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TOP SCORE: Toronto's English import Michael Pepper in action on Saturday.

Kookas show a fighting spirit

Charlie Elias

RAPID RISE: Nic Benn playing for Lake Macquarie earlier this year. He has been selected in the Australian under-18 boys' Sevens side.

Lake Mac teen set for international stage

RUGBYTOTS: Sessions for children aged 2 to 7 will start at PCYC Morisset in January. Picture: Supplied

Fun program prepares tiny tots for rugby codes | photos | video

David Stewart

TOP SCORE: Toronto's English import Michael Pepper in action on Saturday.

Kookas show a fighting spirit

AGGRESSION: The Wests attack came hard at Josh Westwood, and he accepted the challenge, scoring a run-a-ball 43. Toronto will travel to take on Charlestown this Saturday. Pictures: David Stewart

Toronto stands up to Wests, changes trajectory of game

David Stewart

LEADER: Brad Clark has signed to play for the Swampies in season 2020. Picture: David Stewart

Dora Creek league captain Brad Clark's 2020 vision

David Stewart

Deals of the week: Pack for Phuket, five-star Dubai, on water in Alaska

Deals of the week: Pack for Phuket, five-star Dubai, on water in Alaska

Explore Travel

DREAM: What a way to arrive in Budapest - on this luxurious river cruise ship.

Enter now: win a $27,000 European river cruise for two

Joanne Crawford

Stress-free guide to seven days in New Zealand

Stress-free guide to seven days in New Zealand

Hannah Warren

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Matt Hall before the first stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on January 30, 2018. Picture: Predrag Vuckovic

Air race world champion throwing open hangar doors

Shelley Youman

Top talent recruited for business event

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Thirsty Merc: Band members Matt Smith, Phil Stack and Rai Thistlethwayte have an extensive tour through March 2020.

Thirsty Merc national tour fuels summertime desires

Jim Kellar

The Homegrown Markets will precede the Lake Mac Carols, running in Speers Point Park on Sunday, December 8, from 4pm-8pm. The carols will begin at 6pm.

Lake Mac Carols fireworks scrapped, funds to go to Hunter drought aid

Major disability services providers merge to become industry leaders

Major disability services providers merge to become industry leaders

Sponsored Content

We may not have been back to the moon since 1969 but the advanced technology of today would certainly have to make for a smoother landing.

Could your mobile phone take you to the moon and back?

Emma Brown

A Guide to Christmas 2019

A Guide to Christmas 2019

Major disability services providers merge to become industry leaders

Major disability services providers merge to become industry leaders

Forever Young Summer 2019

Forever Young Summer 2019

Essential tips for choosing the perfect mattress for a better night sleep

Essential tips for choosing the perfect mattress for a better night sleep

DEVELOPMENT: The former Pasminco smelter site is expected to transform in coming years and is being rezoned for large-format retailers. The council has begun talks to draft a new suburb around the site called Lake Macquarie.

Fresh talks to create suburb called Lake Macquarie

Max McKinney

SHUT OUT: Signs and fencing warn locals of the asbestos detected at Bernie Goodwin Memorial Park, in Morisset. Picture: David Stewart

Better the asbestos is found, but when will it end? | photos

David Stewart

FALLING: Grahamstown Dam is at 60.2 per cent full. Overall storage dropped 1.2 per cent last week. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

Lower Hunter's dams to dip below 60 per cent capacity

Max McKinney

Ride for Country Kids 2019.

Ride off into the sunset for kids

Shelley Youman

Top talent recruited for business event

CEDAR MILL: The 12.5 metre Christmas tree display features more than 20,000 LED globes, which were turned on last week.

Cedar Mill lit up like a Christmas tree

Ride for Country Kids 2019.

Ride off into the sunset for kids

Helping to spread goodwill of the season

Helping to spread goodwill of the season

Cr Kay Fraser

ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE: Suzanne Pritchard received the highest accolade available to recognise the work of Landcare volunteers.

