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Mostly sunny again across our region with Albury-Wodonga heading for a top of 26 before the rain comes in on Friday. Max temps: Corowa 26, Culcairn 26, Wangaratta 26, Corryong 25, Bright 24, Falls Creek 13.
Catch up on news here:
Greater Hume to use asbestos to license Culcairn landfill
Greater Hume Council will use revenue generated through accepting loose-fill asbestos waste to transition the Culcairn Landfill into operating under an environmental protection license. More here
$4 million for Benalla Health to transform public aged care facility
Benalla Health chief executive Janine Holland said it was the single biggest contribution yet, allowing the construction of new buildings for the Morrie Evans Wing, Benalla’s only public aged care facility. More here
Boree Creek and Balldale polling booths scrapped by NSW Electoral Commission
A recommendation by the NSW Electoral Commission for Boree Creek not be used for the historic Federation election due to ongoing low and declining voter numbers was agreed to by administrator Mike Eden this week. More here
Berrigan’s only bank NAB closing
NAB has done a backflip on the community of Berrigan, at first saying the town’s only bank would stay open and now announcing it will close the branch on July 7 due to “declining day-to-day activity”. More here
Meeting to gauge interest in Wodonga museum
Marie Elliot has always been a keen supporter of a Wodonga museum, using her platform as citizen of the year in 2016 to push the idea. The concept will be tested at a public meeting on Friday. More here
State of the nation
► Adelaide, SA: Horticultural grower groups in the north of Adelaide have come out in opposition to a local council’s proposal to lift rate charges for primary producers.
► Esperacne, WA: The state government has come under pressure to reveal its plan to prevent shark attacks after fisheries minister Dave Kelly conceded drum lines would no longer be dropped to catch dangerous sharks following fatalities.
The fresh political row erupted after 17-year-old Mandurah girl Laeticia Brouwer was killed in an attack near Esperance on Monday.
► Queensland: Nationals Deputy Leader and Regional Development Minister Fiona Nash has outlined further plans to bolster the potential for decentralising government agencies and also pushing commercial businesses out into country centres.
In an address to the National Press Club in Canberra today, Senator Nash also revealed a new mental health initiative that’s a direct result of the recently convened Regional Ministerial Taskforce chaired by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff announced this week that the government would not fund Safe Schools once federal funding for the program ran out this year.
► Morpeth, NSW: The assault on Berrsheba, a legendary battle in the First World War, was immortalised by Ron Marshall in his painting The Charge. The painting will be on display at Morpeth Gallery until April 23, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle.
The assault on Beersheba began at dawn. It was the first time the Australian Light Horse was used as pure cavalry, and it became history’s last great charge.
The man from Hunterview, in Singleton, presented to Cessnock Hospital at 10.15am Saturday with a 10 centremetre laceration to his torso.
Eye on the weather
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World news:
► Jakarta: Anies Baswedan is poised to become the next governor of Jakarta in October after one of the most bitter and polarising elections in the history of Indonesia's nascent democracy.
The election has been portrayed as a test of Indonesia's much vaunted pluralism and an ominous presage of the role sectarian politics could play in the 2019 national election.
► Beijing: Interpol has issued a red notice to arrest a flamboyant Chinese billionaire who has been taunting the Chinese Communist Party online and hurling accusations of corruption while living a luxurious life in exile in the United States.
Guo Wengui, aka Miles Kwok, is a Forbes rich-lister who shot to international prominence last month when it was revealed the 50-year-old was a member of US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Faces of Australia
FOR 18 years, Darryl Sheridan has been teaching kindergarten children about the many and varied animals that are part of his mobile animal farm.
It was explaining the characteristics that identified his rainbow lorikeet, Polly, as a parrot to one inquisitive child that inspired his first published children’s book.
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On this day …
1862 The first pasteurization test is completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium chloride
1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1968 English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
1974 'The Troubles', the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th victim
1980 Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria sees hundreds of Berber political activists arrested
1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado
2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental diaster