This Sunday’s Kerferd Oration speaker Dr Simon Longstaff has urged Indi voters to judge candidates on their performance rather than their rhetoric.

It seems the winter chill is still got its grip in the region with a light dusting of snow being felt last night as shown by these great photos from Robyn Atkinson from the Stanley pub. 

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A WODONGA man is facing almost 80 charges after allegedly making dozens of prank Triple-0 phone calls, including bomb hoaxes and firearm threats.

Police raided a house on Wilson Street on Tuesday and seized several mobile phones and other items.

NORTH East firefighters are helping battle bushfires raging in Canada.

Firefighters from the region – which includes Wodonga and Wangaratta – flew to Sydney on Sunday before flying to Canada on Monday.

IT’S closing in on kick-off time, and you’re welcome to bring your own soccer ball.

But don’t be confused by the lack of nets and the golf greens, with a flag in the oversized holes.

Your weather at the Border for the next three days. 

► BENDIGO: Local subcontractors say they are owed at least $3.6 million for works completed and variation payments on the Ulumbarra Theatre project. Watters Electrical is owed about $1 million by Contract Control Services for works completed, variations and works to be completed. Project manager Brendan Trudgett said the situation created serious cash flow issues for the business.

► CANBERRA: A little Canberra cafe - Patissez - has become the trendiest little joint in the national capital because of its over-the-top "freakshakes". Some come with brownies, others with a third of a (large) jar of Nutella. When The Canberra Times posted an article written on the new cafe and its popular shakes on Facebook - a post which has so far reached over 360,000 people - among the 1700-plus comments were thought bubbles of road trips to Canberra just to try them and friendship circles confirming the cafe as their next meeting place. Here are five reasons why the 'freakshake' place has gone viral.

► GOULBURN: A man described as a passionate fighter for his electorate has passed away. Former Federal Member for Hume Alby Schultz died in Cootamundra yesterday afternoon. In a Facebook posting his son, Grant bade farewell to “a great man, a wonderful father and loving grandfather. Mr Schultz was Hume MP from 1998 to 2013, the Member for Burrinjuck from 1988 to 1998, and was elected to the Cootamundra Shire Council in 1983 - a total of 32 years of public service, and he is being fondly remembered throughout Goulburn, Cootamundra, Young, Yass, Wagga and the many other towns and communities he worked for througgout his life . 

► HAMILTON: A young Hamilton father who savagely bashed his 21-month-old son and heavily pregnant partner has received a stiffer penalty after a prosecution appeal. Kyle Robert Cobby, 21, pleaded guilty in the Hamilton Magistrates Court on May 6 to false imprisonment, making threats to kill and two counts of intentionally causing injury relating to incidents in late January. He was jailed for 103 days and was to do a 15-month community corrections order after getting out of prison. But, after a public outcry, the Office of Public Prosecutions yesterday appealed the leniency of that sentence in the Warrnambool County Court, which resulted in a five-month jail term. Read more.

► KATHERINE: “We don't want this s#$% in our community”. It is a stance one Katherine resident implored the community to adopt when the Northern Territory government held a public hearing into methamphetamine usage in town on July 14. The hearing was hosted by a government select committee, chaired by Member for Blain Nathan Barrett, charged with looking into the impact the drug - also known as ice - is having on the Territory. Taking a no-holds-barred approach to sharing how ice had impacted her life, the resident told the hearing that she had taken the extraordinary step of reporting her husband to police.

► MANDURAH: A Pinjarra woman will spend at least the next six months in jail after being sentenced in Mandurah Magistrates Court on Tuesday to two counts of Centrelink fraud. Marnie Lee Reckwell was charged with obtaining a financial advantage after helping her husband claim close to $60,000 the family was not entitled to from 2011-2013. The court heard Reckwell had lodged false claims to the Government department and stated her husband was not employed. During the charge period, the couple failed to declare $136,518.90. Read more.

► NEWCASTLE: THE Catholic Church has announced the biggest expansion of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle school system in more than 100 years. The diocese will build two new Catholic high schools and extend two existing Hunter secondary colleges to year 12 in a $90million plan.  The two new year seven to year 12 schools, to be built at Chisholm, near Thornton, and Medowie and open in 2018 and 2020 respectively, will be the first Catholic high schools built in the Hunter in 36 years, director of Catholic Schools Ray Collins said.

► WENDOUREE: An elderly Wendouree couple are devastated after thieves stole their car and mobility scooter from their carport last Wednesday morning. John and Judi Palmer were asleep when thieves unlocked the back gate and stole their white 2005 Ford Falcon. Mrs Palmer’s fold up mobility scooter, which she relies on to relieve her back pain, was inside the car at the time. The couple in their 60s only learned of the theft when police called them at 7.30am Wednesday morning.

► WOLLONGONG: A BlueScope contractor has been pulled from a pit with a broken leg after an accident at the steel giant’s cokemaking plant. NSW Ambulance paramedics were called to BlueScope’s No.6 quencher facility about 10.55pm on Monday where they found the man with serious injuries to his left leg. Fairfax Media understands the man was working in the pit when his leg was crushed under a heavy piece of steel. He was taken by NSW Ambulance paramedics to Wollongong Hospital in a serious condition. 

► The teenage daughter of slain drug kingpin Carl Williams will receive a taxpayer-funded payout over her father's 2010 prison bashing death. The payment will be held in a trust fund until Dhakota Williams turns 18, after her family and the Victorian government reached an out-of-court settlement on Tuesday. The Andrews government confirmed the deal late on Tuesday, but did not disclose the size of the payout. However Channel Seven reported Dhakota Williams would receive a sum of up to $200,000.

► Politicians, teachers and others of "high standing" in NSW are being targeted in a "sexploitation" scam aimed at tricking them into compromising positions and forcing them to pay to protect their reputations. A day after it emerged Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner reported a blackmail attempt to police, it can be revealed that Fairfield mayor Frank Carbone was also targeted in June in a strikingly similar case. Cr Carbone believes his experience, during which he was asked to "connect" with a woman calling herself Pearl Wilson on the networking site LinkedIn, is an indication blackmailers are targeting Australian politicians.

► Cyclists over a certain age would be required to carry photo identification, under plans being considered by the NSW government. Roads Minister Duncan Gay has convened a "roundtable" to discuss cycling safety issues, which includes members of motoring, pedestrian and cycling groups. After two meetings, participants said government representatives on the roundtable had expressed a willingness to introduce a trial of laws requiring motorists to keep a safe distance when overtaking cyclists.

► A leaked letter from Treasurer Joe Hockey to state and territory treasurers has confirmed that removing the goods and services tax on tampons and other sanitary items will cost $120 million over four years. Mr Hockey has confirmed the change remains on the table, though he has cautioned there needs to be unanimous agreement from the states before the change goes ahead. The leak of the letter comes as the Treasurer prepares to address a PricewaterhouseCoopers tax reform forum on Wednesday in which he will set out the six key principles that will guide the government's pursuit of tax reform.