Ben Stokes stole the show with a five-for on day two at Trent Bridge, leaving England on the verge of winning the fourth Test and regaining the Ashes.
After Stuart Broad's career-best Test figures of 8-15 and Joe Root's century put England in complete control on Thursday, it was all-rounder Stokes who took centre stage on Friday as he returned figures of 5-35 in a dazzling display in Nottingham.
Having declared on 391-9 in the morning session, with a lead of 331, England soon set about the Australia attack again and the tourists - who were woefully skittled for 60 in their first innings - reached stumps on 241-7 still trailling by 90.
Australia demonstrated improvement with the bat, David Warner (64), Chris Rogers (52) and Adam Voges (48 not out) leading their resistance, but another collapse before tea reasserted England's dominance.
Stokes - who has seen the likes of James Anderson, Steven Finn and Broad star with the ball in this series - rightly took the plaudits for England, snaring the wickets of Warner, Rogers and Steven Smith (5) during a devastating afternoon spell.
The Durham man struck again in the evening to oust Peter Nevill (17) and Mitchell Johnson (5), and it is now surely a question of when and not if England will regain the urn.
Root (130) added just six runs to his overnight total before edging Mitchell Starc behind, and the seamer then bowled nightwatchman Mark Wood (28) and Jos Buttler (12) to return Test-best figures of 6-111.
England further built their lead through an enterprising 58-run stand between Moeen Ali (38) and Broad (24).
Moeen was stopped in his tracks by a stunning one-handed diving catch from Smith that got Mitchell Johnson (1-102) among the wickets, before Alastair Cook surprisingly declared to leave Australia with a tricky spell to negotiate before lunch.
Rogers and Warner rode their luck to share a century partnership, the pair showing resolve after first-innings ducks.
The hosts were brilliant in the slips on Thursday, but Cook put a simple chance down when Warner had 10 and the batsman was again dropped by Ian Bell as he neared his fifty.
Warner's knock included a four off the one millionth legal delivery in Tests in England.
Yet Rogers, who had been given a reprieve when Root took an excellent catch only for a no-ball to be called against Wood (1-63), then edged one across him from Stokes that Root took brilliantly diving to his left.
Stokes soon had Warner when he top-edged a pull to Broad, before Shaun Marsh (2) provided Root with another catch.
Stokes, who later briefly left the field with an apparent hamstring problem, then took a catch at point off Broad (1-32) to dismiss Smith as Australia continued to falter before tea.
Captain Michael Clarke's poor form continued and he made just 13 before clipping Wood to slip, where Cook juggled the ball into the hands of Ian Bell.
Peter Nevill survived a nick to the slips as Steven Finn (0-42) overstepped, but was punished for a poor leave when trapped lbw by Stokes.
And there was time for one last cheer at Trent Bridge when Stokes tempted Johnson into a swipe that went straight to Cook at slip.