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Big season comes to fruition

Big season comes to fruition

Rod Thompson

Semi-final showdowns ignite competition

Semi-final showdowns ignite competition

Rod Thompson

Milestone: Young Knights prop Josh King will celebrate a milestone when he plays his 50th NRL game for the club against the North Queensland Cowboys. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers.

Milestone game perfect fit for a King

Barry Toohey

Big season comes to fruition

Big season comes to fruition

PEDAL POWER: Action from the 2019 NSW Club Team Time Trial Championships and Singleton Challenge. Pic: Cycling NSW Facebook

An accessible destination for everyone: Seers

New role 'marks an exciting time' for code

New role 'marks an exciting time' for code

Plenty to see, touch, taste and smell | PHOTOS

Plenty to see, touch, taste and smell | PHOTOS

Hunters & Collectors

Aussie rock royalty hits the Holy Grail

Chloe Coleman

Male revue promises 'unforgettable evening'

Male revue promises 'unforgettable evening'

Plenty to see, touch, taste and smell | PHOTOS

Plenty to see, touch, taste and smell | PHOTOS

A not so perfect tree-change

A not so perfect tree-change

Entertainment for everyone

Entertainment for everyone

Rod Thompson

FCAI's chief executive Tony Weber is urging motorists to check their airbags even in older vehicles.

Faulty airbags have no respect for vehicle age

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SERVICE PLUS: When it comes to telephone companies, 80-year-old Ballarat man Donald cares primarily about two things, an affordable plan and good old fashioned customer service. Advertiser content for Pennytel.

A company that cares

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FCAI's chief executive Tony Weber is urging motorists to check their airbags even in older vehicles.

Faulty airbags have no respect for vehicle age

GREAT OPPORTUNITY: Yoga tends to attract people who want to do something for themselves, trying to improve their physicality and mental wellbeing.

Improve your well-being

CUTTING THROUGH WITH SKILLS: Thiess coal quality geologist Sarah with local school students during the one of the Upper Hunter Mining Dialogue school tours to Mount Pleasant.

Targeting the best people

COMMUNITY COHESIVENESS: Elissa Emerson and Carly Hughes have come together to help launch ABC PhotoVoice.

Community given voice for Mental Health month

Cody Tsaousis

350 people, 40 rigs and $8800 for HMRI

350 people, 40 rigs and $8800 for HMRI

DONNA SHARPE

Selfless helpers to be recognised

Selfless helpers to be recognised

COMMUNITY COHESIVENESS: Elissa Emerson and Carly Hughes have come together to help launch ABC PhotoVoice.

Community given voice for Mental Health month

One hundred and fifty years ago the Merriwa Mutual Improvement Society commenced public readings at the local courthouse (pictured).

A historic milestone to commemorate

A 'quiet' night away from the kids | PHOTOS

A 'quiet' night away from the kids | PHOTOS

Belltrees Year 5 student Darcy Taylor

When the reality is a stark one

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When the reality is a stark one

TRESSES: Eli Spielvogel will shave his long locks to raise money for the Leukemia Foundation. Picture: supplied

Eli's close shave to give thanks for good health

Emergency or not? Well, it depends on where you live, it seems. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Climate emergency or just rubbish?

Ready to rock: Star filly Libertini. Picture: Yarraman Park Stud.

Star filly Libertini readies for Winx Stakes Day return

Triumphing against the odds

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Triumphing against the odds

On track: Trainer Clayton Harmey

Harmey's wait to be worthwhile at Newcastle

Peter Davis

Meme? Why are people so meme. Geddit?

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Why are people so meme?

Rob Inglis

Crazy: A man races through the level crossing, right in the path of not one, but two trains. Picture: Transport for NSW

Watch the dangerous double cross in front of two NSW

Glen Humphries

Disagreement and the dialogue of diversity

OPINION
Disagreement and the dialogue of diversity

Father Brendan Lee
1hr ago

Judgement day: The decision on Cardinal George Pell's appeal will be handed down on Wednesday.

OPINION
Should Cardinal Pell have appealed his conviction?

Steve Biddulph

When the reality is a stark one

REAL AUSTRALIA
When the reality is a stark one

Janine Graham

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Older Australians are among at-risk groups for sepsis.

It kills 5000 Aussies a year, but do you know the sepsis warning signs?

Eileen Wood

Building Bridges to Boorowa volunteer Dick Orchard takes a break from tree planting. Photo: Andrew Scott

Tree change: How one Orchard and an army of volunteers can make a difference

Geraldine Cardozo

An engineering firm targeted by climate activists has cut ties with mining giant Adani.

Adani refuses to bow to climate activists

23m ago

Central bank governor Phillip Lowe has spelled out his concerns over the US-China trade war.

RBA chief sounds warning on US-China spat

28m ago

There's been another drop in private health insurance hospital cover.

More Australians dropping hospital cover

1hr ago

Protecting Australians' personal data in foreign takeovers is vital, according to the FIRB head.

Call to guard data in foreign takeovers

1hr ago

ACT NOW: Themba Bulle says smoking should be banned in Australia rather than tackled by smaller measures. Picture: Brodie Weeding

This GP wants smoking banned in Australia

Lachlan Bennett
1hr ago

Paul Savage leaves the inquest into the disappearance of William Tyrrell at Taree Local Court.

Neighbour's recollection of events question at Tyrrell inquest

Liz Langdale
2hrs ago

Australia's packaged food and drink has been ranked as third healthiest behind the US and UK.

Australian packaged food third healthiest

Marnie Banger

The NSW upper house will continue to debate the abortion bill but won't vote till September.

Debate on NSW abortion bill continues

Growers, agronomists and merchants have been heading out into the field to inspect the conditions of canola crops across NSW.

Canola crops in the spotlight

Sam Reichstein
30m ago

Cattle market confidence shifts | Market Murmurs

Cattle market confidence shifts | Market Murmurs

KAREN BAILEY
2hrs ago

Grand finalist, Judy Davie with PitchFest founder, Di Somerville and Chantal Abouchar.

All the photos from the Regional PitchFest Bootcamp

Olivia Calver

Nowhere epitomises the problems as much as Venice, which attracts 30 million tourists a year to its magnificent canals and bridges.

Top tourism spots crack down as they become victim of own success

Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Impressive: The view from Common Grounds and the historic wooden bridge across the Hunter.

Take time to mosey around Morpeth

John Rozentals

Two monks walk in the Sacred Garden at the heart of Lumbini. Pictures: Michael Turtle

The holiest site you've never heard of

Michael Turtle

Season starts early: Now is the time for residents and land managers to start preparing for the threat of bush fire.

Prepare your home now for bushfires

2hrs ago

Cleaning the visible surface above the gum line makes the teeth look superficially clean but will not detect dental disease present below the gum line, and thus provides no medical benefit.

Anaesthesia-free dentistry might be harming your pet

New Life: Timothy and Ina moved from Brisbane to Lower Barrington to grow truffles. Picture: Scott Gelston.

Truffles lure treechangers to Tasmania

Libby Bingham