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INSPIRING: South Australian Women Award 2020 recipient Helen Marshall with Human Services Minister Michelle Lensink. Photo: Australia Day Council of SA

Acknowledge an outstanding contributor in SA Women's Award

Classic: Milton McArthur's 1963 MG 1100. Photo: Supplied.

Milton's first Bay to Birdwood a special occasion

Brendan Simpkins

Playgroup: The Lucindale Kindergarten will be running playgroup again next term for the first time in a few years.

Play it again at Lucindale

Lachlan Smith

Construction: Original volunteer and heart and soul of the work site Tom Guster working on the Naracoorte Swimming Lake's wall.

Plunging into lake's history

Lachlan Smith

HOLIDAY FUN: Put a trip to the Naracoorte Caves on your school holiday to-do list. PHOTO: File

What's on in Naracoorte these school holidays

Elisabeth Champion

Luke Jones riding Proclaimer in the show jumping phase of the 2017 installment of the horse trials competition. PHOTO: Kilmallee Photography

Wild horses wouldn't keep us away

Brendan Simpkins

Teams from Kangaroo Island and Yankalilla - Trevor Glasson, Raylene Rigoir, Peter MacLean, Bev Bowyer, Kevin Glasson, and Sandra Hacker, Frank Rigoir and Daryl Steinwedel.

Great Southern bowls raised $6000 for Kangaroo Island bushfire families

Michael Simmons

INSPIRING: South Australian Women Award 2020 recipient Helen Marshall with Human Services Minister Michelle Lensink. Photo: Australia Day Council of SA

Acknowledge an outstanding contributor in SA Women's Award

Classic: Milton McArthur's 1963 MG 1100. Photo: Supplied.

Milton's first Bay to Birdwood a special occasion

Brendan Simpkins

See where the rain is going to fall in NSW tonight

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Why muscle memory matters in a pandemic

DIGESTWhy muscle memory matters in a pandemic

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Will smaller airlines and smaller airports be the way of the future post-pandemic? Picture: Kate Callas

EXPLAINERWhen will air travel take off again?

The weekend that was. Photos: file

DIGESTCOVIDidiots, Tom Hanks and a dad running on water

Craig the husky, guided by owner Jordan Taylor, made it to Canberra - on paw. And foot.

DIGESTPaws for thought, pandemic aside, positive news arrives

Yay. Just yay.

DIGESTPutting the yay into Friday

Janine Graham

Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Picture: Karleen Minney

ACT will accept charter flights for international arrivals

Elliot Williams

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Bulk-billed telehealth and other COVID-19 measures extended until March

Sally Whyte

Unemployment did what in August?

DIGESTAn eyebrow-raising figure indeed

Janine Graham

GALLERY: KNTFL Division 2 Semi-finals

GALLERY: KNTFL Division 2 Semi-finals

Elisabeth Champion

Lui Coronel defends the ball from Thyrone Coronel, backed up by William Maney.

Another strong showing in junior basketball

The Melbourne Demons have fallen just short of a finals appearance. Photo: Graham Denholm/AFL Photos via Getty Images

OPINIONDisappointing Dees' dreams dashed ... again

Howard Kotton
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GALLERY: KNTFL Division 2 Semi-finals

GALLERY: KNTFL Division 2 Semi-finals

Teams from Kangaroo Island and Yankalilla - Trevor Glasson, Raylene Rigoir, Peter MacLean, Bev Bowyer, Kevin Glasson, and Sandra Hacker, Frank Rigoir and Daryl Steinwedel.

Great Southern bowls raised $6000 for Kangaroo Island bushfire families

Michael Simmons

Scott McLaughlin during the third race at The Bend, which he effectively led from start to finish. Photo: Dani Brown.

