All Blacks beat the Wallabies 28-14 in a Rugby Championship match, 11th win in a row over Australia

PERTH, Australia (AP) — It's now 11 wins in a row for the All Blacks over the Wallabies.

Center Quinn Tupaea scored first-half tries three minutes apart to give New Zealand a 17-9 halftime lead on the way to a 28-14 win over the Wallabies in a Bledisloe Cup/Rugby Championship match Saturday.

The All Blacks win wasn't quite enough to secure them the Rugby Championship. South Africa retained their title after beating Argentina 29-27 at Twickenham later Saturday. The title was decided on points difference for the first time, the Springboks’ 57-plus margin eclipsing New Zealand’s eight-plus after each team finished with 19 competition points.

Australia hasn't beaten New Zealand since a match in Brisbane in 2020. It's the Wallabies' longest losing streak against their trans-Tasman Sea opponents, having previously lost 10 straight tests against the All Blacks from 2008-10.

The 60,000 sold-out match in Perth, which was hit by steady rain for most of the second half, marked the 151st and final test for Wallabies prop James Slipper, who announced his retirement from test rugby earlier this week.

The Wallabies had three first-half penalty goals from flyhalf Tane Edmed, and Len Ikitau scored their only try in the 65th minute to pull the home side to within six points at 20-14. But a late All Blacks penalty goal and a last-minute try from prop George Bower pulled them clear.

New Zealand, which also had a first-half try from Leroy Carter, secured the Bledisloe Cup for the 23rd year with a 33-24 win over the Wallabies last week in Auckland.

Australia enforcer Will Skelton, who had flown in from France and his Top 14 club duties with La Rochelle to play for the Wallabies, lasted just 15 minutes. He won a breakdown penalty in the second minute, had it immediately reversed for shoving an opponent and then suffered a concussion.

Australia captain Harry Wilson bristled at a question over whether his side was at least competitive against the All Blacks on Saturday.

“We’re not out to be competitive, mate, we’re here to win,” Wilson said. ”Test footy, it’s fine margins and obviously we missed out … We’ve definitely progressed, but ultimately we didn’t get the results in the last few games which we wanted, which is really disappointing.”

His teammate Max Jorgensen was more blunt.

"A lot of silly errors that we need to get out of our game,” Jorgensen said. “You can’t be making those mistakes. If you want to be the best team in the world you’ve got to be at your best at every aspect of the game.”

All Blacks coach Scott Robertson said it was a “gritty performance” that “got a bit dirty in the rain."

“It wasn’t the most entertaining footy at times, but it was built on a lot of shoulders and care,” he said. “We can enjoy and connect tonight, it’s really a performance we’re proud of because we’ve done it back-to-back.

“We felt we’ve played some really good footy in a lot of those games, but we put more together tonight.”

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New Zealand coach Scott Robertson, left, talks to Leicester Fainga'anuku following the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

New Zealand's Ardie Savea, left, runs at Australia's Filipo Daugunu during the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

Australia's James Slipper is cheered from the field following the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

New Zealand's George Bower, right, embraces teammate Ardie Savea following the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

New Zealand's Wallace Sititi, left, and teammate Caleb Clarke wave to fans following the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

New Zealand's Quinn Tupaea, second left, is congratulated by teammates after scoring a try during the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

New Zealand's Quinn Tupaea reacts after scoring a try during the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

New Zealand's Damian McKenzie kicks a penalty during the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

New Zealand's Quinn Tupaea dives over the line to score a try in the tackle of Australia's Australia's Max Jorgensen during the Bledisloe Cup rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies in Perth, Australia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary Day)

The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system's federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late Friday in a sharply worded decision.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction barring the administration from cancelling funding to UC based on alleged discrimination without giving notice to affected faculty and conducting a hearing, among other requirements.

The administration over the summer demanded the University of California, Los Angeles pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus. UCLA was the first public university to be targeted by the administration over allegations of civil rights violations.

It has also frozen or paused federal funding over similar claims against private colleges, including Columbia University.

In her ruling, Lin said labor unions and other groups representing UC faculty, students and employees had provided “overwhelming evidence” that the Trump administration was “engaged in a concerted campaign to purge ‘woke,’ ‘left,’ and ‘socialist’ viewpoints from our country’s leading universities."

“Agency officials, as well as the President and Vice President, have repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune,” Lin wrote.

She added, "It is undisputed that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California."

At UC, which is facing a series of civil rights probes, she found the administration had engaged in “coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment.”

Messages sent to the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice after hours Friday were not immediately returned. Lin's order will remain in effect indefinitely.

University of California President James B. Milliken has said the size of the UCLA fine would devastate the UC system, whose campuses are viewed as some of the top public colleges in the nation.

UC is in settlement talks with the administration and is not a party to the lawsuit before Lin, who was nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, a Democrat. In a statement, the university system said it “remains committed to protecting the mission, governance, and academic freedom of the University.”

The administration has demanded UCLA comply with its views on gender identity and establish a process to make sure foreign students are not admitted if they are likely to engage in anti-American, anti-Western or antisemitic “disruptions or harassment,” among other requirements outlined in a settlement proposal made public in October.

The administration has previously struck deals with Brown University for $50 million and Columbia University for $221 million.

Lin cited declarations by UC faculty and staff that the administration’s moves were prompting them to stop teaching or researching topics they were “afraid were too ‘left’ or ‘woke.’”

Her injunction also blocks the administration from “conditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UC’s agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffs’ members under the First Amendment.”

She cited efforts to force the UCs to screen international students based on “’anti-Western” or “‘anti-American’” views, restrict research and teaching, or adopt specific definitions of “male” and “female” as examples of such measures.

President Donald Trump has decried elite colleges as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism.

His administration has launched investigations of dozens of universities, claiming they have failed to end the use of racial preferences in violation of civil rights law. The Republican administration says diversity, equity and inclusion efforts discriminate against white and Asian American students.

FILE - Students walk past Royce Hall on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Aug. 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

President Donald Trump waves as he walks to board Marine One, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington for a trip to Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)