The autonomous region of Bougainville has begun preparations for its forthcoming general election. The vote is seen as crucial as it marks the start of the referendum peroid agreed upon in the Bougainville Peace Agreement. Presenter: Richard Ewart Speaker: George Manu, acting Electoral ...

Queensland remains in political limbo following last weekend's state election. As counting continues, it's still too close to call in five seats, and the final result might come down to a by-election in one of them. The Labor Party has inched closer to government after securing the support of one ...In all questions of this
kind the aggregate experience of mankind ought to have greater weight
than the abstract theories of individuals, and I am confident that our
engineers, who have so successfully solved problems of the greatest
magnitude in the reclamation projects of the far West and in the control
and regulation of the floods of the Mississippi River, will solve with
equal success similar problems at Panama.

The committee further says that the sea-level project contemplates the
removal of some 110,000,000 cubic yards of material, while the lock
canal would require the removal of only about half that quantity, or, in
other words, that there is a difference of some 57,000,000 cubic yards,
which, "to omit to take out ... is to confess our impotence, which is
not characteristic of the American people or their engineers or
contractors." By