England finish top of Pool A and will face Scotland in the quarter-finals next weekend
Red Roses score four tries in second half to seal record-equalling 30th successive Test win
Tournament favourites England trailed Australia until 32nd minute after error-strewn start
Australia go through as runners-up at expense of United States and will play Canada
Image source, Getty ImagesThat's all from us. Thank you so much for following along, it's been a blast.
England's pool phase is done. Now on to the knockouts. We'll see you next Sunday, 16:00 BST for England vs Scotland in Bristol.
And you can read the report from England's big win over Australia today right here.
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Image source, Getty ImagesEngland's winning streak now extends to 30 Tests and matches a record run that ended in their defeat in the 2022 World Cup final.
England will play Scotland in a quarter-final in Bristol on Sunday, September 14, with kick-off at 16:00 BST.
England have beaten their neighbours three times since the last World Cup, with those victories coming by an average of 50 points.
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Image source, Getty ImagesRight, let's start wrapping this live text up.
ICYMI, England recovered from a shaky first-half showing to beat Australia and set up a Women's Rugby World Cup quarter-final against Scotland.
Flanker Sadia Kabeya and replacement prop Kelsey Clifford both scored two tries in a match that was watched by Catherine, Princess of Wales and England men's captain Jamie George, among 30,433 supporters in Brighton.
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England's Abbie Ward speaking to BBC Sport: "Really excited to be in knockout rugby, we never get ahead of ourselves and never take anything for granted. Tonight was about tonight's game.
"I love Australia and playing against them, they pose such a good challenge.
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England's Morwenna Talling to BBC Two: "This crowd was incredible. Australia came out firing. But it's just amazing. The atmosphere here now [is amazing].
"Women's rugby, there's 30,000 people here.
"We get presents all the time now. It's a privilege and an honour to be part of it."
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England's Natasha 'Mo' Hunt speaking to BBC Sport: "It was awesome, but we are gutted because we didn't do what we wanted to do.
"Australia came our firing and it took us a while to work them out."
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England try-scorer Sadia Kabeya: "Yeah definitely, it was our toughest game so far. You can see in the first half we got put under pressure. But we needed it. A lot of things to work on and iron out.
"We have trust in the plan. We just went out there and did what we needed to do.
"We've got huge carriers across our forward pack. We've got threats across the park, our forwards can't take all the credit!"
On facing Scotland next: "We take each game as it comes. For me I'll be coming up against my Loughborough Lightning team-mates."
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Mike Henson
BBC Sport at Brighton & Hove Albion Stadium
The Australia players have just hoisted coach Jo Yapp onto their shoulders in a show of thanks and celebration.
The former England captain will bring a near two-year stint in charge of the Wallaroos to an end when this campaign is done.
Her side will take on Canada in the last eight.
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England captain Alex Mathews speaking to BBC Sport: "I am so proud of the girls, we didn't have the moments I the first-half and we stuck with it and we came out on top.
"The girls stuck together, our line-outs weren't as we wanted them and Australia's kicking game was phenomenal. We couldn't have done that without the whole squad.
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Maggie Alphonsi
2014 England World Cup winner on BBC Two
Job done for Australia and that is all that matters. They rattled England today.
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England will play Scotland on Sunday 14 September (16:00 BST).
Australia will take on Canada on Saturday 13 September (16:00 BST)
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England and Australia are both World Cup 2025 quarter-finalists.
The Wallaroos have had enough and boot the ball out of play. They gave England an early scare, but the hosts had far too much.
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A chance, England ship it wide left but a knock-on slows things right down.
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Another minute of England possession ticks by. The hosts want to finish in style.
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Two minutes to go. Both these teams will be in the quarter-finals.
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More good news for England fans. Sarah Berns' yellow card will not be upgraded.
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Ah, the Red Roses' momentum is rudely interrupted as Australia win the ball back on their own try line.
Captain Alex Matthews is given player of the match.
