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No fishing licence needed on ‘Gone fishing day’
Fishing licences will not be needed in Victoria on October 16, national 'Gone Fishing Day'
Britnell blasts job figures
Donkey votes likely to increase
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Midfield seeking milk for Penola plant
The Midfield Group is ramping up efforts to secure 220 million litres of milk for its Penola plant.
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Phillips is a bronze medal winner
Naming season’s leading players
The count for the Judd Cup and the Rebekah Moroney Memorial Medal will be held on Wednesday.
Netball’s come so far
Gymnast continues to shine
Warrnambool gymnast Archie Everall is making his mark.
Taggert to make step up into top job in 2017
Star player Rory Taggert will coach North Warrnambool Eagles in 2017.
Flag hope
Louise Brown will be a key player for Merrivale in the grand final this Saturday.
Hugh wins highest honour
Hugh McCluggage has added another honour to his already sparkling draft credentials.
Loyal pair
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Young Rangers’ dream run over with defeat
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Letters to the Editor September 3
Council election issues dominate this week's letters.
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Regional Focus
Mark Tromp apology: ‘We will begin to make sense of our ordeal’
Mark Tromp releases a statement three days after he was found in Wangaratta.
Con man’s cruel ‘swipe’
NSW: Tinder "con man” leaves a trail of emotional and financial damage in his wake.
Man fronts court charged over mum’s death
NSW: Forbes man appears in court charged with alleged murder of mother.
Football player crashes car with drugs in system
NSW: Thurgoona football player nods off, crashes SUV with his three children in the vehicle.
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Australian man killed in shark attack while kitesurfing in New Caledonia
An Australian man has died after he was bitten by a shark while kitesurfing in New Caledonia on ...
Department of Immigration and Border Protection public servants offered '10 per cent' pay increase
''Smoke and mirrors'' from the Immigration Department is masking a paltry 4.7 per cent pay offer, says a ...
Chinese donate 'just to be friendly', says first Chinese MP Helen Sham-Ho
The donation scandal engulfing Labor senator Sam Dastyari is unfairly branding the Chinese community as a "bad bunch", ...
Police release image of missing girl Irene Ring
Police are appealing for public assistance to help find a missing 15-year-old girl.
Police search for missing boy Matthew McAuliffe
Police are appealing to the public to help find 15-year-old Melbourne boy who has been missing for more than a ...
Bishop’s estate to help the healing
Ballarat diocese will cement itself as a national leader when it sets aside former Bishop Ronald Mulkearns' estate ...
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Playboy Playmate's SnapChat body shaming victim is in her 70s - and willing to testify
Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers could find herself not unseeing the walls of a prison cell after police tracked ...
Wendi Deng and Kyle Sandilands take over Burning Man
The year 2016 belongs to Wendi Deng.
Nick Cave documentary One More Time with Feeling deals with family's grief over son Arthur
Nick Cave's way of dealing with his son Arthur's death, says Andrew Dominik, was to work.
Q&A recap: What happens when everyone politely agrees?
It was a great discussion of Shakespeare, but was it much cop as an episode of Q&A?
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Top-up super to low paid held hostage by contentious reform package
The longer the politics over the reforms to the superannuation tax breaks continues, the worse it will be ...
Investment in research driving improvements in Australian universities' QS World University Rankings
Australian universities' investment in research has driven improvement in their global rankings, according to a global higher education ...
Expect more cranes: apartment glut to dampen market
If you think there are a lot of cranes on the city skyline these days, expect to see ...
Too many doctors juggling public and private hospital work, researcher says
Too many Australian doctors are splitting their time between public and private hospitals, undermining efficiency and potentially contributing ...
The Alfred hospital doctors who took their operating theatre to a car park
In the patient handover meeting, he was listed as "unknown male", a young man whose body had been ...
Brazilian butt lift victim Evita Sarmonikas' sister fights for justice in Mexico
The mother of a woman who died during a cosmetic procedure in Mexico wants her other daughter to ...
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Aman's latest Japan resort: Ise-Shima National Park, Honshu
Japan's new Aman resort is luxury on a whole new scale.
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