01 May 05 |
THERE'S something artificial about
the current debate about whether there
should be limits on the number of IVF
treatments which Medicare will pay for.
It's a debate set up in the Budg...
01 May 05 |
A 17-year-old Evatt motorcyclist has
become the ACT's eighth road victim this
year, after a crash in Melba last night.
01 May 05 |
A DISCIPLINED performance by
the Woden Valley Rams saw them
defeat the Tuggeranong Bushrangers
32-24 to post their first win for the
season in first grade of the Canberra
Raiders Cup yesterday.
01 May 05 |
OUTSIDERS may be questioning
their ability but the Canberra
Raiders backline to take on the
Newcastle Knights today remain
confident they can do the job and
lead their team to victory.
30 Apr 05 |
Al Grassby was a flamboyant and charismatic
man whose desire to embrace cultural
difference within Australia led to him being
honoured as ''the father of multiculturalism''.
30 Apr 05 |
Canberra will get another 20 police
officers in Tuesday's ACT Budget - but
they will not hit the beat for another two
years.
30 Apr 05 |
W
E DID remember them.
30 Apr 05 |
If one word is scrawled on the whiteboard during
Eastlake's pre-match address at Manuka Oval today,
it will be ''accountability''.
30 Apr 05 |
Australia's most consistently warm
April on record could be followed by
another El Nino event, forecasters
have warned.
30 Apr 05 |
W
ith bloodied impacts off the
sporting field, public decorum
overcomes curiosity; when
driving by that car crash, we
force ourselves to look away.
30 Apr 05 |
At the tender age of 14, Canberra
model Caroline Barbour could be the
new face of Australian fashion.
30 Apr 05 |
T
HE STORY was that someone just
needed to stop and think a little bit
towards the end of the 1960s. This
was when the Federal Government
was setting up the Office of Aboriginal
Affairs, predecessor to the Department of
Aboriginal Affairs, which was succeeded by
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commissioner, which was recently abolished
with the acquiescence of both sides of
politics.
30 Apr 05 |
Seven new public buildings, including a
2500-seat convention centre, could be built
at no cost to ACT taxpayers under the
Living City plan that proposes a $2 billion
revitalisation of Canberra's rundown city
centre.
30 Apr 05 |
H
OW MANY people reading this are
downright ashamed and fed up with
hearing about Australians allegedly
caught drug-trafficking overseas?
30 Apr 05 |
D
ID WE really need the Productivity
Commission to tell us
that the energy-efficiency ratings
are a waste of time and money? A week
ago it suggested we might have wasted
$12 million on EERs in the past five years.
30 Apr 05 |
T
HE INITIAL response of the ACT Planning
Minister, Simon Corbell, to Terry Snow's
proposals for the rejuvenation of Civic are
hardly calculated to inspire confidence in the
idea that Mr Corbell is the man to take charge
of and lead the debate about what ultimately
happens.
30 Apr 05 |
It will be two games and eight months late
but ANU vice-captain Kendelle Treloar will
celebrate her trailblazing entry into the
100-club when the ACT Women's AFL
season starts today.
29 Apr 05 | IN 1928, Cyril Tolley, a well-known English amateur golfer, successfully sued the maker of Fry chocolate bars over an advertisement that they had run that featured an unauthorised caricature of him.
29 Apr 05 |
It's autumn and as Canberra music
lovers know, that means it's time for
the Canberra International Chamber
Music Festival to open.
29 Apr 05 |
Prime Minister John Howard
declared yesterday nothing in life
was free as his back bench
revolted over plans to cut in-vitro
fertilisation access for women.
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