{"id":181612,"date":"2025-10-01T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181612\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:46:12","slug":"ella-on-stage-at-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181612\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella on stage at Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coonamble\u2019s home-grown rugby referee Ella Goldsmith knocked over another milestone when she officiated the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup bronze final on 27 September.<\/p>\n<p>Ella blew the starting whistle in front of 82,000 people at London&#8217;s Allianz Stadium, where France and New Zealand fought for third place.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first Australian to referee a medal match at the tournament since Amy Perrett in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been like nothing I\u2019ve done before,&#8221; Ella said ahead of the final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s definitely been challenging \u2014 full of . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/latest-online-editions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Access to this content is available via a current Coonamble Times subscription.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration-hover,underline); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset-hover,var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs))); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); outline-color: var(--color-body); filter: var(--link-filter-hover,unset);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/register\/your-membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscriber log-in<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/latest-online-editions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase single issue downloads<\/a> of the Coonamble Times online editions for only $2.50 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/online-subscriptions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become a subscriber<\/a> for full access to online flip-books, archive downloads and the latest local news content.<\/p>\n<p>For free content see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/category\/news-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Featured Local News<\/a> category<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coonamble\u2019s home-grown rugby referee Ella Goldsmith knocked over another milestone when she officiated the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[28950,64,63,2289,760,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-181612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-2025-news","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}