Australia’s team has been named for the upcoming International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Asia Oceania Zone (AOZ) World Championship qualification tournament in China’s capital Beijing.

  Australia head coach Craig Friday is said to have been working on developing flexibility

Australia are the reigning men's world champions ©Getty ImagesThe Australian Rollers have a proud history

Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) has publicly declared its support for gay marriage, a topic currently

has been a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage, and recently the National Rugby League, Cricket Australia

 "Commonwealth Games Australia is strongly committed to our core values of Inclusiveness, Respect

Commonwealth Games Australia has led the way in working with the Gold Coast organising committee to ensure

Commonwealth Games Australia respects the rights of all Australians to have their say in the current

Commonwealth Games Australia is proud to support YES for marriage equality."

Australia's two-time Olympic shooting champion Michael Diamond has succeeded in his appeal against three firearms convictions.

Shooting Australia has today become aware that Olympic shooting gold medallist Michael Diamond has been

successful in an appeal against his May firearms convictions," a Shooting Australia (SA) statement read

year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast with 31 swimmers and lawn bowlers set to compete in Australia

Scotland at Glasgow 2014.Ross Murdoch and Dan Wallace will defend their Commonwealth Games titles in Australia

bowls, two of Scotland’s most successful Commonwealth Games sports with a track record of success in Australia

Romania’s Simona Halep has beaten Russia’s Maria Sharapova for the first time in her career to reach the quarter-finals of the China Open in Beijing.

Bedene 6-0, 4-0 when his opponent retired with a knee injury.Elsewhere, eighth seed Nick Kyrgios of Australia

Claire Polosak will become the first woman to act as an on-field umpire in an Australian men's domestic cricket match on Sunday (October 8).

Polosak has been chosen to officiate the JLT One-Day Cup clash between New South Wales and Cricket Australia

Mitchell Starc is among those expected to feature in the encounter between New South Wales and Cricket Australia

The Gold Coast 2018 Queen’s Baton Relay has arrived in India, the largest Commonwealth country by population.

will be hoping to improve on their fifth place finish in the medals table at Glasgow 2014 in Australia

Lanka, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore.It then moves to Oceania, eventually landing back in Brisbane in Australia

Australian taekwondo player Keshena Waterford says she is proud after becoming her country's first medallist at an Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) during Ashgabat 2017.

A day after Waterford's podium finish, Australia won its second bronze medal through fellow taekwondo

the final against China's Gao Pan.Deanna Kyriazopoulos was one of six taekwondo players to represnet Australia

Ashgabat 2017 marked the second time Australia has competed at an Asian Games with the nation making

Women's World Cup winners England have overtaken Australia as the number one team in the world after

England are ahead of Australia on decimal points, with both sides sitting on 128 points.They have climbed

home soil earlier this year.The two sides are due to clash later this month when the Ashes series in Australia

We have plenty more hard work to do, starting with the Ashes in Australia this winter but it has been

England and Australia are the only two movers on the rankings as New Zealand retained third place and

The courses for triathlon events at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games have been revealed.

The women's triathlon is set to be the first medal event at the Games in Australia, held on April 5,

It has become increasingly fashionable for sporting leaders to talk about their trade with a form of missionary zeal and sense of higher purpose.

He now faces being ruled out of the upcoming Ashes series with Australia after leaked video footage allegedly

Paris will host the conclusion of the men's and women's HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, it has been confirmed.

Commonwealth Games draw to a close, with rugby sevens set to also feature at the multi-sport event in Australia

international rankings for batsmen following an inspired performance in the recent home series against Australia

Russia will seek to defend their World Mixed Curling Championship title when competition begins in Champéry in Switzerland.

Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel, Norway and Slovakia.The final group will feature Australia

The Olympic Council of Asia's (OCA) director general Husain Al Musallam said the organisation is always ready to give the continent's athletes a chance to perform after the fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) concluded in Ashgabat last week.

Committees (NOCs) making their debut in winter sports, as well as guest athletes from two Oceania countries, Australia