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Despite Matt Gohdes' goal on the stroke of half time, the Kookaburras went down 2-1 to a resurgent India in the second of their four match series in Perth on Wednesday night.

Perth Glory secured a place in only their second W-League finals campaign with a stirring 3-1 comeback win over Melbourne Victory at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne last Sunday.

Australia's 16-rider team will contest the opening round of 2014/15 UCI Track World Cup which begins on Friday November 7 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The Kookaburras have posted a 4-0 win over India in the first of four tests between the two nations at the Perth International Hockey Centre.

WAIS hockey athlete Kathryn Slattery has been selected to make her Hockeyroos debut at the Champions Trophy being held in Argentina later this month.

Following an undefeated 2014 international campaign, Australian netball will now turn its attention to the Fast5 Netball World Series to be held in Auckland from November 8-9.

The Australia Day long weekend is set to play host to the inaugural AustralianClub Challenge from Thursday January 22 to Monday January 26, with water polo clubs from around the nation descending on the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS).

Western Australian Institute of Sport cyclists Sam Welsford and Elissa Wundersitz will represent Australia at the first UCI Track World Cup event of the 2014/15 season, when they compete in Mexico next month.

Western Australian Institute of Sport javelin thrower Kim Mickle has claimed a second consecutive Athletics Australia Female Athlete of the Year Award following a highly impressive season that saw her break a national record and win Commonwealth gold.

Kim Mickle's reign as WAIS Athlete of the Year has continued after the Commonwealth Games champion was crowned cream of the crop, for 2013/14 at last weekend's WAIS Annual Dinner, with the javelin thrower becoming just the fourth WAIS athlete to win back to back, and fifth to claim the award twice.