01 Mar 04 |
The 75th Royal Canberra
Show ended last night with
more than 140,000 people
heading to Exhibition Park for
three days of arts, crafts,
animals, rides, amusements
and of course, showbags.
01 Mar 04 |
The ACT public hospital
system has become the
least cost-effective in the
country as administration
costs escalate by 51 per
cent.
01 Mar 04 |
There aren't too many jockeys
around the region who can lay claim
to playing a first-hand role in
stopping the domination of the great
TJ Smith in the mid-1980s, but
Canberra's Ray Silburn can put his
hand up.
29 Feb 04 | A 51-YEAR-OLD Goulburn man died instantly when his tip-truck struck 11,000-volt overhead power lines on a property near Braidwood on Friday night.
29 Feb 04 | CANBERRA Stadium and the ACT Rugby Union will launch an investigation into a fight which broke out between rival school groups during Friday night's Brumbies game.
29 Feb 04 | Re-think asylum seekersIF WE allowed those nice young asylum seekers to stay in Australia and encouraged them to have children, would that mean I would not have to work until I am 70 to save my childrens' generation from an unfair financial burden?
29 Feb 04 | MOST PEOPLE will unequivocally welcome moves to encourage older people to stay at work, to give them superannuation incentives to do so, and to prohibit age discrimination in the workforce.
29 Feb 04 | THE father of a missing six-year-old Canberra boy has not given up hope after a four-year search for his son.
28 Feb 04 |
S
O FAR as I am aware, my
old home town, Goodooga,
has produced two non-
Aboriginal university
graduates. Both of us live in Canberra,
far from the centre of civilisation
which - as constant readers
will be aware - is on the NSW side
of the NSW-Queensland border,
about 800km west of Tweed Heads.
28 Feb 04 |
Lauren Jackson continues to reign as
queen of the ball, winning her fifth
successive Most Valuable Player award
for the Canberra Capitals last night.
28 Feb 04 |
'G
ENTLEMEN do not read each other's mail,'' then
US Secretary of State Henry Stimson declared in
1929 when he closed an American decrypting
unit after discovering that it was routine...
28 Feb 04 |
Replanting pine plantations
in water catchments close to
Canberra is ''a disaster waiting
to happen'' and will cause
major problems with water
supply and quality, one of
Australia's leading forest
ecologists has warned.
27 Feb 04 | Canberra trainer Barbara Joseph likes to keep herself busy, hence eight runners in the four feature races at Canberra today and Queanbeyan on Sunday.
27 Feb 04 | The tents are up, the cattle groomed and tethered and the rides in place for the Royal Canberra Show, which opens today for the 75th time.
27 Feb 04 | AS THE budget season approaches there is a flurry of lobbying based on trying to win an exemption from wine tax on the first 600,000 litres of production.
27 Feb 04 | THOSE who defend Jon Stanhope's partisan politicisation of citizenship ceremonies on the principle of free speech are missing the point.
27 Feb 04 | IN LAS VEGAS last Saturday night I watched a happy bride wander through the gaming floor of the Mirage hotel, hitching up her satin dress, followed by her husband and their two children.
27 Feb 04 | A packed public meeting of consumers and carers last night urged the ACT Government to consider several solutions to the mental-health crisis, including a secure facility.
27 Feb 04 | QANTAS chief executive Geoff Dixon can feel well pleased with the public reception to the business launch yesterday of Jetstar, the airline's low-cost subsidiary.
27 Feb 04 | NO-ONE outside the ACT is interested in ACT political life.
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