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 | 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...
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 | 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...
5/08/2008 | That housing is a right, not a privilege, is a point few debate. But how to tackle the problem is another matter entirely.
As National Homeless Persons week begins today, Australia continues to grapp...
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5/08/2008 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had just finished speaking at one of the first meetings of the new Labor Government's National Security Committee when one of his Cabinet ministers shook his head. ''No, Kev...
5/08/2008 | When self-government began to seem inevitable for the ACT, one of the strongest, and most frequently-voiced objections to it was that politicians would make a mess of the city's planning. At the time,...
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5/08/2008 | Appointing Joel Fitzgibbon as Minister for Defence was not one of Kevin Rudd's better management decisions. Examination of his performance over the past eight months shows the job is too big for Fi...
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5/08/2008 | With only a few days to go until the opening of the Beijing Olympics, China has blinked. Just last week after much posturing and a back flip worthy of a 10 from the International Olympic Committee, Ch...