The 1982 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand was a series of fourteen matches played by the

Australia national rugby union team The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the ...

(nicknamed the Wallabies) in

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

between July and September 1982 . The Wallabies won ten of the fourteen matches and lost the other four.Rothmans Yearbook, 1983, p63 The international match series against the

New Zealand national rugby union team The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ...

(the All Blacks) resulted in a 2–1 win for New Zealand, who won the first and third matches, with Australia winning the second match. New Zealand thereby regained the

Bledisloe Cup The Bledisloe Cup is an annual rugby union competition originally staged between the national teams of Australia's Wallabies and New Zealand's All Blacks that has been contested since the 1930s. The frequency that the competition is held has va ...

, which had been held by Australia since 1979.Rothmans Yearbook, 1983, p62 The Australian touring party lacked international experience. Nine senior players were unavailable for the tour and seventeen of the thirty selected for the tour had not been capped by Australia previously. Only five of the sixteen forwards had played internationals.Rothmans Yearbook, 1983, p61 Despite losing the international series the tour proved good for the future of Australian rugby – in his assessment for ''Rothmans Rugby Yearbook'' New Zealand writer Don Cameron stated that "This represented the greatest triumph of all...Australia now has a deep fund of test-tried players". Amongst the new players selected by Australia was

David Campese David Ian Campese, AM (born 21 October 1962), also known as Campo, is a former Australian rugby union player (1982-1996), who was capped by the Wallabies 101 times, and played 85 Tests at wing and 16 at fullback. He retired in 1996 and was aw ...

, who would go on to play for Australia 101 times and score 64 tries in international matches, which remains an Australia record as of 2015.

Matches

:''Scores and results list Australia's points tally first.''

Touring party

*Manager:

Chilla Wilson Charles 'Chilla' Roy Wilson (4 May 1931 – 2 September 2016) was an Australian national representative rugby union flanker and national captain. He was tour manager on a number of Wallaby international tours of the 1980s including the 1984 Wal ...

*Assistant Manager (Coach): Bob Dwyer *Captain:

Mark Ella Mark Gordon Ella, AM (born 5 June 1959) is an indigenous Australian former rugby union footballer. Ella played at flyhalf/five-eighth and was capped by the Wallabies 25 times, captaining Australia on 10 occasions. Ella made his debut tour wit ...

Backs

* Roger Gould *

Glen Ella Glen Joseph Ella (born 5 June 1959) is a former Australian rugby union player and coach. Ella played as a Fullback for Randwick, Manly and New South Wales. Ella also represented Australia in the 1980s, however, did not play at the first Rugby W ...

* Peter Grigg *Michael Martin *

Andrew Slack Andrew Gerard Slack (born 24 September 1955 in Brisbane) is an Australian former state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in 19 Test matches in between 1984 and 1987. His 133 appearances for Queensland be ...

*P. Southwell *

Gary Ella Gary Albert Ella (born 23 July 1960) is an Australian former rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two c ...

*Ross Hanley *Michael Hawker *Tim Lane *

*Philip Cox *Dominic Vaughan

Forwards

Duncan Hall Duncan Hall (24 August 192518 January 2011) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, singled out as having been amongst the greatest of the 20th century. He played in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership f ...

* Steve Tuynman *Chris Roche * Simon Poidevin *Peter Lucas *Ross Reynolds *Shane Nightingale * Steve Cutler *Phil Clements * Steve Williams *John Coolican *J. Griffiths * Andy McIntyre *John Meadows * Stan Pilecki *Bruce Malouf *Lance Walker

Notes

References

*Steve Jones (ed), Rothmans Rugby Yearbook 1983–84, {{DEFAULTSORT:1982 Australia Rugby Union Tour Of New Zealand Australia Australia national rugby union team tours of New Zealand

tour Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism, travel for pleasure * Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service * Campus tour, a journey through a college or university's campus * Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed ...

1982 in Oceanian rugby union it:Tour della Nazionale di rugby a 15 dell'Australia 1980