Crispin Hull

M Butterfly should fly away according to the new chair of the Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on the ACT, Bob Chynoweth.

He thinks the advertising sign on the Canberra Theatre’s fly tower should come down.

He said at the handing down the committee’s report on nearby City Hill, “”I am concerned that the theatre is using its tower as an advertising billboard for Mobilenet or Telecom sq(the sponsors of the present production of M Butterfly.”
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The history of adoption shows that fairly clearly. Half a century ago Nanny was convinced that with adoption, for example, secrecy was the best policy.

No adopted child was to know his or her natural mother. Natural mothers could not find out what had happened to the child she gave had given away two decades before. The theory was that, once given away, the child would become the child of the new family. There could be no half-way house, Nanny ruled.

In Australia, of course, Nanny was hopelessly wrong in its policy on Aboriginal children, taking children away from natural parents to be assimilated.
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A Canberra couple seeking a surrogate mother have been “flooded with calls”, since their story was published in The Canberra Times on Monday. Peter and Wendy Voelker, of Gordon, say they are certain of getting a surrogate mother to help.

Mrs Voelker, who is on constant medication to control epilepsy, has had three miscarriages.

The couple has made inquiries about adoption, but say they have been told the position is virtually hopeless and that there is a 10-year waiting list.
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Story Basket Keyword Topic Author Page Jsums27, 30 Age-old maths problem finally starts to add NEW YORK: June 23 AP Geniuses of the world, take note: Finish that symphony, paint that masterpiece, discover the secret of perpetual motion. Your efforts at solving Fermat’s Last Theorem are probably no longer needed. A mathematician claims to have solved the most famous problem in mathematics with a twisting, 200-page argument proving Fermat’s theorem. “When we heard it, people started walking on air,” the chairman of Princeton University’s mathematics

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It was just as well there was a second lot of veal in the freezer. I’ll get back the the veal in a minute. But first to the aggravation that led to the destruction of the first lot.

I knew it might happen; Hugh MacKay had predicted it. MacKay is the great Australian sociologist who has a theory about people in modern Australia snapping under stress. He says that the pressures of earning a living and the hassles of home and mortgages etc etc make people suddenly react to the most trivial things in a violent and exaggerated way.

People, like me, who would ordinarily never allow themselves to act violently, suddenly find themselves smashing parking inspectors in the face. They snap because of the great build up of pressure in modern life.
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Bill Hayden on Canberra. debunks the theory that Canberra is bloated, high-income earning paarasite on the public purse (with some help from the Bureau of stats). Part of Face the Nation series. Point to edited text on op-ed.

Szuty says ACT Govt silly to appeal to Howe to overturn committee recommendation on city hill. Federal shallow-throat sources tell me they are barking up wrong tree anyway. Howe has no power to overturn committee’s recommendations. Under federal law, the minister only has power to block draft variations, he has no power to create his own variation (such as allowing six-storeys).

A full review of all land and planning legislation would be completed by March, the chair of the Infrastructure, Development and Planning committee, David Lamont, said yesterday.

The review by his committee would take place after criticisms of planning law made by the Todd inquiry. That inquiry was charged by the ACT Legislative Assembly to inquire into difficulties over the redevelopment proposal at Section 22 Braddon. It criticised elements of ACT planning law, especially the consultation process with neighbouring residents.
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New Zealand must end imports of high-quality second-hand cars from Japan if it is to get better access to Australia’s market, Australia has warned.

New Zealand imports between 30,000 and 40,000 quality second-hand Japanese cars a year. The imports are permitted under New Zealand’s zero-tariff policy.

The Minister for Industry, Alan Griffiths, says Australia is not prepared to loosen vehicle trade between the countries under the Closer Economic Relations agreement unless New Zealand is prepared to do something about the imports.
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It would be a lost opportunity if a space for the courts could not be found near City Hill, the chief executive of the National Capital Planning Authority, Lyndsay Neilson, said yesterday.

The space between London Circuit and Vernon Circle should be the home of civic and community functions.

“”They are the land uses for that area, rather than solely commercial ones,” he said.
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A Canberra couple seeking a child have plenty of offers of surrogate mothers, but have drawn a blank from in-vitro fertilisation clinics in the ACT and Melbourne. The husband says he is thinking about doing it the natural way with a surrogate and his wife would agree if that were the only way to get a child.

The plight of Peter and Wendy Voelker, of Gordon, was first made public in The Canberra Times on Monday.

Mrs Voelker is on medication to control epilepsy and has had three miscarriages. The couple sought adoption, but were told there was a 10-year waiting list.
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