31 Aug 04 | WILL THE ULTIMATE irony of the David Hicks story have him ending up as some sort of romantic anti-hero - a Ned Kelly or Breaker Morant sort of character?
31 Aug 04 |
A
USTRALIAN sports fans
today bask in a golden
glow: 17 gold medals, our
best Olympics ever in terms of
gold medals, and our best away
from home by a long way.
31 Aug 04 |
The ACT will lose one of its elected
representatives for at least a month
ahead of the ACT election with little
possibility of a replacement, as
Greens MLA Kerrie Tucker resigns
from her seat to run for the Senate.
31 Aug 04 |
I
F LABOR were to take to heart
the cynicism dripping from John
Nethercote (CT Opinion, August
26) and The Canberra Times
(Editorial, August 26) about our Public
Service policy there would be little
point in releasing this or any other
election policy. We would adopt a
small-target strategy, but would
rightly earn the condemnation of the
Australian people.
31 Aug 04 |
It's official - Canberrans suffer from
more personal stress than anybody
else in Australia.
31 Aug 04 |
N
AURU is an isolated 21 sq km
Pacific island, more than 3500
kms from Brisbane. In 1963,
while still administered by Australia, it
gained the world price for its phosphate,
giving it one of the highest per capita
incomes in the world.
31 Aug 04 |
The ACT's athletes returning from
the Olympic Games in Greece will
be given some form of memento or
symbol of recognition to mark their
achievements, but plans for an
official welcome-home parade
appear less than certain.
31 Aug 04 |
The heavens finally opened yesterday
to give Canberra its wettest day
of the year and provide some welcome
respite from the drought.
31 Aug 04 |
Ruben Wiki is praying for rain on Saturday
night.
30 Aug 04 |
A
SIGNIFICANT cultural shift
is under way in our attitude
towards retirement.
30 Aug 04 |
Gungahlin's population is likely to
expand over the next decade at a
rate reminiscent of Canberra's
boom years in the 1970s and early
'80s, forecasters have predicted.
30 Aug 04 |
T
HE CARING, sharing side of
Pauline Hanson's One
Nation will be very much to
the fore in this election campaign.
30 Aug 04 |
N
OT A DRUM was heard, not a
funeral note, as the United States
quietly buried the road-map to
peace in the Middle East last week. It was
an act of omission as much as commission.
But the effect was the same.
30 Aug 04 |
The Canberra Raiders will know their fate
for season 2004 by the time they run onto
Canberra Stadium for Saturday night's final
home-and-away match of the season
against the Rabbitohs.
30 Aug 04 |
P
RIME MINISTER John Howard has called an
election which many people will think he
deserves to lose. What gives him a chance - a
substantial one because the Prime Minister is a
great ...
29 Aug 04 | WHEN Despina Voudouris boarded a plane for South Africa with 16kg of toys in her luggage, she had no idea where the gifts would end up.
29 Aug 04 | AUSTRALIANS ALL take deep pleasure at the success, in Athens, of our Olympians.
29 Aug 04 | THEY have been the dominant pack in the Canberra Cup rugby league competition for the past three seasons and have the ability to make today's grand final a one-sided affair.
29 Aug 04 | MORE than 300 Jerrabomberra residents gathered at the proposed site of the ACT prison in Hume yesterday to protest about the ACT Govern-ment's decision to build the jail within 3km of homes in the NSW township.
29 Aug 04 | LYING or not trying! Which is worse?
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