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Quade Cooper insists the Wallabies will peak with perfect timing for the World Cup after laying down a marker with their 59-16 demolition of France at the end of their northern hemisphere tour.

Robbie Deans' rebuilt team has gradually been getting better and turned a corner at the start of their sojourn with a long-awaited Bledisloe Cup victory over the All Blacks in Hong Kong.

Australia's somewhat inconsistent form over the European leg of their tour showed evidence of a team that isn't yet the finished product but fly-half Cooper has claimed the Wallabies will get it right come crunch time next year in New Zealand.

"Coming into the World Cup we're confident, very confident, and are all looking forward to the challenge ahead of us," Cooper told the Sun-Herald. "We're a young team but we've been together for a few years now.

"It has taken a little while to get used to the different style of attack that Robbie employs. After a few years of it there is now an understanding; everyone knows the game plan and everyone is buying into it as well. I think the way he has gone about it, by blooding a lot of young guys, has been great. It seems as though the benefits are starting to come through now."

The Wallabies accounted for Italy 32-14 before destroying the French, and while those scorelines would have been more likely to have appeared in reverse, Cooper said practising their attacking game against the Italians had led to the team "clicking" against France, having previously tightened up their game for the British leg of their tour.

"The game against Italy was just waiting to click over and open up," Cooper said. "We took things out of that game that really stuck; like guys holding on to passes rather than going for the extra offload. We held on to the pill because we believed we could score in the next phase. And that was what happened against the French, those type of things really clicked in, and it was great."