Ron Bailey (1946) Len Smith (1948) Col Maxwell (1948) Wally O'Connell(1948) Bill Tyquin (1949) Keith Froome (1949) Clive Churchill (1950–1954) Ken Kearney (1956–1957) Dick Poole (1957) Brian Davies (1958) Brian Carlson (1959–1961) Keith Barnes (1959–1962) Barry Muir (1960–1961) Reg Gasnier (1962–1967) Arthur Summons (1962–1964) Billy Wilson (1963) Ian Walsh (1963–1966) Peter Gallagher (1967) Johnny Raper (1967–1968) John Sattler (1969–1970) Graeme Langlands (1970–1975) Phil Hawthorne (1970) Ron Coote (1970) Billy Smith (1970) Bob McCarthy (1973) Tommy Raudonikis (1973) Arthur Beetson (1973–1977) John Brass (1975) Greg Veivers (1977) Greg Pierce (1978) Bob Fulton (1978) George Peponis (1979–1980) Steve Rogers (1981) Max Krilich (1982–1983) Wally Lewis (1984–1989) Mal Meninga (1990–1994) Laurie Daley (1993–1998) Brad Fittler (1995–2001) Paul Harragon (1995) Geoff Toovey (1996) Allan Langer (1998) Gorden Tallis (2000–2002) Andrew Johns (2002–2003) Darren Lockyer (2003–2011) Danny Buderus (2004–2005) Craig Gower (2005–2007) Cameron Smith (2007–2017) Boyd Cordner (2018–2019) James Tedesco (2022-) note* during 2020-2021 there were no international games Competitive Records Overall Record Below is the table of the official representative rugby league matches played by Australia at test level up until 20 November 2022: World Cup A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Australia World Cup 9's Tri/ Four Nations Kangaroo Tour Test matches Culture Indigenous contribution to the Kangaroos The indigenous contribution to the Kangaroos is unmatched in Australian national sporting teams. By way of example, Lionel Morgan was the first indigenous player in any Australian national sporting team in 1960, while Arthur Beetson was the first indigenous captain of any Australian national sporting team in 1973 when he captained the team in the final game of the 1973 Kangaroo tour, the second test against France at the Stade des Minimes in Toulouse on 16 December. Australia won the game 14–3. Remarkably given the 2% indigenous rate of population in Australia, the Kangaroos fielded a run-on team against New Zealand in the 2015 Anzac Test with 7 of the 13 players having indigenous heritage (a staggering 54%). This contrasts markedly to nearly every other Australian national sporting team as at 2015. War cry From 1908 to 1967, the Australian team performed a war cry before Tests played in Great Britain and France. The war cry was first performed when the Kangaroos arrived at Tilbury Docks near London. It was developed after war cries had been performed on tours of Britain by the New Zealand All Blacks in 1905, the South