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Charges laid over burglary binge
Three men have been charged with 36 offences a piece following a string of break-ins at Bacchus Marsh and Ballan overnight. Read more.
Council cries over onion garden prank
Ballarat City mayor Samantha McIntosh has labelled pranksters who placed an onion crown on the bust of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott immature and disrespectful. Read more.
Mona’s big slide into cold icy fight
Commentary quips about Steve Moneghetti being at ease in Ballarat-like temperatures made the plunge fun, but ultimately this was about the cold hard facts. Read more.
Ballarat play in basketball World Cup bid
A bold move to bring the world’s best basketballers to battle in Australia could involve a Ballarat play. Read more.
Queen's Birthday last holiday before rate drop
Ballarat workers will savour their last public holiday on full rates on Monday before a drop of 25 percentage points comes into effect on July 1. Read more.
Weather
Sunny and a top of 12 degrees today.
State of the nation
Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
Regional news
► NSW: A feature documentary telling the story of murdered public servant and former Telegraph Point resident Glen Turner will screen in Port Macquarie on Wednesday night. Mr Turner was gunned down on the side of a public road in Croppa Creek, 40 kilometres from Moree in 2014. He was working with the Office of Environment and Heritage.
►ACT: Two men allegedly used a wheelchair to haul a safe from the Zouki Cafe at Canberra Hospital earlier this month...read on.
►VIC: They are used to ice baths, but these sports stars got cold to fight motor neurone disease at the The Big Freeze 3...photos and videos here.
►Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull may be forced to call an election after just two years of the Coalition's current three-year term, political hardheads believe...read on.
► The Thermomix ‘cult’ is under scrutiny by the courts shedding new light on the private family business which sells more than 50,000 Thermomixs a year in Australia and turns over more than $60 million a year.
►The certificate that Phillip Spain copied off the internet and doctored to include his own name looked so amateurish that he thought authorities would reject it immediately. But they didn't and Medicare promptly issued a provider number to allow him to treat patients as an exercise physiologist.
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World news:
► Those worried about the United States being sucked into a new military confrontation under the Trump administration are looking in the wrong direction, Jake Sullivan believes. He has told Fairfax media: “I actually think Iran is a more likely scenario."
► Islamic extremists who laid siege to a southern Philippine city have launched a separate war online. As fighting has raged in Marawi, 830 kilometres south of Manila, the extremists and their supporters flooded Facebook and other social media with propaganda video, photographs and posts.
FACES OF AUSTRALIA: Bah Baw Karwmar
BACK in Myanmar, Bah Baw Karwmar was a rice farmer.
These days, the 55-year-old Karen man is a cleaner in Bendigo.
Education paved the way for employment for Bah Baw.
He said he had few opportunities to undertake formal studies in Myanmar.
