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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

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

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

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

PATHWAY: Hunter Junior Rugby Union has established an innovative competition for young female players which will start in 2019. Picture: Pat Gleeson

New competition a pathway for Hunter’s young rugby women

ON THE MOVE: Toronto Brass marching at the national band championships in Melbourne earlier this year. The band will perform a concert at Toronto Workers Club on Sunday, November 25, from 2pm. Picture: Supplied

Toronto Brass concert will be a thriller | photos

David Stewart

TOURIST ATTRACTION: An artist's impression of Samantha Bailey’s winning design for the Multi-Arts Space to be built at Speers Point. Artwork: Supplied

Expert panel chooses winning design for $2m Lake Mac arts centre | photos

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

Chop to religion: the Bogan Jesus is coming

Josh Leeson

ON THE MOVE: Toronto Brass marching at the national band championships in Melbourne earlier this year. The band will perform a concert at Toronto Workers Club on Sunday, November 25, from 2pm. Picture: Supplied

Toronto Brass concert will be a thriller | 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

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

ON THE MOVE: Toronto Brass marching at the national band championships in Melbourne earlier this year. The band will perform a concert at Toronto Workers Club on Sunday, November 25, from 2pm. Picture: Supplied

Toronto Brass concert will be a thriller | photos

David Stewart

HAPPY DAYS: Poppy Lane, 9, with the newly installed ping pong table that bears her winning design. The table is a centrepiece of the revamped Warners Bay foreshore. Picture: Supplied

Poppy, 9, tabled a bright design that was on the ball | photos

TOURIST ATTRACTION: An artist's impression of Samantha Bailey’s winning design for the Multi-Arts Space to be built at Speers Point. Artwork: Supplied

Expert panel chooses winning design for $2m Lake Mac arts centre | photos

ON THE MOVE: Toronto Brass marching at the national band championships in Melbourne earlier this year. The band will perform a concert at Toronto Workers Club on Sunday, November 25, from 2pm. Picture: Supplied

Toronto Brass concert will be a thriller | photos

HELPERS: Locals are invited to meet Santa and his friends, and to donate toys for disadvantaged local children, when the big man visits Toronto Diggers on Saturday, November 24, at 2pm. Picture: Supplied

Santa enlists some super helpers for toy run at Toronto Diggers

David Stewart

Volunteers make Lake a better place to live

Kay Fraser

STRONG: Beautiful toddler Penelope Dean is the sunshine of her mother Emily's life. The brave little girl has been treated for a rare tumour.

How McHappy Day helps brave tots like Penelope

ON THE MOVE: Toronto Brass marching at the national band championships in Melbourne earlier this year. The band will perform a concert at Toronto Workers Club on Sunday, November 25, from 2pm. Picture: Supplied

Toronto Brass concert will be a thriller | photos

Ogier takes advantage of WRC start time

HAPPY DAYS: Poppy Lane, 9, with the newly installed ping pong table that bears her winning design. The table is a centrepiece of the revamped Warners Bay foreshore. Picture: Supplied

Poppy, 9, tabled a bright design that was on the ball | photos

TOURIST ATTRACTION: An artist's impression of Samantha Bailey’s winning design for the Multi-Arts Space to be built at Speers Point. Artwork: Supplied

Expert panel chooses winning design for $2m Lake Mac arts centre | photos

Practice is over, now it’s ‘rally’ real

When the World Rally Championship comes to town

35 photos from the Coffs Coast World Rally showdown

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

PROSTATE: Research shows some men would prefer to sacrifice survival odds rather than suffer the side-effects of prostate cancer treatment.

Prostate cancer: men trade-off survival for quality of life

Eileen Wood

Labor accused of ‘milking’ self-funded retirees

HEALTH CONCERN: More older people are drinking to hazardous levels. Image Pixabay.

Boomers the new ‘risky’ drinkers

Eileen Wood

Greens Leader Richard Di Natale has again called for the resignation of NSW MP Jeremy Buckingham.

NSW Greens MP needs to end saga 'quickly'

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Michael Daley has promised to set up public planning inquiries into major infrastructure projects.

Labor promises probes in big NSW projects

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Daniel Andrews will intensify his campaign to persuade Victorian voters before Saturday's election.

Five-day countdown to Victorian election

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Scott Morrison will look to strengthen Pacific ties after becoming caught in the US-China trade war.

Pacific focus after US, China tensions

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Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn will appear at the banking commission's last hearing on Monday.

CBA bosses first to face royal commission

Megan Neil
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Linda Mason, seen last year, has said she would like to see someone charged in her sister's death.

Inquest reopens into Annette Mason's death

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Many Queensland homeowners have already installed solar panels, such as on this home in Stafford.

Qld grants to spark battery investment

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Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says the trade deal with Indonesia is in both countries' interest.

Aust-Indo deal signing in 'coming months'

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A bellowing good time on Scotland’s west coast

Rochelle Tubb

The exterior facade of the QT building is a mixture of old and new.

Being a tourist in my own city and seeing it in a whole new light

Scott McRae

Old bottles of madeira … richly flavoured and seductive.

Life is but a SeaDream

John Rozentals

SECRET IDENTITY: Greg Smith as Barry Burton, the world-weary mercenary from Resident Evil, the hugely popular video game.

From school principal to cult video game star?

Jody Lindbeck

Putting up your Christmas decorations early makes you friendlier, science says

Grace Ryan

Get your safety sorted: In addition to following these tips, pool owners should have a professional assessment of their pool’s compliance in order to ensure their pool is safe for all users.

Stay pool safe this season