For this morning's reader, the daily miracle of this morning's $2.80 Canberra Times is a jolly useful and entertaining thing. But for researchers (historians, say, and genealogists) this same edition may one day - for remember a newspaper is ''the first draft of history'' - be priceless. The digitisation of past editions of The Canberra Times, (making them available online) a godsend for researchers, has suddenly got a dramatic wriggle-on in this, Canberra's centenary year. The Canberra Times has been serving the national city, and through it the nation, since 1926. Now...
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