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Pettitt leads Swifts over Thunderbirds

Goal attack Susan Pettitt led the NSW Swifts to a 14-goal trans-Tasman netball league win on Saturday over the Adelaide Thunderbirds.

Up and down end to season for Canberra Darters

James Hall The Canberra Darters have ended their Australian Netball League season in bitter-sweet fashion with a win over the Queensland Fusion on Friday and a comprehensive loss on Saturday.

Codes unite to fight violence against women

Samantha Lane A full-time female investigator was quietly added to the AFL's integrity unit last month.

Canberra Darters look to end season on a high

James Hall The Canberra Darters are looking to get their first win of the ANL season.

Vixens, Fever in must-win clash

Linda Pearce Two teams, one play-off spot. The first of their two meetings decided by just one goal. Two rounds left after this Sunday, but, for the Melbourne Vixens and West Coast Fever, equal on wins and separated by less than a single percentage point, this is the one that really counts.

Layton and Collingwood – the perfect fit?

Linda Pearce Charismatic Victorian-bred NSW Swifts defender Sharni Layton looms as a key recruiting target in the frenzy for signatures that will follow the final ANZ Championship season, as speculation grows over potential player movement ahead of next year's eight-team national league.

More imports to be allowed in new netball competition

Netball Australia will loosen the reins on its import restrictions and tighten its salary cap observance for next year's revamped competition.

Vixens take third spot with big win over Mystics

Linda Pearce Normality returned to the ANZ Championship after a Saturday of upsets on both sides of the Tasman, as the Melbourne Vixens continued their quest for a top-three finish in the Australian conference with a 69-46 drubbing of the Northern Mystics.

Swifts blow their chance at top spot

Michael Parris The NSW Swifts missed a chance to move to the top of the ANZ Championship Australian conference when they lost 58-57 to West Coast Fever at Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Saturday night.

Layton and Watts bond as 'strong chicks'

David Polkinghorne Chance Commonwealth Games meeting brings Diamond and Canberra boxer together.

No mystery about Vixens' play-off mission

Linda Pearce Madi Robinson glanced at the scoreboard about 10 minutes into last Saturday's 12-goal loss to the Queensland Firebirds and felt embarrassed by how few of the defenders' hard-won turnovers had been converted by the strugging attack of which she is part.

Netball program helping disadvantaged girls

David Sygall More women than men live in poverty in Australia and fewer women participate in sport. Netball Australia wants to do what it can to change that.

Vixens aiming for a swift repeat against the Firebirds

Linda Pearce The shock result during last year's Netball World Cup came not in a finals game that mattered, but a preliminary round that did not. However, when New Zealand upset the heavily favoured – and eventual champion – Australians in a pool match, they had poked the bear. Similarly, is it the Queensland Firebirds who have been prodded now?

McKinnis expected to stay in Vixens' den

Linda Pearce Melbourne Vixens' 2014 premiership coach Simone McKinnis has been endorsed for a contract extension by Netball Victoria president Jenny Sanchez, but insists she will not be distracted from the team focus by any personal uncertainty caused by the establishment of the new national league.

'Clearly people will have to go': Wright

David Sygall The new-look netball competition will mean more opportunities for more players. But it also might spell the end of the Swifts group as we know it.

One strike not the end for Firebirds

Linda Pearce No team has won consecutive ANZ Championships in the competition's eight-year history, but Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander believes the end of defending champion Queensland Firebirds' record 21-game winning streak is nothing more than a temporary setback.

Alexander: Diamonds-Silver Ferns rivalry the winner in netball revamp

Linda Pearce Diamonds head coach Lisa Alexander believes the dismantling of the ANZ Championship in favour of a return to stand-alone national leagues in Australia and New Zealand is likely to benefit and refresh the international trans-Tasman competition that has long been netball's crown jewel.