06 Sep 09 | ONCE again it seems the jostling for position in the medical practitioner field is getting nasty.
Doctors, some 420 of them, have signed a letter opposing legislation which would enable qualified nurse practitioners to perform general practice services independently.
06 Sep 09 | Get our priorities right
SHOULD not our Chief Minister Jon Stanhope remove his ''blinkers'' (''Govt tells bewildered traders to rack off'', August 28, p1) and focus more energy on get
05 Sep 09 | Of all the knotty foreign policy problems that confront the Rudd Government, few are as tricky or problematic as Australia's bilateral relationship with China.
05 Sep 09 | It was a December sitting period, just before the summer recess, and Parliament was consumed by debates about WorkChoices, terrorism and voluntary student unionism.
05 Sep 09 | Manning Clark wrote ''after the giants come the pygmies'' as an established historic trend.
Canberra was set up as a model city to be the best in the world by men of vision such as King
04 Sep 09 | Opposition leader must hit economic nails for wider credibility, Ross Peake writes.
04 Sep 09 | Australia's latest dealing with the UN showcases our ignorance, NICK CHEESMAN writes
04 Sep 09 | I am bemused as to why, on its own, Canberra and the surrounding region needs a 24/7 airfreight hub.
We are not an industrial region as such, and most, nearly all, of our freight imports
03 Sep 09 | Attempts to equate the Afghan war with conflicts of the 20th century distort history.
03 Sep 09 | The reported City Hill overhaul (''Trees get chop in City Hill overhaul'', August 29, p2) is yet another amazing ''cart before the horse'' fiasco by so-called professional planners in this c
02 Sep 09 | Don't imagine that some new sense of purpose is galvanising frontline care.
02 Sep 09 |
Congratulations to all East Timorese people, including Carmen Monteiro, on the 10th anniversary of their independence from Indonesia (East Timor stands firm, August 29, p4).
It wa
01 Sep 09 | We need a sophisticated understanding of the causes of terrorism, Bruce Haigh argues.
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01 Sep 09 | Someone needs to protest at the extravagant attack on ACT Health doctors and the public advocate by the ACT Chief Justice last week (''Judge slams Health over starvation case'', August 29, p
31 Aug 09 | Any new court for our defence force needs specific judges, Neil James writes.
31 Aug 09 | I have been working in the arts industry for over 20 years.
In this time I have had the pleasure of being able to observe and contribute to the cultural and artistic life of Australia.
30 Aug 09 | Stake out the pavement
YOUR EDITORIAL (''CBD display ban threat to city soul'', August 28, p24) rightly credits the late Gus Petersilka as the man who gave Canberra its outdoor cafe s
30 Aug 09 | YESTERDAY marked the first day of the fireworks ''amnesty'', which allows Canberrans who've been hoarding their rockets, catherine wheels and buzzing bees to hand them over responsibly to the
29 Aug 09 | Ten years ago tomorrow, the people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a popular referendum sanctioned by the United Nations. The immediate consequence of the vote w
29 Aug 09 | After presiding over the most disgraceful period on the protection of basic human rights in Australian political history, former prime minister John Howard (''Bill of Rights threatens democr