31 Jul 04 | The AIS Canberra Darters' hopes of winning the final four games of their national netball league season crashed last night with a heartbreaking 54-55 loss to bottom team the Queensland Firebirds.
31 Jul 04 | Speculation is mounting that an announcement about the new director of the National Gallery of Australia is imminent.
31 Jul 04 | I ALWAYS HAVE to bite my tongue whenever people are talking about death and animals.
31 Jul 04 | THE GRADUAL world-wide drift of political campaigning from the rough and tumble of the stump to the tightly controlled and choreographed atmosphere of the convention centre began, like most socio-political trends, in the United States.
31 Jul 04 | A 34-year-old Canberra man was found guilty last night of the manslaughter of his friend and flatmate, who died last year after falling off a Belconnen overpass.
31 Jul 04 | There's talk in the bunch. Canberra cyclists are excited.
30 Jul 04 |
T
HE DIPLOMATIC ruckus
between Canberra and
Manila over the Philippines'
withdrawal from Iraq is another
defeat in the war on terror.
30 Jul 04 |
A
LEXANDER DOWNER has been playing the buffoon
on Iraq since anyone can remember. But now he is
playing the knave as well. In the process he is not
only doing damage to Australia and t...
30 Jul 04 |
The ACT's push to secure
more money for public-health
programs, such as breast-
cancer screening, was not
supported at the Australian
Health Ministers' conference
yesterday.
30 Jul 04 |
Coach Michelle Wilkins has
vowed to make a powerful statement
to the National Netball
League, refusing to take a go easy
attitude into the AIS Canberra
Darters' final home game against
the Queensland Firebirds
tonight.
30 Jul 04 |
Founding Canberra Raiders' coach
Don Furner said yesterday there were
similarities between rookie Michael Weyman
and the Green Machine's last great
front-row product, Glenn Lazarus.
30 Jul 04 |
Police have identified three new
persons of interest in the strangulation
murder of 45-year-old
Susan Elizabeth Winburn, whose
body was found slumped in the
bath at her Gordon home in
January.
30 Jul 04 |
T
HE SOUTH Australian
Nationals are one of the
least significant state party
branches in the whole country.
They are a pocket-sized party. Yet
they have produced a development
of startling consequence for both
state and national politics and for
the science of politics in Australia.
30 Jul 04 |
As his Wallaby teammates of a
few days ago enjoyed an evening off
in Perth last night, Radike Samo was
out in the cold night air training
with the Canberra Vikings.
30 Jul 04 |
Animal Liberation
members intend to go ahead
with today's requiem memorial
service for kangaroos
killed at Googong Dam,
despite the ACT Government
announcing yesterday it had
completed the controversial
cull.
30 Jul 04 |
L
AST week, China's People's
Daily published a strongly
worded attack on United
States foreign policy that should
alarm us all. In the prominent
editorial the newspaper condemned
...
30 Jul 04 |
Sitting in the loungeroom of
her Burra home watching Mark
Webber race against the world's
best drivers still has a slightly
surreal effect for his sister,
Leanne.
30 Jul 04 |
A
S THE battle wages on over
standards and access to
our national healthcare
services, it is worth noting
that things are not what they once
were and that the corporate sector is
wielding growing power in these
areas. Soon, government may not be
the major target of healthcare
concerns. It may be companies. In an
election that will focus on healthcare,
are we voting in the right
places?
29 Jul 04 | IN MAY 1968, protesting French students on the Boulevard Saint Michel, threw paving stones.
29 Jul 04 | RECENT public comment by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel, advocating that consideration be given to having Telstra divest itself of its cable network and its 50 per cent shareholding in Foxtel, is inappropiate - for a number of reasons.
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