8/08/2008 | Sport and politics should never mix, according to the Olympic Charter: ''No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas....
8/08/2008 | Tomorrow Labor will be at long odds-on to retain government in the Northern Territory election. It currently holds 19 of the 25 Assembly seats, and has made a great start by already winning two seats...
8/08/2008 | The news in Canberra over the past few days about the closure of the Wanniassa Medical Centre and the relocation of the doctors to the Phillip Medical Centre has sparked a strong community reaction. U...
8/08/2008 | We can all appreciate the cute symmetry of 888. But, today's Olympic opening ceremony is poorly timed. August 8, 1988 is also the date of a brutal crackdown in Burma, which killed some 3000 people, mo...
8/08/2008 | While correctly drawing attention to the failings of majority government in the ACT Assembly and in particular the Stanhope Government, Keith Hume (Letters, August 5) ought to have tried to address wh...
8/08/2008 | I wonder if anybody in Australia realises there is more to the Olympic Games than swimming.
I have never in any country I have spent time in seen such unbalanced coverage of this massive event as...
8/08/2008 | Today's opening ceremony for the XXIX Olympiad promises to be a spectacular light show with stunning choreography that will hold a worldwide audience in awe.
But the significance of the ceremony goes...
7/08/2008 | The Senate inquiry into the Federal Government's proposed changes to the threshold that exempts taxpayers from the Medical Levy Surcharge will return to Canberra on August 12, having visited every cap...
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7/08/2008 | 'Safety is our top concern,'' China's Vice-President Xi Jinping said in late July, pointing to the deployment of 100,000 troops around Beijing and the surface-to-air missile batteries that protect the...
7/08/2008 | It really does get up John Howard's nostrils, listening to Kevin Rudd talking about how well-placed Australia is to see our way through difficult global financial challenges.
''We have a strong, wel...
7/08/2008 | Recent debate on the letters page of The Canberra Times has canvassed the history and value of ideas in Canberra's planning, such as the separate town centres, or the Y Plan.
In fact there have bee...
7/08/2008 | Nepotism, commonly defined as favouritism based on kinship, is a hardy perennial with deep and widespread roots. Considered as an extension to the concept of the selfish gene, there are compelling r...
7/08/2008 | I wish to register my, and my family's, total disgust at Primary Health Care's decision to close the Wanniassa Health Centre.
As long-time residents of Wanniassa, the accessibility of our family doc...
6/08/2008 | Moscow; the afternoon of Monday, December 18, 1989, and the grey day was already fading to dusk. The temperature had fallen to more than 20C below; flakes from the intermittent snow squalls dusted hat...
6/08/2008 | Barack Obama will win the forthcoming presidential election. I can report this with some confidence on the basis of my latest foray into the American heartland both real and metaphorical.
The meta...
6/08/2008 | I f Peter Costello really had the interests of the Liberal Party at heart, he could drop out of Federal Parliament and organise himself a seat in the Victorian Parliament. He'd be likely to be premie...
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6/08/2008 | The current debate about the level of taxes on ready-to-drink ''alcopops'' shows, in stark terms, how little understanding professional anti-alcohol advocates have about taxation.
Writing in The Canb...
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6/08/2008 | So John Coates (''Without funding, golden days are over: Coates'', August 4, p1) thinks Australia's ''image and self confidence are at risk from falling levels of sporting success'' unless there is ...
6/08/2008 | Australia is unique in playing host to four professional winter football codes, each with their own dedicated following and traditions. Two of these, soccer and rugby union, have long been conside...
6/08/2008 | The internet Olympics ticketing scam reveals the way the internet and the financial systems are both permitted to operate without concern for the best interests of the community.
I am not arguing fo...