01 Feb 05 |
A
N INFANT democracy is a frail
plant. It often needs watering
with blood, and best-quality
blood at that: the blood of heroes.
Thus it was in Iraq on Sunday.
01 Feb 05 |
T
HE WORLD has more
democracies than ever before.
But they are home-grown -
they have not been imposed from the
outside. This suggests that the
American dream of exporting
democracy to Iraq is doomed to
failure.
01 Feb 05 |
W
HEN was the last time you met
someone who was opposed to
increasing environmental
sustainability? Not someone who merely
disagreed about the best way to achieve it, but
someone who actively opposed the concept?
01 Feb 05 |
A ''Save Maria Doogan'' rally will be
held on the steps of the ACT
Supreme Court next week as the
Government denies it instigated legal
action to have Coroner Maria
Doogan removed from the coronial
inquiry into the January 2003
bushfires.
01 Feb 05 |
Social-justice advocate Charlie
Pahlman was remembered yesterday
as a passionate man who loved to
immerse himself in any body of
water he came across.
01 Feb 05 |
A
USTRALIANS love a battle but we do not take
kindly to those who do not meet our high
expectations, and certainly a theme that bounced
around after Lleyton Hewitt's Australian Open
loss was his ill-temper towards officials during the
match. For a country infatuated with sport, Hewitt's
behaviour raised again what it means to be a good sport
and whether we just take it all too seriously.
31 Jan 05 | ACT tennis experts won't hear a word against Lleyton Hewitt as the high-flying Australian keeps winning hearts throughout the nation.
31 Jan 05 | IT IS accepted by most people with an interest - economists and real estate agents, weekend tyre-kickers and serious investors - that the property market, in general, will lose heat in 2005.
31 Jan 05 |
A 19-year-old man remains in a serious
condition in Canberra Hospital's intensive
care unit after a hit-and-run in
Kingston early on Saturday morning.
31 Jan 05 |
I
N FEBRUARY 1997, the Union Jack
dropped to half-mast over Government
House, Hong Kong. Governor
Chris Patten visited Chinese officials to
offer his condolences. Hong Kong's Legislative
Council stood for a minute's silence.
Australia sent an official message of sympathy
to China.
31 Jan 05 |
Although this season is seen as
''make or break'' for Mark Webber's
Formula One career, he will enjoy
plenty of local support at the opening
race of the season in Melbourne
on March 6.
31 Jan 05 |
O
VER THE the past 30 years, the
Australian government has
invested billions of dollars into
improving housing and infrastructure
in remote communities, yet shifts
in key social indicators such as life expectancy,
substance abuse and incarceration
rates do not demonstrate an improvement
in the social standards for indigenous
people living in these communities.
30 Jan 05 | IF 2004 was anything to go by, the ACT Brumbies shouldn't be too concerned by last night's heavy trial loss to the Queensland Reds.
30 Jan 05 |
A
t first the red-brick barracks
look almost respectable,
numbered like normal houses
along tree-lined paths.
But then the gas chamber reveals
itself thr...
30 Jan 05 |
TWO kelpie dogs may have
died in a fire that swept through
a house in Cossington Smith
Crescent, North Lyneham, yesterday
afternoon.
30 Jan 05 |
WHEN it comes to cricket,
Matt Adamson talks the talk,
but he hasn't walked the walk
since a rugby league trial at
Parramatta Stadium.
30 Jan 05 |
A 19-YEAR-old man was
run over and dragged underneath
a car for 10m early
yesterday when a Ford Falcon
reversed from a parking space
opposite the Kingston Hotel.
30 Jan 05 |
CHRISTINE Simpson didn't
move to Captains Flat to hide.
30 Jan 05 |
CANBERRA triathlete
Belinda Halloran is an athlete
on a mission.
30 Jan 05 |
S
trictly speaking, gone are the days
of the ''boys' only club'' in
Canberra.
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