01 Jun 05 |
A woman was advised to wear
thicker clothing when she rang a
federally-funded hotline to report
she had broken ribs after a beating
from her husband, a Senate committee
heard yesterday.
01 Jun 05 |
I
T'S A LONG way from Cleo pin-up boy
to grizzled spokesman for Aboriginal
reconciliation, but it's a perilous leap
Jack Thompson appears to have taken
in his laconic stride.
01 Jun 05 |
O
N SUNDAY, the forces of globalisation
were dealth a stunning blow. France,
the driving force behind the original
nucleus that grew to become the European
union, voted ''non'' to further integration. By
rejecting a new constitution that would have
enhanced the EU, France rebuffed the entire
idea that free trade and fewer national
barriers can improve ordinary people's lives.
01 Jun 05 |
Unless the drought breaks within seven
months, Goulburn will be relying on rail
to bring water to the town of 22,500.
01 Jun 05 |
F
EDERAL Environment Minister Ian Campbell's
conservation credentials are on
the line as he sides with cattlemen
against the Victorian Government's decision
to ban grazing in the Alpine National Park.
Senator Campbell proposes to entrench park
grazing by listing it on the national heritage
register.
01 Jun 05 |
T
HERE is an old adage, familiar to
senior public servants -
governments don't like to set up
public inquiries unless they know
what result the inquiry will produce.
01 Jun 05 |
Canberra's newest national icon, a
world-class arboretum, will be able
to accommodate 50,000 visitors a
day, and will provide a nursery for
some of the globe's most threatened
tree species, but will have an annual
water consumption of just 5 per cent
of what the ACT uses daily.
01 Jun 05 |
P
RIME MINISTER John Howard was in a reconciliatory
mood as he spoke to the national
reconciliation workshop in Canberra this week.
So were Aboriginal leaders, who have come to
recognis...
01 Jun 05 |
ACT Brumbies No8 Scott Fava has given the
strongest indication yet he will stay in
Canberra next season after being named in
the 32-man Wallaby squad for the
upcoming domestic Test season.
31 May 05 | The resurgent Kangaroos will consider pulling a tactical swifty and leave ageing spearhead Sav Rocca out of Sunday's AFL clash with Melbourne at Manuka Oval, former Kangaroos backman Jason McCartney has hinted.
31 May 05 | It's not what they wanted, but after four years of drought farmers have learnt to be more philosophical than usual.
31 May 05 | A Gilmore household had a lucky escape last night after a car crashed through the front wall and landed in the bedroom, just moments after the owner had made her bed.
31 May 05 | IT'S MORNING in the capital: still, bleak and bloody freezing. Just the way Steve Foley likes it, as he drives home from the hospital for another day's sleep.
31 May 05 |
The Federal Government has
rejected direct cash grants to farmers
in favour of increased interest rate
subsidies in a $250 million-a-year
package of additional drought assistance
unveiled yesterday.
31 May 05 |
ACT Brumbies scrumhalf Matt Henjak had
to leave.
31 May 05 |
A
S A 14 YEAR-OLD in Hobart, I experienced
my own Schapelle Corby moment.
I was hauled out of a physical education
class and brought before a deputy
headmistress, blissfully unaware that while I
was playing basketball, a classmate had used
my unattended school bag in the changing
rooms as a repository for a small quantity of
cannabis leaf.
31 May 05 |
With injuries and suspensions to key
players contributing to three straight losses,
the Canberra Raiders could have been
forgiven for thinking they were due for a
change of luck.
31 May 05 |
T
HAT the current policies
governing the allocation of
public housing in the ACT are
dysfunctional became all to obvious
recently when a struggling sole
parent and her son, both badly
injured in a car crash in January,
were unsuccessful in efforts to have
a house allocated to them.
31 May 05 |
A seven-bed crisis support unit will
be set up in the new Canberra prison
as part of the ACT Government's
plan for mentally ill people who find
themselves before the courts.
31 May 05 |
Canberra residents will still be able to
use a sprinkler on their garden every
second day in winter after Actew
decided not to change water
restrictions despite an unseasonably
warm and dry autumn.
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