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The article “Game on in Dickson’s twilight zone” (June 23, p4) incorrectly reported the 2011 Canberra Roleplaying and Games Festival Triptych theme as “immorality.” The theme was “immortality”.  Report an error

CLARIFICATIONS In Wednesday’s Page 3 report on the apple industry, Pam Hauptmann was quoted as saying New Zealand had some of the worst apples and pears in the world. She was referring to the disease fire blight, as being one of the worst diseases in the world for the pear and apple industry, not to [...]

CORRECTION Wednesday’s ACT budget coverage should have said the Government is saving $174,000, not $174million, by cancelling plans for a secure mental health facility. This was a reporter’s error.  Report an error

A photograph on page three of yesterday’s Canberra Times was incorrectly captioned. The caption said the two people pictured above were supporters of a man accused of murder. They were, in fact, associated with the alleged victim, Brendan Scott Welsh, and included his fiancee, at left. The Canberra Times apologises for the error.  Report an [...]

Canberra Raiders Shaun Fensom and James Stuart were not among the Souths Logan players disciplined for an unauthorised drinking session at the Magpies’ clubhouse earlier this month, as was reported in The Canberra Times yesterday. Neither Fensom nor Stuart was on the club’s premises following the team’s preliminary final loss on September 5. This was [...]

Dr Maxine Cooper On August 12, we published a feature article by Rosslyn Beeby which suggested that Dr Cooper, the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, had breached her obligations as an independent statutory officer to “operate as a politically independent watchdog”. No attempt was made to check our allegations with Dr Cooper before [...]

A Canberra Times report published on October 22 in part referred to evidence that the Australian Electoral Commission’s chief legal officer, Paul Pirani, gave to a Senate estimates committee on the previous day. Contrary to what was incorrectly reported in the article, Mr Pirani clearly indicated to the committee that the Commonwealth Electoral Act did [...]

An opinion article published in The Canberra Times by Irfan Yusuf on August 18, ”Justice the remedy required to help Bosnia heal”, cited the US analyst Daniel Pipes as predicting that Europe’s next Holocaust victims would be Muslim migrants and it alleged that Mr Pipes suggested Muslims thoroughly deserved such slaughter. The Canberra Times and [...]

On August 9, 2007, The Canberra Times reported on the judgment in the defamation case brought by film-maker Dennis O’Rourke against the proponent of indigenous rights Stephen Hagan and the publisher of The Daily Telegraph. Mr Hagan has complained that the article suggested he misused public money dedicated to Aboriginal legal aid. The Canberra Times [...]

A report yesterday about petrol prices rising to $8 a litre within 10 years incorrectly stated that freight costs could add 3c to the average price of a loaf of bread. The correct figure is 31c. This was a sub- editor’s error.  Report an error

A photograph published yesterday of Bali bomber Imam Samudra was wrongly identified as another of the bombers, Amrozi Nurhasyim. This was a sub-editor’s error.  Report an error

A report in the Sunday Canberra Times referred to the “Blades-John Hanna Menswear building”. In fact, John Hanna and Blades do not occupy the same building and John Hanna is not associated with Blades in any way.  Report an error

On Saturday, March 15, 2008, under the headline, ”Ghosts of HIH may come back to haunt Liberals”, The Canberra Times made a number of incorrect assertions about Goldman Sachs Australia, and its former chairman, the Federal Member for Wentworth, Mr Malcolm Turnbull, which it would like to correct. The Canberra Times accepts that at no [...]

A front-page pointer in yesterday’s Canberra Times said ACT cyclist Michael Rogers was named in new doping allegations. Anti-doping expert Professor Werner Franke told German radio earlier this week the entire T-Mobile team, which included Rogers, had resorted to blood transfusions. Professor Franke did not name Rogers individually. Rogers has denied ever being involved with [...]

An Editor’s Note: Yesterday’s front page picture of Maxine McKew has stirred considerable controversy. It was certainly not our intention to offend Ms McKew or our readers. The picture was chosen because the expressions on the faces of Ms McKew and John Howard captured perfectly the historic moment of the victor meeting the vanquished in [...]