Month: July 2002

ACT Liberal Leader Gary Humphries has lost the support of a majority (if not nearly all) of his colleagues, but there will not be a leadership spill because it suits most of them to organise a more seamless exit around the contest for the ACT Senate seat if Senator Margaret Reid retires.

Mr Humphries would not comment on the numbers yesterday. Nor would he state formally his position on the move to the Senate because he said there was no vacancy at the moment.

The Deputy Leader, Brendan Smyth, said yesterday that all comment about the party room should come from the leader.
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The Australian Institute of Sport would be forced from Canberra if the extension to the Gungahlin freeway goes ahead, according to the institute’s governing body.

Mark Peters, the chief executive of the Australian Sports Commission, which administers the AIS, warned yesterday that national and international sports bodies would not come to the Canberra site because of pollutants from the freeway.

Until recently, the commission accepted the eastern route for the freeway as the lesser of two evils, but a new study has revealed that the eastern route has potentially as many air-pollution problems as the western route.
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We have some national and international treasures in Canberra. The treasures are rare, if not unique.

Omen thing that is neither treasure nor rare is the freeway. A freeway is a strip of black asphalt or cement four, six or eight or more lanes wide down which cars and trucks hurtle down. They appear in cities throughout the world. There are only two types: left-hand drive and right-hand drive.

Among many treasures in Canberra are two. One is ninety years old this year and the other is a young adult of just 21 years, but a treasure nonetheless.
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