Australian rugby needs Wallabies vs Lions series to be its ‘State of Origin moment’

The British and Irish Lions series looms large as a key milestone in Rugby Australia’s (RA) much-trumpeted ‘golden decade’.

Aside from helping to fill RA’s depleted coffers (it announced a $36.8 million deficit in the 2024 financial year), the tour is an opportunity for the Wallabies to recapture…