9th seed Samantha Stosur, ending her six-match losing streak in Australia to Chang Kai-chen. Venus Williams cruised past her first-round match over Galina Voskoboeva. Li Na, the 2011 finalist and 6th seed, also won over Sesil Karatantcheva. 11th seed Marion Bartoli needed an hour and forty minutes in a win over Anabel Medina Garrigues. The only seed to fall was 32nd seed Mona Barthel losing to Ksenia Pervak.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (15 January)
In Men's Singles, World no. 3 and US Open champion Andy Murray started things off in his half with an over Robin Haase. world no. 2 and Wimbledon champion Roger Federer made quick work of Benoît Paire. Other top seeds, 7th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and 6th seed Juan Martín del Potro also got through over Frenchmen Michaël Llodra and Adrian Mannarino, respectively. Other seeds also came through with 9th seed Richard Gasquet winning over Albert Montañés, 12th seed Marin Čilić defeating Marinko Matosevic, and 13th seed Milos Raonic winning over Jan Hájek.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (15 January)
Australians Luke Saville and John-Patrick Smith fell to Go Soeda and to João Sousa. In the battle of the Aussie wildcards James Duckworth outlasted compatriot Ben Mitchell. Australian hope Bernard Tomic made quick work of Leonardo Mayer. Many seeds fell in the day; 18th seed Alexandr Dolgopolov losing to Gaël Monfils, and was joined by 19th seed Tommy Haas, 27th seed Martin Kližan, and 29th seed Thomaz Bellucci.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (15 January)
In Women's Singles, day two play began with the defending champion and top seeded, Victoria Azarenka came through with a victory over the often-unpredictable Monica Niculescu. Serena Williams continued her good form with a win over Edina Gallovits-Hall, despite twisting her ankle at the 5th game of the first set. 8th seed Petra Kvitová struggled to get past Francesca Schiavone, winning. 10th seed and former world no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki also needed 3 sets against Sabine Lisicki winning despite being down 0–3 in the third.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (15 January)
Other seeds Maria Kirilenko and Sloane Stephens got through with wins over Vania King and Simona Halep respectively. 20th seed Yanina Wickmayer ended the hopes of Australian Jarmila Gajdošová with a win. The biggest upset of the day and the tournament so far was when 7th seed and last year's quarterfinalist Sara Errani fell to Spaniard Carla Suárez Navarro. Another major upset was when Kimiko Date-Krumm became the oldest woman in the Open era to win a main draw match at the Australian Open with a victory over 12th seed Nadia Petrova. Other upsets included 24th seed and Brisbane finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova losing to Lesia Tsurenko, 28th seed Yaroslava Shvedova losing to Annika Beck, and 31st seed Urszula Radwańska to Jamie Hampton.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (16 January)
In Men's Singles, It was 4th seed David Ferrer who started things off with a win over American lucky loser Tim Smyczek. He was joined in the third round by 5th seeded Czech Tomáš Berdych, who defeated Guillaume Rufin. Two other seeded Spaniards came through with 10th seed Nicolás Almagro defeating compatriot Daniel Gimeno-Traver and former semifinalist Fernando Verdasco who came through with ease against Xavier Malisse. Japanese Kei Nishikori triumph against opponent Carlos Berlocq to advance to the third round.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (16 January)
In the battle of the Americans Sam Querrey took on Brian Baker and won when Baker retired when he was leading. Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis came back against Tatsuma Ito recovering from a slow start. The only seed to fall was 23rd seed Mikhail Youzhny, when he lost to compatriot Evgeny Donskoy. In the final match of the day, 2-time defending champion Novak Djokovic made quick work of American Ryan Harrison.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (16 January)
In Women's Singles, Angelique Kerber was the first to advance to the 3rd round with a victory over Czech Lucie Hradecká. She was joined by Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwańska who remains undefeated in 2013 defeating Irina-Camelia Begu. Serbians 13th seed Ana Ivanovic and 22nd seed Jelena Janković both won against	Chan Yung-jan and Maria João Koehler respectively to set up a third round clash. Julia Görges is also quietly going about the draw with a win over Romina Oprandi 2nd seed Maria Sharapova won 24 straight games with another win over Misaki Doi.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (16 January)
Venus Williams also got through easily over France's Alizé Cornet to set up a third-round meeting with Sharapova. However, Australia's hope Samantha Stosur wasn't so fortunate leading the falling seeds when she lost to Zheng Jie after leading and serving for the match at 5–2 in the third set. Stosur was joined by other seeds Sydney finalistDominika Cibulková, Klára Zakopalová, Tamira Paszek.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (17 January)
In Men's Singles, day four play began with British Andy Murray having an easy win over Portuguese João Sousa. Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga overcomes Japanese Go Soeda in three tight sets, while compatriot Richard Gasquet made quick work of Alejandro Falla. Big serving Canadian and 13th seed Milos Raonic stormed pass Lukáš Rosol. The Australians had mixed results with James Duckworth falling to Blaž Kavčič in a tight five setter and with Bernard Tomic winning in a tight four setter over German qualifier Daniel Brands. Sixth seed Juan Martín del Potro continues with ease winning over Benjamin Becker. 17-time slam champion Roger Federer defeated a resurgent Nikolay Davydenko. Two seeds fell, with 25th seed Florian Mayer losing convincingly to Lithuanian qualifier Ričardas Berankis, and 30th seed Marcel Granollers falling to Jérémy Chardy. Frenchman Gaël Monfils outlasted Chinese Taipei's Lu Yen-hsun.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (17 January)
In Women's Singles, day four play began with the defending champion and top seeded Belarusian Victoria Azarenka dismantling Greek Eleni Daniilidou. Russian 14th seed Maria Kirilenko also got through with a win over Peng Shuai. American and third seed Serena Williams made quick work of Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza; however, Williams had another incident when she hit her face with a racket. Another American Sloane Stephens also got through the 3rd round win over fellow 19-year-old Kristina Mladenovic. Former world no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki also got through with a win over 16-year-old Donna Vekić.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (17 January)
Forty-two-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm continued her run defeating Shahar Pe'er. In the final match of the day 8th seed Petra Kvitová continues her bad form falling to Australian-born Brit Laura Robson in a match that had 30 doubles faults combined 18 from the Czech and 12 from the Brit. Other seeds that fell were 17th seed Lucie Šafářová, 21st seed Varvara Lepchenko, and 26th seed Hsieh Su-wei all falling in straight sets.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (18 January)
In Men's Singles, day five play began with the defending champion and top seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic who was tested by Czech Radek Štěpánek in three sets. His fellow Serb and 8th seed Janko Tipsarević was pushed by Frenchman Julien Benneteau but won in 5 sets. 16th seed Kei Nishikori cruised pass Evgeny Donskoy after a sluggish start winning in straights. 10th seed Nicolás Almagro made to work hard as well in three over 24th seed Jerzy Janowicz. Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka ended the hopes of American tennis in the men's side when he defeated Sam Querrey in tight three sets.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (18 January)
South African Kevin Anderson was the only lower ranked player in the day to win when he defeated 22nd seed Fernando Verdasco. At the night session, 5th seed Tomáš Berdych continues to cruise, winning over Jürgen Melzer. In the final match of the day Spaniard David Ferrer got into the third round winning over former finalist Marcos Baghdatis


