28 Feb 02 | Ansett's crash Treasurer Ted Quinlan expressed concerns that Qantas' near-monopoly hold could turn Canberra into a premium-price destination.
28 Feb 02 | Ansett's crash Union organiser Christine Tutty: "They are just devastated by it, especially as it got this close to the sale which was just 24 hours' away. They feel like the stuffing has been taken out of them. People just wanted this to work."
28 Feb 02 | Ansett's crash Ansett's former regional operations are flying as usual, despite the Lindsay Fox/Solomon Lew consortium backing out of its plans to buy Ansett.
28 Feb 02 | Black Opal Stakes Leading Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse will delay until today her decision on just where smart two-year-old Chuckle will race on Saturday but has declared in-form rider Bernadette Cooper aboard for Canberra's $150,000 Black Opal Stakes.
28 Feb 02 | Black Opal Stakes Trainer Gratz Vella was left beaming when his charge Bartoss yesterday drew the coveted rails position for Saturday's $150,000 Black Opal Stakes at Canberra while the top chances of leading mentors Barbara Joseph and John Morrisey did not fare well.
28 Feb 02 | Black Opal Stakes ACTTAB Agents Association president Ian De Landelles yesterday said management had given no indication that agents and their surplus workers could replace ACTTAB staff who plan to strike on Black Opal day.
28 Feb 02 | MARK Geyer's in a lot of trouble. At an unofficial weigh in yesterday Damian Monkhurst was almost off the scales.
28 Feb 02 | MAL Meninga: "I really enjoy Oztag. It's like league but a bit slower and a bit more skilful.
28 Feb 02 | AIS World champion swimmer Petria Thomas didn't have to think twice when asked what her major highlight of the past year had been.
28 Feb 02 | WNBL The cocky celebrations of the Adelaide Lightning players after last week's win in the final round of the Women's National Basketball League are still ringing in the ears of Canberra Capitals star Lauren Jackson.
28 Feb 02 | NBL Some players were bemused and others outright confused when Canberra Cannons coach Cal Bruton congratulated his team yesterday on making the National Basketball League play-offs.
28 Feb 02 | Hockey Megan Staunton admits she's a little nervous about taking over the mantle as the Canberra Strikers No 1 goalkeeper in the Australian Hockey League this season.
28 Feb 02 | Golf Canberra golfer Nikki Campbell was elevated to the top sport after finishing just a stroke off the pace in the Ladies' 72-hole stroke event in Perth where she put in a consistent performance but just could not get the lead.
28 Feb 02 | Soccer The onset of a new season was heralded yesterday by the draw of the Federation Cup, but not without the time-honoured rumblings of discontent from some of those most closely involved.
28 Feb 02 | The extra $7 million the Commonwealth Grants Commission recommended should go to the ACT in 2002-03 was welcome, if not entirely unexpected, news, Treasurer Ted Quinlan said yesterday.
28 Feb 02 | A new drug would target super bugs which were resistant to traditional antibiotics and contributed to about 7000 deaths in Australia each year, a Canberra specialist said yesterday.
28 Feb 02 | ACT Government planners told the assembled groups they had been ordered to forget all their 422.5 years of collective experience and to listen to the delegates.
28 Feb 02 | The world may not beat a path to his door, but David Banks' better mozzie trap may save some people from the potentially fatal Japanese encephalitis virus.
28 Feb 02 | It would be premature to say the virus was a thing of the past in the ACT, but it was hard to improve on no cases in more than a year, Dr Eddie O'Brien, of the communicable diseases section of the ACT Health Department, said.
28 Feb 02 | The liaison officer for the East Timor transitional administration, Etervina Groenen, said a sister-city relationship between Dili and Canberra needed to run on goodwill and respect.
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