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Dixon leaves a troubled airline
By JAMES WILLIAMSON
TEXT | As Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon (pictured) prepares to step down and hand the reigns over to his replacement, Jetstar’s Alan Joyce, he leaves a damaged brand. Qantas, the self proclaimed Spirit of Australia, is battling to stay on top of its reputation for safety amongst an environment of cost-cutting in the airline industry.

Where's the money going to?
By GEORGIA BURNS
TEXT |The Federal Govenrment's big cash hand out comes under fire as money ill-spent.

Sticking to Green guns makes for worthy third party: analyst
By NATHAN GILSON
TEXT |The Greens' success at last Saturday’s ACT election can be put down to staying on message, according to an ANU political-science academic.

NowUC to 'tweet' the ACT election
By BOHDANA SZYDLIK and JULIE POSETTI
TEXT | NowUC will be covering the ACT election count live from the tally room in Canberra tomorrow night (Saturday 18 October 2008) using "tweets" -- 140-character, SMS-style news bites (an online version of headlines) which can be aggregated with a tagline that allows readers to see just what's happening at an event from a range of perspectives. You can follow NowUC's "twittering" at www.twitter.com/nowuc and you should also use the Twitter search function (@ the bottom of the screen) to identify Tweets using #ACTelection08 where we'll be aggregating all students' posts.

Canberra has been taken over by cheesy politicians
By MELANIE CLARK
TEXT | On the eve of the ACT election there are almost as many flyers in the air as there is pollen. Within the last week the ACT public has been bombarded with election advertisements. From the letterbox to the roadside, the cheesy smiling faces of politicians greet us. People cannot even turn on the radio or the television without hearing or seeing an advertisement for a political party.

ACT education election promises miss the point
By VERITY DUNN
TEXT | "Lingering resentment" over school closures will hurt Labor’s popularity in the upcoming election, according to Australian National University politics lecturer Norman Abjorensen (pictured). While the two major parties ooze multi-million dollar education promises in the build up to the election, Abjorensen believes the results will be the closest in the past 20 years.

Humphries pinpoints Labor fumbles
By GREG CHAMBERLAIN
TEXT | ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries said yesterday (14 October 2008) that the Stanhope Government’s mishandling of several key issues had contributed to a loss of voter confidence in the lead up to Saturday’s ACT election. “The closure of 23 schools, the building of a major new freeway with just one lane in each direction, and the handling of the bushfire inquest, these are illustrations of things that I think people are genuinely upset and angry about,” he said.

Pacific art goes on exhibition
TV | Gods, Ghosts and Men is the first significant exhibiton of Pacific Art in Australia in over two decades. However artists along with exhibition curator Crispin Howarth, hope the exhibition will help spark a revival of interest in art from the region. HARRY THRING reports.

School attendance plan goes ahead
RADIO | A trial of the plan to withhold welfare payments from families whose children fail to go to school gets mixed reaction. RAE FAIRBAIRN reports.

Stan's the man for ACT men, less appealing for women
By PETA COMPTON
TEXT | More than half of ACT men would prefer to see Jon Stanhope reprise his role as Chief Minister over Zed Seselja, while women are mostly torn between the two candidates, according to a poll conducted by journalism students at the University of Canberra.

Harder for rocket scientist to get a seat
By ELIJAH LING and ANTHONY MACDONALD
TEXT | The swing against Labor in Molonglo indicated in the UC journalism students' poll has a trio of senior ministers walking the electoral tightrope ahead of next weekend's election, making it harder for the two other Labor candidates newcomer Louise Crossman and former rocket scientist Mike Hettinger (pictured).

Parents targeted by new learner driving program
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TV | Supervising drivers will be targeted in a new program developed by the Australian Automobile Association. The program, Keys 2 Drive, hopes of reduce the number of young drivers killed on our roads. SHAVONNE HYDE reports.

Greens bemoan weak media coverage

TV | ACT Greens candidate for Molonglo Shane Rattenbury (pictured) is calling for fair media coverage for his party in the lead up to the 18 October election, but Canberra Times Editor at Large Jack Waterford believes all political parties are getting the coverage they deserve. CASEY MURPHY reports.

Light rail on the agenda

TV | After years of debate, light rail in the ACT has been deemed by the Stanhope government as "in need for analysis", but HOLLY GUNN reports the issue has a long way to run.

Families of disableds' sterilisation concern
RADIO | As the ACT election creeps up on budding voters around Canberra friends and families of the intellectually disabled are waiting patiently for their rights of sterilisation to broaden. Sterilisation is a topic in Australia that is so controversial many people have no idea what it’s actually about, and the laws that accompany it. BRIGETTE MCQUILLAN reports.

Housing crisis continues, but relief near

TV | As the housing market continues to feel the pressure of economic uncertainty, relief for builders is near. ALEXANDRA BRYANT reports.

Of mining and football at Captains Flat

TEXT | Captains Flat mine closed in 1962, but the town still has 425 inhabitants. DOUG FRY talked to one of them on a day the town sparked to life with a rare football match.

Plight of Canberra's homeless getting worse
By SASKIA TIGCHELAAR
TEXT | Despite recent Census statistics indicating almost no change in the number of homeless people in Canberra between 2001 and 2006, there has been a 40 per cent increase in the demand for emergency housing in the capital in the past two years, according to Oasis Youth Residential Services' manager Allan Collins.

Online shopping 'fatal' for small Canberra retailers
By PETA COMPTON
TEXT | Retailers are losing a significant chunk of their revenue to online stores with the trend set to continue until at least 2010, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and online business magazine SmartCompany.

CSIRO acts on fungus threat to world wheat supply
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TV | The CSIRO is researching ways to control a new stem rust disease which could cause a global food supply crisis. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has given $127 million to it and other researchers throughout the world to find a resistance to Ug99. JENNY DUNN reports.

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