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.
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.
17/07/2008 | ON WEDNESDAY Ballarat police officers were involved in an incident during which two teenagers riding what was alleged to be an unregistered motorbike without helmets crashed into Canadian Creek.
16/07/2008 | FARMERS reading the Federal Government green paper on its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will be breathing a sigh of relief - at least for now.
15/07/2008 | WE are in dynamic times when it comes to global energy needs and how those needs are to be met.
14/07/2008 | IT was not only cars and windows that were damaged at the Ballarat Railway Station over the weekend.
14/07/2008 | The old saying ``what happens on the footy field stays on the footy field'' is finally becoming the pathetic excuse it really always was: an excuse to pretend
that nasty acts of violence on a sports field were somehow acceptable.
11/07/2008 | IT MAY not have been his intention but opposition environment spokesman Malcolm Turnbull this week succeeded yet again in making his leader look like someone barely in charge of his party.
9/07/2008 | ANOTHER Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan again illustrates the danger facing those who serve abroad in areas where terrorists are active.