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (18 January)
In Women's Singles, day five play began with Polish Agnieszka Radwańska defeating British Heather Watson to continue her undefeated 2013 run. Celebrating her birthday Angelique Kerber got a great present defeating American wildcard Madison Keys. Another German Julia Görges got through the fourth round with a win over Zheng Jie after coming from 4–5 down with Zheng serving for the match. world No.19 Ekaterina Makarova downed French world No.11 Marion Bartoli in three tight sets. In the battle of the Serbs and former world no. 1's Ana Ivanovic dispatched Jelena Janković. China's Li Na continues her good 2013 run with a win over Romania's Sorana Cîrstea. Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens defeated Russia's Valeria Savinykh to advance to her first slam fourth round. In the blockbuster match of the tournament so far, it saw Maria Sharapova defeating Venus Williams with relative ease.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (19 January)
In the Men's Singles, Frenchman Richard Gasquet who got to the fourth round in the bottom half first when he defeated Ivan Dodig. He was followed by Olympic gold medalist Andy Murray who defeated Lithuanian qualifier Ričardas Berankis in three tight sets. It was followed by the biggest upset of the tournament so far when 6th seed Juan Martín del Potro fell to unseeded Frenchman Jérémy Chardy. It was followed by another upset when 21st Andreas Seppi eliminating 12th seed Marin Čilić. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga then made quick work of Slovenian Blaž Kavčič to face Gasquet in the next round.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (19 January)
Canadian Milos Raonic defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber. In the night session, in the anticipated match between Roger Federer and the only Australian to get to the third round Bernard Tomic, Federer came through. In the most dramatic match of the tournament so far it was a battle of sheer guts and determination as both struggled with injury as two Frenchmen Gilles Simon who struggled through leg and forearm cramps, while Gaël Monfils battled hand blisters. The match saw a 71-shot rally, one of the many long rallies in the match. Simon outlasted Monfils winning.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (19 January)
In the Women's Singles, it was 14th seed Russian Maria Kirilenko was the first victor of the day when she defeated 20th seed Belgian Yanina Wickmayer. Another Russian in Svetlana Kuznetsova got through the 4th round defeating Carla Suárez Navarro World no. 1 and defending champion Victoria Azarenka got her first challenge in the match in American Jamie Hampton winning in three sets. Serena Williams continues her winning streak defeating Ayumi Morita, winning the last 6 games and saw Williams serve her second 207 km/h serve in the tournament.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (19 January)
Another Russian made it through the 4th round in Elena Vesnina when she upset 16th seed Roberta Vinci, making it 5 Russians in the fourth round. Dane Caroline Wozniacki is slowly getting into the draw with a win over Qualifier Lesia Tsurenko. In the battle of the youngsters American Sloane Stephens defeated Brit Laura Robson. The dream run of 42-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm came to an end in the third round, with 21-year-old Bojana Jovanovski taking her out with a loss.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (20 January)
In the Men's Singles, It was a battle of last year's quarterfinalists 4th seed David Ferrer and 16th seed Kei Nishikori, Nishikori lead the head-to-head 2–1, but Ferrer proved to be too strong as he won easily. Ferrer will now face compatriot Nicolás Almagro who advance to the quarterfinals after Janko Tipsarević retired when Almagro was leading with a left foot injury.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (20 January)
5th seed Tomáš Berdych continues his good run and hasn't drop a set in the tournament with a win over Kevin Anderson The final match of the day was a marathon battle of wills between world no. 1 and defending champion Novak Djokovic and the no. 2 Swiss and 15th seed Stanislas Wawrinka. It went to five hour and two minutes before seeing Djokovic outlast Wawrinka, and has been rated the match of the tournament so far. Djokovic, showing great stamina, finally got hold of the match in a grueling last set. Wawrinka winning the first set 6–1, proved to be an unexpected competitor to Novak Djokovic. But, in the end, his sustenance was declined.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (20 January)
In the Women's Singles, last year's quarterfinalist Ekaterina Makarova provided the upset of the day after defeating 5th seed Angelique Kerber to reach her second straight quarterfinal at the Australian Open. world no. 2 Maria Sharapova continues her dominant force in the tournament with a victory over unseeded Kirsten Flipkens, which meant she has only lost 5 games en route to the quarterfinals, the fewest since 1988. China's Li Na reaches her first slam quarterfinal since her win at the 2011 French Open when she beat German Julia Görges. 4th seed Agnieszka Radwańska continues her undefeated run in 2013 when she got through 13th seed Ana Ivanovic in another straight sets win.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (21 January)
In the Men's Singles, It was a match between Frenchman Jérémy Chardy and Italian Andreas Seppi, who are both trying to reach the quarterfinals of a slam for the first time. It was Chardy who came through in four sets, dominating the final three sets He was followed by compatriots 7th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and 9th seed Richard Gasquet in an all French fourth round, where Tsonga came through in four sets as well. 3rd seed Andy Murray made quick work of a clearly hampered Gilles Simon winning. In the night match, Roger Federer took on another up-and-comer in Milos Raonic, the two battled it out in the first two sets with both going to Federer. Federer then cruised through the final set.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (21 January)
In the Women's Singles, former world no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki took on 2-time slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in a heavily contested match, which saw Kuznetsova prevailing in three sets to be the only woman in quarterfinals not to be seeded. After her third round scare, defending champion Victoria Azarenka made quick work of Russia's Elena Vesnina with a win in just 57 minutes. In a bother of the youngsters it was 19 year old Sloane Stephens and 21 year old Bojana Jovanovski, where the American Stephens came through against Serb Jovanovski in three sets. In the night match it was Serena Williams who claimed her 20th straight victory with a win over Maria Kirilenko, serving an impressive 87% of first serves in.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (22 January)
In the Men's Singles, The first quarterfinal match of the tournament, between Spaniards 4th seed David Ferrer and 10th seed Nicolás Almagro in the third all-Spanish quarterfinal in the Australian Open. The higher-ranked Spaniard Ferrer came through despite Almagro serving for the match three times at 5–4 in the third, 5–4 in the fourth, and 6–5 in the fourth, though not having match points. In the night match, world no. 1 and 2-time defending champion Novak Djokovic scraped through in 4 sets against 5th seed Tomáš Berdych.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (22 January)
In the Women's Singles, the opener saw Poland's Agnieszka Radwańska take on China's Li Na. It was Li who took control of the match and advance to the semifinals with a win to end Radwańska's 13 match winning streak. In the second quarterfinals, it featured an all-Russian affair with a repeat of last year's quarterfinal between Maria Sharapova and Ekaterina Makarova, with Sharapova once again coming through with relative ease with a win.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (23 January)
In the Men's Singles, The first match saw US Open champion Andy Murray took on the only unseeded quarterfinalist Jérémy Chardy in which the Brit came out comfortably 6–4, 6–1, 6–2 to advance to the semifinals. In the last quarterfinals of the tournament, second seed Roger Federer took on seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a tough match that went 5 sets and the two players trading sets, which saw Federer coming through.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (23 January)
In the Women's Singles, the play began with two slam champions Victoria Azarenka and Svetlana Kuznetsova taking on each other. Kuznetsova took a 4–1 lead in the first, but Azarenka took 12 of the last 14 games winning the match. In the other quarterfinal, it was an all-American clash between Serena Williams and Sloane Stephens, providing the upset of the tournament when Stephens defeated Williams.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (24 January)
In the Men's singles, 2-time defending champion Novak Djokovic took on 4th seed David Ferrer. Djokovic made quick work of defeating Ferrer. Djokovic made 30 winners to 16 unforced errors, while Ferrer made 11 winners to 32 unforced errors.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (24 January)
In the Women's singles, the first semifinal featured two of the most recent French Open champions 2012 winner Maria Sharapova and 2011 winner Li Na. Li came through comfortably winning to advance to her second Australian Open final. Li made 21 winners and 18 unforced errors to Sharapova's 17 winners and 32 unforced errors. In the second semifinals defending champion from Belarus Victoria Azarenka took on American Sloane Stephens. Azarenka came through also with ease winning in her sixth match point despite failing to convert five match points and to serve it out at 5–3.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (25 January)
In the Men's Singles, it was Wimbledon champion Roger Federer taking on US Open champion Andy Murray. Murray took a two sets to one lead and served for the match at 6–5 in the fourth but Federer broke back and won the tie-break to take it to a fifth. Murray won the fifth set, defeating Federer for the first time in a slam.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (25 January)
In the Women's doubles, the no. 1 team of Italians Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci took on Australian wildcard Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua and won in three sets to win 3 of the last 4 slams.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (26 January)
Day 13 saw the finals of the Girls', Boys' and Women's singles as well as the Men's doubles.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (26 January)
Ana Konjuh, who had already won the Girls' Doubles with partner Belinda Bencic, defeated Kateřina Siniaková in straight sets to take the Girls' singles title. In doing so Konjuh took the No. 1 junior ranking.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (26 January)
Also in straight sets, Australian Nick Kyrgios defeated compatriot Thanasi Kokkinakis to take the Boys' Singles title having not lost a set all tournament. Scans the previous day had discovered a stress fracture in the left side of Kokkinakis' back, and his movement during the final was reported to be evidently hampered.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (26 January)
In the Women's final, due to her controversial medical time-out in her semifinal match, defending champion Victoria Azarenka's reception onto the Rod Laver Arena was much more subdued than that of her opponent Li Na. The opening set saw seven breaks of serve in total, with Li Na winning 6–4. During the second set, with Azarenka 3–1 up, Li twisted her left ankle and called the first of two 10-minute medical time-outs. Li was not able to undo her opponent's advantage, Azerenka won the set 6–4 to level the match.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (26 January)
The match was also interrupted at the beginning of the third set due to Australia Day fireworks. Li rolled her left ankle once again on the first point after play resumed, this time also heavily knocking the rear of her head on the court, thus incurring another 10-minute medical time-out. Azarenka broke in the fifth game and maintained the advantage to take the set 6–3 and win the match two sets to one.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (26 January)
The victory was Azarenka's second Australian Open title. In post-match interviews she declared that "This one is way more emotional".


