29/08/2008 | Ahead of the ACT election, political jockeying for a vote-winning health policy fix has intensified, with heated debate in the Assembly and the community.
The parties are grappling for a policy edge...
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29/08/2008 | Nineteen months after first outlining Labor's education platform, and nine months after succeeding John Howard as prime minister, Kevin Rudd has at last begun to fill in the detail of the Government'...
29/08/2008 | In his recent article (''Sense of foreboding in the air as watchdog muzzled'', August 25, p11) John Woods asserted that the Civil Aviation Safety Authority should return to the good old days of ''p...
29/08/2008 | At the Beijing Olympics, Russia, whose confident young athletes brought home more medals than any other country save China and the United States, certainly didn't look like a defeated country. Russia ...
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29/08/2008 | Spring has sprung in Canberra and with it this week, a new Senate has also blossomed.
The Coalition's upper-house majority has been wound back and the country can look forward to the sorts of protra...
28/08/2008 | Nawaz Sharif has put himself on a moral high horse by exposing the deceit of his political ally, Asif Ali Zardari, and withdrawing from the ruling coalition in Pakistan. The drastic step came when it ...
28/08/2008 | There is a quite remarkable conjunction of interest between the Commonwealth Parliament and the ACT Assembly at the moment around the issue of minority government.
The new Senate was sworn in amid...
28/08/2008 | Former deputy prime minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim won a crucial by-election for the parliamentary seat of Pemantang Pauh on Tuesday. That Anwar was going to win was never in doubt. He was firs...
28/08/2008 | The funny hat is one tradition of the American political convention that has not faded. Plenty are on display at the Democrats' convention in Denver, but one in particular caught my eye. It was studde...
28/08/2008 | Peter Costello's behaviour is consistent with manoeuvring for a draft an unchallenged accession to the leadership, with Brendan Nelson standing down and with no other hat in the ring. Without a chall...
27/08/2008 | In its last sitting days before the election the Government has put to the Assembly legislation to widen the power to strip search detainees. The Canberra Times revealed the context on Monday (''ACT b...
27/08/2008 | Climate change has been the most important and complex issue on my plate in 15 years as a science and technology correspondent for The Canberra Times. So an appropriate topic for a farewell commentar...
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27/08/2008 | Nearly one year has passed since the Rudd Government came to power on the promise of a new generation of leadership. In its early days in office, it seemed Rudd might just deliver on the promise. The ...
27/08/2008 | ''Why don't they answer questions?'' retiring Senate president Alan Ferguson says he is continually asked by people who listen to ministers in Question Time. Governments would do well to look at the e...
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27/08/2008 | T he appointment of shadow attorney-general Bill Stefaniak as appeal president of the new ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal is, on the face of it, a commendable one, and likely to be applauded pol...
26/08/2008 | We Americans call Denver the ''Mile High City''. And, sure enough, this remarkably scenic frontier town, founded by gold prospectors seeking their fortune shortly before the Civil War, sits 1609m abo...
26/08/2008 | Australia's Olympic chief, John Coates, wants us all to weigh up what he sees as an urgent need to spend more of our tax dollars on achieving sporting dominance. As if there were some other, real rew...
26/08/2008 | Last week, an article on this page by Flint Duxfield claimed that Australia was pressuring Pacific island countries into a free trade agreement that was not in their interests. Duxfield has profoundl...
26/08/2008 | The word came through to the faithful the 21st century way by an SMS message sent out in the early hours of the morning (when the telephone companies could bear the load). ''I have some important ne...
26/08/2008 | The resumption of Federal Parliament this week represents Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson's last chance to convince an increasingly unhappy and directionless Liberal Party that he remains the man bes...