Quick bowler Mitchell Starc got his second five-wicket pull in the match to lead Australia to an exhaustive 366-run triumph in the second Test against Sri Lanka and a 2-0 arrangement win at Manuka Oval on Monday.
Pursuing an unlikely 516 for triumph, the sightseers were shot out for 149 by Australia, who won the opening Test in Brisbane by an innings and 40 runs.
The arrangement win against Sri Lanka was the first for Australia since they whipped England 4-0 in the Ashes early a year ago.
"It's pleasant to get some reward. I've said all mid year this gathering has been buckling down," Australia skipper Tim Paine said after the success.
"I believe we're beginning to work towards something so it's extraordinary to get some reward for the work we've been putting in.
"It doesn't make a difference what the wicket resembles or your identity playing against."
Left-arm fast Starc bowled with a similar hostility and pace that earned him a five-wicket pull in the principal innings to complete with 5-46 and just his second match pull of 10 wickets.
Starc's solitary other 10-wicket pull in a match was likewise against Sri Lanka when he took 11-94 of every a 2016 Test in Galle.
Man of the match Starc started the day including the wickets of opener Dimuth Karunaratne and Sri Lanka skipper Dinesh Chandimal to his count.
The paceman recovered a quick conveyance to cut into Karunaratne, who neglected to add to his medium-term score of eight, and ruptured his guard cutting the leg safeguard.
Chandimal was out for four when he guided Starc straight under the control of Marnus Labuschagne at slip which finished a grim visit for the right-hander, who accumulated 24 keeps running from four innings.
"We were defeated as a group in each of the three offices," a crestfallen Chandimal, who said he was baffled with his very own execution, told correspondents. "Credit goes to Australia, they have played some remarkable cricket all through the arrangement.
"We have to work more earnestly... extraordinarily as a batting unit we need to venture up. That is the one are we are worried about."
Sri Lanka advanced Niroshan Dickwella, who had made an assaulting 64 in Brisbane, and he and opener Lahiru Thirimanne included 30 for the third wicket.
A pointedly climbing conveyance from Pat Cummins finished Thirimanne's thump of 30 when the quick bowler dashed forward to take a jumping return get creeps off the ground.
Starc returned for his second spell to reject Dickwella (27) and Kusal Perera, who was cleared to bat on Monday in the wake of being hit on the head protector by a bouncer on the third morning, in progressive conveyances to take his match pull to nine.
Dhananjaya de Silva kept out the cap trap conveyance however fell directly after the lunch interim to Jhye Richardson, spooning a catch to the mid-on defender.
Kusal Mendis and Chamika Karunaratne slowed down Australia's triumph walk with a seventh-wicket remain of 46 preceding the previous found the defender at cover with an uppish drive against leg-spinner Labuschagne.
Mendis succumbed to 42 while Chamika edged Cummins to be out for 22 as Australia crept nearer to triumph.
Paine took Starc back to allow him to finish his 10-wicket pull and the brisk bowled out Vishwa Fernando to finish the check.
Cummins completed with 3-15 and was pronounced player of the arrangement for his pull of 14 wickets from the two Tests.
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