30 Jun 02 | RETROSPECTIVE legislation is almost always undesirable.
30 Jun 02 | JOHN Howard will not resign mid-term. The Prime Minister is there for the long haul. Peter Costello can forget about assuming the mantle next year.
30 Jun 02 | PROFESSOR Richard Mulgan, of the Australian National University, knows how to put the cat among the pigeons.
29 Jun 02 | Canberra will play a major role in the operations of Australia's newest regional airline after the sale of Kendell and Hazelton Airlines to Australiawide Airlines consortium went ahead in Sydney yesterday.
29 Jun 02 | The boxing ring in the Tuggeranong Police and Citizens Youth Club was a place of ACT Boxing history last night when it hosted the territory's first amateur women's bout.
29 Jun 02 | A COLLEGE student would have done well to have studied two of yesterday's news items.
29 Jun 02 | Canberra Raiders winger Odell Manuel said personal problems were behind his decision to quit the club yesterday.
29 Jun 02 | The ACT Brumbies want to stave off Queensland raids for two of its best young backs in Julian Huxley and Tim Atkinson after the disappointment of losing reserve hooker Adam Freier to NSW Waratahs yesterday.
29 Jun 02 | SWIGS of water from drink bottles, tracksuit tops over ball gowns and hamstring stretches in the warm-up room the dancing may look pretty but backstage its practitioners appear more like athletes.
29 Jun 02 | AS the ACT's 10 grand finalists await Friday's Rock Eisteddfod Challenge, absorbing the judge's feedback and studying videos from last month's semi-finals, the Sunday Times went backstage to see how one of the schools was preparing.
29 Jun 02 | THE Government's compulsory rule that departments market-test their human-resources functions was impeding good management in some agencies, the Auditor-General has found.
29 Jun 02 | THE general public yesterday got its first opportunity to buy into The Gateway, the first stage of the Kingston Foreshore Development.
29 Jun 02 | Labor backbencher John Hargreaves has apologised for any harm his comments about fireworks might have caused to retailers' families.
29 Jun 02 | David Eastman stormed out of a video-linked hearing between the ACT Supreme Court and Goulburn jail yesterday because Justice Malcolm Gray would not take contempt action against the jail's governor.
29 Jun 02 | AS RAIDERS halfback Brett Finch prepares to enter the open market, his skipper Simon Woolford has made an impassioned plea for the young playmaker to stay in Canberra.
29 Jun 02 | UNIVERSITIES-NORTHS were blessed by the rare appearance of three Canberra Vikings in their team and that helped the bottom-placed side to only its second win of the season at ANU North yesterday.
29 Jun 02 | A young drug user and dealer, who had done little until recently to assist his own rehabilitation, was reminded by an ACT Supreme Court judge yesterday that releasing him on a bond was "generous" treatment.
29 Jun 02 | CANBERRA trainer John Morrisey was visibly moved today after Pittance ensured his place in history when he won the $150,000 Eye Liner Stakes (1200m) at Ipswich for the third consecutive year.
28 Jun 02 | David Adamson David Adamson was a leading veterinary surgeon for more than 20 years. He was a vibrant, energetic and popular man who through service to the community, care for animals, and skills as an organiser made a major contribution to the lives of many people in the Canberra region.
28 Jun 02 | Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri "IT WAS my idea to put more than one story on the canvas. I think I do it this way - make it flash. I got to do all this story now, like old people do 'em.''