North-West Weather
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A low to the southeast of Tasmania will track slowly eastwards during the day, maintaining a cold and vigorous southwesterly stream over the state. The stream will ease on Monday as a high moves slowly from south of South Australia to the west of Tasmania. The high will move over Tasmania on Tuesday, before weakening on Wednesday while a cold front approaches from the west late evening.
North-West news
► Forest Storms home for win. The election in Murchison was called early on in the night with independent Ruth Forrest being returned for a third term. Read more.
► Housing Tasmania wall collapse. A property resident has escaped uninjured after the wall of a new youth accommodation facility smashed through a window and skylight near Hobart. Read more.
► Forest growth plan welcomed. A report from the Ministerial Advisory Council on Forestry has quietly been put online, appearing to contradict aspects of the state government’s forest policy. Read more.
► Working group to assist Murray Goulburn workers. A working group has been established to assist the Circular Head region amid closure of Murray Goulburn’s Edith Creek facility. Read more.
► Dumped cattle carcass mystery in Gog State Forest. An afternoon bushwalk ended in horror for Sasha Brown when she stumbled upon what she described as “a killing field”. Read more.
Regional news
►DUBBO: Two children are dead, their siblings has internal injuries and their parents are in hospital after a shocking crash on the Newell Highway in the early hours of Saturday morning. Read more
►WAGGA: Family law solicitors across the city have claimed local families were suffering as they waited more than two years for a court date. Read more
►WARRNAMBOOL: Exactly 101 years after Warrnambool soldier Alfred Dale died on the battlefields of the Western Front, his lost war medal has returned home. Read more
►WOLLONGONG: An estimated 1000 people – and a very large pair of makeshift undies – hit the streets of Wollongong on Saturday as part of an ongoing fight for workers’ rights. Read more
►TRUNDLE: It’s the atmosphere and nostalgia that keeps bringing a certain group from the Central West back to the Trundle ABBA Festival. Read more
►BATEMANS BAY: The discovery of thousands of animated child abuse images in his computer browsing history has led to the conviction of a South Coast man. Read more
►BUNBURY: Two Bunbury police officers have been awarded bravery medals for their efforts in rescuing a drowning woman from the ocean last year. Read more
►ILLAWARRA: Aleyathiah Wilcockson was born the length of a pencil with a tumour heavier than her own body. At just 23 weeks pregnant, her mother Sharna Spears endured more than 110 hours of labour, doubting her unborn baby would survive. Brave Aleyathiah had defied the odds by reaching age seven. But her fight was far from over. Read more
►TRENTHAM: Spudfest fun spilled out from Quarry Reserve into events, stalls, markets and live music along Market and High streets for the first time in the festival’s 10-year history in a bid to bring the whole town to life. Read more
►TASMANIA: A former footballer who blackmailed Perth women he met online - threatening to expose illicit photographs they sent him or send "bikies" to harm them if they didn't give him money - has been jailed for five and a half years. Read more
National news
►Beloved Australian actress, dancer and author Val Jellay has passed away, aged 89 from pneumonia. Read more
►Five people have been arrested after police seized drugs including MDMA and cannabis as part of an operation in Melbourne ahead of Groovin The Moo on Saturday morning. Read more
►Tony Abbott has predicted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull could dump a controversial education funding reform, telling a group of private school children south of Perth the government would be "on a loser" if it looked like disadvantaging Catholic schools. Read more
National weather radar
World news
►SCOTLAND: A surfer who was rescued after 32 hours adrift at sea said he had prepared himself to die. Matthew Bryce was found clinging to his board after being swept 26 kilometres from Scotland into the Irish Sea near the Northern Island border. Read more
►PARIS: France's extraordinary presidential election has had a last-minute twist: the public release of a hoard of emails and documents hacked from the campaign of front-runner centrist Emmanuel Macron, which his campaign said had 'put the vital interests of democracy in jeopardy'. Read more
►BANGKOK: Thailand has bought the first of three submarines from China in the strongest signal yet the military-ruled country is reducing reliance on its long-time ally, the United States. Read more
On this day
1815: Following completion of the first road over the Blue Mountains, Governor Macquarie names Bathurst.
1840: Composer Tchaikovsky is born.
1915: British ship, the Lusitania, is sunk by a German submarine, resulting in the loss of 1,198 lives.
1942: The Battle of the Coral sea begins.
2008: The Black Opal is named as the NSW gemstone emblem.
FACES OF AUSTRALIA
Kadu Coradini
Kadu Coradini has donated his life’s worth of hair growth all to charity.
The three-year-old had his first visit to a Port Macquarie hairdresser on May 5.
His father Diogo Coradini said he and Kadu had a conversation about donating his hair once he needed it cut. Read more