31 Jan 02 | THE DEEP South it is not, but Goulburn has done much to give Australian blues a source of its own "right stuff", writes Dominic Buchanan. Also from Times Out: the return of The Waifs and the best of the Net.
31 Jan 02 | INDEPENDENT and proud, The Waifs are returning to Canberra - and their musical roots, writes Georgia Curry.
31 Jan 02 | THE BEST, or at least the most curious, of the Net, by Jeff Centenera.
31 Jan 02 | The golden days of advertising are gone and advertisers can no longer sit back and wait for the money to roll in, according to industry analyst and professional copywriter Jon Maxim.
31 Jan 02 | AIS Everyone from Irish dancers to underwater hockey players have applied for a track cycling talent identification program that is underway in Canberra.
31 Jan 02 | Rugby League A double booking at Melbourne's Olympic Park has left the Canberra Raiders' first-round game against the Storm hanging in limbo.
31 Jan 02 | Rugby League Troy Thompson took the scenic route to becoming a professional footballer.
31 Jan 02 | Rugby League The Tuggeranong region has boosted its presence in first division rugby league, with the Valley Dragons and South Tuggeranong Knights to be represented this season.
31 Jan 02 | WNBL The Canberra Capitals want to sign star players Lauren Jackson and Kristen Veal to long-term deals, but the common denominator could be whether coach Carrie Graf decides to return.
31 Jan 02 | WNBL The Australian Institute of Sport's resurgence in the Women's National Basketball League has happily coincided with the return of point guard Jess Mahony.
31 Jan 02 | Basketball "It's grown up a lot, and I guess I have too," Luc Longley said on his return to the AIS for the first time in a decade.
31 Jan 02 | Cricket Kris Britt has long been an established fixture in the national under-19s but her elevation to the under-23s for the first time has coincided with a decision to spread her wings, to the point where she has been playing her cricket this season in three different capital cities.
31 Jan 02 | Cricket Time ran out on the England Cricket Academy yesterday, leaving them an agonising three runs short of victory.
31 Jan 02 | Golf Federal Golf Club so impressed organisers of the Australian Defence Force national championships last month that they decided to hold the event there for the next four years.
31 Jan 02 | ACT police are unlikely to follow a revolutionary NSW Government plan to hire out fully armed officers to private shopping centres.
31 Jan 02 | Special Magistrate Ian Pike, who was appointed by the ACT Government last August to oversee the gathering of evidence, rejected yesterday the assertion of ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Richard Refshauge, SC, that David Eastman should not, at this stage, be granted leave to be legally represented at the special inquiry.
31 Jan 02 | Government Services Report Spending on ACT government school students (from all government sources) had increased by only $22 a student.
31 Jan 02 | Government Services Report Government spending on ACT public hospitals plummeted by about $80 per patient in 1999-2000 compared with the previous year.
31 Jan 02 | Government Services Report The ACT recorded "remarkable" reductions in crime rates in the past financial year, but still had the highest motor-vehicle theft in Australia.
31 Jan 02 | Armando Corvini said he wanted to do something useful in retirement. With more than 40 climbs in New Zealand and the Himalayas, he's eminently qualified to teach rock climbing.
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