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Local support: Five Barrel Brewing's Phil O'Shea and His Boy Elroy owner Lachlan Stevens pour a new Snakepit Lager ahead of the basketball season in support of the Illawarra Hawks. Picture: Greg Ellis.

New beer goes on tap at His Boy Elroy for Hawks season

Greg Ellis

Excellent results: Delta and Jayda Amidzovski performed brilliantly at the recent Wollongong Diocesan Athletics Carnival.

State selection successes

Dave Ross

100 gamer: Flynn Ogilvie is now looking to next year's Olympics.

Ogilvie marks 100th for Kookas

Tony de Souza

Local support: Five Barrel Brewing's Phil O'Shea and His Boy Elroy owner Lachlan Stevens pour a new Snakepit Lager ahead of the basketball season in support of the Illawarra Hawks. Picture: Greg Ellis.

New beer goes on tap at His Boy Elroy for Hawks season

FLYING: Collegians back-rower Jarrod Thompson on the charge against Helensburgh on Saturday. Picture: Anna Warr

Top four locked in as fight goes to the wire

Mitch Jennings

Top efforts: Liam Ryan and York Yu relax after their great runs in last Sunday's City to Surf race in Sydney.

Athletes farewell winter

Valmai Loomes

We may not have been back to the moon since 1969 but the advanced technology of today would certainly have to make for a smoother landing.

Could your mobile phone take you to the moon and back?

Emma Brown

SOMETHING TO TRUMPET: Everyone likes to look good in Cochin, India.

Cruise Singapore to Dubai next year

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Popular choice: Owning a mobile phone is a necessity for just about everyone these days, but did you know that there are 2.5 billion of us that use Android making it the world's most popular operating system.

How to find the perfect phone for you

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We may not have been back to the moon since 1969 but the advanced technology of today would certainly have to make for a smoother landing.

Could your mobile phone take you to the moon and back?

Water villas at the Maldives at sunrise. The islands of the Maldives are explored by boat, revealing pristine beaches and abundant wildlife.

A delightful Indian Ocean island cruise

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Authentic Indian cuisine: The owners, Rishi and Kanchan Rehal, of Rehal's Divine Indian Restaurant located opposite the new Shellharbour Civic Centre, welcome you to try the extensive menu.

Rehal's: Shellharbour goes to India

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STYLE: During a six-month period, Chrissie Zaremba (pictured), a retired teacher, set about styling the home in preparation for it being listed for sale. Pictures: Sylvia Liber

How Chrissie styled a Corrimal home for little more than $100

Brendan Crabb

Picture: Supplied

Last housing release of the year at The Waterfront, Shell Cove

Brendan Crabb

The Wombarra home will be auctioned. Pictures: Supplied

Celebrity agent's lavish Wombarra home to be auctioned

Brendan Crabb

Craftsmanship: Yoo too could be turning out items like these by joining the Illawarra Woodworkers' Group which meets each Saturday morning.

Wood you like to join us?

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MANLY DREAMING: Architects Angelo Candalepas and Glenn Murcutt with Royal Far West chief Lindsay Cane.

Royal Far West centre to get a right royal makeover

Craftsmanship: Yoo too could be turning out items like these by joining the Illawarra Woodworkers' Group which meets each Saturday morning.

Wood you like to join us?

Wollongong chef Summer Carson named apprentice of the year

Wollongong chef Summer Carson named apprentice of the year

Agron Latifi

Office of the Year in a Paid Capacity: Rotary Club of Wollongong member and RESCA committee chairperson Dot Hennessy with Superintendent Tony Waller at Wollongong Fire Station. Picture: Sylvia Liber

Top firefighter recognised

Greg Ellis

Son of a gun: Zipping Browny's sire, three-time Group 1 winner My Bro Fabio. Picture: Sandown Greyhounds.

Maidens take centre stage at Dapto

Tim Fischer. Photo: Eddie Jim.

Former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer dies aged 73

Earth, wind and fire - but not enough water

REAL AUSTRALIA
Earth, wind and fire - but not enough water

When the reality is a stark one

REAL AUSTRALIA
When the reality is a stark one

Emergency or not? Well, it depends on where you live, it seems. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Climate emergency or just rubbish?