Supercars excite in first half of The Bend double header | PHOTOS

Dani Brown

Craig Hall, Sherry McArdle-English, Anne McGrath and Fred McGrath Weber and Paul Keir want certainty for the Majura Valley producers. PHOTO: Matt Loxton

LISTENIn their own words: The battle faced by the ACT's farmers

Craig Hall, Sherry McArdle-English, Anne McGrath and Fred McGrath Weber and Paul Keir want certainty for the Majura Valley producers. PHOTO: Matt Loxton

LISTENIn their own words: The battle faced by the ACT's farmers

Listen to Australia's newest podcast - The Voice of Real Australia

Launching Voice of Real Australia, your new favourite podcast

Listen to Australia's newest podcast - The Voice of Real Australia

Launching Voice of Real Australia, your new favourite podcast

Dimboola resident Tim Skyrme makes cigar box guitars out of recycled timber Photo: ALEX DARLING

LISTENListen to why Dimboola is the escape you were looking for

Dimboola resident Tim Skyrme makes cigar box guitars out of recycled timber Photo: ALEX DARLING

LISTENListen to why Dimboola is the escape you were looking for

Will smaller airlines and smaller airports be the way of the future post-pandemic? Picture: Kate Callas

EXPLAINERWhen will air travel take off again?

Steve Evans

Horse studs to blueberry farms: escape crowds with Airbnb of camping

Horse studs to blueberry farms: escape crowds with Airbnb of camping

Explore Travel

Moonbah is its own little slice of heaven. Picture: Colin Chang

Adventurer's paradise waiting once the snow melts

Bernadette Chua

New finance options fill gap for agri and commercial lending for South Australians

New finance options fill gap for agri and commercial lending for South Australians

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Aussie invention saving time and money during seeding

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Excellence of any kind always starts with character

Excellence of any kind always starts with character

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New finance options fill gap for agri and commercial lending for South Australians

New finance options fill gap for agri and commercial lending for South Australians

Since 1924, Royal Far West (RFW) has been committed to connecting kids like Lucas living in rural and remote areas of Australia with the care they need. Names and images have been changed to protect privacy.

Helping country kids reach their full potential

Emma Brown

Real support: There are over 100,000 children living in rural and remote Australia in need of mental and developmental support.

Far from help is not far from hope

Emma Brown

HELP: A mortgage broker can take care of all of the paperwork for you.

How to find help to navigate the mortgage minefield

HELP: A mortgage broker can take care of all of the paperwork for you.

How to find help to navigate the mortgage minefield

Victoria's property market must restart

Victoria's property market must restart

Victoria's property market must restart

Victoria's property market must restart

NEW COLLEAGUES: RiskWise Property Research CEO Doron Peleg said COVID-19 had helped strengthen work from home opportunities. Photo - Shutterstock.

Working from home opens up lifestyle choices

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Edenhope Motor Inn's co-owner Mandeep Singh says they will do what it takes not to close down. Picture: CONTRIBUTED

Owners determined to keep motel open

Alexander Darling

INSURANCE: Do you know how LMI works? Picture: SHUTTERSTOCK.

LMI: Know what you're getting

Your chance to win a 'staycation' weekend

Your chance to win a 'staycation' weekend

Grab grants to improve conservation on your property

Grab grants to improve conservation on your property

Dani Brown

Scamwatch: Don't be fooled by this Netflix scam

Scamwatch: Don't be fooled by this Netflix scam

Your chance to win a 'staycation' weekend

Your chance to win a 'staycation' weekend

Scamwatch: Don't be fooled by this Netflix scam

Scamwatch: Don't be fooled by this Netflix scam

Let's Join In: Naracoorte/Lucindale

Let's Join In: Naracoorte/Lucindale

See where the rain is going to fall in NSW tonight

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LUCKY RAMS: David McArdle and son Jared checking out their Polwarth rams that will be offered for sale at the Taljar Stud auction on Kangaroo Island on October 6.

Lucky rams that survived fire now for sale at Taljar Polwarth auction

Scott McLaughlin during the third race at The Bend, which he effectively led from start to finish. Photo: Dani Brown.

Supercars excite in first half of The Bend double header | PHOTOS

Now is the time to prepare your home for the bush fire season, say firefighters.

