History of rugby union matches between Australia and South Africa

South Africa has a 53.8% winning record against Australia, and before the era of sporting boycotts, dominated the early encounters up to 1971.

Australia then supported the international boycott of sporting contacts with South Africa over the issue of apartheid.

The teams did not meet again until 1992, when apartheid was being dismantled and the SARB had merged with the non-racial South African Rugby Union.

[3] In the professional era, extended tours of each country have been replaced by participation in an annual series involving the top teams of the Southern Hemisphere.

In 2011, Australia again knocked South Africa out of the competition, in a quarter-final at Westpac Stadium in Wellington, winning 11–9.