01 Sep 03 |
Canberra International
Airport has launched a
campaign to promote itself
as the long-term solution
to the Sydney second
airport controversy.
01 Sep 03 |
A female spectator allegedly
kicked a Queanbeyan Whites
player in the head during an
all-in brawl in Saturday's
Queanbeyan versus Easts first-
grade club rugby match.
01 Sep 03 |
The ACT Government
claimed vindication last
night for breaking ranks
over the controversial health
agreement after the states
formally ditched their opposition.
01 Sep 03 |
The Canberra Raiders could
be NRL minor premiers this
time next week and it's hard
to imagine a player who more
deserves to be part of their
charge into the finals than
Jason Croker.
01 Sep 03 |
The Canberra Vikings' bid to
return to Sydney club rugby has
taken a massive step forward with a
NSW Premier Rugby review committee
recommending they be re-
admitted next year.
31 Aug 03 |
POLICE have linked the
strangulation murder of a six-
year-old Canberra boy _
whose body was found wrapped
in a piece of carpet and left on
a rubbish site at Yarralumla
Creek _ to the Wanda Beach
murders and the disappearances
of South Australia's Beaumont
children in the 1960s.
31 Aug 03 |
RESIDENTS with low and
medium water consumption
rates in the Queanbeyan Council
area will be slugged with
extra costs of up to $41 a year
under a change to the tariff
system due in part to drought
conditions.
30 Aug 03 | WHEN YOUR house burns down it's a natural first impulse to seek to restore what was lost.
30 Aug 03 | THERE is a healthy dose of hypocrisy in the pursuit of Tony Abbott over his One Nation fighting fund.
30 Aug 03 | T HE full Family Court appeared to pluck jurisdiction from the air this week when it ordered the release of five Pakistani children from Baxter Detention Centre.
30 Aug 03 |
Mike Williams fought for his
country in Vietnam, had a part
of his head shot off and won a
Military Medal for gallantry.
Now he's fighting for his life
against cancer.
29 Aug 03 | The ACT Government could be shortchanged on a better health care deal if state and territory ministers are successful in their push for more funds and concessions from the Federal Government at the Council of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra today.
29 Aug 03 |
Syringe-vending machines
are about to be installed
throughout Canberra as a
preventive measure against
blood-borne diseases such as
HIV and hepatitis C.
29 Aug 03 |
Injured Canberra Raiders play-maker
Brad Drew has been put on a specialised
training program to help him last the
season.
28 Aug 03 |
It was a one-in-60,000-year
opportunity last night as Canberrans
gazed at the heavens
for an up-close encounter with
our neighbouring planet Mars.
28 Aug 03 |
Prime Minister John Howard
wants to keep older
Australians working longer
_ amid fears that the ageing
population and low fertility
rate could lead to a severe
labour shortage in the
coming years.
28 Aug 03 |
The ACT Government
will shut down Canberra's
fireworks shops under
tough new laws to be
introduced by the end of
the year.
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