Local News
17 Nov 09 | THE debate over fireworks has reared up again, with the Legislative Assembly set to contemplate overturning a ban on their sale this week.
17 Nov 09 | The Great Barrier Reef has only a 50-50 chance of survival.
17 Nov 09 | The half a million Australians whose childhoods were shattered through abuse, neglect, and an almost total lack of love in institutionalised care between the 1920s to 1970s were given a new name yesterday: ''The Remembered Australians''.
15 Nov 09 | THE CANBERRA Ice Dragons have entered the Guinness World Records after smashing the previous mark for most distance covered by a dragon boat in 24hours.
15 Nov 09 | PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says asylum-seekers still aboard the Australian customs vessel the Oceanic Viking won't be treated any differently from the few who have left the ship after a month-long impasse.
15 Nov 09 | FOR ACT Government minister Andrew Barr and his partner Anthony Toms, the timing of their civil partnership celebration at the National Library yesterday evening, in front of about 100 guests, could not have been more perfect.
15 Nov 09 | THE RUDD Government has upped the pressure on the Opposition over the emissions trading scheme by agreeing to exclude agriculture from the legislation to be debated this week.
15 Nov 09 | FOR DIMINUTIVE skydiver Pina Prosperi, jumping from 10,000 feet in a teddy bear suit was nothing compared to the mob reception from gleeful kids.
15 Nov 09 | THE GOVERNMENT cannot justify the purchase of Calvary Hospital, according to a senior local economist.
15 Nov 09 | ASBESTOS has been dumped illegally by the side of the road in Hume, prompting the ACT Government to cordon off the site and call for witnesses to come forward.
15 Nov 09 | DRIVERS in the ACT are being slugged with registration fees among the highest in the nation, and the cost has jumped as investment markets tanked.
14 Nov 09 | Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull yesterday committed the Coalition to bringing back temporary protection visas for asylum-seekers.
14 Nov 09 | Parents of four babies exposed to tuberculosis at the Canberra Hospital have stopped treatment after tests revealed their exposure was to a multi-drug-resistant strain.
14 Nov 09 | A doomsday report on the future of Australia's coast predicts up to 247,000 Australian homes are under direct threat of inundation because of climate change.
14 Nov 09 | A teenager who raped a 40-year-old woman as she slept on a couch after a drunken New Year's Eve party has been sentenced to weekend jail.
14 Nov 09 | The battle for the art and craft dollar is heating up in Canberra as markets become the cool place to shop in the national capital.
14 Nov 09 | The ACT Greens have accused the Little Company of Mary of being ''closed minded'' in discussions about the sale of Clare Holland House.
14 Nov 09 | The National Archives of Australia has made a surprise announcement that it will close three of its state offices as a cost-cutting measure.
14 Nov 09 | Taking classical music to regional towns and improving the Canberra Symphony Orchestra's education program are two of the things concertmaster Barbara Jane Gilby is looking forward to.
13 Nov 09 | Australia and the developed world face an ''information meltdown'' that threatens traditional media and confidence in parliamentary democracy, former British home secretary David Blunkett says.