31 Oct 05 | FEDERAL PARLIAMENT is back this week facing some of the most significant legislation, in terms of changing balances of rights, since World War II. The Government will introduce its industrial relation...
31 Oct 05 | Queanbeyan trainer Joe Janiak has wasted little time in deciding on his star galloper Takeover Target's immediate racing future, declaring yesterday the horse would start in Saturday's Group 2 The Age Classic at Flemington.
31 Oct 05 | The ACT has been effectively locked out of talks on the proposed anti-terrorism legislation as the Prime Minister tries to shore up states' support for the changes by today.
31 Oct 05 |
The ACT Government will unveil plans today for massive new growth in Canberra's west that will eventually accommodate 44,000 people in 20,000 new homes.
The yet-to-be-named suburbs in the Molon...
31 Oct 05 | Talent-packed Weston Creek has emerged as the early-season favourite in this year's ACT Cricket one-day competition with a 104-run victory against Ginninderra yesterday.
31 Oct 05 | ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has joined the growing chorus of calls to save an Australian man facing execution in Singapore for drug trafficking.
31 Oct 05 | The defending ACT Baseball champion, Eagles, overcame big improver Woden with a late-game surge to run away with a 10-0 win at Kambah.
31 Oct 05 | Capricorn Park, with its long white fence and roses, and situated on the Barton Highway on the way to Murrumbateman, is familiar to most Canberrans.
31 Oct 05 | Canberra's Emily Brichacek has avoided the spotlight for four years, but after breaking the Australian under-16 record for the 3000m on Saturday night, she has become the centre of attention.
31 Oct 05 | Englishman Phil Barker produced a near flawless display of squash to win his second consecutive ACT International crown at Erindale yesterday.
31 Oct 05 | At least $20,000 worth of retail assets are abandoned on Canberra street corners each week, and most of us do not even notice them.
30 Oct 05 |
SHE can run, she can
rebound, she can block and
she can shoot. But the problem
for the Capitals is that
she's not Lauren Jackson.
The Capitals unveiled boom
recruit Alana Beard at ...
30 Oct 05 |
IT'S been blamed for everything from
fading the curtains to confusing the
cows - but for the parents of young
children, daylight saving is no laughing
matter.
30 Oct 05 |
THE OVERWHELMING proportion of believing
Christians, or adherents of any faiths with old and
sacred texts, have no problem whatever in
reconciling modern science with their faiths. The
''truths'' of science are entirely different from the
truths of revealed religions.
30 Oct 05 |
A TWO-MAN show from
Norths pair Trevor Power
and Sam Jubber has secured
the club's first points of ACT
Cricket's 2005-06 two-day
season.
30 Oct 05 |
IT WAS a pilgrimage of sorts for the
thousands of revellers who backed up
Friday night's Stonefest with another
dose of music and dancing yesterday.
For many the party h...
30 Oct 05 |
QUEANBEYAN trainer Joe
Janiak will wait as long as 72
hours before making a
decision on Takeover
Target's immediate racing
future following the
galloper's fourth placing in
yesterday's Group 1 Salinger
Stks at Flemington.
29 Oct 05 |
Nearly three years since the ACT
was placed on water restrictions,
the Government has formally
declared the drought over, and
lifted all restrictions.
29 Oct 05 |
A new change in retail shopping comes
to Canberra this weekend as two shopping
centres begin opening until 6pm -
but many tenants remain unhappy
about it.
29 Oct 05 |
Unless you knew otherwise, it would
be impossible to know Queanbeyan
horse trainer Joe Janiak had one of
Australia's best and most financially
lucrative horses in his stables.
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