30 Nov 05 | STATE and federal government agencies concerned with adoption were generally antipathetic to the adoption of children, particularly children from overseas, a House of Representatives committee reporte...
30 Nov 05 | Canberra will target Sydney job-seekers to try to address skills shortages and the ACT's ageing population.
30 Nov 05 | Despite the winter-like conditions, Canberra's elite cycling team was out in training yesterday determined to win its hometown race - the Brindabella Challenge - this weekend.
30 Nov 05 | Professional athlete Paul Crake trains more than six hours a day but when presented with a lift or stairs he will always take the lift - unless there are people to race.
30 Nov 05 | Canberra's top public servant, the chief executive of the Chief Minister's Department, Mike Harris, is on a salary package of $324,091, according to a breakdown of the 150 senior ACT Public Service executives.
30 Nov 05 | Playing representative cricket is an honour for any young cricketer, but for Jim Shaw and James Crosthwaite it comes with a down side.
30 Nov 05 | ACT Brumbies lock Mark Chisholm arrived back in Canberra on Monday night with one thing on his mind - winning his Wallabies starting spot back.
30 Nov 05 | The ACT's achievements across a diverse range of endeavours were highlighted last night as four people representing the arts, science, and community service were lauded in the territory's 2006 Australian of the Year awards.
29 Nov 05 | ANGST, FRUSTRATION and a sense of impotence over the refusal of the Singapore Government to reprieve the Australian Nguyen Tuong Van from being hanged on Friday are understandable enough, but the idea of a formal national minute's silence, or of the abandonment of the Prime Minister's XI cricket match as some sort of commemoration are completely silly.
29 Nov 05 | Female public servants in the ACT are earning on average about $9000 less a year than their male counterparts and hold just over a third of executive-level positions, despite accounting for two-thirds of the Public Service workforce.
29 Nov 05 | ACT Emergency Services Authority Commissioner Peter Dunn has defended the organisation's overspending, saying it is not a black hole but a new body with some teething problems.
29 Nov 05 | Hockey Australia says it has done what it can to promote the 2005 Champions Trophy being held in Canberra this week despite complaints from the International Hockey Federation.
29 Nov 05 | Cricketer Michael Shaw has grown up in Canberra attending the Prime Minister's XI cricket matches at Manuka Oval.
29 Nov 05 | A 39-year-old man was charged with the murder of a four-year-old girl yesterday after she died of her injuries.
29 Nov 05 | ACT Brumbies inside centre Matt Giteau is in doubt for the team's opening Super 14 blockbuster against the Western Force in February after an MRI scan yesterday revealed a fracture in his right knee.
28 Nov 05 | German coach Markus Weise yesterday defended his decision to play the team's number-two goalkeeper in in a disastrous 8-1 loss against tournament favourites The Netherlands.
28 Nov 05 | They chant, they dance, they sing and they yell.
28 Nov 05 | THE LABOR PARTY, on paper, might seem to have some reasons for thinking of itself ending the parliamentary year in rather better shape than it began. All of the major opinion polls seem to indicate th...
28 Nov 05 | The number of executive level staff in the ACT Public Service earning more than $120,000 a year has ballooned by 20 positions at a time when the Government is working to shed up to 260 rank-and-file jobs.
28 Nov 05 | Parents could no longer commit to coaching their children's sporting teams under the industrial relations overhaul, ACT Labor Senator Kate Lundy said yesterday.
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