Tag: Australia
Show time
Volunteers and members of the Armidale and New England Show Society have been putting the finishing touches to preparations for the 2012 Armidale Show,...
Enrolments up for UNE
With universities across Australia facing significant competition with the introduction this year of a new demand driven higher education market, the University of New...
Mining industry wants more
Following the mining industry's successful advertising propaganda against the “Super Tax,” where the Australian people would share part of the benefits of windfall profits,...
8th Lecture on Human Rights
Allan Asher, outspoken advocate of consumer rights for nearly 40 years, will present the eighth Lecture in the Series on Human Rights sponsored by...
In response
The evangelical fervour of your correspondent C R Holford (Feb, 8) is depressingly familiar. I was married to an evangelist, now thankfully in Ukraine...
Innovations in medical education
As a result of its partnership with University of California, Irvine, UNE's School of Rural Medicine is pioneering the use of iPads and portable...
Our Digital Hub near completion
Armidale Dumaresq Council (ADC) expects the Digital Hub Training Centre off Cinders Lane to be available to the community in early April and has...
Autumn Lodge prepares for NBN
The presentation of a large flat-screen computer to Armidale's Autumn Lodge aged care facility by Silcar Communications, the company that laid fibre-optic cables in...
Abolish battery cages for hens
We can't let the British beat us at sport, so we certainly can't let them be the first to abolish battery cages for hens....
Medical students begin their journey
“It is really in your heart that will make the difference of whether you are a good doctor or not a good doctor” was...
In response to Senator Williams
I refer to a letter Senator Williams wrote to the Independent, where he accused the Rudd Government of “raiding” the $2 billion quarantined into...
Seriously Mr Abbott? Are you still banging on about that?
It may be a new year but anyone hoping for a change of tune in federal politics would have been sadly disappointed.
Last week Parliament...