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (26 January)
Top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Robin Haase and Igor Sijsling to claim their 6th Men's Doubles Australian Open title and their 13th Grand Slam, surpassing John Newcombe and Tony Roche's record for the most doubles majors. Though Haase and Sijsling broke the serve in the opening game, the match was won by the Bryans in straight sets.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (27 January)
In the Mixed Doubles final, Australian wildcard entries Jarmila Gajdošová and Matthew Ebden defeated the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecká and František Čermák in straight sets. Two breaks of the Hradecká serve gave the Australians the first set. In the second set Gajdošová and Ebden were a break up, but the Hradecká and Čermák managed to break back. The advantage was recovered in the 11th game, and the Australians won the second set 7–5 after a long return from Cermak.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (27 January)
Defending Champion Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray in four sets to take his third consecutive Australian Open title, being the first man in the Open Era to do so. Murray and Djokovic took the first and second sets respectively, both on tiebreaks. The first break of serve came when Djokovic took the eighth game of the third set. In post-match interviews Djokovic stated he tried to be more aggressive in the third and fourth sets, coming to the net more often. The match was Djokovic's 21st successive victory at the Australian Open.


2013 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (27 January)
Though Murray received treatment for a blister after the first set, he insisted it had no impact on the result. After the match, Djokovic was quoted as saying "I'm full of joy right now. It's going to give me a lot of confidence for the rest of the season."


2013 Australian Open – Girls' Doubles
Gabrielle Andrews and Taylor Townsend were the defending champions, having won the event in 2012, but both chose not to defend their title.


2013 Australian Open – Girls' Doubles
Ana Konjuh and Carol Zhao won the tournament, defeating Oleksandra Korashvili and Barbora Krejčíková in the final, 5–7, 6–4, [10–7].


2013 Australian Open – Girls' Singles
Taylor Townsend was the defending champion, having won the event in 2012, but chose not to defend her title.


2013 Australian Open – Girls' Singles
Ana Konjuh won the tournament, defeating Kateřina Siniaková in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2013 Australian Open – Main Draw Wildcard Entries
The 2013 Australian Open Wildcard Playoffs and Entries were a group of events and internal selections to choose the eight men and women wildcard entries for the 2013 Australian Open. Tennis Australia awarded eight wildcards for the men's and women's professional singles and doubles competitions. In an agreement with the United States Tennis Association and the French Tennis Federation, Tennis Australia gave one man and one woman from the United States and France each a wildcard into the Australian Open.


2013 Australian Open – Main Draw Wildcard Entries
A wildcard was awarded to the winner of the Australian Open wildcard playoff, a tournament between Australian players, who do not receive direct entry into the draw. The Australian Open were promoted as "the Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific"; one male and one female player from this geographical area were awarded a wildcard. This was decided through the Asia Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Playoff.


2013 Australian Open – Main Draw Wildcard Entries, Wildcard Entries
These are the wildcard qualifiers, from both internal selections and playoffs.


2013 Australian Open – Men's Doubles
Leander Paes and Radek Štěpánek were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Kevin Anderson and Jonathan Erlich.


2013 Australian Open – Men's Doubles
Bob and Mike Bryan won the title by defeating Robin Haase and Igor Sijsling 6–3, 6–4 in the final. The win was their 13th Grand Slam men's doubles title, giving them sole possession of the all-time record for a doubles team. The twins had previously been tied with Australians John Newcombe and Tony Roche. Additionally, this was the Bryan's 5th consecutive Australian Open final and 9th in the past decade.


2013 Australian Open – Men's Legends' Doubles, Draw, Group A
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2013 Australian Open – Men's Legends' Doubles, Draw, Group B
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2013 Australian Open – Men's Singles
Two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic successfully defended his title, defeating Andy Murray in the final 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–3), 6–3, 6–2 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2013 Australian Open. In winning the title, Djokovic became the first man in the Open Era to win the Australian Open three consecutive times, and the third man after Roger Federer and Andre Agassi to win the title four times overall.


2013 Australian Open – Men's Singles
Djokovic and Federer were in contention for the ATP number 1 ranking. Djokovic retained the top ranking by reaching the semifinals after Federer failed to win the title.


2013 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for the Men's singles at the 2013 Australian Open.


2013 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Horia Tecău were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Lucie Hradecká and František Čermák.


2013 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles
Jarmila Gajdošová and Matthew Ebden won their first mixed doubles title, defeating Hradecká and František Čermák in the final, 6–3, 7–5. This would be Gajdošová's only Grand Slam title before her retirement in 2017.


2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles
The 2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles was a tennis tournament featuring 8 paraplegic men tennis players, which was part of the NEC Tour. The tournament took place at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 25 January to 28 January 2012. It was the 10th edition of the Australian Open men's wheelchair event and the first Grand Slam event of 2013. The tournament was played on Plexicushion Prestige AO hard courts, which was rated a medium-fast pace by the ITF. The competition was organised by the International Tennis Federation and Tennis Australia. Michael Jeremiasz and Shingo Kunieda defeated Stefan Olsson and Adam Kellerman 6–0, 6–1 in the final to win the title.


2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Singles
The 2013 Australian Open Wheelchair Men's Singles (Also known as the Optius Australian Open Wheelchair Men's Singles for sponsorship reasons) draw, feature eight players with two seeds and a wildcard. Maikel Scheffers of the Netherlands was the defending champion. All matches were best of three sets. Shingo Kunieda won the final 6–2, 6–0 against Stéphane Houdet.


2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Andrew Lapthorne and Peter Norfolk were the defending champions but Norfolk did not participate, whereas Andrew Lapthorne competed with Anders Hard. They lost in the final to David Wagner and Nicholas Taylor 2–6, 3–6.


2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Quad Singles
Peter Norfolk was the defending champion, but decided not to participate. David Wagner won the title, defeating Andrew Lapthorne in the final, 2–6, 6–1, 6–4.


2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Quad Singles, Draw, Round Robin
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Women's Doubles
The 2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Women's Doubles was a tennis tournament featuring 8 paraplegic women tennis players, which was part of the NEC Tour. The tournament took place at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 25 January to 28 January 2012. It was the 10th edition of the Australian Open men's wheelchair event and the first Grand Slam event of 2013. The tournament was played on Plexicushion Prestige AO hard courts, which was rated a medium-fast pace by the ITF. The competition was organised by the International Tennis Federation and Tennis Australia. Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot defeated Lucy Shuker and Marjolein Buis 6–4, 6–3 in the final to win the title.


2013 Australian Open – Wheelchair Women's Singles
The 2013 Optus Australian Open Wheelchair Women's Singles featured eight players and had two seeds and one wild card. All matches were the best of three sets. Esther Vergeer was the defending champion but she decided not to participate. Aniek van Koot of the Netherlands won the title as the top seed, defeating Sabine Ellerbrock in the final, 6–1, 1–6, 7–5.


2013 Australian Open – Women's Doubles
Russian pair Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva were the defending champions, but Zvonareva decided not to participate due to injury. Kuznetsova partnered up with Yanina Wickmayer but they lost in the second round to Nuria Llagostera Vives and Zheng Jie.


2013 Australian Open – Women's Doubles
Top seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won the title, defeating wild cards Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua in the final, 6–2, 3–6, 6–2.


2013 Australian Open – Women's Legends' Doubles, Draw, Round Robin
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2013 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Victoria Azarenka was the defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating Li Na in the final 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2013 Australian Open.


2013 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Azarenka, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams were in contention for the WTA No. 1 ranking  at the start of the tournament. Azarenka retained the top ranking at the end of the tournament by winning the title after Sharapova and Williams lost in the semifinals and quarterfinals, respectively.


2013 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for the women's singles event at the 2013 Australian Open.


2013 Australian Rally Championship
The 2013 East Coast Bullbars Australian Rally Championship is the 46th season of the Australian Rally Championship, one of the world's oldest continuously run rally championships. The season began 1 March at the newly revived National Capital Rally, and is scheduled to end 16 November at Rally Victoria, after six events.


2013 Australian Rally Championship
The championship incorporates two international events, Round 5 is a World Rally Championship event, Rally Australia, while Round 4, the International Rally of Queensland is a round of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.


2013 Australian Rally Championship
Each domestic rally is contested over two heats, with three or four components to the two international events.


