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| Full name | MacKillop Sharks Rugby League Club |
| Colours | Light Blue Navy Black White |
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| Competition | Darwin Rugby League |
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| Premierships | 3 (2007, 2016, 2017) |
| Runners-up | 2 (1997, 2009) |
MacKillop Sharks Rugby League Club, formerly known as the University Sharks, was an Australian Rugby League club which competed in the Northern Territory Rugby League competition, based out of MacKillop Catholic College in Palmerston, NT. The Club was originally founded in 1973 as the Northern Suburbs Sharks. [1] It relocated to Palmerston in 2014 in a Partnership with MacKillop. [2] The club was disbanded at the end of 2016, being succeeded by the Northern Sharks [3] and the MacKillop Saints, [4] the latter of which switched codes to Rugby Union in 2018. [5]
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With a population of 139,902 at the 2021 census, the city contains most of the sparsely populated Northern Territory's residents. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre.
Palmerston is a planned satellite city of Darwin, the capital and largest city of Australia's Northern Territory. The city is situated approximately 20 kilometres from Darwin and 10 kilometres from Howard Springs and the surrounding rural areas. Palmerston had a population of 33,695 at the 2016 census, making it the second largest city in the Northern Territory.
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MacKillop College may refer to several Catholic schools in Australia named in honour of Mary MacKillop:
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MacKillop Catholic College is a Catholic co-educational secondary school located in Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia. The College opened in 2012 and provides a religious and general education for students from Year 7 to Year 12.
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