Best bullriders around converge on Tamworth
TAMWORTH: AELEC played host to some of the world’s most feared bull riders for the PBR Tamworth Invitational on Saturday night.
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Vandals run rampant on Remembrance Day
ARMDIALE: Vandals have attacked Armidale’s Central Park War Memorial.
The offenders smashed bottles and left graffiti in the park on the morning of Remembrance Day on Friday. Read on.
Guyra gets walking for brain cancer research
GUYRA: Residents hit the pavement on Saturday to raise money for brain cancer research. Click the photo to see more.
Warialda Engineering and Welding wins national award
WARIALDA: Businessman Mick Davis has never forgotten the two people who gave him his first unsecured loan decades ago while he was living in a housing commission home in Inverell. See what Mick has achieved.
Buying a house could cost more
GLEN INNES: A real estate agent has warned that the LNP State government’s plans to sell off the NSW Lands Title Registry may have a negative impact on the housing market. Read on.
Crackdown on stray dogs
MOREE: An increase in dog attacks has prompted Moree Plains Shire Council to remind pet owners to keep dogs contained in their yards and on a leash when in public. Read on.
Gunnedah digs deep for rescue chopper
GUNNEDAH: The local Show Society recently donated $1000 from its “celebrity ride” held at this year’s AgQuip Rodeo. Read on.
What’s making national headlines
Photos: Australia vs South Africa, second test in Hobart
Science on ice
NATIONAL: About 550 people, 100 scientists, 86 projects, 23 nationalities, over 190 institutions, two ski planes, four helicopters and a hell of a lot of planning. Read more on what it's like to live on Antarctica.
Too late to leave Londoonderry
NSW: Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze that threatened dozens of homes in Sydney's west on Sunday. Read on.
1000 words around the globe
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Backpacker tax hits farmers
NSW: Riverina farmers have accused federal politicians of grandstanding at the expense of their livelihoods.
Labor wants the backpacker tax - first proposed at 32.5 per cent and then reduced to 19 per cent - to be dropped to 10.5 per cent, but the Coalition won’t budge. Read on.
Darwin tackling species extinction
NORTHERN TERRITORY: Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson has an easy familiarity that finds you talking like old friends before you’ve finished your cup of tea. Read on.
Malcolm Turnbull 'confident' Donald Trump will honour new asylum seeker deal
NATIONAL: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he is confident a deal to resettle hundreds of asylum seekers in the United States will not be wound back by President-elect Donald Trump after he is inaugurated in January.
Mr Turnbull revealed that secret discussions on the deal, which was formally announced on Sunday, had been underway since January. Read on.
National weather outlook:
An intense low is causing strong, colder winds and showers in TAS, VIC and southern and central NSW. A trough in the east is taking showers and storms to the northern tropics. A trough in the west is drawing hot, dry winds across northern and western WA. A high is clearing SA.
On this day ...
In 1955, the actress, comedian and talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg is born in New York City. Goldberg earned an Oscar nomination for her Hollywood feature debut in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple (1985) and went on become the first-ever solo female host of the Academy Awards.