Country Summary: AUSTRALIA

 Team colours: Gold jersey, green shorts
 Team Nickname: Wallabies

World Cup track record:

1995 World Cup: Lost to South Africa (winners) in pool game and never recovered from the setback. While beating Canada and Romania in their other pool games they lost their quarter-final game to England with a last minute drop goal by Rob Andrew. 1991 World Cup: Won, beating England in the final and NZ in a semi-final. 1987 World Cup: performed below expectations (lost in semi-finals to France)

Recent Internationals:

1994 Won all tests including vs Ireland, Italy, Western Samoa and New Zealand 1993 Lost to New Zealand. Won one, lost one to France.

National Setup:

Captain - Phil Kearns Manager - Coach - Bob Dwyer Assistant Coach - Bob Templeton Selectors - John Connelly + ?

Inter-State Champions

New South Wales?

1995 Fixtures

Sunday 30 April v. Argentina (Ballymore, Brisbane) Saturday 6 May v. Argentina (S.F.S., Sydney) Thursday 25 May v. South Africa (R.W.C. Pool A game) Wednesday 31 May v. Canada (R.W.C. Pool A game) Saturday 3 June v. Romania (R.W.C. Pool A game) Sat/Sun 10/11 June R.W.C. Quarter Finals Sat/Sun 17/18 June R.W.C. Semi Finals Thursday 22 June R.W.C. 3rd/4th Play Off Saturday 24 June R.W.C. Final Saturday 22 July v. New Zealand (Auckland) Saturday 29 July v. New Zealand (S.F.S., Sydney)

Plus: Sat-Mon 10-12 June Womens Rugby Championships (Canberra)

Thursday 28 Sept. "Wallabies" v. "Barbarians" (Olympic Park, Melbourne)