Mid North Coast
►PORT MACQUARIE: Keith Dawson has spent 37,986 days on earth and he spent his104th birthday just the way he wanted – with family, friends, cake and plenty of story telling. Video.
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► TAREE: Manning Regional Art Gallery is delving into the very essence of the human condition this winter, with an examination of illness and disease, health and the health sciences in its new exhibition The Patient. Read more.
► WAUCHOPE: Three Rivers Greens expressed their concern about a moning exploration proposal for the Hastings. Read more.
► COFFS HARBOUR: A MAN has been charged for allegedly grooming and procuring a child online following an investigation by detectives from the State Crime Command’s Sex Crimes Squad. Read more.
Regional news
►TASMANIA: Legislation to allow for euthanasia to take place in Tasmania has been voted down for the third time in less than a decade. Read more
►WA: A Nulsen man has been charged after he allegedly challenged a 53 wagon train by waving a piece of wood in a threatening manner. Read more
►BALLARAT: A victim's drawing of a man who stole $30,000 in gold set the internet on fire last month, but now Ballarat police have released an image of a suspect they want to speak to. Read more
►QUEENSLAND: Locking up paddocks with bulk feed and hoping for no more rain are two things you’d never expect a farmer to say. But for producers in south west Queensland battling Pimelea outbreaks, it’s a harsh reality. Read more
►VICTORIA: Bendigo man Michael O’Connor credits the work of one man, a mental health nurse, with saving his life. Read more
►WAGGA WAGGA: The inspiration for a Wagga son’s revolutionary news app came from an unlikely series of events.. Read more
►NSW: Having travelled half-way across the continent, Yanwyn Kirby trudges over the rain-softened earth under a swollen sky to catch up with his cousin, Les. Read more
►WA: Katherine maternity ward was bustling this weekend. Meet some of the region’s newest members here
National news
►Bill Shorten has signalled that Labor will back an ambitious outcome of the Indigenous constitution convention at Uluru, declaring: "It is our turn to step up, not to find fault, but to find common ground. Read more
►The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet paid $1.3 million through recruitment firms to the company at the centre of what is allegedly one of the largest tax frauds in Australian history, a Senate estimates committee has heard. Read more
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World news:
►JAKARTA: Three police officers and two suspected suicide bombers have been killed in two explosions near a bus terminal in East Jakarta on Wednesday night. Read more
►BEIJING: Taiwan will become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, after a landmark ruling by the constitutional court.Read more
On this day
FACES OF AUSTRALIA
Peter Baguley
Peter Baguley has been giving back for as long as he’s needed support.
He first came to the Salvos for assistance seven years ago. The organisation has since supported him through university, where he studied horticulture.
The Salvation Army volunteer will be collecting for the organisation’s Red Shield Appeal, which launched on Tuesday. Read more
