Rival Netball ACT grand finalists Jo Pivac and Tess Pennell believe Netball Australia's new pay deal will ignite interest in the sport.

Madi Robinson can not talk about her destination - Collingwood - until her contract is signed and cleared by the compliance manager employed to police netball's expanded $675,000 salary cap.

In a new era for women's sport in Australia, the game with more than 500,000 participants is finally rewarding the elite few at the pointy end with a significant step towards the full-time professionalism it is hoped will arrive within five years.

Jo Weston and Gretel Tippett have been added to the Diamonds' squad for the four Constellation Cup netball Tests against New Zealand.

Australian captain Laura Geitz won't play netball for at least the next year after it was announced she's pregnant with her first child.

Change is looming for the all-conquering Queensland Firebirds after two settled years and consecutive trans-Tasman titles, with brilliant centre Kim Ravaillion revealed as the latest high-profile name committed to joining Collingwood's star-studded list.

Fears that new the birth of powerful new rival Collingwood would diminish the nine-year-old Melbourne Vixens have been realised, with captain Madi Robinson set to defect to the Magpies for the inaugural national league season. 

The ANZ Championship may exist no longer, but the trans-Tasman rivalry has entered its next exciting phase, Diamonds shooter Caitlin Bassett logging an international best 52 goals in Australia's 60-55 win over New Zealand in Melbourne.

Arawang have advanced to the State League netball grand final with a 61-52 victory over Canberra at the ACT Netball Centre on Saturday.

If the question is which tenacious blonde Queensland Firebirds triple-premiership defender has  captained the Diamonds with distinction this year, the answer is not the one you might think. No, not the feted and decorated Laura Geitz, but her lower-profile teammate and close friend Clare McMeniman.

Lisa Alexander, maths teacher, is wary of using numbers to measure sporting performance. But Lisa Alexander, Australian Diamonds head coach, estimates the amount of improvement needed to beat New Zealand in Sunday's inaugural Quad Series decider is a minimum of 20 per cent.

Australia's Diamonds have cruised to victory over England in the Netball Quad Series on the back of a dominant performance from shooter Caitlin Bassett.

The Melbourne Vixens' greatest player, Sharelle McMahon, is among Collingwood's latest recruiting targets, as clubs unable to officially finalise player contracts continue to assemble coaching teams for next year's revamped national league.

​ Australia's Diamonds have dismissed talk of complacency as they prepare to take on England in the Netball Quad Series on Wednesday.

Netball Australia has ruled out introducing a two-point shot in next year's revamped national league, but says it remains under consideration.

A dominant offensive display from Diamonds shooters Caitlin Bassett and Caitlin Thwaites has led the world champions to a 68-43 win over South Africa in their Netball Quad Series opener.

When the mother of self-confessed neat freak Madi Robinson dropped in for a recent visit, Chris Browne was surprised to see an untidy riot of gold and green. A new Australian Diamonds uniform had just been tried on and paraded, ecstatically, two years after the last had been worn.

The Melbourne Storm-backed side entering the new eight-team all-Australian netball league next year will be known as ...

Netball's key stakeholders will return to the negotiating table on Thursday, but the delay in finalising the terms of the collective bargaining agreement is unlikely to allow players to be contracted for next year's relaunched domestic league for at least another week.