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NRL club 'adopts' Tenterfield to boost spirits in the town

NRL club 'adopts' Tenterfield to boost spirits in the town

FUN IN LEARNING: The Blaster program runs every Friday afternoon. PHOTOS: Leeza Wishart

Up-and-coming cricketers have a blast with entry-level program

Ellen Dunger

Jarra Robinson is ready to fish.

PHOTOSAnnual Gone Fish event a success

NRL club 'adopts' Tenterfield to boost spirits in the town

NRL club 'adopts' Tenterfield to boost spirits in the town

PODIUM FINISHES: Jake Murphy and Hinata Inoue competed for Polding at the NSW PSSA All Schools for medals in their events. Photos: Supplied.

Athletes claim medals, one with a bit of online coaching

Ellen Dunger

Junior players have signed up for the 2019-20 touch season.

Juniors turn up in droves for touch come and try days

Deals of the week: Pack for Phuket, five-star Dubai, on water in Alaska

Deals of the week: Pack for Phuket, five-star Dubai, on water in Alaska

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DREAM: What a way to arrive in Budapest - on this luxurious river cruise ship.

Enter now: win a $27,000 European river cruise for two

Joanne Crawford

Stress-free guide to seven days in New Zealand

Stress-free guide to seven days in New Zealand

Hannah Warren

Make It Tenterfield's Ruth Rutherford is busy compiling a database of auction items for bidders to peruse.

WHAT'S ONArt to be auctioned this Friday to support firies

Donna Ward

There are some interesting characters up Woodenbong way.

Bush Christmas market with a twist

Joyce Marsh

Ned Campbell, Max Keep and Ryker Montague were at the Gone Fishing Day in 2017. Organiser Michael Davey of OzFish said we'll be dancing in the mud if it rains this year.

WHAT'S ONSchedule fish for dinner on December 1

Donna Ward

Make It Tenterfield's Ruth Rutherford is busy compiling a database of auction items for bidders to peruse.

WHAT'S ONArt to be auctioned this Friday to support firies

WHAT'S ONWhite Ribbon walk

Cultural burning encourages the regeneration of native grasses and production of new feed. It reduces scrub and fuel which helps in preventing intense future bushfires. Importantly, it assists in promoting biodiversity.

WHAT'S ONTraditional Fire Burn demo rescheduled

Donna Ward

Lorraine Gordon says rotationally grazing, hoofed animals is also commonly referred to as time controlled grazing, cell grazing or holistic management practices.

A case for rotational grazing

Lorraine Gordon

Good value: Pennytel customer for one month, Margaret, has already signed her husband up for a sim card, and 1GB of data all for $10.99 a month.

On the look out for exceptional customer service

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Edwina Beveridge, a pork producer from NSW has a great story to tell around innovation and saving food waste from landfill.

Help protect a rural Australian quiet achiever

Lorraine Gordon says rotationally grazing, hoofed animals is also commonly referred to as time controlled grazing, cell grazing or holistic management practices.

A case for rotational grazing

Building Australia's new wave of professional managers and leaders

Building Australia's new wave of professional managers and leaders

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CARE: World Mental Health Day highlights global mental health education, awareness and advocacy. Make a #MentalHealthPromise at 1010.org.au.

A light on mental health

Ride for Country Kids 2019.

Ride off into the sunset for kids

Our love-hate relationship with capitalism

Our love-hate relationship with capitalism

John Malouff

Brothers Tony, left, and Chris Rossi won the Landcare Farming Award. Tony won the Queensland Individual Landcarer Award.

Cane farming brothers win Queensland Landcare awards

Joanne Crawford

Ride for Country Kids 2019.

Ride off into the sunset for kids

#TrainHack participants will travel to Armidale on the XPT train.

Inaugural #Trainhack postponed due to bushfires

Gemma Purves

Who will it be for 2020?: 2019 Australian of the Year award winners. Photo: Salty Dingo

32 great Aussies vying for national honours

Braidwood kids, from left, Bonnie Park, Henry Beale, Jimi Magnus, River Parsons, Brodie Parsons, Harrison Kelly, and Logan Kendall, who gathered donations on the street for the Rural Fire Service on Saturday. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

REAL AUSTRALIAIntroducing, the people you might never get to meet

Squeaky? Maybe. But it turns heads, too. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIAThe squeaky wheel (aka local media) gets the oil

Ride for Country Kids 2019.

