Maccabi Australia is a Jewish Australian sporting organisation.
[1] It was affiliated with the Maccabi World Union,[2] and organised Australian Jewish Interstate Sports Carnivals.
[4] Four Australian athletes attending the 1997 Maccabiah Games died as a result of a bridge collapse during the opening ceremony.
[5][6][7][8] In 2014, Maccabi Australia committed to implementing member protection policies and procedures, particularly for children, as a result of the conviction for child sex offences of a coach employed by Maccabi Australia in the late 1990s.
Teams from Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and New Zealand competed.