01 Mar 05 |
Bed allocations for people with
mental illness will need to be
doubled to cater for the ACT community's
requirements in 2014, a
feasibility study has revealed.
01 Mar 05 |
The fate of the ACT coronial
inquiry into the January 2003
bushfires is still undecided, a
Supreme Court judge saying yesterday
that other legal cases might
have to be ''bumped aside'' to
allow the debate surrounding the
inquiry to be finalised as soon as
possible.
01 Mar 05 |
Resurgent Eagles withstood a blistering
six-run burst from Bandits to score an
electrifying grand final series win at
Narrabundah last night.
01 Mar 05 |
Don Burke knows only too well the
dangers of asbestos.
01 Mar 05 |
With two of the best pitchers in the world
facing off, today's men's A-Grade preliminary
final between Strike Zone and TSARA
promises to be another thrilling showdown.
01 Mar 05 |
Another Time and Serkelt - Canberra's
big two performers from Saturday's Black
Opal meeting on their home track - are
likely to chase more glory in the immediate
future having pulled up in tip-top shape.
01 Mar 05 |
O
NE OF the biggest myths in Australian politics
is that it is Labor which is unabashedly centrist
and that it has been the conservative parties
which have been states-rightist. This ...
01 Mar 05 |
The well-worn knee brace had been lingering around in
the bottom of Stirling Mortlock's kit bag for weeks, and the
Brumbies' captain admits he only got around to returning
it to the team physio a few weeks ago.
01 Mar 05 |
Or when the intent of the question
is obvious, should it be answered
even if the wording is a little
loose? The reality is that neither
Opposition nor minority party
senators (with honourable except-
ions like Senators Faulkner, Ray
or Murray) tend to be particularly
precise or accurate in their phrasing.
A strictly literal interpretation
of questions can be misleading.
28 Feb 05 | Reading a meaning for federal politics from state election results is almost invariably a dangerous exercise, demonstrated most convincingly, perhaps, by the way Australian voters regularly return one party at federal level and back up soon after to return its opponent at state level.
28 Feb 05 |
For some it was about the music, for
others just a good excuse for a picnic,
but the one drawcard that enticed
thousands of Canberrans to
Commonwealth Park last night was
the cream of the national short-film
crop as Tropfest 2005 hit the big
screen.
28 Feb 05 |
T
HE ABORIGINAL people wouldn't
be where they are today without
the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
Without it, we'd be even worse off
than we were. The Embassy is more
relevant today than ever before.
28 Feb 05 |
A joyful time was had by almost all of
the people almost all of the time at
the Royal Canberra Show yesterday
but, as in the best horror movies,
there were things to send temporary
chills up some spines.
28 Feb 05 |
ACT Brumbies captain Stirling Mortlock
will have an MRI scan on his injured right
knee this morning which is expected to
confirm he will miss at least four weeks of
the season.
28 Feb 05 |
Three in four houses and buildings in
the ACT may have construction
materials that contain asbestos -
leading the ACT Government to
launch a major awareness campaign
today on how to live with the
potentially deadly substance.
28 Feb 05 |
Elizabeth Thurbon and Carol Willey,
who both lost their husbands to the
devastating asbestos-related cancer
mesothelioma, believe the new
asbestos laws being introduced to
the ACT are ''world-class'' and
''world-first''.
28 Feb 05 |
It was just a week ago that Riley
McNamara made the prophetic
statement that he was here for a
good time, not a long time.
28 Feb 05 |
Seriously injured Canberra jockey Ray
Silburn can bank on support from his
manager Steve Wilson and former regional
jockey Donald Terry - who are both
wheelchair-bound, the latter, like Silburn,
suffering his horrific injuries in a racetrack
fall.
28 Feb 05 |
Things are getting serious for the Canberra
Raiders.
28 Feb 05 |
S
IX YEARS ago, the NSW government
gave a $20,000 research grant to the
Australian Museum to fund an
ambitious project to clone the thylacine,
or Tasmanian tiger.
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