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List of Australian Jillaroos team players

There have been over 150 women's rugby league footballers who have been selected to represent Australia women's national rugby league team since the nation first started playing international matches in 1995.

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Last updated: 10 November 2025. The sources section below provides an explanation of the many sources used in the initial preparation of this list. Tries and goals are incomplete for nine matches in the years 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2007, and 2008. See the points section below for further details. Match appearances are incomplete for the years 1995 to 2011, as full line-ups (of seventeen players) are currently only available for 13 of the 38 matches. Notes Positions • Where a player has played in more than one position, the most common is listed first. • The following abbreviations are used • FB = • WG = • CE = • FE = • HB = • PR = • SR = • LK = • IN = • Interchange (IN) is listed only when a player's appearances have all been off the interchange bench. • An asterisk indicates position(s) played in other representative matches where the player's position for the Jillaroos is unknown. Matches • Numbers in bold in the matches (M) column are drawn from the Most Appearances section of a Jillaroos history article that the NRL published in January 2021. • For Tahnee Norris the initial list has 33 matches, whilst a 2024 article announcing her induction into the NRL Hall of Fame has 32 matches. • The match tally for Tarsha Gale is drawn from an article announcing her induction into the NRL Hall of Fame. • Numbers in bold italics in the matches column are drawn from a Souths Logan Magpies Honours Board. This list includes players that joined the Magpies both before and after making their Jillaroos debut. Points • The tally of individual tries and goals is missing detail from nine matches. • 1996 vs Great Britain (Second Test), all 12 points unknown • 1998 vs Fiji (First Test), there are three contradictory reports. • A syndicated report gives a score of 68 to nil and states the Tahnee Norris scored two tries and Loretta O’Neill three tries. The report also mentions that Tarsha Gale was captain, and that Karen Shaw suffered a wrist injury during the match. • A match report in the Fiji Times gives a score of 72 to nil and lists try and point scorers in the first half and try scorers (only) in the second half. Combining the halves tallies to 14 tries and 3 goals for 62 points. Try scorers were listed as Murphy 3, Campbell 2, O’Neill 2, Anderson, Billing, Dwyer, White, Gale, Moss, and Merritt. The report is accompanied by three match photos. • The table reflects the syndicated report, but only on the basis that it was the first account to be "found". • Karen Shaw was ruled of one of the two Tests with concussion after a crossbar fell on her shortly after the completion of a fitness test. The recollection of at least one player was that this incident occurred before the First Test. • 1999 vs New Zealand (First Test), all 10 points unknown. • 1999 vs New Zealand (Second Test), only 18 of 22 points known. A video of the last 70 minutes of the match posted on YouTube misses the first Australian try. The video shows, with commentary three tries, by Karyn Murphy, Veronica White and Natalie Dwyer. The commentators mention that Karen Shaw kicked three goals. • 2008 vs Russia (World Cup), only 20 of 72 points known. Two regional newspapers report on performances in this match of players associated with their distribution area. The reports credit three tries to Tegan Rolfe and two tries to Steph Hancock. • Numbers shaded in the tries (T) and goals (G) columns are a tally from available sources during this (1996 to 2008) period of incompleteness. The following two examples show the impact of the nine incomplete scoresheets. • Alyssa Campbell scored two tries in the Third Test of 1996, two tries in the Second Test of 1998, and one in the Third Test of 1999. A total of five, as shown in the table. However, Australia’s scorers in 1996’s Second Test are unknown and Campbell likely played in that match. Also, the Fiji Times match report of 1998’s First Test has Campbell scoring two tries, but per the above point that account differs from the syndicated report. • Erin Elliott scored a try against New Zealand Māori in the 2003 World Cup, and another try against the same opponent on the 2009 tour of New Zealand. A total of two, as shown. However, Elliott likely played in the First Test of 2004 and from photos and brief reports in the Sunshine Coast Daily is confirmed as playing in the 2008 World Cup matches against France and Russia. • Drop goal / field goal column excluded as, to date, just one known field goal has been kicked. This was by Caitlin Moran in the 2017 World Cup Final. Debut • The club listed is the club with whom the individual was playing, or had most recently played, at the time of making her debut. == 1993 Foundation team ==
1993 Foundation team
In early October 1993, two women's teams from Australian clubs travelled to Suva, Fiji. On Friday, 1 October the two teams, Waverton Eagles, from Sydney, and Woden Valley Rams, from Canberra, played a match as a curtain raiser to a men's game between Fiji and a Queensland Residents team. A team of Australians was then selected from the two clubs, to play a team of Fijian women on Tuesday, 5 October 1993. Played in torrential rain, the Australian team defeated the Fijian team, 16, to 4. In 2019, the National Rugby League announced that the players in this 1993 match had been credited as members of the Foundation team. From this group, Robyn Miller (1995), Fiona Huntington (1996), and Allison Smith (1996–97) subsequently played for Australia. Jeanette Luker managed several Australian teams. Three members of the group: Kini Nateibu, Selai Racumu, and Luse Vuci had Fijian connections. == Sources ==
Summary of confirmed player appearances by match
The table below summaries the number of confirmed appearances by each match. The upper row in each band displays the flag of the opponent and the number of confirmed appearances. A link to an appropriate source is given, with a letter indicating the type of source. See the key below for details. Green shading indicates the full team is confirmed for that match. Yellow shading indicates the team for that match is partially confirmed. Red shading indicates no players are confirmed for that match. The lower row in each band displays the year and series, and the number of players in the squad. A link to an appropriate source is given, with a letter indicating the type of source. Key ==See also==
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