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Glen Innes and Narwan will face off in round one under the Group 19 draft draw.

UPDATEDGroup 19 release draft draw and competition setup for 2020

Ellen Dunger

Junior boys and girls invited to trial for representative rugby union

Junior boys and girls invited to trial for representative rugby union

Ellen Dunger

Kids at Big Bash: Koby and Bentley Brennan with recently retired international cricketer Peter Siddle.

Brennan brothers' Big Bash

Glen Innes and Narwan will face off in round one under the Group 19 draft draw.

UPDATEDGroup 19 release draft draw and competition setup for 2020

THINK PINK: The second day saw the annual Pink Stumps Day which saw $2651 raised for the McGrath Foundation.

Woods: Young team 'performed above expectations'

Ellen Dunger

Learning experience: Central North coaches Peter Graham and Joe Cameron were very happy with how the under-13 girls performed at the inaugural under-13 Country Championships.

Central North under-13 girls show plenty of potential at inaugural champs

Samantha Newsam

Why Sicily is a must-see destination in Italy

Why Sicily is a must-see destination in Italy

Nicole Phillips

Tourism Australia is attempting to attract visitors to parts of the country that have not been impacted by bushfires. Pictures: Shutterstock

How to help tourism rise from the ashes

Michael Turtle

One of the stop-offs on the Great Vic Bike Ride 2019. Picture: Karleen Minney.

An exhilarating ocean-side ride

Karleen Minney

School tours to be held soon

THINGS TO DOSchool tours to be held soon

Vanessa Arundale

Walcha Farmers' Market this Saturday

THINGS TO DOWalcha Farmers' Market this Saturday

Vanessa Arundale

LESSONS FROM THE EDGE: Australian of the Year nominee and Antarctic Station leader Narelle Campbell is Walcha's Australia Day Ambassador

THINGS TO DOOur Australia Day Ambassador is a remote leader

Vanessa Arundale

School tours to be held soon

THINGS TO DOSchool tours to be held soon

OPEN: Apsley Falls is one of the visitor areas that will re-open this weekend - but despite the rain expected the flow won't look like this.

THINGS TO DOWalcha's Apsley Falls to re-open to public this weekend

TEAM PLAYER: Preston Campbell will be guest of honour at the Walcha Central School festivities on Friday

Get ready Festival Friday is about to kick off

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Popular choice: Owning a mobile phone is a necessity for just about everyone these days, but did you know that there are 2.5 billion of us that use Android making it the world's most popular operating system.

How to find the perfect phone for you

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Water villas at the Maldives at sunrise. The islands of the Maldives are explored by boat, revealing pristine beaches and abundant wildlife.

A delightful Indian Ocean island cruise

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OUTLOOK: The ACM survey aims to find out more about what makes regional and rural communities tick.

Help us build a better understanding of regional Australia

Popular choice: Owning a mobile phone is a necessity for just about everyone these days, but did you know that there are 2.5 billion of us that use Android making it the world's most popular operating system.

How to find the perfect phone for you

READ ALL ABOUT IT: Click on the above for all your country music news.

Tamworth Country Music Festival Magazine

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

CONVENIENT AND READY TO GO: The space consists of a showroom-reception to the front, two offices and amenities to the rear. the space presents well as an office, it would also be an excellent location for retail.

Peel Street space can be office or shop

Property of the Week | Rich grazing land

Property of the Week | Rich grazing land

Open-plan perfection and valley views in East Tamworth

Open-plan perfection and valley views in East Tamworth

The 2018 Book Week Parade at Walcha Central is a colourful fancy-dress feast: mega gallery

The 2018 Book Week Parade at Walcha Central is a colourful fancy-dress feast: mega gallery

Vanessa Arundale

Slice of history: The panel added to the monument in the Walcha War Memorial Park after the end of World War II.

Call for more to war

Bob Walsh

The fatal flight: Lost lives of the Lutana

The fatal flight: Lost lives of the Lutana

Simon Bourke

The 2018 Book Week Parade at Walcha Central is a colourful fancy-dress feast: mega gallery

The 2018 Book Week Parade at Walcha Central is a colourful fancy-dress feast: mega gallery

CHAMPION: Olympian Cecil Healy died in battle. Picture: AWM P04366.007

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

GRAND DESIGNS: Australian engineers rebuild a crossing over the Somme swamps near Cléry on September 2, 1918, to keep communications open and transport moving after the capture of Péronne. Picture: AWM E03143

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

Think you might have "survivor guilt"? Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIAThink the Summer of the Not-So-Random Apocalypse didn't impact you? Think again

HAY NOW: Cowell farmer Brenton Smith welcomes the donation as feed dries up in the district.

