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Loud Fence: end of an era for symbol of popular support
After two years the Loud Fence movement is coming to the close of its first chapter. Read more.
Former mayor in critical condition after crash
Former Hepburn Shire mayor Rod May is fighting for his life in hospital after a serious motorcycle accident in Gong Gong on Monday night. Read more.
Time to take care on the roads
Newlyn Dean Country Fire Authority volunteers are urging road users to display patience along the Midland Highway after responding to their sixth crash in five months on the region’s busiest road. Read more.
Regional news
WAUCHOPE: Wauchope lived up to being the first motorcycle friendly town in New South Wales with a street festival for the Ulysses bikies at the AGM event in the Showground. Read more
NEWCASTLE: The Hunter will always know her as the girl from Holmesville but it was Newcastle Ocean Baths that drew Jennifer Hawkins back into her hometown on Friday. Read more
WARRNAMBOOL: Every year Maddi Arnold’s family will celebrate her birthday and set a place for her at Christmas. But their daughter and sister will never be there for the family gatherings. Read more
ALBURY: A day care owner who amassed a a multi-million dollar fortune through bogus benefit claims has been jailed for at least four years. Read more
CRESCENT HEAD: A reported 2.5m long shark swam under competitors and delayed the Crescent Head Malibu Club’s surf competition at 11.45am. Read more
National news
► The head of Australia's top spy agency has rebuffed One Nation leader Pauline Hanson over her fears that refugees were contributing to terrorism. Read more
► One of Australia's largest private training colleges has collapsed, leaving 15,000 students in limbo and plunging 1000 staff into unemployment. Read more
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World news:
► LONDON: After a minute's silence to remember the dead, a wavering voice rose up. Soon many were singing along: "her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger, I heard you say". Read more
► BALI: He was the man Schapelle Corby believed in. "Pak Erwin, you are a good man. I have faith in your ability as a lawyer and a trusted friend. If anyone is capable of bringing me home a free woman, it's you. I know you always do your absolute best for me," she wrote in her autobiography. Read more
On this day
► Ramadan begins
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French and captured the strategically important town of Winterthur, Switzerland.
1874 – The first group of the Dorsland Trek, a series of explorations undertaken by Boers in search of political independence and better living conditions, departed South Africa for Angola.
1915 – HMS Princess Irene was obliterated by an explosion off Sheerness, United Kingdom, with the loss of 352 lives.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1967 – Australians voted overwhelmingly to include Indigenous Australians in the national census and for the government to make laws for their benefit.
FACES OF AUSTRALIA: Dr Shadi Faraj
Dr Shadi Faraj is only 38 but it’s taken 17 years of work and study to be a specialist in as many areas as he is.
If you’ve got a thyroid lump or have breast cancer, you’ll be glad he’s there at Hawkesbury Hospital.
Dr Faraj came to Hawkesbury Hospital in April, 2014. He is a surgical oncologist, a breast and endocrine surgeon and a general and laparoscopic surgeon. Read more