01 Oct 04 |
The Stanhope Labor Government
put forward its case for another
term at the territory's version of the
Great Debate yesterday, saying it
was the only party with the ''strong
sense of purpose and direction'' to
lead the territory.
01 Oct 04 |
The Australian National University
appears to have lost $22 million in
federal funding over the next three
years - alleging either a massive
administrative bungle or Howard
Government ''payback'' over
being outspoken on issues such as
university industrial relations
reform and the Free Trade Agreement.
01 Oct 04 |
O
NE SURE way to make a book
desirable is to ban it. This is what
has begun to happen with The
Bad Book by Andy Griffiths and
Terry Denton. A kind of fatwa has been
declared and Griffiths is facing ridicule and
the withdrawal of his work.
01 Oct 04 |
T
HE current debate about the
Government's ''residential-core-
area'' policy might be helped by a
dispassionate summary of the pros
and cons of that and alternative policies.
Some woul...
01 Oct 04 |
A long, straight drive and a final scorecard
of around 10-under-par is all you would
need to win the Federal Amateur Open
Championship at Red Hill this weekend -
at least that's what the players believe.
01 Oct 04 |
Four Canberra men are expected to
face court charged with child-
pornography offences after their
homes were raided as part of the
nation-wide police operation
targeting child-sex crimes.
01 Oct 04 |
P
REFERENTIAL voting one of
Australia's electoral innovations.
30 Sep 04 | THE HEALTH AND WELFARE of Australians and the wider international community have been sacrificed by policies that divert funding from health care to killing.
30 Sep 04 | The 24-year-old Queanbeyan man injured in Tuesday's explosion in a Donald Rd block of flats remains in a critical condition in a Sydney Hospital.
30 Sep 04 | Labor's plan to pay hospital costs for older patients would free up $53million to cut elective surgery waiting lists and improve services in the ACT's public hospitals, Health Minister Simon Corbell said.
30 Sep 04 | I F I WERE MORGAN SPURLOCK, I'd be quite pleased with myself.
30 Sep 04 | A ZY AND INDAH are heading to school - a unique experience for two clever orangutans whose classroom will eventually encompass more than 80ha of lowlands, river forest and lakes.
30 Sep 04 | Saturday is D-Day for Canberra's big spring Cups mare Ain't Seen Nothin' but the upshot is anything short of her best will almost certainly see her next race in front of hometown fans.
30 Sep 04 | Soaring Canberra petrol prices are likely to go even higher as the price of a barrel of oil broke the $US50 threshold in Asian markets for the second consecutive day yesterday.
30 Sep 04 | The oil warning light is switching from amber to red.
30 Sep 04 | AS HE approaches 80, Jimmy Carter could be enjoying retirement - teaching Sunday school, relaxing with family and reflecting on a life that's taken him from the peanut fields of Plains, Georgia, to the White House and back.
29 Sep 04 | Forrest Gump said it and new Capitals recruit Jenny Whittle couldn't agree more.
29 Sep 04 | Number 55 Donald Rd could have been a demolition site, but for the obvious signs that, just hours before, these flats were someone's home.
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