2013 Australian Rally Championship
With the championship now awarded specifically to two-wheel-drive cars exclusively has seen an influx of European and Asian Super 2000 and Super 1600 cars as well as a revival of older rear-wheel-drive performance cars. While most of the top drivers have moved out of the Mitsubishi Lancer and Subaru Impreza 4WD turbos, they remain competitive with reigning Western Australian rally champion Alex Stone winning a heat at the Forest Rally.


2013 Australian Rally Championship
Between Honda Jazz driver Eli Evans and Renault Clio driver Scott Peddar have dominated the 2013 season, winning all bar one heat and taking eleven of the 18 top three positions. Evans leads the championship by 29 points over Peddar. Peddar's teammate Tom Wilde is 88 points behind Evans in third. Mazda 2 driver Brendan Reeves, who is also racing in the NACAM Rally Championship is fourth a distant 119 points from Peddar. Proving the flexibility of the new regulations, Jack Monkhouse is fifth in the championship driving a 1999 model Nissan Silvia.


2013 Australian Swimming Championships
The 2013 Australian Swimming Championships were held from 26 April until 3 May 2013 at the South Australia Aquatic and Leisure Centre in Adelaide, South Australia. They doubled up as the national trials for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships.


2013 Australian Swimming Championships, Qualification criteria
Below were the entry qualifying times for each event that had to be achieved after 1 January 2012 in a 50m pool.


2013 Australian Swimming Championships, Qualification criteria
Below were the FINA A and B qualifying times for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships for each event.


2013 Australian Swimming Championships, Medal winners, Men's events
Legend: WR – World record; CR – Commonwealth record; OR – Oceanian record; AR – Australian record; ACR – Australian All Comers record; Club – Australian Club record


2013 Australian Swimming Championships, Medal winners, Women's events
Legend: WR – World record; CR – Commonwealth record; OR – Oceanian record; AR – Australian record; ACR – Australian All Comers record; Club – Australian Club record


2013 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series
The 2013 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series was an Australian motor racing competition for modified V8 engined production utilities. It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) as a National Series with Australian V8 Ute Racing Pty Ltd appointed as the Category Manager. Promoted as the 2013 Auto One V8 Ute Racing Series protected by Armor All, it was the 13th annual Australian V8 Ute Racing Series.


2013 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series
The series was won by Ryal Harris driving a Ford FG Falcon Ute.


2013 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series, Points system
Series points were awarded on the following basis for each qualifying session and each race in the series.


2013 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series, Points system
The results for each round were determined by the number of points scored by each driver at that round.


2013 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series, Points system
The driver gaining the highest points total over all rounds was declared the winner of the Series.


2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival
The 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival was the fifth edition of the Australian Youth Olympic Festival. It was held from 16–20 January 2013.


2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival, Participant nations
There were 30 teams that participated in the games. They were:


2013 Australian federal budget
The 2013 Australian federal budget for the Australian financial year ended 30 June 2014 was presented on 14 May 2013 by the Treasurer of Australia, Wayne Swan, the sixth federal budget presented by Swan. The 2013 budget estimated total revenue of A$387.7 billion and spending of A$398.3 billion, a deficit of A$18 billion, with a return to surplus expected in the 2015 Australian federal budget (FY 2015/16). Some of the measures in the budget had been announced by various Ministers before the budget.


2013 Australian federal budget
According to Swan the budget was being impacted by both global economic uncertainty and the high Australian dollar. It features significant spending on disability services and a school improvement program based on the Gonski Report. In an unusual step the election year budget contains 10-year forward estimates for the school and disability programs in an attempt to ensure funding is available. To pay for DisabilityCare Australia the Medicare levy was increased from 1.5 to 2% of taxable income from 1 July 2014.


2013 Australian federal budget
The budget was described as big spending but low taxing. It lacked any big surprises or so-called election sweeteners.


2013 Australian federal budget, Forecasts, Deficit
The budget was not expected to decrease government spending dramatically in an effort to quickly return to surplus. Swan has claimed that such a move would result in rising unemployment and slowing economic growth. A collapse in the price of carbon under the European Union Emission Trading Scheme means a return to surplus is unlikely in the following two federal budgets.


2013 Australian federal budget, Forecasts, Deficit
The forecasted current account deficit is lower than the average for the past couple of decades allowing Standard and Poor's assessment of Australia's bond credit rating to remain at the AAA rating.


2013 Australian federal budget, Forecasts, Shortfall
Tax revenue declines made it clear in late 2012 that the Gillard Government's promised 2013 budget surplus would not eventuate. In the lead up to the budget announcement an estimate of a $17.5 billion decline in forecast revenue was calculated after Finance Minister Penny Wong released government figures. Most of this shortfall was attributed to company tax and the mining tax.


2013 Australian federal budget, Forecasts, Shortfall
A deficit of up to $10 billion in the 2013–14 financial was predicted by some economists. In early May 2013, the Parliamentary Budget Office forecast that the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) would only raise $800 million this year instead of $3 billion which was originally expected.


2013 Australian federal budget, Revenues, Taxation
In March 2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard indicated an increase on the tax on superannuation contributions was likely. On 1 May 2013, Gillard announced a 0.5% increase of the Medicare levy to fund DisabilityCare Australia which will take effect on 1 July 2014, and which is expected to raise $11 billion over four years.


2013 Australian federal budget, Revenues, Taxation
The budget included measures to counter tax avoidance by closing a loophole in which companies claim large tax deductions after increasing their Australian operations with debt.


2013 Australian federal budget, Revenues, Taxation
A$2,000 cap on tax deductions for work-related education expense was introduced in the budget.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, General government
A few days before the budget was delivered, Treasurer Swan announced the public service was to receive a $580 million reduction in funding over four years. Expenditure on asylum seekers was forecast to be $2.9 billion, an increase of $930 million over previous year, as arrivals were expected to reach a record high.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Social security and welfare
Included in the introduction of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax was an increase in the Family Tax Benefit Part A scheme. Finance Minister Penny Wong announced the cancellation of the increase prior to the release of the 2013 budget. It was intended to be a measure that would spread the wealth of the mining boom, however as revenue from that tax was significantly lower than expected, the payment had to be scrapped. The increase in the benefit was expected to go to around 1.5 million families.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Social security and welfare
The baby bonus was abolished and replaced with a family tax benefit equivalent to less than half of the then-current payment. The payment was to cease on 1 March 2014, reducing expenditure by $1.1 billion over five years, and being replaced with an increase in family tax benefits which will be means-tested and limited to $2,000 for the first born and $1,000 for subsequent children.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Social security and welfare
The budget didn't contain a raise in the Newstart Allowance despite widespread calls for its increase. Instead the amount of money the unemployed may earn before it affects welfare payments was increased. The change was estimated to cost $258 million over four years.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Social security and welfare
$99.4 million was provided for a new Farm Household Allowance for eligible farmers facing hardship, replacing the previous Exceptional Circumstances Relief Payment and Transitional Farm Family Payment. The payment will begin on 1 July 2014 and be equivalent to the Newstart Allowance. A farm finance scheme is to be introduced which will support farmers in debt.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Infrastructure, transport and energy
$400 million was provided for the construction of an eight km tunnel linking the Sydney–Newcastle Freeway and M2 Hills Motorway in Sydney. $3 billion worth of funding out of a total cost of $8 billion for the Melbourne Metro Rail Project rapid transit rail project was allocated in the budget on the condition that Victoria fund an equal amount. $715 million was committed to the Cross River Rail project in Brisbane. Queensland's Transport Minister Scott Emerson was expecting twice as much for a 50–50 cost shared between federal and state governments.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Education
The Australian Indigenous Education Foundation was provided with an additional $22  million. Bonuses paid to those who pay their HECS debts up-front or voluntarily will cease, saving $237 million.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Defence
The budget provided funding for new 12 radar-jamming Growler Super Hornet fighter aircraft. Overall spending on defence is up $10 billion compared to the previous year.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Health
The net medical expenses tax offset is to be phased out over two years. A total of $14.3 billion worth of new funding was allocated to DisabilityCare Australia.


2013 Australian federal budget, Expenditure, Community services and culture
The cost of 457 temporary skilled migrant visas was doubled to $900.


2013 Australian federal budget, Opposition and crossbench response
Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey described the budget as "fundamentally dishonest". Tony Abbott claimed Julia Gillard was in denial over whether or not there was a spending problem. Australian Greens leader Christine Milne said the budget lacked vision and was a disappointment to rural communities.


