01 Dec 03 |
T
HE NSW GOVERNMENT would do very well to
tread cautiously with proposals for a super-shire
surrounding the borders of the ACT. There are
some attractions to the idea, discussed in
re...
01 Dec 03 |
T
he next 24 hours are
all about guts.
01 Dec 03 |
I
F CANBERRANS want biodiversity
at their doorstep
then they have to be prepared
to take some serious
measures.
01 Dec 03 |
T
ODAY is World AIDS
Day. In Australia about
13,000 people have HIV
or AIDS. Last year there were
about 700 new cases, yet fewer
than 100 people died of it.
01 Dec 03 |
The Canberra Eclipse took a
disappointing 2-2 draw from their
WNSL game against Northern NSW
Pride yesterday.
30 Nov 03 | THE NARKS WHO insist that style, and grace, and grit and courage on a sporting field are not quite the same as when similar qualities are shown in life, or in war, are, of course, perfectly right.
30 Nov 03 | GEORGE SHERRIFF'S 1959 Ford Mainline ute is the apple of his eye.
30 Nov 03 | THE Canberra Capitals slumped to another Women's National Basketball League loss last night, soundly beaten 74-59 by the Townsville Fire in Townsville.
30 Nov 03 | CANBERRANS could have the opportunity to farewell retiring Australian Test cricket captain Steve Waugh in grand style with the maestro a possibility of captaining the Prime Minister's XI side to play India at Manuka Oval on January 28.
30 Nov 03 | FOR the second time in three days all six Women's National Soccer League teams will be on display in Canberra with three games at the McKellar Soccer Centre today.
30 Nov 03 | A PLAN to reduce unemployment and promote business investment in some of the most disadvantaged areas in rural NSW attracted tentative support from federal politicians last week.
30 Nov 03 | Well, well, whoever would have thought Section 41 of the Public Service Act 1999 could be brought to life simply by conducting an employee survey across the Australian Public Service?
29 Nov 03 | As Canberra's arts critics deliberated over the choice of award recipients for 2003, staff at Megalo Access Arts in Watson were checking out the framing of a valuable print to be presented at the annual ACT Arts Awards ceremony on Monday.
29 Nov 03 | SIMON CREAN'S parting words, as he stood down, involved a call for loyalty by parliamentarians to the next Labor leader, whoever it might be.
29 Nov 03 | Leading Australian ecologists, including members of the Wentworth Group, have questioned the ACT Government's recent sale of an endangered woodlands ecosystem for prestige residential development.
28 Nov 03 |
The party that wins next
year's ACT election will serve for
four years, after the Assembly
agreed yesterday to extend the
term of the Assembly.
28 Nov 03 |
More than $548,000 remains in the cash tin
and just over one month remains in the ACT
Government's handgun buy-back and
amnesty.
28 Nov 03 |
Researchers who create a
human clone in Canberra will
face up to 15 years' imprisonment
under a Bill introduced
yesterday in the ACT Legislative
Assembly.
28 Nov 03 |
Light aircraft
manufacturers, flying schools
and charter operators are
expected to be among the beneficiaries
of sweeping reforms
to Australia's airspace
regulations.
28 Nov 03 |
Some children stab their
playmates with used syringes that
are dumped in parks, beaches and
alleys, a new study shows.
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