Hay arrives in Cowell following benefit concert

Sheila Bower looks over the remains of what was her car port, including a speaker which flew more than 30 feet. Picture: Kate Healy

Burrumbeet unofficially records more than 200mm of rain in a few hours

A personalised plea from one man to the PM asks him to join the dots "if only for God's sake". Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIAPlease Mr Morrison, if only for God's sake, join the dots

ON PATROL: Fire and Rescue NSW country region senior instructor Scott Habgood and Dubbo Station Officer Simon Bracht with the Black Panther. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

Black Panther sighting west of the Blue Mountains

Nadine Morton

Dave mangenner Gough

New Oz Day TV advert 'not reality'

Libby Bingham

Summer Fest 2020 brings friends together: video

PHOTOSSummer Fest 2020 brings friends together: video

Vanessa Arundale

The faces and the scenes of Australia's fire crisis. Photos: ACM staff, supplied.

REAL AUSTRALIAFrom ashen grief towards recovery, somehow

Think you might have "survivor guilt"? Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIAThink the Summer of the Not-So-Random Apocalypse didn't impact you? Think again

Janine Graham

Trolling: Social media has its obvious benefits, but it also has a darker and dangerous side.

OPINIONFacing the thin line between fact and fiction

Brendan Lee

It is time to tackle inequality in Australia

OPINIONIt is time to tackle inequality in Australia

Lyn Morgain

REUNITED: Valda Dawson (left) with cousin, and neighbour, Dorothy Wallis.

Cousins reunited after six decades

Geraldine Cardozo

JUST LOVING IT: See Aussie singing legend John Paul Young. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

JPY shares the love

Cheryl Field

MULTI-LEVEL: The Smart Road vertical village will comprise 77 independent living apartments and community amenities, including a Montessori Early Learning Centre.

Vertical living: A smart idea for generations

Geraldine Cardozo

The world's oldest asteroid strike has been identified in outback WA nearly 2.229 billion years ago.

WA home to earth's oldest asteroid strike

21m ago

A Melbourne man, 70, has faced court accused of murdering his sister who was visiting from China.

Vic man 'wrote sister killed for justice'

A clean-up is underway after severe thunderstorms hit Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong.

Two nights without power after Syd storms

Simon Overland's work diaries were discovered in a Melbourne storage facility last year.

Nixon knew of Lawyer X in 2005: Overland

A paramedic said Tracey Bridgewater told him she stabbed her partner once in self defence.

Dad bitten before daughter killed de facto

Rebecca Le May

TRAGIC SIGHT: Inland Waterways President Matt Hansen and senior NSW Department of Primary Industries Fisheries manager Sam Davis inspect the riverbank near Dubbo on Monday. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

GRAPHIC CONTENTThousands of fish found dead after heavy rain

Ryan Young

POPULAR: Draxl (third from left) with the cast of Logie winning series A Place To Call Home. Picture: Supplied

'A Place To Call Home' TV star to donate proceeds from art exhibit to bushfire relief

Brendan Crabb

Australia's CMO Brendan Murphy says the risk to the public from coronavirus remains relatively low.

Brisbane man tested for mystery virus

Daniel McCulloch and Finbar O'Mallon

IN CHARGE: NSW Rural Fire Service Superintendent Karen Hodges was in charge of the massive Gospers Mountain bushfire. Photo: GEOFF JONES 012020fire2

Meet the woman who tamed the record-breaking fire

Nadine Morton

Long-time volunteer Laurie Dawson, 78, came out of retirement to train BlazeAid coordinators. Volunteers are currently working out of 14 BlazeAid camps across Australia, helping farmers fix fences after the fires.

BlazeAid works to fix fences impacted by fire

Olivia Calver

Cory Nordstrom traded his career in the kitchen for the shearing shed and has been working alongside his father, Scott Nordstrom, ever since. Photo: TAFE NSW

Chef turns to shearing in plate to gate venture

Hannah Powe

TEN MINUTES WELL SPENT: Financial planning can be less daunting in small chunks.

Take a long-term view, little steps to achieve money goals

Dame Edna koala cake. Picture: Supplied.

Bake Australia Great just in time for Australia Day

Karen Hardy

LOOK, BUT DON'T TOUCH: Position cameras up high inside and outside, so they're visible but out of arm's reach to avoid accidentally getting knocked over by large pets.

Keeping a watch on Fido