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Defending premiers show true grit

Defending premiers show true grit

Arthur Chapman
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Group three rugby league week nine results

Group three rugby league week nine results

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Forster Tuncurry Hawks' hooker Riley Glover looks to offload in the Hawks 22-16 win over Port City.

Hawks back in the winner's circle

Defending premiers show true grit

Defending premiers show true grit

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2018 Australian champion Jay Phillips scored another win at the NSW Surfmasters Titles. Photo by Ethan Smith/Surfing NSW.

Four new champs crowned at Surfmasters titles

Love of the club: Russell Lardner has made many sacrifices to prevent his hometown club from folding. Photo: Callum McGregor

How the Mustangs avoided disbandment, changed their culture and built a premiership contender

Callum McGregor

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Migration: There are an estimated 30,000 humpbacks swmming north along our coastlines to their Queensland and Western Australian breeding grounds over the next few months. Photo: ORRCA member Jodie Lowe

A whale of a milestone

Eva, Willow, Jamarra and Amelia Jenkins and Lilli Urquhart at the 2018 Winter Solstice Lantern Walk.

Rug up for the Winter Solstice Lantern Walk

Julia Driscoll

Accessing local population statistics

Accessing local population statistics

Migration: There are an estimated 30,000 humpbacks swmming north along our coastlines to their Queensland and Western Australian breeding grounds over the next few months. Photo: ORRCA member Jodie Lowe

A whale of a milestone

The NSW Surf Masters will be held across the weekend at Boomerang Beach.

Get out and about across the Mid Coast this weekend

It's not too late to Have Your Say

It's not too late to Have Your Say

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Ruth Lewis

Bag yourself a bargain this weekend

Six top tips to get the best out of this weekend's garage sales

Ruth Lewis

Playing with style: Kerrie Fromm (Taree Railway). Photos by Scott Calvin.

The State Carnival is in full swing

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LIGHT FANTASTIC: Chase the Northern Lights or the Auroroa Borealis with The Senior and Travelrite on this Nordic cruise in February 2020.

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Bag yourself a bargain this weekend

Six top tips to get the best out of this weekend's garage sales

Ruth Lewis

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Ruth Lewis

Acreage at a fantastic price

Acreage at a fantastic price

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Ruth Lewis

Rod at work in his shaping bay.

Why I do what I do: Rod Rose Surfboards

Nicholas Brooks

Pacific Palms Public School's PSSA soccer knockout team: Charlie, Vinnie, Noah, Koby, Jayden, Gus, Jett, Marissa, Xavier, Rohan, Aaris; (front) Toby, James and Sione.

Plenty of sports achievements out of Pacific Palms Public

Eva, Willow, Jamarra and Amelia Jenkins and Lilli Urquhart at the 2018 Winter Solstice Lantern Walk.

Rug up for the Winter Solstice Lantern Walk

Julia Driscoll

Rod at work in his shaping bay.

Why I do what I do: Rod Rose Surfboards

Great Lakes College kids enjoying a fun time at 'Camp Getaway'.

Lions club sponsor 'Camp Getaway'

BIRD'S EYE VIEW: The lunar module being tested in Earth orbit during Apollo 9. The gold-coloured material is a man-made polymer coated with aluminium. The probes dangling from the footpads were to sense the Moon’s surface during touchdown and signal the crew to shut off the descent engine. Pictures: NASA

A fragile chariot for a flight into history

Helen Sim

The mighty mullet run

The mighty mullet run

Cadaver dog Bryson found Noel Ingham's remains in the bushland at Dulverton.

He was his mate, his carer and ended up ... his murderer

Chloe Maidment and Mason Ping from Great Lakes College's senior campus.

Students bring artistic flair to hospital's tranquility garden

From our archives: Swimming North Coast short course championships in Forster 2017 to 2018 | Photos

From our archives: Swimming North Coast short course championships in Forster 2017 to 2018 | Photos

Pacific Palms Art Prize winner, Marilyn Cranfield with her winning oil painting, 'Road to Boat Beach, Seal Rocks'.

