Australian fast bowler Peter Siddle comes up with a successful appeal.

The wilting Windies lost 15 wickets in all on Saturday to lose by an innings and 65 runs, as Australia rumbled to their sixth straight win at the Gabba dating back to 2004.

It extended their 21-year unbeaten run at the ground in Tests.

But it also added another sorry chapter in the tourists' recent history - the once mighty Windies have now suffered nine straight Test losses in Australia.

At least debutant Adrian Barath, 19, could hold his head high after becoming the youngest West Indian to score a Test century on debut.

But when he fell for a magnificent 104 - including 20 boundaries - in the final session on Saturday, the end was nigh for the tourists.

Man-of-the-match Ben Hilfenhaus (3-20), spinner Nathan Hauritz (2-40) and Shane Watson (2-44) helped bowl out the Windies for 187 in their second dig after Ricky Ponting enforced a surprise follow-on earlier on Saturday.

As he did in the first innings when he took 2-50, Hilfenhaus tore the heart out of the top order in the second dig.

He claimed the prize scalps of Chris Gayle (one) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (two), as well as first-innings anchorman Travis Dowlin (four).

It endorsed Ponting's decision to make the Windies bat again.

The only real stand of note in the Windies' second dig came from Barath and Dwayne Bravo (23) who compiled 66 for the fourth wicket before the latter was inexplicably caught hooking minutes before tea to leave the tourists reeling at 4-106 at the break.Perhaps the biggest surprise though was specialist batsman Mike Hussey claiming Bravo's wicket.-AAP