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Regional
WOLLONGONG: About 1200 cannabis plants worth about $2.4 million have been seized after police uncovered a massive hydroponic set-up in Port Kembla early on Friday morning. Read more
FORBES: Forbes resident Pip Davies has suffered major damage to her home but her concerns lay mostly with her neighbours and the local farmers who have suffered great losses who she believes will need extra support in the months following this natural disaster. Read on
BAROSSA: The storm may have subsided but a flood risk remains for the Barossa region, with towns including Lyndoch, Nuriootpa and Tanunda already inundated with water. Read on
BENDIGO: A Long Gully man and professional painter has celebrated his beloved Western Bulldogs making the grand final for the first time in his life – the only way he knows how. Read on
BUNBURY: Two years after being mauled by not one but two Great White Sharks, resulting in the loss of both arms, surfer Sean Pollard is gunning to attend the 2018 Winter Paralympics. Read on
BALLARAT: AN 18-month search has failed to find a replacement for outgoing Buninyong doctor Terrence Gibson, UFS chief executive officer Lynne McLennan said. Read on
REDLAND BAY: Redland Bay residents say Redland City Council is turning their beachside suburb into a Gold Coast look-alike by approving too many large apartment blocks. Read on
GOONDIWINDI: Landowners west of Goondiwindi are calling it a bigger flood than 2011 and are waiting for the heartbreak of watching their best crops in years washed away. And they want to know why. Read on
National news
NSW: Surf life saving is facing one of its biggest crises with the departure of a third of the NSW organisation's top ranks and ongoing recrimination over its former general manager's admission to defrauding the charity of more than $3 million. Read on
NATIONAL: More than 150 private schools are being over-funded by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year at the expense of other needy students, according to a new analysis that details the distortions and inequities in Australia's school funding system. Read on
CANBERRA: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has slammed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for promulgating "ignorant rubbish" in the South Australian energy debate, as Labor states and territories rejected the PM's pitch for a standardised renewable energy target. Read on
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International news
JERUSALEM: The crowd was silent but for the sound of cameras and sobs and the lone voice of a soldier leading the coffin in a song of mourning at the funeral of Israeli statesman and visionary Shimon Peres. Read on
MANILA: Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has likened himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the latest of a series of rash outbursts that are alarming his country's allies in Asia, including the United States. Read on
On this day
1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
The faces of Australia: Jake Stringer
When Jake Stringer was growing up he was a mad North Melbourne supporter.
You’d think his hero would have been Wayne Carey, Anthony Stevens or Glenn Archer. Incorrect.