Tireless efforts rewarded

Braidwood kids, from left, Bonnie Park, Henry Beale, Jimi Magnus, River Parsons, Brodie Parsons, Harrison Kelly, and Logan Kendall, who gathered donations on the street for the Rural Fire Service on Saturday. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

REAL AUSTRALIAIntroducing, the people you might never get to meet

Squeaky? Maybe. But it turns heads, too. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIAThe squeaky wheel (aka local media) gets the oil

Ride for Country Kids 2019.

Ride off into the sunset for kids

Naomi Wolf, who has taken aim at Angus Taylor. Picture: Getty Images

'Just to be clear, I'm Naomi Wolf. I was not in Oxford in 1991': A midnight call to Canberra

Rare chance to beat China at its own game

REAL AUSTRALIARare chance to beat China at its own game

Derek Barry

Terry Hickson has been found guilty of murdering a Sydney bookmaker 30 years ago.

Man found guilty of bookie's 1989 murder

Margaret Scheikowski

Three people have been charged over Australia's largest onshore methamphetamine seizure.

Customs brokers charged over $1b meth haul

Benita Kolovos

Scott Morrison is sacking five department heads in a major shake-up of the public service.

Morrison swings axe through public service

Daniel McCulloch

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Letters to the Editor: December 5

EXCITING TIMES: Museum of Art and Culture senior curator Meryl Ryan, left, with MAC director Deb Abraham, at the Booragul facility. Picture: Simone De Peak

Letters to the editor: Visit our new MAC (Nov 28)

LIVE LONGER: Adequate rest and minimising stress are two measures men at the conference were urged to address. Picture: Louie Douvis

Letters to the editor: Five keys to men's health (Nov 21)

Purple Our World and World Pancreatic Cancer Day chair Jessica Abelsohn with her mum Rochelle Goulburn at Jessicas wedding, just four months before Rochelle died from pancreatic cancer.

Do you know the symptoms of pancreatic cancer?

Geraldine Cardozo

GOLDEN OLDIES: See veteran entertainers (l-r) Max Gillies, Normie Rowe and Tony Barber in Senior Moments 2: Remember, Remember.

Yes, you are having another Senior Moment

Geraldine Cardozo

Edgars Mission provides its rescued farm animals with everything they need from a warm coat to a set of wheels.

Make it your mission to visit this sanctuary for rescued farm animals and weary travellers

Sue Preston

A union says Sydney's light rail operating hours should be extended when lockout laws are lifted.

Push to up light rail hours as lockouts go

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Locals in a Melbourne suburb have held a rally after the rape of a jogger on the Merri Creek trail.

Coburg locals rally for safety after rape

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QLD had a brief spell of better conditions, but the fire threat is expected to worsen on Sunday.

Conditions ease amid Qld bushfire chaos

Labor's Tanya Plibersek has demanded her party lead the way on stamping out political corruption.

Restore faith in politics: senior Labor MP

The property market has had its second busiest week of the year, with 74.5 of homes sold.

Second-busiest auction week of the year

ACTU Sally McManus is calling on Labor to make an election pledge to improve job security.

Unions push ALP for insecure jobs pledge

Matt Coughlan

A boy has been bitten on the hand, in the latest dingo attack on Fraser Island, off Queensland.

Boy bitten by dingo on Fraser Island

Sonia Kohlbacher

Victorian LIberal MP Mary Wooldridge is announcing her retirement from politics.

Vic Liberal MP's parting message on gender

Georgie Moore

An important tool to help minimise the risk of disease in goats is the National Kid Rearing Plan.

Australia's biosecurity systems in the spotlight

NSW Farmers

Jason Rainbow is a diesel fitter who has come from Western Australia to work at Cobar. Photo: PJL Group

Labour shortage search turns to skilled farmers

Samantha Townsend

Vendors and agents come together to watch their Annual AuctionsPlus sale.

Online sales stay social

AuctionsPlus

SCANDI BARN: This style is typified by steeply pitched roofs, which were a necessity to stop snow collecting in the Scandinavian winters. Photos: James Hardie

Making sense of the Modern movement

Light from the skylight is diffused by canvas panels. Joinery: Forest Furniture. Images: Ingvar Kenne

Weaving magic

FRESH LOOK: While the facade, front bedroom and hallway were restored, the remainder of the property was upgraded with a new, modern extension, adjoining the original front of the house.

Classic Victorian treated to a modern edge