Australia continues to have a relationship with the BFA; the 2011 resumption of the Asia Series includes the Australian Baseball League's champion team.

Weightings that emphasise the importance of certain tournaments are based on the number of teams competing, the number of continents represented (or eligible to be represented), and in the case of continental tournaments such as the Oceania Baseball Championship the relative strength of teams eligible.

[12] By virtue of their third-place finish in their first-round pool, Australia qualified compete at the 2013 edition of the WBC.

Generally players in the Major Leagues are unavailable for international representative teams due to their contracts with the respective clubs.

[14] Prior to formally starting their campaign, Australia played an exhibition game, which they lost, against a Boston Red Sox squad at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers, Florida.

[16] Australia competed in Pool D—along with Dominican Republic, Italy and Venezuela—in the first round at Cracker Jack Stadium in Orlando, Florida.

[17] Italy is among the top nations in Europe and had access to Italian-American players under the eligibility rules for the tournament.

[19] Australia was based in Peoria, Arizona—the site of the Seattle Mariners spring training camp—for their preparation for the formal start of their 2009 campaign.

Unlike 2006, in which they had one exhibition game, they competed against three different Major League clubs: the Seattle Mariners, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago White Sox.

[26] The Australians set a WBC record against Mexico: 22 hits in a single game is more than any other team has achieved in either tournament.

[27] In June 2011, it was announced that the field for the 2013 WBC would be expanded to include an additional 12 teams and that a qualifying round would be several months prior to the main tournament.

The best result achieved was in the 2004 Games in Athens, where Australia lost the gold medal match to Cuba to receive silver.

[37] At the 2007 tournament, Trent Oeltjen became the first Australian player to be named in a World Cup All Star team,[38] in recognition of his tournament-leading hitting and base-running statistics.

The Amateur World Series only made use of round-robin fixtures, with teams ranked at the end of the tournament.

In the "World Cup Era", Australia has reached the final phase four times, finishing 7th in 1998,[42] 6th in 2007[43] and most recently 5th in 2009 and 2011.

)[2] Australia is one of five nations to have won the Intercontinental Cup, winning the 1999 tournament by beating Cuba 4–3 in extra innings in front of a home crowd in Sydney.

They lost to Japan in the semi-final, but beat the United States for the second time in the tournament to secure the bronze.

[52] Australia is one of thirteen nations to have participated in the Asian Baseball Championship since the tournament was first held in 1954.

The last time they contested the championship was in 1993, as a result of joining the newly formed Baseball Confederation of Oceania.

Australia was awarded the championship both times, and as a result represented Oceania at the 2004 Summer Olympics[OBC 1] and at the 2007 Baseball World Cup respectively.

Held during late April 2003, Australia won its first continental championship, beating hosts Guam 12–1, 12–1 and 5–1 to win the best of five series three games to one.