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<\/p>\nThe Jillaroos have sent another reminder of the gap between them and the rest of the world, defending their Pacific Cup crown with a 40-8 win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n
One year out from a home World Cup and after a season that began with a 90-4 drubbing of England in Las Vegas, Australia again showed their class on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Tested by New Zealand in a low-scoring 10-4 encounter in Auckland last week, it was entirely different story with a trophy on the line at CommBank Stadium.<\/p>\n
Australia led 24-0 after 31 minutes, and while the Kiwi Ferns got two tries back in the second half the hosts never looked like being troubled.<\/p>\n
So clear is Australia’s dominance, there was barely a celebration from Jillaroos players when the final siren went.<\/p>\n
Their tries came in every way, with ominous signs from the moment Olivia Kernick slid over under the posts from first receiver in the third minute.<\/p>\n
Playing in her first international series Jesse Southwell stood up at halfback, kicking across field for a high-flying Julia Robinson to score.<\/p>\n
Quincy Dodd hit Keilee Joseph on the chest to put her through a gaping hole next to the posts for one try, and Ellie Johnston crashed over for another.<\/p>\n
And even when New Zealand looked like they were going to post first-half points just before the break, Australia swung the play in their favour.<\/p>\n
After Robinson pulled Shanice Parker down in the corner, the Jillaroos went coast-to-coast next set when Jakaya Whitfield stepped into a hole and put Jess Sergis into space.<\/p>\n
Tamika Upton also went over for her customary try in the second half, doing so in typical fashion when she dummied to the left and created a hole to run through.<\/p>\n
New Zealand were able to go in twice through Parker and Tysha Ikenasio, but by then the contest was effectively over.<\/p>\n
And when Robinson crossed for her second on the fulltime siren, the Jillaroos had completed their biggest win over the Kiwi Ferns in three years.<\/p>\n
Australia are certain to enter next year’s World Cup as the clear favourites, after winning the past three global tournaments and losing just one Test since 2016.<\/p>\n
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Tysha Ikenasio dives over for a four-pointer at CommBank Stadium. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)<\/p>\n
New Zealand will again loom as their biggest challengers, but will need to lift significantly in order to do so.<\/p>\n
Samoa have proven in this Pacific Cup they are a team on the improve, after at one stage leading New Zealand 20-0 before being run down.<\/p>\n
But even they were beaten 60-0 by Australia a fortnight ago, with no end to the Jillaroos’ dominance in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jillaroos have sent another reminder of the gap between them and the rest of the world, defending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,51494,120943,40040,1736,44,40044,21418],"class_list":["post-272558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-commbank","tag-julia-robinson","tag-kiwi-ferns","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-pacific-cup","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272558","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=272558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}