Pacific Palms Art Show attracts record entries

Jamil Ahmad and family. Photos: Scott Calvin

Community comes together to celebrate end of Ramadan

Cully Gower and his 2011 Morgan Plus 4.

Great Lakes Nissan Motorfest 2019

Di Morrissey, AM. Photo: Aaron Cuneo Design, Wingham

Di Morrissey awarded AM in Queen's Birthday Honours List

Julia Driscoll

A rising tide of environmental uncertainty

A rising tide of environmental uncertainty

Georgia Rowles

Management issues: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, left, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison are facing calls to implement significant economic reforms to ward of the threat of a global downturn.

'Miracle man' faces economic reform test

Robert Carling

We need to guide more young women into engineering

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We need to guide more young women into engineering

Dr Bianca Capra

How Barry foiled the scammers, and you can too

How Barry foiled the scammers, and you can too

Why aged care needs to change its position on residents' sex lives

Why aged care needs to change its position on residents' sex lives

Rowan Cowley

University of Melbourne Associate Professor Peter van Wijngaarden (left) with CERA's Dr Xavier Hadoux.

Simple eye test could soon detect early signs of Alzheimer's

Geraldine Cardozo

Bridget Shewring has wept in court upon hearing no one is likely to be named as her mother's killer.

WA coroner unlikely to name Finn's killer

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Victorian CFMMEU Secretary John Setka is digging in over attempts to expel him from the ALP.

Construction union weighs in behind Setka

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The men wanted over the brutal bashing of Assistant Commissioner Chris O'Neill have been identified.

Duo arrested after senior Vic cop bashed

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Victoria has recorded 31 influenza deaths so far this year, and flu season's not over yet.

Vic records 31 flu deaths so far this year

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Premier Steven Marshall's government will deliver its second budget after last year's election win.

SA budget to be 'tough but fair': premier

Tim Dornin
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Peter Hofmann was dragged from his car where he'd been sleeping rough, bashed and fatally stabbed.

Brothers on trial for NSW stabbing murder

Margaret Scheikowski
1hr ago

Secret vision taken inside a chicken farm has revealed animal cruelty. CREDIT:ANIMAL LIBERATION

Secret footage reveals cruelty at egg farm

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Leeanne Enoch was filmed days after her department approved Indian mining giant Adani's plans.

Qld minister Enoch 'devastated' by Adani

Sonia Kohlbacher
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MEARES AND ASSOCIATES: Upper Hunter, NSW, property Scotts Creek is on the market for $6.5 million.

Malcolm Turnbull's Scotts Creek asking $6.5m

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Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy are selling their standout 1098 hectare Hunter Valley property East Rossgole.

Malcolm Turnbull to list East Rossgole

Mark Phelps
2hrs ago

David Hill, David Hill Livestock and Property, Albury; vendor Gary Mickan, Walla, llivestock agent Steve Grantham, Elders Corowa, and the top priced lambs. Picture: Supplied

Walla Walla vendors claim Australian lamb record

Nikki Reynolds

THE MAN: Richard Boyce and Cruise Express has injected some $3 million into the coffers of various rail-restoration societies.

Riding the rails - the slow and steady way

John Rozentals

Compass Hut engages the five senses. Image: Kylie Bell

Planning your next holiday? Check out these deals

John Rozentals

TRADITIONAL DRESS: Travel writer Jac Taylor after a spontaneous makeover in Shuzenji, central Japan. Photo: Supplied

Spontaneous makeovers in Japan, bar fights in Dublin and cycling Belgium: these solo travellers have seen it all

Dayle Latham

On top of the faster speeds, 5G will enable more simultaneous connections.

No Tony, 25 megs was never going to be enough

Mathew Dickerson

NOT HELPING: By the time your body gets around to burning food calories, it stores the extra calories you've eaten as fat cells. Photo: Shutterstock.

Is there room for wine in your diet?

Linda Lambrechts

Depending on the extent of the flooding, you may require pumps to help remove trapped water and clear pools that may have formed.

What to do if your house is flooded