2013 Australian federal budget, Reception
Even before the budget was released the business community, as represented by the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Industry Group, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Minerals Council of Australia, complained the budget would be lacking in both transparency and credibility and was achieved without genuine consultation. Australian Education Union President Angelo Gavrielatos praised the school reforms saying they would benefit children and the nation as a whole. The Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia supported the governments intention to maintain permanent migration and humanitarian intake levels as they were. Asylum seekers advocates questioned the expense of off-shore detention centres and processing. Indigenous organisations reacted with a mixed response.


2013 Australian federal budget, Reception
Some columnists questioned whether the forecast revenue would be as high as predicted especially considering the effect of a high Australian dollar. The assumption that Australia's gross domestic product will grow by 5% per year was also questioned. Representatives from the National Welfare Rights Network and the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children criticised the lack of an increase in dole payments, particularly after many single mothers were transferred to Newstart in January.


2013 Australian federal election
The 2013 Australian federal election to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on 7 September 2013. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition led by Opposition leader Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party of Australia and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia, led by Warren Truss, defeated the incumbent centre-left Labor Party government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by an 18-seat 3.6 percentage point two-party swing resulting in a landslide win for the Coalition. Labor had been in government for six years since first being elected in the 2007 election.


2013 Australian federal election
This election marked the end of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor government and the start of the current (as of 2021) Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Liberal-National Coalition government. Abbott was sworn in by the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, as Australia's new Prime Minister on 18 September 2013, along with the Abbott Ministry and the members of the House of Representatives. The 44th Parliament of Australia opened on 12 November 2013, which is taken to be the commencement of the term of members of the House of Representatives. The new senators were sworn in by the next Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on 7 July 2014, with their six-year terms commencing on 1 July.


2013 Australian federal election
The proclamation dissolving the House of Representatives and formally beginning the election period had been issued by Governor-General Bryce on 5 August 2013. The writs of election were subsequently issued by Bryce for the election of members of the House of Representatives and the state governors for the senators for each state.


2013 Australian federal election
Voting in Australia's federal elections has been compulsory since 1925. For the House of Representatives, a preferential ballot system has been in use since 1919, in single-member seats. For the Senate—the proportionally representative upper house—a single transferable vote system has been in use since 1949, with optional group voting tickets since 1984. Elections are conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC).


2013 Australian federal election
A special half-Senate election was conducted on 5 April 2014 in Western Australia as a result of 1,375 lost ballot papers.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate
The Senate has 76 seats. Forty seats were up for election; six in each of the six states, two for the ACT and two for the Northern Territory. The terms of the four senators from the territories commenced on election day. The terms of the six longest-serving state senators ended on 30 June 2014; the terms of the new state senators commenced on 1 July 2014, and were originally supposed to end on 30 June 2020—however, the entire Senate was dissolved at the double-dissolution 2016 election.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate
The Senate saw the Coalition government on 33 seats with the Labor opposition on 25 seats, the Greens on 10 seats and a crossbench of eight—Palmer United on three seats, with other minor parties and independents on five seats (the LDP's David Leyonhjelm, Family First's Bob Day, Motoring's Ricky Muir and incumbents Nick Xenophon and the DLP's John Madigan). Muir announced he would vote in line with Palmer United.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate
The initial election saw Wayne Dropulich of the Australian Sports Party win a seat in Western Australia, but the subsequent voiding of the result and ensuing special election saw the Palmer United Party gain a third seat. The Coalition government required the support of at least six non-coalition Senators to pass legislation.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate
A record number of candidates stood at the election. Group voting tickets came under scrutiny because multiple candidates were provisionally elected with the vast majority of their 14.3 per cent quotas coming from the preferences of other parties across the political spectrum. "Preference whisperer" Glenn Druery organised tight cross-preferencing between over 30 minor parties as part of his Minor Party Alliance. Sports' Wayne Dropulich won a Senate seat on a record-low primary vote of 0.2 per cent in Western Australia, his party placing 21st out of 28 groups on primary votes.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate
Motoring's Ricky Muir won a senate seat on a record-low primary vote of 0.5 per cent in Victoria. Family First's Bob Day won a seat on a primary vote of 3.8 per cent in South Australia. All three were involved with the Minor Party Alliance.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate
Previous examples of winning with low vote shares include Family First's Steve Fielding in 2004 on 1.9 per cent in Victoria, the Nuclear Disarmament Party's Robert Wood in 1987 on 1.5 per cent in New South Wales, and the DLP's John Madigan won his seat in 2010 on a primary vote of 2.3 per cent in Victoria. Xenophon and larger parties including the incoming government announced they would look at changes to the GVT system.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate, Western Australia special Senate election
Most Senate votes cast in Western Australia were subject to a formal recount. During the recount it was determined that 1,375 WA Senate ballot papers could not be located. After the final recount the result was duly declared which changed the last two predicted WA Senate spots from Palmer and Labor back to Sports and Green. Mick Keelty, a former AFP Commissioner, was requested by the AEC to investigate the issue of the misplaced ballot papers.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate, Western Australia special Senate election
On 15 November, the AEC petitioned the High Court, acting as the Court of Disputed Returns, to seek an order from the court that the WA Senate election of all six senators (3 Liberal, 1 Labor, 1 Green, 1 Sport) be declared void. On 18 February 2014, it was announced that the Court of Disputed Returns had found that the result of the Western Australia Senate election should be voided, meaning a fresh election for all six senate vacancies would be required.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate, Western Australia special Senate election
The AEC notes that the Court has advised in its written decision issued today that it finds that the only relief appropriate is for the 2013 Western Australian Senate election result to be declared void....... In accordance with the Australian Constitution and the requirements of the Western Australian Election of Senators Act 1903, an election of six senators for Western Australia would occur once a writ has been issued by His Excellency Mr Malcolm McCusker AC CVO QC, the Governor of Western Australia.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Senate, Western Australia special Senate election
On 28 February 2014 it was announced that the half-Senate election in Western Australia would take place on 5 April, which returned 3 Liberal, 1 Labor, 1 Green, 1 Palmer.


2013 Australian federal election, Results, Divisions changing hands
Members in italics did not re-contest their House of Representatives seats at this election.


2013 Australian federal election, Key dates
On 30 January 2013, the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard had announced the election would be held on 14 September. However, following a leadership ballot in June 2013, she was replaced as leader and Prime Minister by Rudd, who then abandoned the originally planned date. A referendum on amending the constitution to allow the federal government to directly fund local councils, which was initially planned to be held on the same day as the federal election, could not go ahead on the date announced by Rudd. This is because Section 128 of the Constitution of Australia requires that a referendum be submitted to electors between two and six months after its passage through Parliament. As early voting started on 20 August it could not be submitted then.


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, House of Representatives
At the 2010 federal election, Labor and the Liberal/National Coalition each won 72 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, four short of the requirement for majority government, resulting in the first hung parliament since the 1940 federal election. On the crossbench, one member of the Australian Greens, one member of the National Party of Western Australia and four independent members held the balance of power. After gaining the support of the Greens and three independents on confidence and supply votes, Labor was able to form a minority government with 76 seats, the smallest possible margin in the 150-seat House.


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, House of Representatives, Changes in House numbers
On 24 November 2011, Harry Jenkins resigned as Speaker of the House of Representatives and returned to the Labor backbench. Later, that day, Deputy Speaker Peter Slipper was elected Speaker and quit the Liberal National Party to become an independent. This changed nominal confidence and supply numbers on the floor of the house from 75–74 to 76–73. In January 2012, Andrew Wilkie withdrew his guarantee of confidence to the incumbent government, changing numbers to 75–73 in the event of his abstention, or 75–74 in the event of his support for a vote of no confidence in the government.


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, House of Representatives, Changes in House numbers
In April 2012, Labor's Craig Thomson moved to the crossbenches as an independent MP, and in May, WA National Tony Crook moved from the crossbenches to the Nationals, but did not join the Coalition. Changes brought the government to 71 seats, the Coalition 72 seats and seven crossbenchers. On 9 October 2012, after an unsuccessful vote of no confidence in the speakership, Slipper resigned as Speaker and was replaced by Labor Deputy Speaker Anna Burke. Slipper remained an independent MP.


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, Senate
Before the election, the 76-seat Senate was made up of senators from the Coalition (34), Australian Labor Party (31), Australian Greens (9), Democratic Labour Party (1) and one independent senator, Nick Xenophon. The Greens held the sole balance of power. Previously the Greens had held a shared balance of power with the Family First Party and Xenophon.


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, Senate
Of the 76 Senate seats, 40 are contested. This corresponds to half of each state's allocation as well as both senators from the two major territories. Newly elected state senators commenced their terms on 1 July 2014 and the senators of the territories began their terms immediately after their elections.


