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  2. The Canberra Times

    IT WAS a timid, almost cowardly, Federal Government that announced this week that the Tasmanian Premier, Mr Gray, could send the bulldozers into the Tasmanian wilderness to build a dam that will flood the bottom half of the Franklin ...

    Article : 430 words
  3. THE WEEK A currency lad gets a fair go at last

    NINE years ago Mr Rob Webster, of Curtin, retired to fulfil a lifetime ambition; to write the first historically accurate book of the man that he considers ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 696 words
  4. From Glasgow to his Garden of Eden

    A TINKER, a tailor, a soldier,... a cook, a dance teacher, a handyman and an exterminator. "Big Norm" Barnstaple had done it all, and on Wednesday night he was ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 344 words
  5. Tribute to a gentle humanist

    Mr ABRAHAM KIDRON, the Israeli Ambassador, died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday. I knew him as a gentle, unassuming man and, considering the busy and active role ...

    Article : 254 words
  6. Other means to the end

    This aside, the justification for the dam has been based on some very dubious premises. Jobs: In the past 12 years electricity consumption has risen, but so has unemployment. The big electricity consumers — aluminium smelters and paper ...

    Article : 514 words
  7. Suggestions for safety in bushfires

    A COLOURFUL booklet outlining simple precautions to be taken to protect life and property from bushfires has been issued by the Bush Fire Council of NSW. ...

    Article : 155 words
  8. Pro-Solidarity singer

    TERESA Haremza, Poland's most popular singer in 1981, who was banned by the Polish Government for her pro-Solidarity lyrics, will be singing at a public concert in Canberra tomorrow ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 359 words
  9. A night to remember

    "WE WERE treated like VIPs; it was really wonderful — the best thing that has happened for years." It is not often that Canberra folk react with ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. LETTERS to the Editor

    Sir, — Mr Brian Gapes' comments (Letters, December 3) ignores the detailed evidence contained in the reports of the Royal College of ...

    Article : 294 words
  11. VICE-REGAL

    The Governor-General, Sir Ninian Stephen, received the following callers yesterday: Mr J. L. Mahoney. the High Commissioner-designate ...

    Article : 102 words
  12. Chemical sprays in Vietnam

    Sir, — The Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Senator Messner, recently bemoaned the Vietnam Veterans' Association making a Flinders ...

    Article : 410 words
  13. Too much cricket on ABC-TV

    Sir, — Congratulations to W. D. Forsyth for his succint letter (The Canberra Times, November 22) concerning the ABC's excessive ...

    Article : 151 words
  14. Politicians' pay and perks

    Sir, — Senator Carrick stated glibly on November 25 that another man's salary increase could constitute another man's job. What ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. Times past

    From The Canberra Times 25 years ago. December 11, 1957: Ansett-ANA announced it ...

    Article : 25 words
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