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Charlie's transplant goes well
LITTLE Charlie Ciavarella has come through strongly from a potentially life-saving cell transplant.
The 18-month-old from Oxley underwent the five-hour procedure on Thursday to try to cure an immunodeficiency disorder.
Now he is in isolation at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital awaiting daily test results that will tell whether his blood cell counts start to go up.
Springhurst pigs slaughtered
THREE sows have been gutted and 18 unborn piglets yanked out and dumped by a country lane in a crime that has horrified a Springhurst farming couple.
The mutilations were something that Beechworth police sergeant Geoff Still said he never seen before.
“And I’ve been doing this for 40 years. It’s just a disgusting act.”
Falls Creek's big sled dog race results in back-to-back victory
WET and snowy conditions failed to even up Falls Creek's big sled dog race, the winner was home 10 minutes before his nearest rival.
Peter Dobbs and his six-dog team streeted the field in the 5th Annual Sled Dog Classic on Saturday night.
Fellow Victorian Darren Watson won the two and four-dog classes with Alaskan huskies
Albury Thunder lose to Junee and star Ben Jeffery to injury
ALBURY Thunder face an anxious fortnight after losing coach Ben Jeffery in their 20-18 loss to Junee at Greenfield Park on Sunday.
In one of the matches of the Group 9 season, Jeffery was forced from the field midway through the first-half with a rib injury and is in doubt to play in their final match against Gundagai.
The loss leaves Thunder and Young fighting for fifth spot on the ladder after Cootamundra bowed out of the finals race with a loss to Temora.
WEATHER
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the resignation of his Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, after weeks of furore surrounding her grandiose use of taxpayer-funded travel perks but refused to criticise his long-time "friend and colleague" suggesting that she was a victim of the system. More here
► ILLAWARRA: Northern Illawarra residents fear dogs ‘‘chasing blood’’ could turn on young children or the elderly, following recent attacks that have shocked typically trouble-free communities. More here
► NEWCASTLE: Police were forced to use capsicum spray and a taser stun gun to end a four-hour siege with a man thought to be suffering hallucinations. More here
► BENDIGO: Australia's corporate watchdog has declared that a Bendigo land-banking scheme linked to property spruiker Jamie McIntyre and the sister of the notorious Henry Kaye has "failed", and is seeking to dismiss administrators appointed to a company behind the project. More here
► MAITLAND: A heartbroken family buried their Chihuahua in her favourite garden spot on Sunday just metres from where she had been ripped to pieces by two pitbull-type dogs. More here
► BALLARAT: Two Sebastopol residents escaped without injury after a shot was fired at their garage on Saturday night. More here
► An out of control fire "tore into" properties in the Blue Mountains with flames up to twenty metres high on Sunday night, but no homes were lost, the Rural Fire Service said. More here
► The former head of the powerful National Australia Bank, Cameron Clyne, has weighed into the increasingly toxic debate over Australia's climate change policy with a salvo directed at what he calls the "wilful ignorance and blindness" of political leaders and some sections of the business community. More here
► An Afghan asylum seeker who died on Friday at a West Australian detention centre was dreaming of a better future with his wife and two children, a detainee has said. More here
► In the end, it came down to the helicopter. The mode of transportation that led to Bronwyn Bishop's downfall also led - perhaps inevitably - to digitally-altered pictures of the former Speaker standing on the steps of a helicopter doing the iconic Richard Nixon salute. More here
► REUNION: A new piece of debris was found on a Reunion Island beach about 25 kilometres from where a wing flap suspected of belonging to missing plane MH370 was found last Wednesday. More here
► MALAYSIA: Experts hoping to solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries are set to examine a barnacle-encrusted wing part that washed up on a remote Indian island last Wednesday. But the families of 239 people on board MH370 will have to wait days before they are told whether the wreckage is part of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared almost 17 months ago. More here
► NORTH KOREA: He is a supreme leader of the one of the world's most oppressive regimes, which claims to have recently found a cure for AIDS, Ebola and cancer. But North Korea's Kim Jong-un can now add another feather to his cap after he was singled out for his global statesmanship by an Indonesian organisation that has previously honoured the likes of Nelson Mandela. More here
► EGYPT: An Egyptian court has adjourned until August 29 the verdict in the case against three Al-Jazeera journalists, including Australian Peter Greste, prolonging the fear and uncertainty for the reporters and their families. More here
When Douglass Doherty, of Wynyard, served on American ship USNS Comfort during the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), Australia didn't have a floating hospital like it.
A contingent was deployed from Australia to serve on the ship, which gave unfettered access to soldiers wounded or injured in the battles.
As a naval operating theatre technician, Doherty saw at close quarters and in graphic terms the trauma of war.
The amateur theatre buff and his wife Maureen said they felt compelled to self-fund their own upcoming Burnie theatre production of Breaker Morant, to raise money for charity Soldier On, which is helping Australia's wounded soldiers. More here