Is your property prepared for this bush fire season?

Victorian farmer takes TikTok by storm

Victorian farmer takes TikTok by storm

Joely Mitchell

FEEDING FRENZY: Passengers watched around 100 adult humpback whales feed together off Ben Boyd National Park over the weekend. Picture: Merimbula Marina

WATCHEver watched 100-plus humpbacks at a seafood buffet?

Alasdair McDonald

FARM FIGHTER: Des Johnston, one of the subjects of the new Soldier Settler documentary 'Fighting to Farm', with Kangaroo Island filmmaker Daniel Clarke. Photo: Amy Pysden

KI Soldier Settler film 'Fighting to Farm' nears completion

Stan Gorton

It was an amazing whale experience for the crew off Port Macquarie.

WATCHWatch as whale gives yachties a once-in-a-lifetime show

Tracey Fairhurst

UNFAIR: Through the pandemic, we have somehow managed to create a class society within the welfare structure.

OPINIONWhy do we the blame jobless, but not greedy CEOs?

Zoë Wundenberg
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For more than 80 years, the 7.45am bulletin was a uniquely Australian fixture on local radio. Picture: Shutterstock

OPINIONThat was the news: a sad farewell to the ABC's 7.45am bulletin

Alexandra Wake

Goannas can be cute too, kind of. Picture: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIALong live the wonders of the wild

Jess Wallace

A LIFETIME'S JOURNEY: Christopher Thompson today and (right) between Alice Springs and Port Augusta in 1972.

How Australia made a drifter's life whole

Seeing kangaroos on the beach in Mackay or visiting outback SA, you can find out where and when you can go at the new web portal.

One-stop COVID travel info shop

Entrepreneurship: Why it's not just a young people's game

Entrepreneurship: Why it's not just a young people's game

Geraldine Cardozo

RESCUE EFFORT: About 250 whales stranded on the West Coast on Monday. Picture: Brodie Weeding

UPDATEDHundreds of whales stranded on Tasmania's west coast

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Mum drowns swimming with daughter at Queensland beach

Mum drowns swimming with daughter at Queensland beach

Counsel assisting ICAC, Scott Robertson, tells the hearing that the anti-corruption body will examine whether former Wagga MP Daryl Maguire used his position for personal gain. Picture: ABC

Former MP accused of visa 'scam' at ICAC hearing

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Victoria's chief medical officer has rejected suggestions healthcare workers were denied PPE.

CMO says supply no factor in Vic mask call

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WA Liberal leader Liza Harvey is promising a 'locals first' policy for government contracts.

WA Liberals target local jobs for election

Michael Ramsey
40m ago

See where the rain is going to fall in NSW tonight

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Kim Chappell
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More cultural heritage sites could be destroyed in WA's Pilbara region by a Rio Tinto expansion.

Significant WA heritage sites 'at risk'

Michael Ramsey
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A man has died after suffering serious burns in a gas explosion at a Darwin apartment complex.

Man dies after Darwin gas explosion

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ALL FACETS: A new fact sheet from the GRDC outlines wild radishs ecology, resistance status and management options.

Harvest weed seeds to curtail wild radish

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Elders southern area sales manager and auctioneer Laryn Gogel with Greg Funke, Bundara Downs, holding the sale's $8200 top price.

Bundara Downs' Poll Dorset lights up screen to sell for $8200 |PHOTOS

Catherine Miller
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Dr Jenny Davidson, newly appointed SAGIT scientific officer.

SAGIT welcomes new scientific officer

The monetary investment in our physical fitness seems to outweigh our investment in our mental fitness. Picture shutterstock.

Fitness gap: physical versus mental

Gary Bentley

Catch the early warning signs of glaucoma

Catch the early warning signs of glaucoma

Dr Nathan Kerr

LOOK LOCAL: Australian design in 2020/21 includes slab tiles up to three metres long.

Demand for Australian-made skyrockets as Aussies buy local