Plummer and Ella-Duncan in Hall of Fame

Losing successive Tests to New Zealand won't hurt the world champion Diamonds, according to iconic coach and new Australian Netball Hall of Fame inductee Norma Plummer.

The 2007 and 2011 World Cup-winning mentor will on Saturday be inducted into the prestigious fraternity along with Marcia Ella-Duncan, the first indigenous player to be picked in the senior national team.

Plummer's incredible career record includes either playing or coaching Austrian teams in five senior and youth World Cups and winning them all.

She guided South African to fifth in the recent World Cup after taking the position at short notice.

Plummer wasn't perturbed that Australia under her successor Lisa Alexander lost the third and fourth Constellation Cup Tests to the Silver Ferns in Melbourne and Perth last week.

"That doesn't hurt," Plummer told AAP on Friday.

"It actually makes you get up and have a look and go `well, hang on we might not be where we thought we were', so you work harder."

Plummer started coaching early in her playing career at age 14.

She played in Australia's 1975 World Cup winning team and as the national 21 and under coach won Youth World Cups in 1996 and 2000.

"l love the game, always have, and to be honoured in this manner is just fantastic," said Plummer who won 67 of 89 Tests with the Diamonds from 2004-2011.

Midcourter Ella-Duncan is just one of two indigenous players to have represented Australia, the other being her contemporary Sharon Finnan.

She played 18 Tests in 1986-87, winning silver at the World Cup in the latter year but no indigenous player has represented the Diamonds since 2000.

"It's a huge disappointment, it's only now that I'm an old chick that I can look over my shoulder and see the big gap in representation," Ella-Duncan told AAP.

"The longer it goes the more difficult is for me to accept."

Now a coach, she will launch a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) in Sydney on Saturday, which aims to address the issue of indigenous participation numbers in the sport.

The sister of Wallabies, Mark, Glen and Gary Ella, she's not the first member of the famous sporting family to make a sporting hall of fame.

"I checked that out and my brother Mark beat me: that's alright I'm second not fourth," joked Ella, who described her Hall of Fame selection as "very humbling".

Saturday's awards dinner is highlighted by the Liz Ellis Diamond, presented to Australia's player of the year across the international and the trans-Tasman competitions, with Australian and Queensland Firebirds capstan and defender Laura Geitz expected to be among the front runners.