–––– Australia competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.

120 competitors, 92 men and 28 women, took part in 92 events in 17 sports.

[1] For the first time in the Olympics history, there were two flag bearers, Denise Boyd (athletics) and Max Metzker (swimming), Australia's first joint-flag carriers, carried the Olympic flag in the opening ceremony instead of the national flag.

In the third Olympic archery competition that Australia contested, the nation sent two women and one man.

Carole Toy, a veteran of the 1972 Games, repeated her 15th-place performance despite shooting 20 points lower.