Keeping Up The Pressure

ANDREW McKellar is a fellow you might have glimpsed on television last year talking about the car industry, which emerges from all the challenges of 2008 as the outright winner under the first federal Labor government in more than a decade.

Airport Is Flying High

Other airfields in the Hunter include Royal Newcastle Aero Club at Russell Field, Rutherford, which provides aircraft hire, flying training, aerobatics and skydiving, Cessnock, Scone, Singleton, and even a small grass airstrip at Luskintyre where a small group restores Tiger Moths. Luskintyre has five hangars with 12 Tiger Moths in fl ying condition and another 15-18 under restoration, plus a small aviation museum, and on the fi rst Saturday of each month it hosts Lunch With The Tiger Moths with ...

The Tipping Point

She was intelligent, successful, sporty, likeable. But beneath her calm and smiling exterior, high-profile copper Audrey Fagan was close to cracking. Two months after the Canberra police chief was found hanged in a holiday hotel, Jane Cadzow tries to make sense of her shock suicide.

Capital Idea In All Its Knickerbocker Glory

Rosemarie Milsom finds there's much to like about Canberra.

Law & (the New) Order

Law degrees have never been so popular yet increasingly graduates don't want to be lawyers. Kenneth Nguyen and Alexandra Roginski investigate.

Family Joy Turns To Sorrow

A brother and sister have told of the devastation of losing their father in a car crash just as he was celebrating his son's rescue from a snow cave on a New Zealand mountain. Friday's car smash near Wanaka on the South Island killed Nick Webb, 62, of Canberra and seriously injured his wife Deb

Drugs Adviser In Prison For Dealing

Marion Watson, who was given an Order of Australia Medal for service to community health last year, was jailed yesterday for heroin dealing. Watson had helped establish needle exchange programs in Canberra and a detoxification residential centre. As a former addict, her advice to all levels of

Man Dies In Eden Crash

A 53-year-old Pambula man died and four women were seriously injured in a head-on collision near Eden at the weekend. The accident happened on the Princes Hwy, 150m from Broadwater Rd, at about 12.35am on Saturday. Police said a Toyota Corolla hire car driven by a young Irish tourist and the

Opposition Tales Aim At Mcgauran

Canberra Labor has warned its attack on the Minister for Science and Technology, Mr Peter McGauran, will become more damaging next week if he refuses to resign. The travel rorts controversy erupted again yesterday afternoon, this time aimed at the claims of Mr McGauran, a Victorian National MP

Socky Horror Show At Airport

If you want to see the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, get his knickers in a knot, mention his stockings. The Opposition frontbencher Simon Crean did it on Thursday night in the Qantas lounge at Canberra Airport. Various reports from others in the lounge suggested Downer "lost it" a

Spender Denies Maserati Claim

Canberra. A former Liberal MP, Mr John Spender, last night angrily denied an Opposition claim that he had asked for a Maserati to be provided when he took up his position as Australia's ambassador in Paris, saying he is perfectly happy with a Government-supplied Renault. The claim, made in a

Commission Seeks Taxi Restructure

Canberra. Victoria's taxi industry should be completely restructured so it can play an even larger role in urban transport, the Government's key industry adviser said yesterday. In its final report on urban transport, the Industry Commission urged the Victorian Government to ``take full accoun

Travel Costs Embarrass Opposition

CANBERRA: The 26 staff of the Leader of the Opposition, Dr Hewson, amassed an impressive $206,340 in travel allowances in the past 12 months. This is more than double the combined total of the bigger staffs of both the former Prime Minister Mr Bob Hawke and Mr Keating during the year.

Lunches, Dinners And Sleep-ins: The Making Of A Grand Finalist

MONDAY: Up at 7am. Light breakfast with younger brother Grant before being picked up at his Penrith home by a hire car for drive to Circular Quay. With fellow Panther Colin Van Der Voort he witnessed the launch of the Bank of New Zealand's new 18-foot skiff. A keen water-skier during summer, &qu

Trips, A 4-wheel Drive Maybe: Mps Push For Perks

CANBERRA: The National Party whip, Mr Noel Hicks, would like a shiny new four-wheel-drive vehicle in his Christmas stocking. The deputy National Party leader, Mr Lloyd, believes there is a good case for both him and his leader, Mr Blunt, to get a pay rise. The Government whip in the

Officialdom Drives A Man To Ruin

Peter Sayegh is about to lose his house, his business and his partner. Since May last year, Mr Sayegh, who operates a limousine hire service from Bankstown, has been staging a one-man fight against the NSW Government's decision to award his contract to carry the State's 98 judges and conc