Article: Australia in with a big shout; Australia coach Rod Macqueen knows the best is definitely yet to come from his Green and Gold gang.(Sports)

AUSTRALIA are strongly fancied in some quarters to emulate their cricketing cousins and claim a second world championship in a Commonwealth-dominated discipline for the country that wants to cut its ties with the British monarchy and become a republic.

As the only team to have blotted New Zealand's copybook this year, Australia, whose 28-7 Sydney success over the All Blacks last month becomes all the more noteworthy when one considers that three world-class Wallabies - Queensland lock John Eales, ACT fly-half Stephen Larkham and Brumbies wing Joe Roff sat out the ...

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