James Joyce

Triumphing against the odds

REAL AUSTRALIA
Triumphing against the odds

Meme? Why are people so meme. Geddit?

REAL AUSTRALIA
Why are people so meme?

Rob Inglis

Life, on Australia's third-largest island. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Can you name our three biggest islands?

Stan Gorton

I'm all right Jack: Inaction on climate change is just one of the ways that Australia is letting down younger generations.

How we are failing our younger generations

John Hewson

Sometimes sadness crushes the daisies

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Sometimes sadness crushes the daisies

A private matter: Many smaller towns don't even have 'preferred providers' for services such as dental or physiotherapy. That might mean a long car trip to access the 'preferred' service - cancelling out any financial benefit of having the extras cover in the first place.

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Customer service lacking in private health

Penelope Arthur

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

'GREAT HONOUR': Canberra healthcare worker and grandmother Aunty Thelma Weston has been named 2019 NAIDOC Female Elder of the Year.

Aunty Thelma's warm welcome

Geraldine Cardozo

Older Australians are among at-risk groups for sepsis.

It kills 5000 Aussies a year, but do you know the sepsis warning signs?

Eileen Wood

Police have issued an appeal for help to locate a missing girl from Prenzlau in Southeast QLD.

Girl, 13, missing in southeast Queensland

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Scott Morrison has landed in Hanoi and will meet with Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Morrison slams coercion amid China impasse

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Opponents have called for a repeal of a controversial law protecting Snowy Mountains brumbies.

NSW MPs' debate on brumby petition begins

Jessica Skipper, her two-year-old son, Charlie, and partner Jake Tidey, who opted not to take advantage of the government's dad and partner pay two-week scheme as it would see a drop in the family's income. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Outdated paid parental leave a deterrent to dads: experts

Neighbour Paul Savage says he remembers hearing kids playing the morning William Tyrrell vanished.

Tyrrell neighbour adds new pieces to story

Luke Costin

Chaynika Sethi has been found guilty of 98 counts of stealing as a servant.

WA fashionista guilty of $163k boss theft

Rebecca Le May

Some residents could be able to return to Sydney's Mascot Towers as early as January.

Some Mascot Towers residents could return

Heather McNab

Matt Canavan has branded an engineering firm 'weak as piss" after it severed ties with Adani.

Climate-mining debate must respect regions

Paul Osborne

Always a farmer at heart, Tim Fischer pictured in 1990 in a canola crop in a story for The Land. It's Barossa canola on his farm Peppers at Boree Creek.

Fischer a "titan" of the National Party

John Ellicott, Mike Foley and Vernon Graham

Samantha Longmore features in The Land's podcast, Hear Them Raw, to share her story after overcoming two accidents in one day. Pictures: Lucy Kinbacher

'I survived two crashes in one day'

Lucy Kinbacher

Geoff Rice of Langlands Hanlon, Parkes, takes bids at the prime lamb sale in Forbes.

Let's take a look at the positives during drought

GEOFF RICE

A great experience: fishing at Berkeley River Lodge.

Great ideas for your next getaway

John Rozentals

Nowhere epitomises the problems as much as Venice, which attracts 30 million tourists a year to its magnificent canals and bridges.

Top tourism spots crack down as they become victim of own success

Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Impressive: The view from Common Grounds and the historic wooden bridge across the Hunter.

Take time to mosey around Morpeth

John Rozentals

Local support: Five Barrel Brewing's Phil O'Shea and His Boy Elroy owner Lachlan Stevens pour a new Snakepit Lager ahead of the basketball season in support of the Illawarra Hawks. Picture: Greg Ellis.

New beer goes on tap at His Boy Elroy for Hawks season

Greg Ellis

Anybody investing in shares can expect four negative years out of every 10. This does leave six good ones to take advantage of.

Time in is more important than timing

Noel Whittaker

HOPE: The daffodil is one of the first flowers of spring. For many affected by cancer, the daffodil represents hope for a cancer-free future.

A symbol of hope, strength