Canberra

Australia apologises for forced adoptions

22 Mar 2013

Australia yesterday apologised for the brutal and often illegal forced adoption of tens of thousands of babies born mostly to unmarried mothers between the 1950s and 1970s.

4:35AM

Canberra waters down alcohol prohibition on Aboriginal land

11 Sep 2007

A time-honoured tourist tradition in the Australian Outback has won a last-minute reprieve, with Canberra set to water down a draconian ban on the consumption of alcohol on Aboriginal-owned land...

3:18AM

Millionaire's ad puts Canberra-Jakarta relations to the test

1 Mar 2007

An Australian millionaire's financing of television advertisements across Asia urging Indonesia to allow journalists and human rights monitors into Papua may shake the fragile relations between...

7:56PM

S for swish

23 Dec 2006

THERE'S THE SLIGHTEST styling influence of the premium Maybach brand in the new Mercedes-Benz S500L. Both marques are owned by DaimlerChrysler but, despite that resemblance, the big saloon won't...

12:06PM

Sydney prices fall as other Australian cities gain ground

22 Feb 2006

Home values in the nation's biggest city slipped 5pc in the past year, enabling Melbourne, Canberra and Darwin to start bridging the gap

9:14AM

University's inaction illegal

27 Aug 2005

An Australian university was accused in court this week of breaking the law after it failed to report a mainland student was missing.

11:02PM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Empty promise

Poor old Canberra. It takes a terrible pasting from the rest of Australia. When I told friends in Sydney that I was spending a long weekend in the national capital, the response was simply: why?...

3:21AM

Rubbed up the wrong way

Darwin is a seriously sweaty place. I got some idea of how the locals deal with the oppressive climate on my first night in the city when I turned on the TV in my hotel room to see an advert for...

1:12PM

Office sector makes gains

The Australian office market has seen strong net effective rental growth over the past 12 months with average gains of 8.8 per cent, according to C B Richard Ellis.

In New Zealand,...

9:50AM

Importing choice

Yesterday's decision to delay the Copyright Ordinance comes in time to avoid another blow to Hong Kong's image as a bastion of the free market. If the legislation had gone through, it would have...

9:44AM

A sensible budget

Tough economic medicine is never easy to take. But if Australia wants to shake off the sick man of Asia tag and join the rest of the region on the path to greater prosperity, there is no...

8:46AM

Icons of our time

If you were to throw one of Ingo Kleinert's sculptures on a junk heap, it would be fairly hard to distinguish, the German-born Australian artist cheerfully admits.

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