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, Election period
On 30 January 2013, at a speech at the National Press Club, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the election would be held on Saturday 14 September 2013, although the Governor-General was not formally advised and no writ of election was issued. Kevin Rudd succeeded Julia Gillard as Prime Minister on 27 June 2013.


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, Election period
The Broadcasting Services Act 1992 was checked by various commercial broadcasting media outlets and media councils as a result of Gillard's announcement. The Act says, in part,


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, Election period
"Election period" means:(a) in relation to any other election to a Parliament – the period that starts on:– (i) the day on which the proposed polling day for the election is publicly announced; or- (ii) the day on which the writs for the election are issued;whichever happens first, and ends at the close of the poll on the polling day for the election;


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, Election period
PART 2b. (i) If, during an election period, a broadcaster broadcasts election matter, the broadcaster must give reasonable opportunities for the broadcasting of election matter to all political parties contesting the election, being parties which were represented in either House of the Parliament for which the election is to be held at the time of its last meeting before the election period.


2013 Australian federal election, 43rd Parliament, Election period
This is interpreted as "equal time, over time" rather than equal time in the same broadcast, and that this requirement began with the announcement on 30 January 2013.


2013 Australian federal election, Retiring MPs and senators
The terms of Members of the House of Representatives who did not renominate ended at the dissolution of the parliament (5 August 2013).


2013 Australian federal election, Retiring MPs and senators
The terms of Senators who did not renominate ended on 30 June 2014, unless they represented the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory, in which case their term ended on the day before polling day (6 September 2013). That date also applies to territory senators who contest the election but are defeated.


2013 Australian federal election, Retiring MPs and senators
Members and senators who chose not to renominate are as follows:


2013 Australian federal election, Campaign
The incumbent Labor-led government argued for a need for a "safe pair of hands" to manage an economic shift from mining-oriented growth to something else; while the opposition said that it would prevent a recession that could be caused by a budget deficit. The Sydney Morning Herald suggested both arguments hedged on the mining boom going bust. Rudd officially began the campaign season on 1 September in his hometown of Brisbane. At the rally, he promised tax breaks for small businesses and more work for local contractors on infrastructure projects.


2013 Australian federal election, Campaign
He said: "In this election, we are now engaged in the fight of our lives. It is a fight about the values that underpin Australia's future, a fight about our vision for Australia's future. It's a fight about how we go about building Australia's future, a future for the many, not just for the few." He also dismissed the opinion polls that showed him trailing to Abbott in gaining a parliamentary plurality.


2013 Australian federal election, Newspaper endorsements
The press overwhelmingly favoured the Coalition over Labor, with all of News Corp's publications endorsing Tony Abbott's opposition over Kevin Rudd's government, as well as Fairfax's publications such as The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times, backing the Coalition over Labor. Fairfax's newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times both considered the need for political stability a primary reason for supporting the Coalition, as well as criticising Labor's continuing infighting and scandals.


2013 Australian federal election, Newspaper endorsements
The Age backed Labor, praising Labor's stewardship of the economy during the global financial crisis and noting that, of the two parties, they were the one with a vision for Australia.


2013 Australian federal election, Newspaper endorsements
The Sunday Age, however, supported the Coalition, rejecting their daily counterpart's editorial that Labor had vision and that the election amounted to choosing a lesser evil, noting that during the election campaign a "genuine contest of ideas [had] not materialised", that "the campaign [had] contained no vision or policy clarion call commanding our attention and demanding our vote" and subsequently that "in the absence of policies and detailed economic information, voter decisiveness will depend on one issue: trust." During this period, various News Corp's papers published numerous front-page articles supporting The Coalition and denigrating Labor.


2013 Australian federal election, Newspaper endorsements
During the campaign, The Daily Telegraph ran front pages depicting Labor as Nazis, displaying a picture of Rudd above a headline telling readers to "Kick this mob out, and, on election day, ran the headline "After 33 days campaigning, 18 babies kissed, 104,275 km flown and six years of an incompetent Labor government, now it's... your turn." The Sunday Telegraph, meanwhile, printed an front-page editorial with the headline "Australia needs Tony".


2013 Australian federal election, Newspaper endorsements
Additionally, The Courier-Mail used a front page to depict Labor as clowns, and ran a headline of "Does This Guy Ever Shut Up" alongside a photo of Rudd during a debate. Similarly, in the weeks preceding the election, the Herald Sun ran the headline "Trust Me" alongside a photo Abbott and on the day of the election ran a front page consisting of the headline "It's Tony's Time" alongside another photo of Abbott.


2013 Australian federal election, Result commentary
The Labor Party recorded its lowest two-party preferred vote since 1996 and lowest primary vote since 1931. Kevin Rudd announced his resignation as party leader and confirmed he would not run again in the subsequent leadership election.


2013 Australian federal election, Result commentary
With Nova Peris's victory in the Senate election in the Northern Territory, she became the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to parliament. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange failed to be elected to the Senate after running in Victoria, with his WikiLeaks Party garnering 0.62% of the popular vote. Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, standing in the Liberal-held seat of Forde, also failed to enter parliament.


2013 Australian federal election, Result commentary
In an unprecedented outcome in Australian electoral history, the Senate result in Western Australia was declared void after the loss of over 1,300 ballot papers, necessitating a fresh election for the Senate in that state.


2013 Australian federal election, Aftermath
The Coalition had campaigned on a tough stance on asylum seekers who came to Australia by boat (as had the Labor Party in the final weeks leading up to the election). Immediately after the election, Abbott reiterated his party's promise and announced that his new government would begin Operation Sovereign Borders—which would turn back any vessels carrying asylum seekers—as soon as possible. He also confirmed he would abolish the carbon price that was introduced by the Gillard Government, as well as lower foreign aid by A$4.5 billion.


2013 Australian football code crowds
Australia is home to four professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2013. It includes several different competitions and matches from association football, Australian rules football, rugby league and rugby union (international rules football is a code of football played by Australian rules footballers). Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have teams represented in all four codes. Hobart and Darwin are Australia's only capital cities without a professional football team.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, National competitions
Several football codes have national (domestic) competitions in Australia, the following are taken into consideration:


2013 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, National competitions
Two of these leagues, specifically the NRL and A-League, have one club each in New Zealand, while only five of the fifteen Super Rugby franchises are located in Australia, with the other ten split evenly between New Zealand and South Africa. Attendance figures for non-Australian clubs are not taken into account in the figures on this page.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, National competitions
In addition, one St Kilda AFL match held in Wellington is also not included.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Other competitions
Other competitions, such as international and representative competitions, included are:


2013 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Other competitions
Note: For these competitions, only figures for games that take place in Australia are taken into account.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Other competitions
No Rugby League Four Nations competition is scheduled for 2013, England and Wales will host in October the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Non-competition games
Some non-competition matches (such as friendly and exhibition matches) are also included:


2013 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Code
In order to directly compare sports, the total attendances for each major code are listed here. The colour-coding of the different codes is used throughout the article.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Code
Note that only the competitions that appear on this page excluding those specifically not included are considered, there are many other (generally smaller) competitions, leagues and matches that take place for all of the football codes, but these are not included. The following are included:


2013 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by League
Some codes have multiple competitions, several competitions are compared here.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Team
Total home attendances for domestic league competitions are listed here.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Match
Attendances for single matches are listed here. Note that not all matches are necessarily included.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Match, Representative Competitions
These are matches that are part of a regular representative competition.


2013 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Match, Single matches
These are one-off matches, that aren't part of any regular league competition.


2013 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2013 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Phillip Island on 20 October 2013.


2013 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix
The MotoGP race was originally scheduled to run over 27 laps, but was shortened to 19 laps after Bridgestone announced that the safety of its tyres on the newly resurfaced track could not be guaranteed after 10 laps. Riders were required to make a pitstop to swap bikes or change tyres at least once during the race, and no rider was permitted to use the same set of tyres for more than 10 laps. Marc Márquez and Bryan Staring were both disqualified for riding an 11-lap stint without pitting. Jorge Lorenzo won the race and closed up the gap to Márquez in the championship to 18 points. The Moto2 race distance was also shortened, from 25 to 13 laps.


2013 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.


2013 Austrian Darts Open
The 2013 Austrian Darts Open was the fourth of eight PDC European Tour events on the 2013 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the Arena Nova in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, from 31 May–2 June 2013. It featured a field of 64 players and £100,000 in prize money, with £20,000 going to the winner.


