Newcastle Australian Football League Newcastle Australian Football League The Newcastle Australian Football League was an Australian rules football competition in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The first clubs (Wallsend and Plattsburg) began in 1883, however the competition proper began in 1888 with teams contesting for the Black Diamond Cup, now Australia's oldest sporting trophy and presently contested in the Black Diamond Australian Football League. In 1894, popularity of Australian rules waned. In 1948, after World War II, a 4 team competition was reborn - the first properly constituted competition in the region. The competing clubs were Waratah, Mayfield, Newcastle City and
1917 Newcastle state by-election reported that there had been "great indignation" about the state of the rolls, with voters who "had their cards and transfer notices" not being on the certified roll. The newspaper also noted that the time at which the polls closed and the location of the polling booth in Port Augusta differed from that at the Commonwealth elections one week prior. Butterworth lost the Senate race at the federal election, reclaimed his Newcastle seat at the 1918 state election and would go on to be a senior minister in state Labor governments during the 1920s. 1917 Newcastle state by-election The Newcastle