Unemployed netballers locked in a bitter pay dispute have found an unlikely ally, with Australia’s cricket stars digging into their own pockets to offer them financial assistance.

Collingwood’s netball program is officially on the sporting death row known as “under review’’. Whether it can avoid a beheading seems doubtful, with seven years of underperformance and financial...

The deal is done. Netball’s damaging industrial dispute is over. The terms of a new Collective Player Agreement to run through to September, 2026 have finally been settled.

As one dual Sunshine Coast Lightning premiership midcourter, Laura Scherian, grasps a career lifeline from the reigning champion Adelaide Thunderbirds, another, Kelsey Browne, is set to replace...

It started to sink in for Romelda Aiken during the official pre-season photo shoot. There she was, after a career in Queensland Firebirds purple, suddenly in NSW Swifts red.

Netball Australia says it understands the impact its decision to rigidly enforce selection criteria is having on Diamonds players but “must uphold good governance standards” and will not announce a...

There are pure athletes, and there is Steph Wood, a pure netballer. There are smart netballers, and then there is Wood, the leading scholar in a rarefied class of the very smartest.

The player contracted as a bargain-basement insurance policy has turned out to be one of the most influential goalers in the competition this season – and Romelda Aiken George will have a major say...

She ended her lease early, was effectively living out of her car just weeks ago, has moved in with her partner’s family and took on a full-time job in a bid to make ends meet.

Melbourne rich-lister Geoff Lord, who has a track record of building elite sporting teams from scratch, wants to take on the eighth Super Netball licence and launch a new Victorian team.

Crippling cramps, long heavy cycles, dizzy spells and headaches – but Thunderbirds’ netballer Tayla Williams kept her struggle secret for years for fear speaking out would put a stopper in her...

It was an Australian Netball Awards night like no other: boycotted by Super Netball players due to the ongoing pay dispute, just hours after the Diamonds were sent a threatening legal letter warning...

Paige Hadley has had three phone calls from Diamonds coaches ahead of Netball World Cups in the past eight years, and if the congratulations-you’re-in message has ultimately been the same, then...

I am not a fan of the Super Shot.

When a rival coach preparing for the inaugural Super Netball season in 2017 looked at the list assembled by resource-rich newcomers Collingwood, he rated it – on paper – as the third-best team in the...

Netball Australia has a board vacancy. The war-torn sport also has a former Diamonds’ captain and qualified lawyer who has forged a successful media and business career, but whose bid for a directo...

Tippah Dwan will become the third premiership player to exit the Adelaide Thunderbirds, while West Coast Fever has backflipped on its interest in delisted Queensland Firebirds’ shooter Mia Stower –...

As Jo Weston exited stage left after Thursday’s emotional media conference at the offices of the netballers’ cricket-union brethren, one of Super Netball’s toughest defenders could at least summon...

Amy Parmenter’s defection to the Melbourne Mavericks has prompted the Giants to look off-shore for a defensive midcourt replacement, with out-of-favour Silver Fern Sam Winders set to be reunited with...

In-demand Diamonds shooter Sophie Garbin appears headed to the Melbourne Vixens rather than Super Netball’s new Victorian franchise in a recruiting coup that may help mitigate the imminent loss of...

The couple in the sports store looking for Queensland Firebirds merchandise for their daughter were spared potential disappointment by a sales assistant whose identity they had not guessed.

Plenty of teams happy with their efforts over the weekend but the most relieved people of all over the weekend must have been Netball Australia staff given a problem-free round.

Sam Wallace had not noticed the missing shoelace. Not until her housemate and shooting partner Helen Housby told the Trinidadian star to look down at her feet.

“Are you gonna stay at the Vixens’?’

Netball Tasmania CEO Mitch Coulson says they are ready and waiting to join the Super Netball league should Collingwood’s review result in the Magpies handing back its license.

No tears from Joanna Weston this time. And cars are already being used to drive to training again, rather than potentially somewhere for players to sleep at night.

The Australian Diamonds netball squad is one of the toughest teams in Australian sport to win selection.

I’ve always loved competing and I’ve always hated losing and in my 30 minutes of being out on court in the SSN for the first time since 2019, I experienced both of them.

Sarah Klau had no idea of her Diamonds Test tally until told recently that the 50 game milestone beckons this weekend at the Nations Cup in the UK.

Now that the end is here, Ash Brazill gets to do the thing that she loves most.

The Australian Netball Players’ Association has finally broken its silence over the Diamonds selection saga, fiercely disputing Netball Australia’s claims about the ongoing pay war.

Diamonds captain Liz Watson has lauded the decision of Fox Netball to showcase all World Cup games on Kayo Freebies as a win for the sport after the Foxtel Group secured broadcast right to the...

Rob Wright knows his three years as assistant and then head coach of Collingwood netball were disastrous. Horrific, to use another favoured word. He acknowledges that he should never have gone there...

As a bolter from the bush playing with freedom and a smile on her NSW Swifts debut last season, Sophie Fawns radiated joy on the netball court. As a second-year player in a new role, the pure...

Netball great Geva Mentor is seeking another contract that would see her continuing into her 40th year, as player agents voice concerns that the lack of a new Collective Player Agreement generally...

At last. Super Netball contracting is set to commence today at 4pm, after Netball Australia and the eight clubs signed off on a new three-year Collective Player Agreement with the Australian Netball...

A couple of interested spectators at Giants netball training last week were there to see what they could learn. GWS coach Adam Kingsley and his assistant Brett Montgomery stayed for around two hours,...

Now that besieged CEO Kelly Ryan has left the building after a stormy 30-month stay at Netball HQ, the blowtorch must be turned on the Wendy Archer-led Netball Australia board which on Friday will...

World Cup-winning Diamonds captain Liz Watson is considering a stunning defection to the Sunshine Coast Lightning after a decade, 134 games and two premierships with the Melbourne Vixens.

Eleanor Cardwell is set to follow her close friend and mentor Tracey Neville from the Adelaide Thunderbirds to Super Netball’s new Melbourne franchise, as in-principle agreements are reached with at...

The Thunderbirds’ stunning success this season could help accelerate a move to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre after 9000 fans snapped up tickets to Saturday’s clash against the Sunshine Coast...

Australia’s netball stars will not receive any payment for lifting the most prestigious trophy in the sport with prize money still not on offer for winning the World Cup.

Ahead of the final game of the Diamonds’ World Cup-winning international season, captain Liz Watson has reiterated her commitment to continuing on for the balance of the four-year cycle that will...

Courtney Bruce has crowned a year of Diamonds’ team dominance with a second Liz Ellis Diamond as Australia’s best-performed individual at the annual Australian Netball Awards in Melbourne on Saturday...