2013 Austrian Darts Open
Michael van Gerwen won his second European Tour title by beating Mervyn King 6–3 in the final.


2013 Austrian Darts Open, Qualification
The top 32 players from the  on the 29 April 2013 automatically qualified for the event. The remaining 32 places went to players from three qualifying events - 20 from the UK Qualifier (held in Wigan on 3 May), eight from the European Qualifier and four from the Host Nation Qualifier (both held at the venue in Wiener Neustadt on 30 May).


2013 Austrian Darts Open, Qualification
Simon Whitlock, Adrian Lewis and Phil Taylor all withdrew before the event started. Two additional places were therefore available in the European Qualifier and one extra place was available in the Home Nation Qualifier.


2013 Austrian Figure Skating Championships
The 2013 Austrian Figure Skating Championships (German: Österreichischen Staatsmeisterschaften im Eiskunstlauf 2013) took place between 19 and 22 December 2012 at the Albert-Schultz-Eishalle 3 in Vienna. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Austrian teams to the 2013 World Championships and the 2013 European Championships.


2013 Austrian conscription referendum
A non-binding referendum on ending conscription was held in Austria on 20 January 2013. The proposal was supported by the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party and opposed by the Austrian People's Party and the FPÖ. Though constitutionally not obliged to act on, both parties in government have stated that they will honour the results.


2013 Austrian conscription referendum
The motion to end conscription and introduce a professional army was rejected.


2013 Austrian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2013 to elect the 25th National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.


2013 Austrian legislative election
The parties of the ruling grand coalition, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), suffered losses, but placed first and second respectively and retained their combined majority. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) won 20.5%, an increase of three percentage points, and The Greens achieved their best result up to this point with 12.4% and 24 seats. With the collapse of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), which fell below the 4% electoral threshold and lost all its seats, two new parties entered the National Council: Team Stronach with 5.7% and NEOS – The New Austria with 5.0%.


2013 Austrian legislative election
The election saw considerable change in the composition of the National Council; the ruling grand coalition won its lowest combined share of the popular vote in history. The coalition was nonetheless renewed, and Werner Faymann of the SPÖ remained Chancellor.


2013 Austrian legislative election, Overview
The government is a grand coalition between Austria's two largest parties, the SPÖ and ÖVP, who rule with the SPÖ's Werner Faymann as Chancellor. Support for both governing parties has fallen marginally since the 2008 election. The Freedom Party (FPÖ) and Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) made significant gains in the previous election, but while the FPÖ gained support after the 2008 election, the BZÖ shrank after the death of its founder Jörg Haider and taking a turn toward liberalism.


2013 Austrian legislative election, Overview
Additionally, nine of the BZÖ's 21 elected members to the National Council changed their party affiliation during the term: five members joined the Team Stronach, while four joined the FPÖ. Team Stronach, funded by Austrian-Canadian businessman Frank Stronach, has emerged as an anti-euro alternative and eventually started to hurt the FPÖ's standing in the polls. The Greens have solidified their position as the fourth-largest party in opinion polls.


2013 Austrian legislative election, Contesting parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 24th National Council.


2013 Austrian legislative election, Contesting parties, Qualified parties
In addition to the parties already represented in the National Council, nine parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot. Four of these were cleared to be on the ballot in all states, five of them only in some.


2013 Austrian legislative election, Campaign
Issues included corruption scandals across the main parties and Austria's relative financial stability facing a probable crisis.


2013 Austrian legislative election, Results, Preference votes
Alongside votes for a party, voters were able to cast a preferential votes for a candidate on the party list. The ten candidates with the most preferential votes on a federal level were as follows:


2013 Austrian legislative election, Government formation
The "grand coalition" of SPÖ and ÖVP retained their majority. While the SPÖ were keen to renew the coalition, the ÖVP also considered the possibility of a coalition with the FPÖ and another smaller party. On October 14, the SPÖ and the ÖVP agreed to start coalition talks with each other, and on December 16, the second Faymann cabinet was formed by the SPÖ and the ÖVP.


2013 Auto Club 400
The 2013 Auto Club 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on March 24, 2013, at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, United States. Contested over 200 laps on the 2-mile (3.2 km) asphalt D-shaped oval, it was the fifth race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship. Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing won the race, his first of the season, and the first Sprint Cup win at Auto Club for Joe Gibbs, completing a weekend sweep, while Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished second. Joey Logano, Carl Edwards and Kurt Busch rounded out the top five.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Background
Auto Club Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2 miles (3.2 km) long. The track's turns are banked from fourteen degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at eleven degrees. Unlike the front stretch, the backstraightaway is banked at three degrees. The track has a seating capacity of 92,100 people. The race consists of 200 laps, which is equivalent to a race distance of 400 miles (640 km).


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Background
Before the race, Brad Keselowski was leading the Drivers' Championship with 166 points,  while Dale Earnhardt, Jr. stood in second with 157 points. Jimmie Johnson followed in the third position, 23 points ahead of Clint Bowyer and 25 points ahead of Greg Biffle in fourth and fifth. Denny Hamlin, with 125, was one point ahead of Kasey Kahne and Carl Edwards, as Paul Menard was three points ahead of Kyle Busch and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. in tenth and eleventh. Joey Logano completed the first twelve positions with 104 points. The defending winner of the race was Tony Stewart, who won the race in 2012.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions were held before the race. The first session, held on March 22, 2013, was 60 minutes long. The second and third were held on March 23, and were 55 and 50 minutes long. During the first practice session, Bowyer was quickest with a time of 38.832, ahead of Hamlin and A. J. Allmendinger in second and third. Kyle Busch followed in the fourth position, ahead of Logano in fifth.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
In the Saturday morning session, Biffle was quickest, ahead of Allmendinger and Busch in second and third. Hamlin and Kurt Busch followed in the fourth and fifth positions. Bowyer, Mark Martin, Earnhardt, Jr., Martin Truex, Jr., and Logano rounded out the first ten positions. In the final practice session for the race, Martin was quickest with a time of 39.269 seconds. Bowyer followed in second, ahead of Matt Kenseth and Johnson in third and fourth. Keselowski, who was eighteenth quickest in second practice, managed fifth.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
During qualifying, forty-three cars were entered, meaning all of the cars were able to start because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. Hamlin clinched his twelfth career pole position, with a time of 38.410 seconds. After his qualifying run, Hamlin commented,“Honestly, I think our car was really fast. I knew, talking to a few people in my motor home... it’s cocky to say, but I said, ‘Man, I can almost guarantee a pole, if we have a late draw.’ When they told me we were third, I was like, ‘OK. Well, just never mind. Forget that." He was joined on the front row of the grid by Biffle. Keselowski qualified third, Kyle Busch took fourth, and Kenseth started fifth. Logano, Truex, Jr., Tony Stewart, Martin, and Kurt Busch completed the first ten positions on the grid.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Race
With seven laps to go, Joey Logano took the lead after a brief duel with former teammates Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin. Hamlin and Logano had been involved in an incident the previous race at Bristol, with the sentiments carrying over to this race.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Race
Hamlin chased Logano down and the two were side-by-side for most of the final lap, but Logano attempted to block Hamlin in the final turn and was sent up into the outside wall, while Hamlin came off the banking and smashed head-on into the inside concrete retaining wall, allowing Busch to pass both cars on the high side and take the win.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Race
Although Hamlin climbed out of the car right after the crash, he immediately collapsed and lied on the track. He was airlifted to the hospital as a precaution. It was announced the next day that Hamlin had suffered a massive L1 compression fracture, or a collapsed vertebra, likely because the area where his car hit the wall was lacking a SAFER barrier. The resulting injuries forced Hamlin to miss the next four races. Mark Martin filled in for Hamlin at Martinsville while Brian Vickers filled in at Texas, Kansas, and Richmond. Hamlin did not start another race until Talladega in May, although the team arranged for Vickers to take over at the first caution flag pit stop. Hamlin did not return full-time to his race car until the following week at Darlington.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Race
In response to the accident, for 2014, Auto Club Speedway installed an additional 1,000 foot SAFER barrier along the wall where Hamlin's car had impacted.


2013 Auto Club 400, Report, Race
Following the finish, Logano was also involved in an altercation with Stewart after a blocking move made by Logano on Stewart during the final restart. Stewart ended with a 22nd-place finish following the incident. Stewart went on to confront Logano in the pit lane and who had to be restrained by crews from Danica Patrick's team after Logano threw a water bottle at Stewart.


2013 Auto GP Series
The 2013 Auto GP Series was the fourth year of the Auto GP series, and the fifteenth season of the former Euroseries 3000. The championship began on 23 March at Monza in Italy and finished on 6 October at Brno in the Czech Republic, after eight double-header rounds.


