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The Queensland border. Shut since March 25, 2020. Photo: Shutterstock

HAVE YOUR SAYShould Australia ditch COVID-19 state border restrictions?

1hr ago

Managing Director of Australian Eggs Rowan McMonnies. Photo: Supplied.

Project to find roadmap for poultry industry to become carbon neutral

Taylor Jurd

Gladys Berejiklian announces wage freeze for all NSW public sector workers

Gladys Berejiklian announces wage freeze for all NSW public sector workers

Kate McIlwain

Just for kids: Engineering Bingo!

Just for kids: Engineering Bingo!

Joanne Crawford

PM challenges premiers on border closures

DIGESTPM challenges premiers on border closures

Gavin Stone

Photo: Shutterstock

DIGESTCoronavirus outbreak hits The Americas

Kim Chappell

Premiers hold firm on borders as Hanson backs legal challenge

DIGESTPremiers hold firm on borders as Hanson backs legal challenge

Gavin Stone

The Queensland border. Shut since March 25, 2020. Photo: Shutterstock

HAVE YOUR SAYShould Australia ditch COVID-19 state border restrictions?

1hr ago

Managing Director of Australian Eggs Rowan McMonnies. Photo: Supplied.

Project to find roadmap for poultry industry to become carbon neutral

Taylor Jurd

Laurie Daley's signed up to ACM's NRL coverage, you should, too.

Tackle Count, your NRL newsletter is coming, sign up

Canberra Girls Grammar teacher Eamonn McGill teaches a class of Year 11 and 12 girls on their return to school. Picture: Karleen Minney

EXPLAINERWhat happens if a student or teacher gets COVID-19?

PM challenges premiers on border closures

DIGESTPM challenges premiers on border closures

WORK TOGETHER: Regional Australia could come out of the pandemic stronger if there is a joint effort.

Pandemic could cause regional Australia renaissance

PROTOCOL FOLLOWED: Ag Minister David Littleproud said his department followed the rules to the letter. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos

Department followed the rules when COVID live-export ship docked

Gladys Berejiklian announces wage freeze for all NSW public sector workers

Gladys Berejiklian announces wage freeze for all NSW public sector workers

Kate McIlwain

Photo: Shutterstock

DIGESTCoronavirus outbreak hits The Americas

Kim Chappell

Chief Minister Michael Gunner says the border closures may still be in place for 60 more days.

NT border may stay closed for two more months

Chris McLennan

The bsiness in question. Photo: Darren Howe

Massage parlour fined for breaching COVID-19 guidelines

Nicholas Nakos

There is a renewed push from the usual suspects to switch the AFL grand final to a night game at the MCG despite a thumbs down from footy fans. Photo: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

OPINIONShorter games short-change the fans

Rohan Connolly

Sydney Roosters players celebrate their 2019 NRL Grand Final win over Canberra. With two first-up losses and a tough draw ahead, the Roosters will be up against it in their hunt for a premiership three-peat in 2020. Photo: Jason McCawley/Getty Images

OPINIONA Roosters three-peat? They'll have to do it the hard way

Laurie Daley

Fans celebrate Richmond Tigers' AFL Grand Final win last September. Will this year's premiership be tainted by the changes forced on teams because of the COVID-19 pandemic? Photo: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

OPINION'This will be one of the greatest premierships ever won in AFL': Really?

Rohan Connolly

There is a renewed push from the usual suspects to switch the AFL grand final to a night game at the MCG despite a thumbs down from footy fans. Photo: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

OPINIONShorter games short-change the fans

Clint Gutherson of the Eels fist pumps Referee Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski after the round 2 NRL match between the Titans and Parramatta. Photo: Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images

NRL's referee changes could affect spectacle

Laurie Daley

Led by premiership coach Damien Hardwick, the experienced Richmond side will be better positioned than those teams which have undergone significant change. Photo: Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images

OPINIONAFL's experienced, steady sides will be in the box seat

Rohan Connolly

Old Montreal. Picture: Shutterstock

Montreal vibrant, fascinating any time of year

Laurie Hertzel

An aerial view of White Cliffs' pockmarked landscape. Picture: Destination NSW

Gem in the landscape of lost hope

Tim the Yowie Man

The University of Cambridge has its roots in the early 1200s, when scholars fled "hostile townsmen" in Oxford. Pictures: Shutterstock.

Take a step into Cambridge University

Lydia Roberts

COMING SOON: Simon Hay a psychic medium, medical intuitive and healer will be visiting Nyngan to host an Aussie Medium show for residents. Photos CONTRIBUTED

WHAT'S ONSimon Hay to deliver messages from spirit to residents

Zaarkacha Marlan

Trivia's on March 14 at the Aussie Hotel.

WHAT'S ONTest out your knowledge at the Nyngan sports trivia night

Zaarkacha Marlan

Register now for the Warren triathlon

Register now for the Warren triathlon

COMING SOON: Simon Hay a psychic medium, medical intuitive and healer will be visiting Nyngan to host an Aussie Medium show for residents. Photos CONTRIBUTED

WHAT'S ONSimon Hay to deliver messages from spirit to residents

2019 Senior Citizen of the Year Sue Bourke with Tommy Ryan and Bogan Shire Mayor Ray Donald. Photo: ZAARKACHA MARLAN

WHAT'S ONBogan Shire to celebrate seniors

Free course to help residents identify those struggling with mental health

Free course to help residents identify those struggling with mental health

Zaarkacha Marlan

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Emma Brown

Making a difference: Natasha Bull and her grandmother Evelyn Berg.

