31 Jul 06 | Senior Labor frontbenchers Katy Gallagher and Simon Corbell declared their support for the Government's radical school closures policy yesterday, despite voting against it at their party's annual conference at the weekend.
31 Jul 06 | Canberra Olympic coach Ian Heywood hoped yesterday's 1-0 Capital Football Premier League victory over the O'Connor Knights would help his side "snap out of the lull".
31 Jul 06 | Canberra's high concentration of poker machines will not be reduced, despite Prime Minister John Howard's description of them as insidious and family destroying.
31 Jul 06 | The Kangaroos brought down the curtain on their six-year tenure at Manuka Oval with a dogged 30-point victory over Geelong yesterday.
31 Jul 06 | Interest rates are tipped to rise again this week for the third time since the election, putting pressure on Prime Minister John Howard to defend his economic credentials and declare whether he will contest the next election.
31 Jul 06 | Australia is likely to send more troops overseas, this time to join an international peacekeeping force in Lebanon if a ceasefire to the war can be brokered.
31 Jul 06 | Telescope-maker EOS Space Systems is a victim of its own success, says its chief executive Craig Smith.
31 Jul 06 | To the naked eye, the Canberra Raiders' performance against the South Sydney Rabbitohs on Saturday night was bad enough.
31 Jul 06 | The Western Bulldogs are poised to sign a three-year contract to play games in Canberra, helping fill the void left by the departure of former adopted team the Kangaroos.
31 Jul 06 | Canberra's up-and-coming rugby stars had a chance to push their claim as future ACT Brumbies players yesterday when they ran out against Japanese club Kobe Steel at Griffith Oval.
31 Jul 06 | The prospect of an interest rate rise this week did not stop teacher Graeme Cook from paying $350,000 at auction on Saturday afternoon for a three-bedroom house at Macquarie.
30 Jul 06 | HUNDREDS of Canberra's vulnerable and needy could lose their subsidised hot meals amid fears that the Ainslie Village dining room will close in September.
30 Jul 06 | SNOWY Mountains business owners are looking at a long, bleak winter unless this weekend's snowfalls - the first decent dumps of the season - keep on coming.
30 Jul 06 | KANGAROOS captain Adam Simpson has pleaded with Canberra fans not to blame the team for the club's decision to leave the ACT when it plays its final game at Manuka Oval today.
30 Jul 06 | POLICE bungles with court evidence could cause further trauma to victims of violent crime and could also damage their chances of receiving financial compensation, a peak victims' group warned yesterday.
30 Jul 06 | CANBERRA firefighters have called for an Australian study to be undertaken into the risk of contracting cancer from doing their jobs.
30 Jul 06 | CHIEF Minister Jon Stanhope narrowly avoided a humiliating defeat at yesterday's annual Labor conference when party members attempted to block his controversial plan to close 39 public schools.
30 Jul 06 | THE Australian Institute of Sport has put the man responsible for the female swimming revolution at the head of its Canberra-based program.
30 Jul 06 | JUST two months since Joel Wilson played his last game for the ACT Brumbies, he has returned to Canberra and today will run out once again at Griffith Oval.
30 Jul 06 | THE Kangaroos believe they still have plenty to play for in today's game against Geelong at Manuka Oval despite having no hope of making this year's finals.