31 Jan 04 |
The ACT Chief Coroner has
been asked to recommend to
the Government that increased
funding be given to equip and
train more volunteer bushfire
fighters in Canberra.
Sara ...
31 Jan 04 |
World champion Jana Pittman
gave a simple explanation for why
Australia's best athletes had gathered
in Canberra this weekend to
chase their Olympic dream.
31 Jan 04 |
The Canberra Capitals have set
the goal to win their third consecutive
Women's National Basketball
League title on home turf.
31 Jan 04 |
The ACT Government's
controversial decision to
build its long-awaited prison
at Hume took another twist
yesterday, with the Federal
Government denying it had
refused to sell the ACT a
preferred site in the Majura
Valley near Canberra Airport.
31 Jan 04 |
People with mental illnesses
are being exploited and
abused in custody but in some
cases courts have nowhere
else to send them, the ACT's
two chief judicial officers say.
31 Jan 04 |
A
REPORT by researchers at Charles Sturt
University on the social impacts of the drought
in NSW has found that farms and rural towns
are battling escalating poverty.
31 Jan 04 |
It has been a horror new year
on roads in and around the
ACT.
30 Jan 04 |
F
EDERAL Opposition Leader Mark Latham has
laid a solid foundation on which the Labor Party
can mount its election campaign.
29 Jan 04 | It was hard to pick the magic moment at Manuka Oval yesterday but it probably involved Cade Brown.
29 Jan 04 | ON DECEMBER 3 last year, just as Canberra began to settle into its quiet season, the ACT Government released its Economic White Paper.
29 Jan 04 | IMET TOO many brave and dignified widows last October.
29 Jan 04 | A Canberra man was killed last night when the silver Ford Falcon he was driving hit the back of a stationary ACTION bus.
29 Jan 04 | ANUMBER of world health ministers have begun a three-day meeting in Wellington, New Zealand.
29 Jan 04 | After his shock resignation yesterday, Canberra's Chief Police Officer, John Murray, denied he was forced into quitting the top job because of apparent performance issues within ACT Policing.
29 Jan 04 | The ACT Government's decision yesterday to build it's $110 million high-security prison at Hume, just 1km from the NSW border and as close as 2.
29 Jan 04 | THE DECISION by the ACT Government to build a prison on what it acknowledges to be the second-best site highlights the continuing rift between the local and Federal Governments' respective roles in ACT planning.
28 Jan 04 | That troublesome groin is feeling 100 per cent and South African ACT Brumbies centre Clyde Rathbone is finally ready to play.
28 Jan 04 | FEW SUBJECTS arouse more heated arguments than the ancient tribal art of tattooing.
28 Jan 04 | POTENTIAL changes to Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme have emerged as a major sticking point in the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement.
28 Jan 04 | ACLONED human embryo has been an experiment waiting to happen.