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GOT HIM: Register to host a Pink Stumps Day event and you're in with a chance to win a five-star experience at the Sydney Test match in January. Picture: Supplied

Think pink to win five-star Sydney Test match experience in January

DOMINANT: Northern Power's Jeremy O'Connell scored 168 runs on Saturday, which included 25 boundaries. Picture: David Stewart

Opener’s 168 featured a century in boundaries

David Stewart

HOME GROUND: Robert Holland in action during an over-60s match at Awaba Oval in 2011. It's the ground where he played his maiden first grade game almost 60 years ago. Picture: Ryan Osland

Council renames Awaba Oval after Robert Holland

GOT HIM: Register to host a Pink Stumps Day event and you're in with a chance to win a five-star experience at the Sydney Test match in January. Picture: Supplied

Think pink to win five-star Sydney Test match experience in January

Kurt Fearnley has welcomed the significant boost to para-sport funding.

Para-athletes funding boost of $1 million

Adrian Warren

HIGH FLYER: Lake Macquarie's Rhiannan Iffland won the FINA High Diving World Cup in Abu Dhabi on the weekend. She is the reigning three-time champion of the Red Bull cliff-diving series.

Another world title for Lake Macquarie high diver Rhiannan

SAINTLY: Heath Franklin brings Mark "Chopper" Read back to life in Bogan Jesus.

Chop to religion: the Bogan Jesus is coming

Josh Leeson

DEEP THINKERS: Brian Nankervis and Julia Zemiro will be in Newcastle on Friday night for the live performance of television music show RocKwiz at the Civic Theatre.

Your gig guide to everything happening across the Hunter

WELL PLAYED: The Lake Macquarie U3A orchestra, conducted by Angela Finney, perform 'The Ludlows' from the film 'Legends of the Fall' during the group's Musicale 2018 at Teralba. Picture: David Stewart

Lake Mac U3A hit high note with musicale | photos | video

David Stewart

SAINTLY: Heath Franklin brings Mark "Chopper" Read back to life in Bogan Jesus.

Chop to religion: the Bogan Jesus is coming

TOP SPOT: Take a picnic blanket and enjoy a fun evening on the Toronto foreshore on Friday, November 16, from 5.30pm. Picture: David Stewart

Hundreds to enjoy picnic on the Toronto foreshore

PARK EVENT: Cr Kay Fraser at Speers Point Park for the Living Smart Festival. The mayor will return to the park on Sunday, November 18, for the family fun day. Picture: David Stewart

Family fun day in the park has serious message

If you don’t use your benefits you might lose them

AVONDALE MEMORIAL CHURCH: Organisers of the Love Your Neighbour Festival hope the community comes out and supports the farmers while having a pleasant family day out.

Coming together to assist our farmers

A sunset bath in Botswana is enjoyed by a pair of elephants

An exhilarating brush with danger in deep Botswana

Jennie Dicker

If you don’t use your benefits you might lose them

Guaranteed winner: When picking a winner you could always back the whole field. You might not win any money but the bragging rights are worth it. Photo: Shutterstock.

How you can back a winner, hopefully...

Andrew Lotherington

2018 Lake Mac Big Weekend – Superboats

GROWING REGION: The Wyong town centre in one of several pinch points for parking on the Central Coast. Picture: David Stewart

Survey seeks solutions to parking woes

Picture: Andrew Sheargold

News in brief: Rain gives feral rabbits a reprieve

Work will begin early next year on the he 55 megawatt renewable energy facility that will be built on a 80 hectare area of rehabilitated ash dam that forms part of the broader power station site.

Vales Point solar project will power 20,000 homes

Matthew Kelly

GONE NOW: Salvia plants at the Catalina war memorial which, along with rosemary, were later stolen from the garden on Thursday night. Picture: Supplied

Locals riled by theft from Catalina war memorial at Rathmines | photos

David Stewart

Volunteers make Lake a better place to live

Kay Fraser

GOT HIM: Register to host a Pink Stumps Day event and you're in with a chance to win a five-star experience at the Sydney Test match in January. Picture: Supplied

Think pink to win five-star Sydney Test match experience in January

GONE NOW: Salvia plants at the Catalina war memorial which, along with rosemary, were later stolen from the garden on Thursday night. Picture: Supplied

Locals riled by theft from Catalina war memorial at Rathmines | photos

DEEP THINKERS: Brian Nankervis and Julia Zemiro will be in Newcastle on Friday night for the live performance of television music show RocKwiz at the Civic Theatre.

