30 Apr 01 | THE Australian Government appears to be playing a fairly silly party game with China. Last week, the Prime Minister, John Howard, made some fairly cautious and apparently neutral statements about tensions between China and Taiwan, and appeared surprised when there was a strong Chinese reaction.
30 Apr 01 | Washington's less ambiguous stand on the Taiwan issue, and our automatic support, may have serious implications for Australia, says LINCOLN WRIGHT.
30 Apr 01 | South Africa's two most urgent problems, a sky-high crime rate and an insecure leader, are obscuring its positive achievements.
30 Apr 01 | The stated desire of One Nation's leader to move into fashion post-politics would bring a touch of reality to her views on protectionism and immigration, says ALASTAIR GREIG.
30 Apr 01 | The idea of charging diabetics more for their treatment will inevitably result in greater costs to the community in the future, writes LESLEY RUSSELL.
30 Apr 01 | Canberra Raiders lock Jason Croker's five-year absence from State of Origin football ended last night when he was selected for NSW against Queensland next Sunday.
30 Apr 01 | Mal Meninga insists he will stay on as Canberra Raiders coach until the end of the season despite Sydney media speculation that his position is in jeopardy following another lacklustre performance by his team.
30 Apr 01 | A flat Queanbeyan Blues poured on four tries in the final 20 minutes to beat West Belconnen Warriors 40-22 at Kippax Oval yesterday.
30 Apr 01 | St Pats rounded off a successful week of hockey with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over University of Canberra in their ACT Women's hockey match at Lyneham yesterday.
30 Apr 01 | Whether yesterday's home game against Perth Glory turns out to be the closing chapter for the Canberra Cosmos or the cue for another beginning will depend on news from Soccer Australia's appeals tribunal, expected some time today.
30 Apr 01 | The fall-out from last month's collapse of HIH Insurance is now threatening the legal claims of the victims of the 1997 Royal Canberra Hospital implosion, as well as a number of ACT work and road accident victims and the disgruntled clients of some lawyers.
30 Apr 01 | If you had cast your eyes skyward at the weekend, you may have been lucky enough to have caught a glimpse of a hang-glider or para-glider wandering across the sky as pilots descended on Canberra for a national fly-in.
30 Apr 01 | All government schools will be connected to the TransACT broadband fibre-optic network through a $300,000 deal.
30 Apr 01 | Most Australian children still like to read books, despite the distractions of the Internet and computer games, and most would actually like to read more, according to a report to be issued today.
28 Apr 01 | THE Canberra Raiders season is on shaky ground after they collapsed to a 24-16 loss against the Brett Kimmorley-inspired Northern Eagles in Gosford last night.
28 Apr 01 | ALMOST $1.5 million will be spent in this year's ACT Budget in a bid to shore-up Canberra's chronically overcrowded and outdated remand facilities.
28 Apr 01 | FOR Aboriginal elder, Matilda House, tomorrow's historic signing represents a significant achievement for her family, which has lived for many generations in the lands it knows as Ngmabra/Pialligo.
28 Apr 01 | ''SIR William Deane? I've never heard of him,'' the young woman in Civic admits at lunchtime this week.
28 Apr 01 | ONE half-expected Gough Whitlam or William McMahon to be standing on the steps of Old Parliament House yesterday as hundreds of historic cars parked out the front for the Shannons 2001 National Motoring Tour.
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