31 Mar 07 | Lobbying to gain control of Canberra's closed public schools was under way last year, even before the ACT cabinet decided to shut them.
31 Mar 07 | MICHAEL O'Loughlin remembers when his knees didn't hurt so much and neither did losing.
31 Mar 07 | Safety is a big thing when touring South Africa.
31 Mar 07 | The Royal Australian Navy has constrained its operations in the Persian Gulf after the seizure of 15 British sailors by Iranian forces.
31 Mar 07 | IN A speech to Parliament this week, Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull claimed "many very knowledgeable people believe that the Kyoto Protocol is actually promoting deforestation".
31 Mar 07 | The ACT Brumbies remain confident of re-signing Wallaby lock Mark Chisholm despite suspecting an illegal third-party offer from cashed-up Western Force.
31 Mar 07 | THE quest for perfection in South Africa eludes the ACT Brumbies.
31 Mar 07 | ONE GREAT relief from the completion of the NSW election campaign is that there will probably be a respite from a relentless Dutch auction on law and order the longer, perhaps, because missteps by John Howard over the David Hicks affair have, probably, made it harder for him to run innuendoes about Labor being soft on crime and terrorism and being too devoted to civil liberties at the expense of community safety.
31 Mar 07 | Training partners Libby Lenton and Leisel Jones stepped up Australia's gold medal rush as the men discovered a silver lining at the world swimming titles tonight.
31 Mar 07 | At first glance, three-month-old lion cub Bella looked cuddly enough.
31 Mar 07 | WHEN DAVID Hicks appeared in court in Cuba this week, observers were shocked. Short, pudgy and sporting shoulder-length brown hair, Hicks in no way resembled the lean, sharp-eyed young man who had brandished a rocket-launcher in Kosovo or fired a Kalashnikov across the line of control in Kashmir.
30 Mar 07 | Treated human waste should never be added to Canberra's drinking water supply, a world-renowned health expert warned yesterday.
30 Mar 07 | Federal Independent Peter Andren will lead an Independent Senate ticket at the next federal election, turning down the opportunity to become the most successful Independent in House of Representatives history.
30 Mar 07 | The Federal Government's $200 million initiative to reduce deforestation in South-East Asia has been dismissed as hypocritical and ill-informed by peak environment groups.
30 Mar 07 | Labor figure Carmen Lawrence, who crashed on to the political stage as Australia's first female premier, will leave Federal Parliament at the next election to take up an academic post.
30 Mar 07 | A rising young ice-skating star remained missing, feared dead, last night and her coach, Olympian Liz Cain, was seriously ill after losing part of a leg in Sydney Harbour's latest fatal ferry crash.
30 Mar 07 | The Sydney Swans reserves received a welcome boost yesterday with the news 2005 premiership player Adam Schneider could return from a hamstring injury against Eastlake in round one of AFL Canberra.
30 Mar 07 | Canberra's paralympic champion Michael Milton will aim to gain more experience in his new pursuit at the Athletes With a Disability National Road Cycling Championships in Bacchus Marsh this weekend.
30 Mar 07 | Grant Hackett will compete in his pet 1500m event this weekend but even the Australian coach believes the world-record holder will struggle to make the final.
30 Mar 07 | For Jess Schipper it was all about closure but for everyone else it was redemption.