Ash Gardner has ripped through England's batting order to lift Australia to a historic Ashes Series sweep at the MCG, taking 4/39 as the hosts won by an innings and 122 runs.
The Muruwari allrounder partnered for nine wickets with leggie Alana King as spin dominated the third day for finishing touches on a 16-nil series win.
The pair went dismissal for dismissal either side of the dinner break as both bowlers chased a five wicket haul to put the final touches on a dominant series across all formats over the tourists, ending in the rivalries first whitewash since the mutli-format system was introduced.
Catching chances fell wide of the attacking fielders, and desperate attempts to score spun past the stumps, as the sun set with the milestone on offer.
King took the honours in England's first innings of 170, taking four wickets before centuries from Annabel Sutherland and Beth Mooney in a response eclipsing 400 set 270 in front of England to make the home side bat a second time.
On Friday, Gardner - on return from missing the T20 portion of the series after starring through the opening ODIs, added 44 to the healthy total.
English opener Tammy Beaumont (47) and Heather Knight (32) were England's only resistance as quick wickets fell after the first break on Saturday, before they were removed by King and Gardner respectively.
Already the series leading wicket-taker, King ended with figures of 5-53 having also removed Natalie Sciver-Brunt and Sophia Dunkley in the middle order and the final wicket of Lauren Filer.
King was named player of the series post match.
After Darcie Brown (1) sent opener Maia Bouchier back to the stands cheaply in the fourth over, Gardner removed the dangerous Heather Knight when Phoebe Litchfield held on to the catch at bat pad.
She has a second when Danielle Wyatt-Hodge mistiming a sweep to Darcie Brown behind square before Amy Jones feathered one outside offstump to plunge the away side to 7-down at the dinner break.
A seam-up shortball skied by Sophie Ecclestone ended her stubborn contribution of 18 runs for Gardner's fourth.
Within minutes, Australia's men's side took a 1-nil series lead over Sri Lanka in Galle with the turning ball similarly dominating in the conditions.
On return from a player-of-series performance on tour in the 2023 Ashes, Gardner scored 190 runs at 63.34 with the bat, and took nine wickets with the ball across four matches.
She posted a maiden ODI century in the third one-dayer in Hobart to go three-nil up in mid-January.
The MCG Test was the Australian team's first appearance at the ground since the 2020 T20 World Cup final in front of 87,000 fans, and first international red-ball women's game there since 1949.
The match was the highest-attended women's Test in history by the second day.
