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20/08/2008 | THERE has been a bit of a to-do about the Australian Government's decision to grant temporary working visas to 2500 of our Pacific neighbours in a bid to address labour shortages in our agriculture industry.
19/08/2008 | BALLARAT'S Kirralee Nursing Home has come under fire in recent weeks for failing a spot inspection of its facility on July 18. But today in The Courier, local doctor Tony Bongiorno speaks out in support of Kirralee and its staff and lays the blame for its current woes squarely at the feet of the bureaucracy.  | CommentsComments (1)
18/08/2008 | WE SHOULDN'T be surprised that the Victoria Police hierarchy would want to paint a rosy picture of crime statistics released yesterday.
15/08/2008 | BALLARAT deserves better from its elected council than what we got on Wednesday night.
13/08/2008 | IT'S likely that for residents of Kirralee Nursing Home and their relatives, September 17 cannot come soon enough.
12/08/2008 | YESTERDAY General Motors Holden's managing director flagged an interest in bringing a plug-in electric car to Australia.
11/08/2008 | IT seems that when the Olympic Games roll around there is always something that distinguishes each new Games from its predecessors. The Beijing Games' organisers were able to, in stunning fashion, weave into the opening ceremony China's significant cultural and technological achievements. Doubtless many stayed up to watch the event on television.
11/08/2008 | IT IS a shame that as the world comes together in a show of friendly competition at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Russia appears to have taken the opportunity to up the ante in its ongoing dispute with Georgia.  | CommentsComments (1)
7/08/2008 | THE Federal Opposition's comparison of Water Minister Penny Wong to Saddam Hussein is unhelpful and somewhat distasteful.
6/08/2008 | THERE would be few Australians who haven't tightened their household spending in recent months.
5/08/2008 | TODAY we introduce our readers to "Team Ballarat" - the 13 athletes who will, figuratively speaking, fly the Eureka Flag at the Olympic Games.
4/08/2008 | EDDIE McGuire said yesterday he was "furious" - and is it any wonder?
3/08/2008 | AN interesting debate on population has been unfolding over the past week. It has centred around Melbourne and the capital's capacity to cope with the current population boom, a boom Premier John Brumby has said is the biggest in the city's history.
30/07/2008 | IT IS not a good look for a police force to have two of its senior people facing corruption charges.
29/07/2008 | THERE are few in our community who would argue that children and the elderly are our most vulnerable citizens and that their welfare should be of paramount concern.
29/07/2008 | IT WAS meant to help the Federal Government fight binge drinking among young people, but it looks more like Kevin Rudd's alcopop tax will end up being nothing more than an embarrassment for the Prime Minister. From the moment Mr Rudd proposed the tax in April this year, critics lambasted it as window dressing and unlikely to make much difference at all to the binge drinking epidemic.
24/07/2008 | VICTORIA farewelled former premier and long-serving education minister Lindsay Thompson yesterday.
23/07/2008 | VICTORIA'S Plug the Pipe group is not without support in its opposition to State Government plans to build a north-south pipeline to supplement Melbourne's water supply.
22/07/2008 | IT IS unlikely Australian motorists will be optimistically waiting to see whether a drop in the crude oil price translates to a lower fuel price at the bowser. Although it seems logical that one should follow the other, Alan Evans, president of Australia's largest motoring group, the NRMA, has suggested oil companies were not always prepared to pass on savings to motorists.  | CommentsComments (1)
21/07/2008 | SINCE arriving in Australia Pope Benedict XVI attracted the masses like a pop star at the height of their popularity. But, unlike a pop star, the pontiff was not here to sell popular culture, instead his mission was a far more challenging one, the promotion and consolidation of Catholic faith.
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