Family affair: The united front of women with passion for supporting kids in need

Rosie Ryan

Staying close to your loved ones at a distance

Staying close to your loved ones at a distance

Emma Brown

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

A sweet Easter treat that is easy on the waistline

A sweet Easter treat that is easy on the waistline

Emma Brown

Kings Canyon, Watarrka National Park, NT.

Connectivity central to helping NT tourism

Kym Morgan

Real estate restrictions lifted in NSW

Real estate restrictions lifted in NSW

Ruth Lewis

Sold: 71 Laurel Avenue, Chelmer just sold for $2,075,000. Photo - McGrath Estate Agents.

Selling more than listing

DOUBLE BAY HOME: Jurassic Park star Sam Neill sells his four-bedroom home.

Star sells at auction

Just for kids: Engineering Bingo!

Just for kids: Engineering Bingo!

Joanne Crawford

You can be social and still be safe

OPINIONYou can be social and still be safe

Jessie Mitchell

Making 'me time' an oasis

Making 'me time' an oasis

Gary Bentley

Just for kids: Engineering Bingo!

Just for kids: Engineering Bingo!

BUYER BEWARE: Scammers have been targeting those seeking a furry companion during social isolation.

Scamwatch: Tips on current scams and how to avoid becoming a victim

Just for kids: build your own Viking helmet

Just for kids: build your own Viking helmet

Joanne Crawford

Chronic pain affects one in five over 45

Chronic pain affects one in five over 45

Samara Ross

Self-funded retirees overlooked by government during pandemic, says the Association of Independent Retirees.

Self-funded retirees' income drops below pension

Eileen Wood

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

Laurie Daley's signed up to ACM's NRL coverage, you should, too.

Tackle Count, your NRL newsletter is coming, sign up

Birds show no fear, invade Ballarat street

Birds show no fear, invade Ballarat street

March 23, 2020: Sydney's first day of official lockdown. A normally bustling forecourt to Sydney's Opera House is all but abandoned. Photo: Dean Sewell/Oculi

PHOTOSLockdown laid bare: A photographer's perspective

A fisherman tries to point a great white shark in the right direction at Tuncurry. Photo Adam Fitzroy

When thousands of mullet and great white sharks mix, it's wild

There was only one lane open on the Princes Hwy through Cobargo on Wednesday so the clean-up could take place.

Four months after the fires, Cobargo's main street clean-up starts

Albert McKnight

A screenshot from the dashcam.

WATCHDangerous highway incident caught on dashcam

Thomas Sutherland from Spicers Creek and Harriet Taylor from Wellington.

PHOTOSNew podcast features speakers from Young Farmer Business Conference

Listen to this high school student's COVID-19 rap

Listen to this high school student's COVID-19 rap

Brendan Crabb

Forced to contemplate the meaning of life

Forced to contemplate the meaning of life

Marie Low
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SCOMO EXPOSED: There has been another stunning Kirribilli House leak. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong.

SATIRE'I've got your back': No you haven't, Mr Scott

Mark Bode

Twins put Launceston 'on the map' in the Seven network's renovation show House Rules .

REAL AUSTRALIAThe difference between curious and nosy is ... ?

Wildlife rescuers Lex and June Frew were badly burnt during the NSW New Year's Eve bushfires.

Bushfire survivors join Manyana protests

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STUCK: The containers semi-submerged in the water. Picture: Reed Plummer/Central Coast Drones.

Deja vu as cargo spill lines NSW beaches with debris

59m ago

AXE: University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor Paul Wellings.

University of Wollongong to axe major faculty, merge schools, cut jobs

59m ago

While tourism businesses accept it will be some time before international tourism restarts, they still want certainty around interstate tourism. Picture: Phillip Biggs

Tourism businesses want border reopening date set

59m ago

Raymond Talimalie in action for the Young Cherrypickers.

Footballer jailed over unprovoked attack on two men

2hrs ago

NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner says he may release fiscal forecasts before the election.

NT Labor backflips on state of finances

Greg Roberts
2hrs ago

Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath has raised the prospect of a full postal state election.

Qld could hold full postal vote: D'Ath

Australian High Commissioner George Brandis says free trade talks will start with the UK soon.

Aust, UK to start free trade deal talks

Close to 4.5 million pinus radiata seedlings from Blowering Nursery near Tumut will be planted in the South West Slopes region over the next 15 weeks. Photo supplied.

Replanting begins after the bushfires

Olivia Calver

Livestock exchange to give farmers an inspection hour

Livestock exchange to give farmers an inspection hour

Jayden Mansell was a keen campdrafter before suffering a leg injury during a farm accident. Photo: CB Photography

Wagga producers get behind the Mansells

Lucy Kinbacher

GET IT IN ORDER: Have room to move around safely, and know where everything is.

Get your workspace organised for your DIY vehicle project

Sam Hollier

NOW: Dark appliances set the tone for the choice of cabinetry finishes in this kitchen.

How to choose the right colour palette for your new kitchen

LEARNING: School at home offers opportunities and challenges. Picture: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Parents and students facing learning at home challenge