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  2. The Canberra Times

    IT is a measure of the stature of the Australian trade-union movement that the ACTU biennial congress, held in Melbourne this week, commanded as much attention as the ALP's biennial conference held in Adelaide in July. Indeed, ...

    Article : 580 words
  3. THE WEEK

    YARROWLUMLA Shire Council decided this week to appeal to the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Professor Jack Richardson, in an effort to have legislation introduced in the ACT ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 405 words
  4. Babel in the suburbs

    CANBERRA'S reputation as the Australian Babel is certain to be enhanced during the next phase of suburban "infill" debate, after a performance on Thursday between the National ...

    Article : 280 words
  5. The Member for Whatsisname

    PRE-ARRANGED questions "without notice", usually known as Dorothy Dixers, are far from unusual in the Parliament, with many questions from government backbenchers being ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 167 words
  6. Airmen's largesse

    THE arrival at the RAAF base, Fairbairn, on Monday of the six-weekly C130 Hercules courier flight from Ismailia, Egypt, will attract more than the usual amount of interest. ...

    Article : 215 words
  7. Unrest over wages

    Of course, adequate safety precautions are essential and the fact governments in both the Communist and Western blocs are going ahead with nuclear projects cannot be ignored. The unions, along with everyone else, have to face the fact that ...

    Article : 505 words
  8. Verse in the House

    ONLY rarely do politicians in the House of Representatives burst into verse. When they do, as when the late Mr Rex Connor, defending himself on the overseas loans affair, roared off ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. Avoiding red faces

    THE Government was obviously trying to avoid getting into the sort of situation it did over the Great Barrier Reef oil-drilling controversy earlier this year, when ministers in the Senate ...

    Article : 243 words
  10. Jury anomalies

    ONE of last year's strongest opponents to self-government and a sometime critic of the old Legislative Assembly has just written to the new House of Assembly asking for help. ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. Non-aligned scarecrow

    THE new rulers in Iran appear to have developed a fairly catholic array of dislikes. The frontispiece of a series of news reports from the Islamic Republic issued this week by its Embassy ...

    Article : 71 words
  12. Grannyless Granny flats

    RECENT complaints by the NCDC about the misuse of "granny flats" in Canberra apparently had more than a little substance, according to one of our informants who cites the case of a ...

    Article : 74 words
  13. A call for ACT stability

    CAN we sniff a Cabinet reshuffle in the air? Senator Knight (Lib, ACT) has just written to the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, stressing that the ACT has had nine Ministers for the Capital ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. Radiation levels at Nabarlek

    Sir,—On August 20 Dr Springell used your columns to continue the invidious campaign the antiuranium fringe is waging as to the ...

    Article : 306 words
  15. LETTERS to the Editor

    Sir,—In The Canberra Times of Saturday, August 4, some harsh eflections of an unnamed presumably Victnam war veteran were ...

    Article : 230 words
  16. Vice-Regal

    The Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen, and Lady Cowen attended, and Sir Zelman reviewed, the passing out parade at HMAS ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. People Without Transport

    Sir,—I have been following the progress of the campaign for free transport for the unemployed in The Canberra Times. ...

    Article : 95 words
  18. Times past

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 words
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