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Trouble brewing in clubland

31 Jul 09 | Sound of knives being sharpened in the Canberra Labor party room. |

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Editorial - General

The evidence is in, but judge and jury don't care

31 Jul 09 | The behaviour of the Rudd Government following receipt of the National Hospital and Health Care Reform Commission report has been precisely the same as its reaction to the Garnaut report on climate c...

Letters to the Editor - General

Productive lives after politics

30 Jul 09 | Many AFL and NRL stars end up with football jobs for life. The same is true in politics.

Editorial - General

Light rail misses out again and bus bias disappoints

30 Jul 09 | The discussion paper by the ACT's transport planner (''Expert puts our future on buses'', July 28, p1) is surprisingly inadequate and vastly disappointing. The author suffers from tunnel vision in h...

Letters to the Editor - General

Global system tends to chaos

29 Jul 09 | Virtue is no saviour in a high-risk globalised economy, Jenny Stewart writes.

Editorial - General

Don't ignore rail as an option in transport overhaul

29 Jul 09 | Any ''overhaul'' of Canberra's transport system (''Stanhope to overhaul transport'', July 24), p1) should not summarily dismiss a railway component. To help ''combat'' global warming, we must reduce...

Letters to the Editor - General

The minefields of cyberspace

28 Jul 09 | Defence needs to recognise our vulnerability to cyber-warfare. |

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Editorial - General

Right time to seek endlessly renewable clean energy

28 Jul 09 | With the world facing climatic and environmental crises, the time is ripe for a new industrial revolution which would progressively replace our dependency on polluting non-renewable energy capital by ...

Letters to the Editor - General

Crossroads for Close the Gap

27 Jul 09 | The lack of a genuine partnership with indigenous people and other concerns threaten a long-term health plan, IAN RING writes

Editorial - General

Union scare tactics on school performance reporting

27 Jul 09 | There has been much debate and media coverage in recent weeks on the teachers' union pushing its opposition to school performance reporting and threatening widespread industrial action (''Testing t...

Letters to the Editor - General

Yarralumla brickworks: what now?

26 Jul 09 | IT WAS Canberra's first factory, in operation in 1913, and it provided the bricks for some of the capital's earliest buildings.

Editorial - General

Summernats survival a chance to build success

26 Jul 09 | A DECISION by the new owner of Summernats to keep the street machine festival in Canberra is good news.

Editorial - General

Letters to the Editor

26 Jul 09 | Top care, tough workAFTER recently spending several days in the Intensive Care Unit of the Canberra Hospital, I should like to express my admiration for and thanks to the caring teams and individuals ...

Letters to the Editor - General

Sympathy in long pain of waiting for surgery

25 Jul 09 | After reading that elective surgeries in the ACT could be cancelled for up to three months (''GP shortage may get worse, minister says'', July 24, p4) I am grateful mine took place a few days ago. `

Letters to the Editor - General

No easy fix for public transport

25 Jul 09 | The ACT Government's decision to tinker with its sustainable transport plan may induce yawns from cynical Canberrans who remember the shelved promises of the 2004 plan, but the move shows it is no...

Editorial - General

Tiptoeing around the dragon

24 Jul 09 | The task for fiscal managers is to handle rates policy judiciously. |

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Editorial - General

ACT Medical Board has duty of disclosure on doctor

24 Jul 09 | The ACT Medical Board should make public the name of the doctor who is mentioned ('''Shoddy' doctor reaches accord'', July 21, p3) in its review. The cloak of secrecy is not in the public interest. ...

Letters to the Editor - General

A pawn in a political game

23 Jul 09 | China's recent behaviour doesn't fit with the image it seeks to project. Hopefully it will rethink and release Hu, ANN KENT writes |

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Editorial - General

Our efforts and losses in Afghanistan seem in vain

23 Jul 09 | It is hard to regard the latest Australian death in Afghanistan as being anything but in vain. Until our political and military leaders articulate a coherent political strategy for stabilising Afghani...

Letters to the Editor - General