NSW playmaker Bernard Foley has a simple plan for getting the best out of Israel Folau this Super Rugby season: give the game-breaking back the ball as often as possible.

The Waratahs are confident that the growing pains experienced during last year's Super Rugby season will lead to sustained success this season.

Up and coming NSW hard man Jack Dempsey has had a taste of higher honours but wants to nail the basics first.

He wears Waratah blue for a living but there's only one option for Israel Folau if the 'State of Union' concept gets off the ground - maroon.

The advent of strict new laws to rid rugby of the head-high tackle are already changing Super Rugby.

With few boxes left to tick in Australian rugby, Waratahs coach Daryl Gibson has set his freakishly consistent No.7, Michael Hooper, a fresh challenge.

The Australian Women's Rugby Sevens team and the Waratahs are training together to bring the best out of each other.

Western Sydney must have a Super Rugby team, according to the new man in charge of the Shute Shield.

Wallabies star Kurtley Beale will put his seven-month injury hell behind him this weekend when he makes his long-awaited Wasps debut.

Rugby "state of origin" receives crucial backing from head office, but the concept will have to go ahead without the country's top 30 players.

As a funding war threatens the top brass in rugby league, a powerful rugby administrator has a warning for the Australian Rugby Union.

Powerhouse back-rower Jed Holloway is pledging to fill a leadership void as the NSW Waratahs undergo a massive generational change in 2017.

Former NSW Rugby Union chairman Nick Farr-Jones has been cleared of serious wrongdoing over a secret loan to former Wallaby Jim Williams. 

An Indigenous education foundation run by renowned Australian rugby brothers Glen, Mark and Gary Ella is standing by former Wallaby Jim Williams in the wake of revelations he was the recipient of a secret loan from the NSW Rugby Union last year. 

The Western Force have pulled off a major coup luring Wallabies hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau to Perth on a one-year deal. 

David Pocock will trade state of the art gyms for the southern Africa wilderness when he begins a sabbatical from the rugby.

Michael Cheika will set about blooding new talent - and plenty of it - as the rugby world reacts to the Wallabies coach's latest rant.

The ACT Brumbies say they will continue working with the ARU to find a way to make rugby financially viable, conceding the game must change for it to be successful in the future.

Tribalism is delivering the A-League its time in the sun just as Australian Super Rugby teams are being forced to survive on less and less of it.