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Desiree Miller runs in to score a try during the women’s International Test match between Australia and Fiji in Sydney in July 2024

Protest to progress: How Wallaroos won their fight for a better deal

In 2023, the majority of the Wallaroos squad protested against their treatment by RA. Now, they are ready to compete in the World Cup.

  • Jonathan Drennan

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Aussie sevens womens team players who are committing to XVs rugby in 2025 to try and make the Rugby World Cup. Teagan Levi, Maddison Levi and Charlotte Caslick at Rugby Australia HQ in Moore Park, Thursday 12th of December 2024. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos / The Sydney Morning Herald

Can Charlotte Caslick and co help Australia win a Rugby World Cup? We’re about to find out

A group of Australia’s sevens superstars, including Charlotte Caslick and Maddison Levi, will switch to 15s next year to try to help the Wallaroos win a world crown.

  • Iain Payten
Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii takes on England at Twickenham.

Win Bledisloe every two years: Rugby Australia sets out bold five-year goals

A new strategy paper through to 2029 released by RA includes some lofty ambitions.

  • Iain Payten
Rugby Future Fund investors Brian O’Sullivan (left) and Geoff Wilson.

Billion-dollar ball game: Big end of town could produce cash bonanza for Australian rugby

Australian rugby has called on some of the country’s leading investors and fund managers to help fund every level of the game.

  • Jonathan Drennan
Lukas Ripley

There’ll be one winner in the Rebels v Rugby Australia battle – lawyers

Rebels have failed to read the room with their legal action against Rugby Australia.

  • Paul Cully
Biola Dawa is an inspiration to her family and her community.

Biola Dawa was born in a refugee camp in Uganda. Now she plays rugby for Australia

After her family fled the civil war and sought a better life in Australia, Biola Dawa became the first person of Sudanese heritage to play Test rugby for Australia last weekend.

  • Iain Payten
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Wallabies young gun Tom Lynagh and Wallaroos debutant Nat Wright.

Rugby July Tests as it happened: Wonderful Wright try helps Wallabies to 25-16 win over Wales

After nine months of soul-searching, the Wallabies have started with a win under new coach Joe Schmidt.

  • Tom Decent, Iain Payten and Jonathan Drennan
Jo Yapp, coach of the Wallaroos, and Joe Schmidt, coach of the Wallabies, at Allianz Stadium.

The Jo(e) glow: How Australia jagged a pair of world-renowned coaches

Not much went right for Australian rugby in 2023. But it shocked many when they finished the year with two star coaches.

  • Iain Payten
Family scrum … the Fuesaina girls muck around at the Wallaroos’ hotel.

She dusted off her boots to beat depression. Now this scrum mum is about to play for Australia

Wallaroos debutant Sally Fuesaina, 32, may need ice packs in bed instead of breakfast on Mother’s Day this Sunday.

  • Iain Payten
Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh (left) with the new Wallaroos head coach Jo Yapp (right) in the training facility at Rugby Australia in February

‘They’ve listened’: Wallaroos hail sweetened investment in women’s rugby

A six-year sponsorship deal with Cadbury will take the Wallaroos to the home World Cup in 2029 and provide crucial investment on the road to professionalism.

  • Jonathan Drennan

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