2013 Auto GP Series, Race calendar and results
The provisional calendar for the 2013 season was released on 17 January 2013. But on 7 February 2013 was revealed that Moscow Raceway were dropped from schedule due to cost reasons. Silverstone Circuit will take Moscow Raceway's place in the calendar. On 24 April 2013, the calendar was altered again, with dropping Zandvoort due to clash with German GP2 Series and Formula One rounds and changing to Mugello Circuit.


2013 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao general election
The 2013 general election in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) were held on May 13, 2013. Originally scheduled for October 2011, this was the first ARMM election that was synchronized with the general elections in the Philippines; previously, ARMM elections were held outside the general election day. When the elected officials of the 2008 ARMM elections ended their terms in 2011, President Benigno Aquino III appointed officers-in-charge until the officials elected in 2013 can take their place.


2013 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao general election
The governor and vice governor are elected via first past the post system; they are elected separately and may come from different parties. Elections for the regional assembly are via plurality-at-large voting, with each assembly district (coextensive with legislative districts as used in House of Representatives elections) having three seats. A voter has can vote for up to the three candidates, with the candidates with the three highest total number of votes being elected.


2013 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao general election, Results, Regional assembly
These figures came from the COMELEC "Transparency" server and are therefore partial and unofficial.


2013 Autopolis GT 300km
The 2013 Autopolis GT 300 km was the seventh round of the 2013 Super GT season and the 8th points scoring race for GT300 cars. It took place on October 6, 2013 at Autopolis near Kamitsue, Oita, Japan.


2013 Autopolis GT 300km, Background
Dome Racing drivers Frédéric Makowiecki and Naoki Yamamoto were tied on 46 points for the championship lead with Impul's João Paulo de Oliveira and Tsugio Matsuda. Following their win in at the 3 Hours of Fuji Team Mugen extended their championship lead in GT300 to 16 points over the Gainer Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 of Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Björn Wirdheim. With Autopolis being the 2nd last round of the season, instead of having weight ballast equal to twice the number of points scored in the season, teams that competed in all previous 6 races had their weight ballast reduced to the number of points they scored.


2013 Autopolis GT 300km, Background
After running a 2013-spec Porsche 997 GT3, Team Taisan reverted to running a 2012-spec Porsche for balance of performance reasons. The GTA adjusted the balance of performance for both JAF-GT and FIA GT3 cars. For the JAF-GT cars the air restrictor sizes were reduced in an effort to reduce power, however The Toyota Prius was not given any adjustments. The Nissan GT-R GT3 was given a slight increase in boost pressure.


2013 Autopolis GT 300km, Background
39 cars were entered for the race, the only change from the previous round was that the Dijon Racing Callaway Corvette Z06.R GT3 did not enter Autopolis.


2013 Autopolis GT 300km, Report, Practice
The practice session began in wet conditions. The #36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Lexus SC430 was the fastest car in GT500 and the #10 Gainer Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 was the fastest GT300 car. The session was red flagged 13 minutes in after Naoki Yamamoto spun off-road and crashed. The session resumed 9 minutes later but due to worsening conditions few teams completed laps on the circuit. The session was later red flagged 48 minutes in and not restarted due to poor visibility.


2013 Autopolis GT 300km, Report, Qualifying
Qualifying was scheduled to be held on October 5, 2013, but due to the heavy rain and fog that cancelled the practice session, qualifying was cancelled and rescheduled to October 6. Instead of the standard 15 and 8 minute knockout sessions for both GT500 and GT300 cars, there would only be a single 25 minute session for both classes.


2013 Avonair Cash Spiel
The 2013 Avonair Cash Spiel was held from October 4 to 6 at the Avonair Curling Club in Edmonton, Alberta as part of the 2013–14 World Curling Tour.


2013 Azerbaijan Supercup
2013 Azerbaijan Supercup (Azerbaijani: 2013 Futbol üzrə Azərbaycan Superkuboku) was the 4th edition of the Azerbaijan Supercup since its establishment in 1992. The match was contested between the 2012–13 Azerbaijan Premier League champions Neftchi Baku and the 2012–13 Azerbaijan Cup finalists Khazar Lankaran.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Azerbaijan on 9 October 2013. The result was a victory for incumbent President Ilham Aliyev, who received 84.5% of the vote, whilst leading opposition candidate Jamil Hasanli finished second with 5.5% of the vote.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election
The election was marred by claims of irregularities; official results were accidentally released by the government's Central Election Commission through a mobile app before voting began, giving incumbent Aliyev a victory with 72.76% of the vote. The commission later recalled the results, claiming that they were taken from the 2008 elections. This claim has been disputed, given that the results accidentally released included the candidates from the 2013 elections, and that the percentages differed from the 2008 results.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election
OSCE monitors reported candidate and voter intimidation and a restrictive media environment, including arrests and the use of force against journalists and activists. 92% of the coverage on the six main TV channels were dedicated to the incumbent president.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Background
All previous elections in Azerbaijan observed by OSCE fell short of meeting international standards.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Background
In 2009 an amendment was made to the Constitution of Azerbaijan, which abolished the limit of two consecutive presidential terms and allowed incumbent Aliyev, who had already served for two terms, to run for president for unlimited number of times. The constitutional amendment was condemned by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, which stated that "the abolition of existing limits preventing the unlimited re-election of a President is a step back, in terms of democratic achievements". The amendment was also criticized by the Azerbaijani opposition. On the basis of the amendment in 2013 Ilham Aliyev ran for president for the third time.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Background
After his visit to Azerbaijan the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Jean-Claude Mignon called on the authorities to fully respect their obligations.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Background
However, overall, in 2013 elections the Central Election Commission (CEC) demonstrated efficiency in administrative preparations for the elections and observed the legal deadlines.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Candidates
On 7 June 2013 the New Azerbaijan Party nominated incumbent President Ilham Aliyev as their official presidential candidate. MP Mubariz Gurbanli announced that according to the Election Code of Azerbaijan Republic, the party had not only filled its signature requirements but could get more than the minimum 40,000 required signatures. He said: "The signature lists have been ready for already 4-5 days, but they can be submitted to the Central Election Commission starting from 20 August, that is, 50 days before the elections under the legislation. So, our employees will submit the signature lists to CEC tomorrow. Under the law, the CEC will issue a document confirming the candidate’s participation in the elections after it reviews them."


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Candidates
In the meantime, playwright Rustam Ibragimbekov was chosen as the leader of the newly created National Council of Democratic Forces. The NCDF brought together main opposition forces, including Musavat, the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party, Open Society, Forum of Intellectuals. The alliance set as its main goal the "peaceful transition to democracy." Ibragimbekov was denied registration by the Central Election Commission because he "along with the citizenship of Azerbaijan, also of Russian citizenship and his commitment to the Russian Federation."


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Candidates
In late August, the united opposition picked historian Jamil Hasanli as its candidate. During the rally on September 28, Hasanli called on people to vote for him to "end the dictatorship of one family in Azerbaijan." A day before the election, main opposition candidate Jamil Hasanli stated that he is "running in this election with the paramount aim of ending 20 years of the Aliyev dynasty's misrule of my country, and restoring Azerbaijani democracy."


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Conduct
An official smartphone app run by the Central Election Commission inadvertently released final election results a day before polls had opened. The results showed Ilham Aliyev having won with 72.76% of the recorded votes, while the nearest opposing candidate, Jamil Hasanli, tallied just 7.4%. The data was recalled, with an official claim that the app's developer had mistakenly tested the app with the 2008 election results, but the data released did not match the voter totals nor percentages of the previous election.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Conduct
On 10 October Hasanli called for the results to be annulled due to vote-rigging, claiming the elections were not free and fair because of electoral fraud and government control of all television channels.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Reactions
Azerbaijani officials have bashed those who criticizes their elections. The Chief of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ramiz Mehdiyev, accused the US officials in recommending them to rig the elections to show that the incumbent President Ilham Aliyev was winning with 75% of the votes and to give 25% to the opposition candidate, to make it look believable. Mehdiyev also attempted to deflect the international condemnation by claiming the U.S. elections are illegitimate. The United States denied these accusations, terming them “completely false”.


2013 Azerbaijani presidential election, Reactions, International scandal
The controversial assessments by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe/European Parliament and OSCE/ODIHR sparked a major scandal, as for the first time the reports of these authoritative European organizations openly contradicted one other. Further, many European experts and parliamentarians, among them also deputies of the European Parliament, harshly criticized the reports of the European Parliament and PACE as being biased.