October 2000
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General News
Chess Seeks Youth Market: “Xtreme Chequerboarding” launched
[Edition 29] Several years ago, the look-out was grim. Falling attendance at tournaments, dropping sales of chess-sets and reports of school chess clubs closing across the world pointed to an eventual decline and, perhaps, an end to chess as we know it. All this has turned around 180 degrees with the appointment in 1999 of…
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National Archive
Beazley says Defence Bill ‘Really useful in quelling incredibly violent Olympics’
[Edition 29] CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Opposition leader Mr Kim Beazley has expressed his enormous relief at Labor’s role in rushing through the Defence Legislation Amendment Act just days before the Olympics. Mr Beazley claimed that the bill, which allows troops to fire on civilians in certain disputes, was “the only thing that saved us from…
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National Archive
A few more years of civilised brutality will advantage Aborigines: Ruddock
[Edition 29] CANBERRA, Tuesday: The Minister for Reconciliation Philip Ruddock has defended his comments to French newspaper Le Monde claiming that Aborigines were disadvantaged because they were late in coming into contact with developed civilisations. “Aborigines have had just over 200 years of contact with real civilisation,” Ruddock claimed. “They are yet to fully know…