Ride off into the sunset for kids

Naomi Wolf, who has taken aim at Angus Taylor. Picture: Getty Images

'Just to be clear, I'm Naomi Wolf. I was not in Oxford in 1991': A midnight call to Canberra

Rare chance to beat China at its own game

REAL AUSTRALIARare chance to beat China at its own game

Derek Barry

Terry Hickson has been found guilty of murdering a Sydney bookmaker 30 years ago.

Man found guilty of bookie's 1989 murder

Margaret Scheikowski

Three people have been charged over Australia's largest onshore methamphetamine seizure.

Customs brokers charged over $1b meth haul

Benita Kolovos

Scott Morrison is sacking five department heads in a major shake-up of the public service.

Morrison swings axe through public service

Daniel McCulloch

HUB: Water Resource Minister David Littleproud, deputy PM Michael McCormack and RAI co-CEOs Liz Ritchie and Dr Kim Houghton.

OPINIONRegional Australia Institute's Canberra home away from home for visitors

Liz Ritchie

Braidwood kids, from left, Bonnie Park, Henry Beale, Jimi Magnus, River Parsons, Brodie Parsons, Harrison Kelly, and Logan Kendall, who gathered donations on the street for the Rural Fire Service on Saturday. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

REAL AUSTRALIAIntroducing, the people you might never get to meet

Why Australian dairy farmers need our help like never before

OPINIONWhy Australian dairy farmers need our help like never before

Martin Buggy

Purple Our World and World Pancreatic Cancer Day chair Jessica Abelsohn with her mum Rochelle Goulburn at Jessicas wedding, just four months before Rochelle died from pancreatic cancer.

Do you know the symptoms of pancreatic cancer?

Geraldine Cardozo

GOLDEN OLDIES: See veteran entertainers (l-r) Max Gillies, Normie Rowe and Tony Barber in Senior Moments 2: Remember, Remember.

Yes, you are having another Senior Moment

Geraldine Cardozo

Edgars Mission provides its rescued farm animals with everything they need from a warm coat to a set of wheels.

Make it your mission to visit this sanctuary for rescued farm animals and weary travellers

Sue Preston

A survey by the ANU has found that only a quarter of Australian are happy with their politicians.

Trust in government hits new all-time low

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Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong wants a greater trade focus on India.

Labor calls for more Australia-India ties

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A union says Sydney's light rail operating hours should be extended when lockout laws are lifted.

Push to up light rail hours as lockouts go

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Locals in a Melbourne suburb have held a rally after the rape of a jogger on the Merri Creek trail.

Coburg locals rally for safety after rape

QLD had a brief spell of better conditions, but the fire threat is expected to worsen on Sunday.

Conditions ease amid Qld bushfire chaos

Sonia Kohlbacher

Labor's Tanya Plibersek has demanded her party lead the way on stamping out political corruption.

Restore faith in politics: senior Labor MP

Matt Coughlan

The property market has had its second busiest week of the year, with 74.5 of homes sold.

Second-busiest auction week of the year

ACTU Sally McManus is calling on Labor to make an election pledge to improve job security.

Unions push ALP for insecure jobs pledge

Matt Coughlan

An important tool to help minimise the risk of disease in goats is the National Kid Rearing Plan.

Australia's biosecurity systems in the spotlight

NSW Farmers

Jason Rainbow is a diesel fitter who has come from Western Australia to work at Cobar. Photo: PJL Group

Labour shortage search turns to skilled farmers

Samantha Townsend

Vendors and agents come together to watch their Annual AuctionsPlus sale.

Online sales stay social

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SCANDI BARN: This style is typified by steeply pitched roofs, which were a necessity to stop snow collecting in the Scandinavian winters. Photos: James Hardie

Making sense of the Modern movement

Light from the skylight is diffused by canvas panels. Joinery: Forest Furniture. Images: Ingvar Kenne

Weaving magic

FRESH LOOK: While the facade, front bedroom and hallway were restored, the remainder of the property was upgraded with a new, modern extension, adjoining the original front of the house.

Classic Victorian treated to a modern edge