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Bad weather shuts down Smeaton and Clunes bowls days

Bad weather shuts down Smeaton and Clunes bowls days

IN ACTION: Adam Leonard, winner of Division 2 in the junior competition, serves. Picture: SUPPLIED

Break in the rain gives junior players a shot |Tennis

Trish Kevin

GREAT EFFORT: Dawn Vorbach was part of the team that also included Lindsay Tucker, Lee Dixon and Bill Hudson which fought back to win. Picture: LUKA KAUZLARIC

Big turnaround leads to premier win for Clunes team | Bowls

John Dellavedova

Bad weather shuts down Smeaton and Clunes bowls days

Bad weather shuts down Smeaton and Clunes bowls days

Silver lining found by Smeaton side in four shot loss | Bowls

Garry Fitzsimons

Eye on the ball: Try your hand at tennis in Daylesford. Picture: Supplied

Daylesford Lawn Tennis Club throws open courts for day

Daylesford Community Diary, November 13

Daylesford Community Diary, November 13

SOUNDS OF THE FUTURE: The fabulous and talented music students from Daylesford Secondary College School will take to the stage this Friday night to prove the art is in very safe hands.

Music's next generation

Darren Lowe

Daylesford Community Diary, November 6

Daylesford Community Diary, November 6

Daylesford Community Diary, November 13

Daylesford Community Diary, November 13

DYNAMIC DUO: Australian duo Busby Marou will showcase their new album "The Great Divide". Picture: SUPPLIED

Busby Marou are bridging the Great Divide | Gig Guide

Darren Lowe

Daylesford Community Diary, October 30

Daylesford Community Diary, October 30

One of the greatest benefits of the digital health industry will be unprecedented equity in the services and level of patient care available.

Closing the gap

Lyndell Whyte

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

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Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Gemma Purves

One of the greatest benefits of the digital health industry will be unprecedented equity in the services and level of patient care available.

Closing the gap

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

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

32 great Aussies vying for national honours

Daylesford Community Diary, November 13

Daylesford Community Diary, November 13

Daylesford Community Diary, November 6

Daylesford Community Diary, November 6

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

32 great Aussies vying for national honours

DYNAMIC DUO: Australian duo Busby Marou will showcase their new album "The Great Divide". Picture: SUPPLIED

Busby Marou are bridging the Great Divide | Gig Guide

Darren Lowe

Daylesford Community Diary, October 30

Daylesford Community Diary, October 30

The long form TV style gives time for the exploration of landscape, stories, culture and history. Picture: Supplied.

The outback uses 'slow TV' to share stories, culture

A tale to tell: North Haven residents Jodie and Nathan Gardner present day (left) and the Port News photo after Nathan's birth in 2009 (right).

Were you involved in a highway delivery 10 years ago?

Port Macquarie - a lifetime ago: Well, about a fortnight ago anyway. Photo: Brittany Daly

REAL AUSTRALIAA dollop of tolerance goes a long way

REGULAR DONOR: Paul McLean donates plasma fortnightly at the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood service in Warrnambool.

South-west Victorians urged to give blood as fires rage

Ex-cop rescues koala as northern NSW burns

Ex-cop rescues koala as northern NSW burns

Ben Smyth

Stitching together the fabric of localism

REAL AUSTRALIAStitching together the fabric of localism

CALM REFUGE: Gail Sheehan and Carol Booth, playing the harp, to soothe Oscar who is almost blind. Photo: Letitia Fitzpatrick.

Watch Carol play the harp to soothe blind horse after fleeing fires

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Where the action is: On the ground - across much of the state of NSW yesterday. Picture: Marina Neil

REAL AUSTRALIABeneath the noise, miracles are taking place

Bushfire survivors stand in solidarity

OPINIONBushfire survivors stand in solidarity

Janet Reynolds

Buy from the bush: Senator Hollie Hughes has launched the website gocountryforchristmas.com.au.

OPINIONHelp heal wounds with power of purchase

James Pearson

Preparing teens for jobs that don't exist yet

OPINIONPreparing teens for jobs that don't exist yet

Brent Lehmann

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Polio survivors at Polio Australia's 2017 health and wellness retreat on the Sunshine Coast.

Demanding action for polio survivors

Rowan Cowley

OUCH: Corticosteroid injections versus orthotics.

Heel pain: to jab or not to jab?

RAINBOW RIBBON: Queensland AIDS Council CEO Rebecca Reynolds, Arcare CEO Colin Singh, Local Liberal state member for Bonney, Sam OConnor at the opening of Arcare Parkwood.

Queensland's first LGBTI aged care opens

James Gargasoulas killed six pedestrians on Bourke Street in Melbourne on January 20, 2017.

Inquest begins into Bourke St killings

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Daniel Luke White Mayne has been jailed for nine years after a police shootout.

Man to serve time over Qld police shooting

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Parents of children with severe food allergies say Australia's food labelling is inadequate.

Calls to improve food allergy label laws

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Parkville youth justice centre is still in lockdown.

Lockdown ongoing at Vic youth justice site

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Israel Folau says the bushfires are but a taste of what is to come unless Australia repents.

Folau bushfire comments 'insensitive': PM

Eamonn Tiernan
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Amita Gupta delivered food for Uber Eats for as many as 96 hours per week, according to a union.

Woman's Uber Eats sacking 'dystopian': TWU

Steven Trask
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Joshua Norman has apologised to the family of a pedestrian his car hit and killed.

Drink driver apologises to victim's family

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More than 60 Australians are in the al-Hawl camp in Syria, including 44 children.

Morrison rebuffs US on Syrian extractions

Daniel McCulloch
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FIRE PREPARATION: The Australian Veterinary Association says it's important to be prepared for all types of natural disasters to ensure that horses, livestock and people remaine safe.

Protect livestock and pets this bushfire season

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Photo by Martin Ascher, Mallacoota Images.

BoM calendar showcases Australian views

Jonathan Pollock, BoM climatologist

BAITING CONVICTION: In sentencing a land owner for his role in poisoning Wedge-tailed eagles,, a Magistrate recognised the importance and value of the Wedge-tailed eagle to the community in general and, in particular, to the Indigenous community.

Land owner convicted for role in poisoning Wedge-tailed eagles

Our team took blood samples, four DNA samples and imbedded two GPS tracking devices while myself and eight others worked hard to keep the animal upright. Photos: Scott McRae

Combining conservation with wanderlust

Scott McRae

Working out how to switch off all the lights in a hotel room shouldn't be that difficult ... should it? Picture: Supplied

Room for improvement: What hotels could be doing better

Michael Turtle

Wineglass Bay: Guests will learn about the unique animals that live there and the peninsula's history, including the pink granite peaks of the Hazards Mountains.

Have wanderlust? Here are travel news bites

Christmas hams are likely to hurt the hip pocket this year, after swine fever decimated pig stocks.

Christmas ham prices may soar in Australia

Christine McGinn

It may sound like contrary advice for a technology column, but as much as googling is a term that we use so often in our daily lives, my advice is not to google everything.

Google isn't the answer to everything

Mathew Dickerson

COLOUR POP: Next year's hottest colours reflect everything from our current faves to environmental concerns. All furniture available at essentialhome.eu.

Take a seat and check out the colour trends for 2020