Victory ensured New Zealand, who recorded their 13th consecutive Test victory, retained the Bledisloe Cup for the seventh straight year.

BBC: New Zealand 20-10 Australia

They move on to face unbeaten New Zealand in the first of this year's Bledisloe Cup fixtures in Melbourne next Saturday.

BBC: Australia 30-13 South Africa

But the triumph in Brisbane on Saturday, which sealed their fourth straight Tri-Nations title and their sixth successive Bledisloe Cup, will go some way to answering the critics.

BBC: Australia 24-28 New Zealand

It feels a bit strange to be heading to a Bledisloe Cup Test outside of New Zealand or Australia, but we need to promote rugby in other parts of the world.

BBC: Zinzan Brooke column

Hoping to catch the Bledisloe Cup, the fixture between the Wallabies and All Blacks, he turned on Channel 7, the television rights-holder, but found it was instead broadcasting The Sound of Music.

BBC: Australia: What the rest of the world gets wrong

The Wallabies rugby union team is third in the world rankings - above England and France - but it has not won the Bledisloe Cup against New Zealand's mighty All Blacks for a decade.

BBC: Is Australian sport badly broken?

The win is New Zealand's record eighth in a row against Australia and means they are certain to retain the Bledisloe Cup ahead of the two teams' next Tri-Nations meeting in Christchurch on Saturday 7 August.

BBC: Australia 28-49 New Zealand

Cooper's previous good disciplinary record was one factor taken into consideration, but the 22-year-old will now miss next Saturday's match against New Zealand in Melbourne and the 7 August Bledisloe Cup test in Christchurch following his spear tackle on opposite number Morne Steyn, for which he was sin-binned.

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