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  2. PASPALUM PLACE Muddling through life with a great curiosity about what will happen next

    AT breakfast last Monday morning, above the ranting of my wicked son who was hectoring us from the hustings of his high chair, I heard ...

    Article : 992 words
  3. Put piranhas in the ponds!

    THE fears I expressed in a recent edition that the miserable pieces of fried fish served at the ANU's Convocation Luncheon were the poor goldfish from the University House ponds may ...

    Article : 291 words
  4. Spare not the rod!

    SOME 93 per cent of a sample of Queanbeyan parents recently asked about the curbing of turbulent behaviour in schools said that they were in favour of the caning of boys. ...

    Article : 84 words
  5. Sweet Bach in the foyer

    ON Thursday, to try and sublimate the cravings that normally beset me at lunchtime (for hamburgers, chips, pies, a huge negress, etc) I did hie me to a short, sweet J.S. Bach ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 546 words
  6. Baaing at attention

    RECENTLY in Parliament the quite forgettable Minister for Administrative Sciences, whose name eludes me for the moment, said that he would consider holding a competition ...

    Article : 203 words
  7. Wittenoom's diehard residents win their battle to keep the town alive

    THE former asbestos-mining centre of Wittenoom is, after all, too tough to die. The State ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 800 words
  8. The Canberra Times

    EVER since Braniff, a smallish airline based in the south-west of the United States, repainted its fleet in gentle pastels a few years ago, and happily watched custom and profits soar, aviation operators have been fascinated by the prospect of ...

    Article : 549 words
  9. LETTERS to the Editor

    Sir,—In an otherwise intriguing article, 'Siding with the animals', published on Sunday August 26, I must take issue with the writer over ...

    Article : 437 words
  10. Public Servants and government

    Sir,—It really is too much for the few old credulity cells left in my brain to stand reading (The Canberra Times, August 7) that Sandra ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. Times past

    Following claims by the Leader of the Opposition, Dr Evatt, that the Royal Commission into Espionage was part of a ...

    Article : 50 words
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