Rugby Australia is considering introducing mandatory hair-follicle tests that could uncover players taking illegal substances up to three months before being tested.

While the idea of keeping a three-month drug record of players is understood to have been discussed at RA for some time, the governing body is keen to introduce the testing this year.

Feeling the pinch: Wallabies star Kurtley Beale has returned early from a holiday to answer questions surrounding a video which shows him in the presence of a group of men passing around a plate with white powder. Credit:AAP

The news comes as Wallaby Kurtley Beale was forced to return early from a holiday in New Zealand to answer questions surrounding another video which shows him in the presence of a group of men passing around a plate containing a white powder.

The 83-Test playmaker will have to face RA’s integrity unit for the second time in a week after the leaked video appeared online. Beale had already apologised to RA boss Raelene Castle for the embarrassment caused earlier this week after a tape surfaced showing him laughing at an elderly man snorting a white substance off a plate handed to him by NRL player Corey Norman.