31 Dec 00 | SYDNEY is likely to have two archbishops appointed next year and both are of considerable interest in CanberraChr(39)s ecclesiastical circles.
31 Dec 00 | RIVERS stop flowing, stripping land of life and eroding the nationChr(39)s transport grid as entire towns perish. Sound like the latest script from a Stephen King horror movie?
31 Dec 00 | TIGHTER ACT Housing rent policies coming into effect with the New Year are said to be detrimental to families in their effect on older children wanting to stay at home.
31 Dec 00 | WOULD you put the Commissioner of Taxation on a performance contract which gave him a percentage of the extra tax collected next year? What about putting the Governor of the Reserve Bank on a profit share of foreign exchange transactions?
31 Dec 00 | A humbling by Eastern Pride one weekend, another by AucklandChr(39)s Football Kingz at home the next, and revelations between times that negotiations with a potential major sponsor have collapsed; it has been an horrendous eight days for the Canberra Cosmos.
31 Dec 00 | James Nicholson looks at the ins and outs of the weekChr(39)s sport.
31 Dec 00 | SQUASH is set to become a battle of the sexes next year, with the ACT to integrate menChr(39)s and womenChr(39)s competitions.
31 Dec 00 | TONIGHTChr(39)S New YearChr(39)s Eve celebrations will be like no other in CanberraChr(39)s history, with the first use of horses by mounted Australian Federal Police to keep order in Civic.
31 Dec 00 | CAR fans at this weekChr(39)s popular Summernats street machine festival will be slugged with a $5 parking fee at Exhibition Park in Canberra for the first time in the 14-year history of the event.
31 Dec 00 | POLICE will start doorknocking today along Northbourne Avenue near where Canberra woman Sally Ann Goodwin was fatally injured in a hit-and-run car accident almost a week ago.
31 Dec 00 | OLYMPIC long-jumper Jai Taurima confirmed this week that Canberra would be his base for the next four years, after his coach, Craig Hilliard, resisted overtures from headhunters and decided to stay with the Australian Institute of Sport.
31 Dec 00 | A POSSIBLE downturn in the ACT building industry is being seen as the only real threat to the booming local economy, but experts are hopeful an interest rate fall early next year will stop any slide before it starts.
31 Dec 00 | THE ACT Government and Labor Opposition could be about to join forces to prevent Independent MLAs from derailing the ACT Budget process
30 Dec 00 | Australians should use the new millennium to ponder values, writes LAUCHLAN CHIPMAN.
30 Dec 00 | KIM BEAZLEY may ultimately have cause to be thankful for the Shepherdson inquiry into vote rorts in Queensland, but there will be a lot of agony and turmoil for the party before it gets to that.
30 Dec 00 | IN A few days digital television will begin. Hitherto, Australians have shown a remarkable propensity to take up new technology. Not so with digital TV. Consumers are showing little interest. Manufacturers are wary.
30 Dec 00 | LABORChr(39)S foreign affairs spokesman, Laurie Brereton, has again raised the topic of reserved Aboriginal seats in Parliament. This week, the former Labor premier of Victoria, Joan Kirner, called for a quota of safe seats for female Labor candidates.
30 Dec 00 | False alarm. It seems Canberra Cannons guard Tonny Jensen will have to wait a few more weeks to collect his plaque for 200 games in the National Basketball League because of a computer glitch at basketball headquarters.
30 Dec 00 | Canberra Cannons point guard Nate Green had heard the doubting whispers . . . "This is the guy that was Missouri Conference Player-of-the-Year in college, the award once won by the legendary Larry Bird? . . .
30 Dec 00 | Ask Brad Scott to name the one match above all others in which he would like to play a decisive part, and he would say, without a secondChr(39)s thought, the Football Kingz at home.
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