31 Mar 04 | THE A.C.T. suicide rate remains at one a month*, we were told last week (CT, March 26, p3). The news is a grim reminder of the toll of depression and mental illness on our community, and the inadequacy of bare statistics to provide illumination on complex questions like why people choose to end their lives.
31 Mar 04 |
Building approvals nation-
wide jumped 15 per cent in
February, the first rise in four
months, Australian Bureau of
Statistics figures showed yesterday.
31 Mar 04 |
Australian Davis Cup hero Wayne
Arthurs proved himself to have the
more explosive ammunition in the
battle of the big guns at the Australian
Men's Claycourt
Championships at Lyneham yesterday.
31 Mar 04 |
Injuries to inside-centre Matt
Giteau and flanker Owen Finegan
have forced the Brumbies to
select an extended 24-man squad
for their trip to New Zealand to
play the Canterbury Crusaders
on Saturday.
31 Mar 04 |
Phoebe Fraser has just
returned from Rwanda, 10
years after her first four-
month stint there as a CARE
worker trying to deal with the
devastation of civil war and
genocide.
31 Mar 04 |
Canberra's affluence,
environmental ignorance and
appetite for the good life is
threatening the future of the
bush capital.
31 Mar 04 |
T
HE EDUCATION of boys
has emerged as a major
issue in the forthcoming
federal election campaign. It
seems likely to be an issue in
the forthcoming ACT election
campaign as well. Before this
important issue is
overwhelmed by political rhetoric
and disinformation, it is
worthwhile putting it into context.
31 Mar 04 |
Police have been called to
the aid of a mentally ill
Canberra woman 89 times
since July 2002, with one
officer saying he was concerned
her actions could
risk the safety of the public.
31 Mar 04 |
Legal costs for the coronial
inquest into the January 2003
bushfires could blow out by
$3-4million and drag on for years if
up to 50 public servants were
granted separate legal representation,
Chief Minister Jon Stanhope
warned yesterday.
31 Mar 04 |
The Canberra Raiders are
ready to ''play more attacking
footy'' with key playmakers Mark
McLinden and Brad Drew named
as the halves combination for the
first time this year.
31 Mar 04 |
M
ARK LATHAM's
promise to bring
Australian troops
home from Iraq by
Christmas highlights some of
the complexities that can arise
when middle powers are led by
major powers such as the US
and the United Kingdom into
situations more challenging
than leaders in capitals such as
Washington and London
appreciated properly.
30 Mar 04 | Labor Leader Mark Latham is reading to toddlers and talking to teenagers.
30 Mar 04 | CANBERRA's water infrastructure was designed about 30 years ago to provide for a population of 450,000 without recourse to rationing, even in the worst of expected droughts.
30 Mar 04 | AS GOOD a swimmer as Craig Stevens undoubtedly is, his qualification at the weekend as one of Australia's two representatives in the 400m freestyle event at this year's Athens Olympics was accidental.
30 Mar 04 | LAST Wednesday Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane launched COAL21, a plan of action aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions arising from the use of coal in electricity generation.
30 Mar 04 | AFTER three Taiwanese presidential elections, a pattern is beginning to emerge.
30 Mar 04 | FOURTEEN metres.
30 Mar 04 | An almost certain Olympic Games call up means world-beating Canberra cyclist Oenone Wood could be back home by the start of May, after she finished second in round three of the women's World Cup road race series in Spain on Sunday night.
30 Mar 04 | The Canberra Capitals need Tom Maher to return to the coaching position he gave up to Carrie Graf last season - if for no other reason than to keep their star player Lauren Jackson happy.
30 Mar 04 | Heather Ponting now thinks she is ready to take her intellectually disabled son's ashes up in a balloon and scatter them over Canberra, nearly four years after he was left alone by carers and drowned in his bath.
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