Your gig guide to everything happening across the Hunter

WELL PLAYED: The Lake Macquarie U3A orchestra, conducted by Angela Finney, perform 'The Ludlows' from the film 'Legends of the Fall' during the group's Musicale 2018 at Teralba. Picture: David Stewart

Lake Mac U3A hit high note with musicale | photos | video

David Stewart

35 photos from the Coffs Coast World Rally showdown

WELL PLAYED: The Lake Macquarie U3A orchestra, conducted by Angela Finney, perform 'The Ludlows' from the film 'Legends of the Fall' during the group's Musicale 2018 at Teralba. Picture: David Stewart

Lake Mac U3A hit high note with musicale | photos | video

PIONEERS: Bruce and Judy Foley spoke of how God had a hand in bringing the school to fruition. They are pictured taking part in a Q&A session with principal Mark Ash, right. Picture: David Stewart

School celebrates 20-year milestone with nod to founders | photos | video

ON TRACK: Bill Anderson, left, stands next to Warrant Officer Ralph Clifton, his colleagues from No. 11 Squadron, and RCMPA volunteers with the Catalina on Wednesday. Picture: David Stewart

Airmen’s flying visit to ‘ancestral home’ and Catalina project | photos

GONE NOW: Salvia plants at the Catalina war memorial which, along with rosemary, were later stolen from the garden on Thursday night. Picture: Supplied

Locals riled by theft from Catalina war memorial at Rathmines | photos

David Stewart

LANDMARK: The 25cm Minenwerfer German trench mortar pictured in Speers Point Park before it was removed and transported to Sydney for restoration. It weighs 628 kilograms. Picture: Supplied

Restoring Lake Macquarie’s rare trophy of war | photos

Winner of ther 2018 Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter and jockey Kerrin McEvoy with trainer Charlie Appleby.

How the Melbourne Cup panned out: on the track

Megan Gale

25 faces you might know at the Melbourne Cup

EYESORE: A reader says burnt-out cars, such as this one at Dora Creek, are a bushfire threat, but those who set the cars alight are an added concern. Picture: Jamieson Murphy.

Letters to the editor

BATTLEGROUND: Council's plans for a building on a section of the Toronto foreshore continue to stir passionate reactions from some locals. Picture: David Stewart

Letters to the editor

POWER PLAY: An academic said bushfires in 2013 emitted an amount of CO2 equivalent to 2 per cent of Australia’s annual emissions from coal-fired power. Picture: Daniel Kalisz

Letters to the editor

SORE SUBJECT FOR SENIORS: From November 1 anyone aged 50 or over will have to visit a specialist to be referred for an MRI scan on a sore or injured knee.

Over 50s denied GP-referred knee MRI scans

Eileen Wood

BEST SHOT: Wilma Perkins competes in shot put - one of seven events in the heptathlon - at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Malaga, Spain. Photo: World Masters Athletics

Golden girls reign in Spain

Geraldine Cardozo

Win a NZ Holiday

South Australian Attorney-General Vickie Chapman is under investigation for breaching the ICAC Act.

SA Attorney-General probed over ICAC law

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One of the doctors who helped separate Nima and Dawa will give an update on their recovery.

Twins continue recovery in Melbourne

Queensland's parliament will head to the Christmas break on Thursday.

Qld parliament wraps up ahead of Xmas

Greg Hunt has extended the opt out deadline for My Health Record.

My Health Record deadline moved to 2019

Victorian Liberal leader Matthew Guy has decided to cast his ballot early in the state election.

Vic opposition leader at industry lunch

Engineering manager Chris Deaves has been quizzed at the inquest into the Dreamworld disaster.

Dreamworld inquest continues in Queensland

Robyn Wuth

A jury is deliberating whether David Eastman is guilty of the 1989 murder of Colin Winchester.

Eastman jury considers its verdict

Paul Osborne

Bali Nine member Renae Lawrence may have to face a NSW court on old charges when she returns.

Bali Nine's Lawrence faces arrest in Australia

A bellowing good time on Scotland’s west coast

Rochelle Tubb

Old bottles of madeira … richly flavoured and seductive.

Life is but a SeaDream

John Rozentals

The Sebel Melbourne Malvern … 17 floors with 86 apartments.

Six highlights in your travel week | 12 Nov

John Rozentals

Where's my waste: This year’s theme for National Recycling Week, From Waste Wars to Recycling Reboot, aims to resolve some of the confusion surrounding Australia’s waste.

The truth about recycling

A 2013 comprehensive review of the literature on the effect of bariatric surgery on cancer outcomes suggested that the surgery did reduce cancer risk, particularly for breast and endometrial cancer in individuals who had been obese prior.

Does bariatric surgery reduce cancer risk?

Healthshare

DIY: Take on smaller jobs.

Finish your reno before Christmas