Sunday's struggle in the mud in the Hampden Football League in Victoria's south west, Cobden versus Koroit.

Porepunkah's Meg Newton performing at the Albury Wodonga Eisteddfod. Picture: Peter Merkesteyn

Arthur River resident Lee Davis recounts what he can recall of the assault in his Arthur River home on Australia Day that crushed his skull and has left him brain damage. Picture: Grant Wells

Children's entertainer Peter Combe paid a visit to Junee, near Wagga Wagga, NSW on Thursday. Picture: Declan Rurenga

Gulgargambone Central School students James Knight, Becca Jordison and Lakara Gillver at the Try a Trade section at the Dubbo Jobs Expo. Picture: Louise Donges

A 15 tonne,12-metre long southern right whale that washed up south of Tumby Bay on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. A marine biologist takes a blubber sample.

Bendigo Thunder footballers Melina Tatti, left, and Lily Campbell will give their team jumpers the boot for Friday night’s inaugural Thunder club ball. Picture: Jim Aldersey

This Holden ute burst into flames after crashing into a tree in Narrandera, NSW on Thursday. Police allege that the men had done a burnout along Larmer Street through a school zone before crashing into the tree. Picture: Supplied

Cliff Morris is hard at work crafting wooden wares at the Craft Alive expo in Wagga, NSW on Friday. Picture: Addison Hamilton

Wollongong paramedic Mark McCarthy is campaigning to have defibrillators distributed more widely. Picture: Sylvia Liber

The National College of Dance at Lambton is hoping to repeat history when its star ballet performers Belle Beasley and Caleb Durbin compete in the Sydney Eisteddfod on Sunday. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

Ballarat grandmother Maree O'Brien will lose her home of 60 years to compulsory acquisition to make way for a road expansion.

Barbara and Rob Barker pause for reflection at son Shane's grave at Campbell Town in Tasmania. Shane was gunned down in cold blood four years ago and police haven't made an arrest.

More than 170 dtaff from car parts maker FMP Group (Australia) in Ballarat stopped work over enterprise bargaining agreement terms and conditions. Casual workers have been brought in to fill the positions.

Margaret River surfer Jacob Willcox joined illustrious company for the third time, winning the WA State Surfing Championship at Flat Rocks in Geraldton. Picture: Surfing WA

Asics has released a running shoes named after the city of Ballarat in Victoria. Here, assistant Athlete's Foot assistant manager Emma Robertson shows off the new 'Ballarat' footwear.

St John College at Dubbo is heading to Brisbane for the Ekka - the "Mecca of steers" at the Royal Queensland Show.

Narromine Fire and Rescue NSW and the Hazmat Unit from Dubbo were called to collect fumigant material discarded on the outskirts of Narromine on Monday.

Busselton's Lis Holsig found an unusual shaped citrus hiding in the branches of her lemon tree. The mutant lemon was named ‘the lemon with a twist’.

Murray Bridge Regional Art Society members Jeanette Glasson, Mary Rawlings and Sue Foster prepare for the SALA Festival, which began on Friday.

Bathurst boy John Attard, and his mum Francesca, with the letter notifying them that John has been selected as a finalist in the National Youth Awards. Picture: Chris Seabrook

Kentish Council is working in conjunction with DIER to install rumble strips and a speed advisory sign on Wilmot Road in hope of saving Tasmanian devils becoming roadkill. Picture: Grant Wells

Kangaroo Island photographer Sean McGowan captured this magic shot at a local junior match.

Thurgoona's Holly-Rose Boyer and Chloe Sheridan performing at the Albury Wodonga Eisteddfod. Picture: Ben Eyles

Victorian Mark Jessup on a ride in Glenrock State Recreation Area. Mr Jessup, who has travelled to the region regularly to ride in Glenrock, believes the destruction of paths will hurt tourism.

A fire broke out at the Busselton Harvey Norman store early on Monday morning, causing isolated damage to the store's sign front. The fire was believed to have been caused by an electrical fault.

Emergency services were called to an accident in Wagga on Friday where a postie was hit by a car. Picture: Les Smith

Brenton Kinnear at the Tamworth Antique and Collectables Fair with some of the tools of his antique conservation trade – wet and dry sandpaper, shellac and French polish. Picture: Barry Smith

A drawing in court of Michael Allan Jacobs, the man found guilty of murdering Senior Constable David Rixon in Tamworth, at his sentencing hearing on Friday.

Jocelyn Heywood, 9, Katie Nener, 9, Sayden Jones, 9, Bailey Moss, 9, and William Lake, 10, all of Manilla, say ‘Bring it on!’ at the start of Sunday’s inaugural bicycle gymkhana. Picture: Barry Smith

Bangalee resident Kathy Rutherford, her daughter Elizabeth and close friend Jan Gilmore prepare hundreds of relief packs for homeless people in Sydney.

Nowra High year 10 students Natasha Perkins, Samara Saavedra, Nathan Pfluegler and Tom Seyffer try to walk a straight line while wearing drunk goggles at the annual Skilled or Killed Young Driver Safety workshop.

Falls Creek's Samara Tanton mushing the team of Hukies & Malamutes. Picture: Chris Hocking

Clay target shooter Tom Richards aims at his target near Northam in Western Australia.

A deliberately lit fire burnt out this caravan at Shorewell Park in Tasmania. The fire had started to spread to another caravan parked next to it.

Colin Picard, former state and Launceston chapter president of outlaw motorcycle club the Rebels was handed three years' jail on Friday for drug trafficking on a scale "not often seen in Tasmania''.

Gemma Pastro and her classmate Georgia Salvestro, both nine, from St Mary’s School in Griffith, NSW both have big hearts and will shave their heads to support those with cancer.

Gerard Wild came off his bike close to the finish in the John Woodman Cycle Classic.

Two people escaped serious injury after a light aircraft crashed near Stirling North near Port Augusta in South Australia on Thursday. Picture: Kate Bilney

Spotlight’s Peta Atkins helps Horsham’s Taylor Mentha pick a pattern for the Horsham Show Spotlight Creative Textile Design Competition. Picture: Paul Carracher