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The Age of Melbourne was quietly pleased, as were other Australian newspapers, about a special gas-emissions deal being offered to its country in Kyoto, but paid more attention to a Canberra Senate ruling that transsexuals should be allowed to compete in sports competitions, raising the question of whether they should do so as women or be put in a category of their own.
It’s true of Washington, of Brasília, of Canberra, and even more so in Canada where the very idea of a centralized federal government is so hotly contested by its independent-minded provinces.
While Washington eventually agreed to offer "token" logistical support to the peacekeeping effort, it "proceeded reluctantly, refusing to take the initiative from Canberra or even lend it the kind of significant military support it was requesting."
Ronald Rose writes a weekly column about language in The Canberra Times , and this book is a collection of those essays, fleshed out in full in those instances where they might have been cut by the newspaper for economy of space.