England are battling to avoid the follow-on in the women's Ashes Test after the best of Australia's new and older generations left the tourists struggling at 6-120 in Canberra.
On the same day Darcie Brown became Australia's youngest Test wicket-taker in eight years, star allrounder Ellyse Perry claimed two wickets of her own on return for the national team.
The wickets left England still needing another 68 runs to avoid the follow-on at tea on day two, after Australia's 9(dec)-337 put them on top.
With the match played over just four days and rain about, enforcing the follow-on will be a genuine option for captain Meg Lanning given a win will ensure Australia retain the Ashes.
The tourists were left to rue wasteful shots as wickets fell regularly while captain Heather Knight watched on from the other end in her unbeaten 55.
Brown's first Test scalp came off a ball that swung away from Lauren Winfield-Hill, drawing her edge as the opener played away from her body.
Aged 18, Brown is the youngest male or female player to take a Test wicket for Australia since 17-year-old Holly Ferling struck in 2013.
Perry's ball to trap Tammy Beaumont was a good one that beat the inside edge, but her next wicket came when Sophia Dunkley hung her bat out and chopped on.
Perry's return of 2-26 comes after she was dropped for the Twenty20 component of the multi-format Ashes series, but she was always a certainty for the Tests.
Her success came as Annabel Sutherland (2-31) and debutante Alana King (1-9) also bagged their first Test wickets.
Sutherland had Nat Sciver caught behind with one that jagged back and caught her inside edge on 15, before a diving Brown catch removed Amy Jones on the pull for 13.
Spinner King's maiden wicket came in the form of Katherine Brunt, skidding one on to the England allrounder and trapping her lbw for one just before tea.
Brunt had earlier been England's best with the ball, claimingher third five-wicket haul in Test cricket as her 5-60 helped stem Australia's plans of batting longer into day two.
History remains on Australia's side at Manuka Oval, with no team having lost a women's Test after scoring 300 runs in the first innings.
