NSW: The Tamworth Regional Art Gallery have removed 12 artworks from display after becoming aware of his controversial nature of the artist...read on.

VIC: Brendan Farrell is teeing off on a special crowd-funding project for one of the towns on his recent hay run north.  With the gradual demise of local polocrosse, rugby and other sporting clubs, golf is about all that’s left in the tiny township, he said….“Golf provides great social interaction for farmers.” 

National news

►A firebrand Coalition MP has urged younger Australians to address the causes of their obesity as early as possible, after revealing he had 85 per cent of his stomach removed after his own weight reached the "point of no return".

►Country communities are reeling at the devastating news that dairy processor Murray Goulburn will close three factories across Australia with the loss of 360 jobs...read the full story.

► High-fee private schools in Sydney's wealthy northern suburbs dominate the list of schools set to have have their federal funding cut next year...read on.

►May the 4^th be with you when you attempt the hardest Star Wars quiz ever...go for it here.

►Ugg boots have been described as being just as Australian as Champagne is French. Catch up on the latest developments as the battle to use the term 'ugg boots' continues in US court...read on.

►The US Drug Enforcement Agency tipped off authorities about an Australian woman potentially smuggling drugs out of the country...full story here.

Not many six-year-olds can count NRL superstar Johnathan Thurston and pop music maestro Guy Sebastian among their biggest supporters.

Quaden Bayles isn't any ordinary kid though. 

The Murri boy and his mother Yarraka are leading a new wave of support and education surrounding achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, which Quaden was diagnosed with at birth. 

Read his story here.