The Australian Rugby Union have taken the first tentative steps towards hosting another Rugby World Cup after lodging an official expression of interest with the International Rugby Board.
IRB member nations were instructed to flag up their interest in staging the code's flagship tournament in 2015 or 2019 last month.
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