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Albury and Greater Hume councils avoid amalgamation in IPART report card
ALBURY and Greater Hume councils have avoided a potentially strained forced merger when both were declared "fit for the future" on Tuesday.
Amalgamations are firmly on the NSW government's radar after the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal's much-anticipated report card revealed more than half the state's regional councils including Corowa were unsustainable.
Tension has existed between Albury and Greater Hume since the 2004 local government shake-up which included Albury snaring 200 square kilometres of former Hume Shire land.
Corowa and Urana shires both ruled not fit for future by IPART
COROWA Shire has been left facing an uncertain short-term future with a potential partner Urana still resisting a merger and two other amalgamation options, Albury and Greater Hume, out of the mix.
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal report handed down on Tuesday ruled Corowa and Urana weren't fit for the future, but Albury and Greater Hume were given the tick to stay in their current form.
The long-awaited decision coincided with Corowa Shire's monthly meeting when general manager Chris Gillard hoped other councils would have a change of heart and embrace change.
Border makes the cut on 'new' notes
The Border region has three claims to fame on the 'new' Australian bank notes that are taking the internet by storm.
The Ettamogah Pub, Ned Kelly and an ode to ute culture all make their way onto the new designs that have stirred up debate online.
Art-director Aaron Tyler said he spent around 15 hours designing each note from scratch.
"It's just shocked me how far it's gone and how quickly it has spread, it's gone nuts,” Mr Tyler said.
Young drug driver doubles speed limit on wrong side of road in Wodonga
TWO teenagers have been arrested after hitting speeds of up to 130km/h on the wrong side of Lawrence Street.
The young driver of the car tested positive to drugs after being chased down by police in Wodonga on Tuesday.
The vehicle the pair had been travelling in had been trying to avoid police about 2pm when it travelled onto the wrong side of the road.
It was dumped in Zircon Court and the teenagers were arrested nearby.
Brad’s return boosts Pigeons
YARRAWONGA’S premiership window remains well and truly open after the return of star forward Brad O’Connor.
The two-time Pigeons premiership star played alongside Marcus McMillan at Strathmerton in the Picola North West league in 2015, but wanted to have another crack at the O and M.
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Welcome to the future.
It was 1989 when Emmett "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd) brought us to a world we all wanted to explore, with its hoverboards, quick-drying, quick-fitting clothes and other cool inventions that didn't seem preposterous at the time.
Hell if a 1980s sports car, the DeLorean DMC-12 to be precise, could take Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) back in time why couldn't 2015 look like a cross between an '80s nightclub and a Star Trek set?
It also seemed so far away. But now it's here - October 21, 2015. Here's what the movie got right - and what it got wrong.
Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
►INVERELL: A teenager accused of the stabbing murder of his mother in Inverell has been refused bail. Bradley Craig Mottram did not appear in Moree Local Court and his solicitor Neurelle Lyon said there was no application for bail when his case was briefly mentioned. The 19-year-old is accused of stabbing his mother, 51-year-old Simone Mottram several times in her Froude Street home on Monday. Read more
►COOTAMUNDRA: An 18-year-old man is facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly mowing down more than 100 eastern grey kangaroos in his vehicle. Continue reading
►HORSHAM: Wimmera people will make history when they feature in one of the biggest films of the year at a special screening on Thursday night. Hundreds will see the The Dressmaker on the big screen, a week before the movie's official release. Some of those involved in the film spoke to the Wimmera Mail-Times ahead of the screening.
►BALLARAT: Regional Victorian hospitals have alarmingly high infant death rates that are on par with or worse than Bacchus Marsh, government data shows. Read more
►WAGGA: Two of Australia’s most wanted men may return to the Wagga region after last week’s shootouts with police, the city’s top cop has warned. Father and son duo Mark and Gino Stocco have spent the past eight years on the run from police, but surfaced in dramatic circumstances on Friday when they sprayed police with a hail of gunfire while fleeing officers near Mangoplah. Police have begun to wind down their operational search for the Stocco pair, but Superintendent Noble said the search for evidence regarding their activities in the region was “only escalating rather than being wound down”. Continue reading
►TASMANIA: Tasmania Police officers believe the state has become a ‘‘soft target’’ for violent public place attacks. Read more
►WARRNAMBOOL: Warrnambool's much loved maremmas, Eudy and Tula, will be able to retire, with $25,000 raised for two new guard dogs. A crowd sourcing campaign has reached its target and the money raised will allow two maremma pups to be purchased and trained over two summer breeding seasons.
►BORDER: Two teenagers have been arrested after hitting speeds of up to 130km/h on the wrong side of the street. The young driver of the car tested positive to drugs after being chased down by police in Wodonga on Tuesday. Continue reading
►ORANGE: An unidentified mystery man who was seen running naked on the Great Western Highway remained in a critical condition on Monday after being struck by a b-double truck. Read more
►An asylum seeker who died after setting himself alight during a video call had been charged by NSW police with making death threats and intimidating people, it has emerged. Read more
►NSW: The state government has given councils one last opportunity to voluntarily fall into each others arms and tie the knot. They have 30 days and each council is being offered up to $15 million to pay for the wedding. Continue reading
►Liberal senator Bill Heffernan claims he has a police list which names 28 prominent people, including a former prime minister, as suspected pedophiles. Continue reading
►Children in foster care are falling behind their classmates in NAPLAN testing - and the gap worsens as they move through the grades, analysis shows. Read more
►SOUTH AFRICA: Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison nearly one year after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend, an official statement says. South Africa's "Blade Runner" has been released from prison a day short of a year into his 5-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Read more
►CANADA: Charismatic Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeaustormed to victory in Canada's national election on Monday, ending nine-years of Stephen Harper's Conservative party rule to become the country's new prime minister.
►Global leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have called on countries and companies to put a price on carbon to speed up efforts to fight climate change. Continue reading
►1879: Thomas Edison successfully demonstrates the first commercially viable electric light bulb.
►1920: The two-day trial of Eugenia Falleni concluded with her conviction of murdering her 'wife'. Falleni for many years dressed and lived her life as a man and she was unmasked when she was arrested. Falleni caused a sensation in the news media in Sydney.
►2002: Two students are killed when a gunman opens fire at Monash University in Melbourne.
A teacher at the Dubbo School of Distance Education has been awarded one of the highest honours given to technology and engineering education classroom teachers.
Dave Brazel received the Institute of Industrial Arts Technology Education Teacher Excellence Award, recognising his outstanding contribution to the profession and his students.
When asked what he liked most about his role, Mr Brazel said it was helping students reach their potential. Read more
