• Tom Decent

Quade Cooper has been dropped from an extended Wallabies squad.

• Adrian Warren

Former Wallabies back Rod Kafer wants to help make Australian rugby great again after being charged with setting up a National Coaching Advisory Panel, his first official role in the game for more than a decade.

• Tom Decent

Wallabies star Kurtley Beale was overcome with emotion and said it was a special feeling to unveil a special Indigenous jersey in Redfern on Monday.

• Tom Decent

Kurtley Beale says he is eyeing off a Wallabies No.12 jersey ahead of the international season and wants to help the NSW Waratahs turn their fortunes around after a torrid year.

• Marc Hinton

If you're the Wallabies and Springboks, you just might want to put that ticker-tape order on the back-burner, writes March Hinton

• Tom Decent

Alan Jones is set to make a shock return to coaching by taking charge of a Barbarians team that will play the Wallabies in October.

• Tom Decent

This time last year Wallabies star David Pocock was digging balls out of breakdowns and winning turnovers for his country and beloved ACT Brumbies. Now he's digging holes in a garden in South Africa.

• Marc Hinton

The fans came to celebrate, but it ended in stalemate. Would you believe it? In the most controversial of circumstances, the All Blacks and British and Irish Lions could not be separated in a dramatic final, deciding test at Eden Park.

• Matthew Burke

As the Super Rugby season stutters back to life and all eyes look across the ditch at the All Blacks-Lions decider, one question about the state of the game in Australia comes to mind: How did it come to this?

• Tom Decent

The Rugby Union Players' Association believes the impending move of two South African Super Rugby franchises to the European Pro12 competition is a perfect reason why Australia should not cut a team of its own and instead push for a trans-Tasman competition in the future.

• Tom Decent

Wallaroos captain Shannon Parry admits she was worried by how her latest appointment would be received by teammates but is thrilled to have the chance to lead Australia at the upcoming World Cup.

• Paul Cully

Lions captain Sam Warburton is a bit of a naughty boy.

• Paul Hayward

​Faltering backs have taken blame and are desperate to avenge defeat.

• Tom Decent

The Australian Rugby Union's crackdown on concussions has taken another productive step with a blue card trialled for the first time in Sydney at the Australian Schools Championship.

• Hamish Bidwell

New Zealand's series against the British and Irish Lions will go to a decider, after the visitors won a bruising, memorable second test at Westpac Stadium 24-21. With the teams now locked at 1-1, the third test at Eden Park on Saturday will be fought for a place in history.

• Tom Decent

Waratahs hooker Tolu Latu has been sent back to club rugby after being told by Michael Cheika he arrived into Wallabies camp unfit.

• Tom Decent

World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont has backed Australian rugby to recover from a tumultuous year and thrown his support behind the idea of a Pacific Island Super Rugby team.

• Mark Geenty

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has called for an end to a perceived 'war of words' with his British and Irish Lions counterpart Warren Gatland and says he's looking forward to sharing a beer at series end.

• Greg Stutchbury

British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland has handed captain Sam Warburton a start in one of three changes to the side beaten 30-15 last weekend for Saturday's second test against New Zealand.

• Mark Geenty

Lions tour form is the right form for All Blacks coach Steve Hansen, who has elevated Waisake Naholo and Ngani Laumape into his second test lineup with a series victory beckoning.

• Tom Decent

Wallaroos captain Ash Hewson believes Australia can top their pool at the upcoming Rugby World Cup in what she says will be her last major tournament.

• Tom Decent

Nathan Grey will join the Wallabies on a full-time basis following Australia's worst defensive year on record, while Simon Cron says it will be a pleasure to work at the Waratahs after being confirmed as assistant coach next season.

• Tom Decent

Australian sevens Olympic gold medallists Sharni Williams and Shannon Parry have been named in the Wallaroos' 28-woman squad for the upcoming Rugby World Cup in Ireland

• Gavin Mairs

Warren Gatland has admitted that the public furore over his decision to call six players in to his British and Irish Lions squad because of their proximity to New Zealand forced him to reconsider playing them in the final two midweek matches of the tour.

The All Blacks are hell-bent on committing cynical and illegal fouls to stop the Lions, according to former England and Ireland internationals.

• Tom Decent

Waratahs coach says it is difficult for Michael Cheika and Stephen Moore to declare Super Rugby players are not fit enough for Tests.

• Tom Decent

Fullback Israel Folau believes the Wallabies' back line has gelled together nicely throughout the three June Tests.

• Tom Decent

Michael Cheika is adamant the Wallabies can beat the All Blacks and break a 15-year Bledisloe Cup drought. But if you happen to find yourself laughing at the Australian coach, he doesn't blame you.

Eben Etzebeth has scored a try epitomising the revival of South Africa following their disastrous 2016 with the Springboks clean-sweeping their three-match home series with France with a 35-12 victory at Ellis Park.