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VISITING artists will enjoy cheaper accommodation for the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
In a move aimed at addressing one of artists’ biggest festival bugbears, performers will be able to register their interest for accommodation at Calrossy’s Simpson House.
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DETECTIVES are awaiting the results of a post-mortem after a Gunnedah woman was found dead in a local motel room earlier this week.
The body of 25-year-old Rebecca Perkins was discovered in a room at the Overlander Motor Lodge, Gunnedah, on Tuesday morning, sparking a full police investigation.
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Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie has been dropped as deputy Senate leader after failing to attend party meetings.
The move by party leader Clive Palmer comes after weeks of internal turmoil in the party. The Tasmanian senator was the party's deputy leader in the Senate before her demotion.
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AN ALARMING new report has revealed the region’s drivers could be slugged hundreds of dollars a year in extra fuel costs by 2018.
Blaming the federal government’s decision to reintroduce a fuel excise, the NRMA report found regional drivers, already forced to pay more for fuel than the city, could fork out up to $372 a year more within four years as a result of the tax.
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An appeal has been started to help a Dubbo bull rider who was left a quadriplegic after an accident in an event at Armidale on Saturday.
Jordan Robb has been riding bulls since he was two-years-old but in a tragic turn of events he was thrown from a bull and suffered damage to his neck and spinal cord.
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FOUR local women will be flinging aside the well-groomed demands of the corporate world when they shave their heads for cancer early next year.
Simone Parsons was the brains behind the idea and roped in fellow Best Western Sanctuary Inn staff Terri Morris, Jay Herden and Michelle Boulton for the big chop.
7.10am: Tamworth Regional Council hopes the introduction of tough new “no-hoses-or-sprinklers” rules will cut our daily water use by up to 25 per cent and delay even tougher water rules likely from late January.
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NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Partly cloudy. Medium (40%) chance of showers and thunderstorms during the day. Winds north to northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h tending north to northwesterly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning. Daytime maximum temperatures 27 to 32.
Good morning. Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
► To check out the front pages of Fairfax publications for today, click here
► There is growing fear among the Hunter’s Muslim community after two people dumped a pig’s head in the grounds of the Newcastle mosque – the second attack at the site in less than a week.
► A little over a week on from one of Australia's most iconic watering holes going up in smoke, there is renewed hope in Conargo.
► A Ballarat nurse fighting the ebola crisis in west Africa has condemned the international community for its delayed response.
► A tense five-hour stand-off in Bomaderry ended peacefully when a man has surrendered to police.
► Victoria will vote for the next state government on November 29 with the Coalition's Denis Napthine and Labor's Daniel Andrews shaping up for what should be a tight contest. Do the people of Bendigo care? Find out.
► NATIONAL: Clive Palmer's fledgling Palmer United Party has been plunged into crisis, with Mr Palmer accusing one of his own parliamentarians of lying to the Senate, of not speaking to him for over a month, and of doing nothing for the Tasmanians who elected her. In a body blow to the government, Senator Lambie joined Labor and the Greens in a new alliance of independents to scuttle the government's controversial financial advice changes.
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► WOLLONGONG: If there is one similarity between professional rugby league players today it is their penchant for tattoos. Body art in rugby league culture is so prominent that it featured in a decision by the Fair Work Commission this week, involving a dispute application between the Dapto Leagues Club and an employee with a lip piercing.
► BALLARAT: One of Ballarat’s most prestigious properties has finally been sold. Bishop’s Palace is believed to have been sold for more than $3 million, after months of discussion with interested buyers.
► ALBURY: Roadworks and major capital projects in Albury may be delayed over the next four years as the city’s council attempts to meet a $2.7 million budget black hole.
► BUNBURY: With Western Australia's motorbike death toll now at its equal worst in history, Bunbury's traffic police have made no apologies for pulling over every bike they see on the road.
► REDLAND: Koala laws have been blamed for the state government canning plans to build a $14 million long-term mental health facility for adolescents at Redland Hospital.
► PORT PIRIE: This will be the site of Port Pirie’s newest landmark, the 75-metre-high TSL furnace, dubbed humorously as the ‘glass of beer’ because of its shape and internal colour in design plans.
► GOULBURN: The man who helped make the Big Merino a reality has passed away in Queensland. Atilla Mokany died suddenly at his Buderim home on Monday night, aged sixty-nine.
► It was a truly spectacular own goal scored by one of the most senior executives of one of the tech world's hottest companies in the presence of two famous journalists in a semi-private club owned by the Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter.
► In a city already deeply riven with sectarian tensions, the brutal slaughter of four rabbis in an ultra-Orthodox synagogue has pushed Jerusalem to the edge of what many fear could escalate into another Palestinian uprising. An Israeli police officer also died.
► "Love you forever and always my favorite big brother. Shine bright. Xoxox " It is a farewell message Ella Ricketson will never be able to deliver to her brother, Tom, after his overseas holiday ended in tragedy in the Cambodian tourist hub of Siem Reap this week.
► Australian journalist Alan Morison, facing a possible long jail sentence over a contentious criminal defamation case, has told his ailing father he will not be able to travel to Australia to attend his 91st birthday, despite fears the news may kill him.
Kirsten Engels could well be Katherine’s very own supermum. In addition to her hectic duties as a local police officer and full-time mother to her three children, Mrs Engels can now add champion bodybuilder to her growing list of achievements. Read on