01 Dec 04 |
Too much of a good thing could lead
to Ainslie from tomorrow night, the
ACT Government opening its new
$300,000 sobering-up centre for
intoxicated persons just in time for
Christmas.
30 Nov 04 | THE QUEENSLAND Premier, Peter Beattie, probably means well with his latest round of tough talk about dealing with the problems of Palm Island, but no-one should get their hopes up that he really means anything much to change.
30 Nov 04 |
T
HERE are ironies unlimited in
the group of islands off the
coast from Townsville, at the
southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef
- the best known of which is Palm
Island.
30 Nov 04 |
T
HEY still come to dig for gold in
Ballarat. People fervently still pan
for alluvial gold in a little stream
running through Sovereign Hill, Victoria's
most popular tourist attraction.
30 Nov 04 |
Larry's gone, and Curly misses him.
30 Nov 04 |
About one in four health workers in the
ACT will reach retirement age in five
years as the current chronic shortages
affect a range of services such as breast-
cancer screening.
30 Nov 04 |
The season's first total fire ban is
in force today, with a scorching
maximum temperature of
38degrees forecast, along with
gusty north-westerly winds winds
up to 60km/h.
30 Nov 04 |
A Belconnen man in his 30s is
missing believed drowned in Lake
Burley Griffin after a jetski accident
last night.
30 Nov 04 |
The Canberra Raiders team for 2005 was
completed yesterday with the arrival in Canberra
of their two star recruits, Matt Adamson
and Jason Smith.
30 Nov 04 |
'H
E COULD be very
entertaining,'' Stalin's
niece Kira Allilueva told
biographer Robert Service
in 1998.
29 Nov 04 |
The Canberra Eclipse played out a
disappointing 1-1 draw with Victoria
Vision in energy-sapping conditions at
McKellar Stadium yesterday.
29 Nov 04 |
More Canberrans are thinking about a
sea change than any of their fellow
Australians, but it has nothing to do
with escaping a stressful lifestyle.
29 Nov 04 |
Canberra Capitals coach Tom Maher
compared yesterday's 85-47 thrashing at
the hands of Adelaide Lightning to the
sinking of the Titanic.
29 Nov 04 |
M
ICK JAGGER and Keith
Richards are not known
for taking backward
steps. Take, for instance,
a court appearance, with both men
charged with possessing marijuana.
No ducking or weaving.
29 Nov 04 |
L
ABOR had every reason to count on
my vote. I was born in a working-
class sink suburb and raised in a
10-square weatherboard war-
service home. My father was a storeman at
a sh...
29 Nov 04 |
T
TELSTRA BigPond's misdirection
of fans of Casey
Donovan, the young singer
made good, to the web site of
Casey Donovan, the dead swinger
who made wood, contained at least
one almost-delicious irony: here was
the nation's leading Internet service
provider being caught, as it were, in
its own sticky world wide web. In the
words of the current BigPond advertising
campaign, big surprise!
29 Nov 04 |
Seasoned veterans of the Ability
Cycle Challenge, a 450km bike ride
from Canberra to Mt Kosciuszko and
back, say the real ride doesn't begin
till day three.
29 Nov 04 |
Up to 600 new apartments and units are set
to inject a greater residential feel to the
Woden Town Centre as it transforms from a
predominantly retail and office based precinct
into a more integrated community.
29 Nov 04 |
WHAT WAS shaping as a critical confrontation in the
leadership career of Mark Latham has now been headed
off, with the moral victory probably belonging to Latham,
but with each side having retreated sufficiently, before any
collision, that it will be difficult to say that he has emerged
from it with his standing enhanced.
28 Nov 04 | THREE months ago, Sarah Ryan arrived back home in Canberra with an Olympic gold medal.
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