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Moving up: Matt Bale celebrates with Matt Broderick during Port United's FFA Cup loss to Boambee. Mid North Coast clubs will face Coffs Harbour opponents from 2020. Photo: Paul Jobber

10-team competition to strengthen football on Mid North Coast

Paul Jobber

Under-16 and under-19 girls take to the court at school titles

Paul Jobber

Commonwealth Games wheelchair race gold medalist Kurt Fearnley signs autographs during a street parade to honour the games' athletes through central Brisbane, Friday, April 27, 2018. (AAP Image/Dan Peled)

Fearnley reflects on what it takes to have a winning mentality

Paul Jobber

Moving up: Matt Bale celebrates with Matt Broderick during Port United's FFA Cup loss to Boambee. Mid North Coast clubs will face Coffs Harbour opponents from 2020. Photo: Paul Jobber

10-team competition to strengthen football on Mid North Coast

Heading abroad: Kelly Williams, Lachlan Knox and Declan Elford have been selected in the under-18 NSW Cockatoos development tour to Canada next month.

Vikings trio bound for Canada with under-18 NSW Cockatoos

Paul Jobber

Tight corner: Bobbi Ward steers her horse Thunder around the barrel. Photo: Jen Sole Photography.

Bobbi's special connection with horse leads to barrel race success

Callum McGregor

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Harmony Day: Local groups and schools are hosting numerous activities as the nation takes time to recognise the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21.

Everyone belongs as CSU hosts Harmony Day celebration

Robert Dougherty

Kavisha Mazzella

Mazzella to cross musical boundaries in Wauchope

HARSH CONDITIONS: Ray and his team operating under torch light with no power.

Come to dinner and help women suffering in Nepal

Laura Telford

Harmony Day: Local groups and schools are hosting numerous activities as the nation takes time to recognise the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21.

Everyone belongs as CSU hosts Harmony Day celebration

The Estuarine Lakeside Linkages project aimed to reduce weeds and feral pests, such as foxes, and improve the habitat values of important wildlife corridors between the areas that link Dooragan (North Brother) Mountain with the coast.

Celebrating weeds and wildlife project in Camden Haven

All smiles: Janet Kesby (centre), and her daughters Julie and Alison, support dragon boating.

Gather over Devonshire tea to raise funds for cancer research

Lisa Tisdell

Museum and Heritage consultant Kylie Winkworth at the Port City Bowling Club with the publication 'Her Story'.

Objects a window into past lives of local women

Carla Mascarenhas

Historic Port Macquarie papers recognised on world register

Gordon Street looking west from the Kooloonbung Creek Bridge, 1960s. Photo: Port Macquarie Museum.

Then and Now: Our history in pictures, Port Macquarie

Tracey Fairhurst

Why not trade the purgatory of city traffic for a little slice of coastal paradise?

Tom Sebo

An exclusive bushland lifestyle close to everything

Jil Hogan

The beautiful Maldives: In the Maldives the group will cruise some of the region's most spectacular islands, taking in pristine beaches and abundant wildlife. This is sponsored content from Travelrite.

Seychelles, Maldives and Andaman Islands make for the holiday of a lifetime

Why not trade the purgatory of city traffic for a little slice of coastal paradise?

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Ruth Lewis

The Bundaleer independent living community has a lively social scene.

Find the unexpected

Brooke Hodgson

Setting a new benchmark

House of the Week

Read this week’s Domain here

Ruth Lewis

Map of auctions and homes open for inspection: March 15 – March 21, 2019

Ruth Lewis

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Through Your Eyes: cloud formations magic to the eye

Laura Telford

Kavisha Mazzella

Mazzella to cross musical boundaries in Wauchope

HARSH CONDITIONS: Ray and his team operating under torch light with no power.

Come to dinner and help women suffering in Nepal

Laura Telford

@honey_dandelionphotography

Through Your Eyes: cloud formations magic to the eye

TOGETHER: Julie Constable, David Comish and Mike Chambers building a hand.

Lending a hand: Rotary build arms for those in need

Laura Telford

COMPETITORS: Wauchope's Shannah Schroeder and winner of the competition Stephen Smith.

Students roar in Lions quest for youth of the year

Laura Telford

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Through Your Eyes: cloud formations magic to the eye

Photo: WSL/Matt Dunbar

The master, Kelly Slater, surfs on

Salute to women of song: Australian leading lady of country Melinda Schneider brings her tribute album Great Women of Country tour to Laurieton United Services Club.

Leading lady of country comes to Laurieton

WINNERS: St Columba Anglican School';s robotics team after securing a spot to go to Texas.

SCAS reign supreme as they take robots to Texas

Close shave: Tom Lambert with hairdresser Bella Hopwood.

Haircuts and hot cappuccinos on the house for those in need

Robert Dougherty

Port Macquarie: The faces behind an ambitious plan for new Marina Street Food Markets.

Ambitious plan to create street food heaven

Robert Dougherty

SCAS under-16 boys win third-straight Hastings futsal title

Paul Jobber

Cycle on: Ride captain Bernard Corbett.

Off road cyclists in fundraising pedal

Robert Dougherty

EYE TOONS: Guy Hansen, curator of the Inked: Australian Cartoons exhibition at the National Library of Australia in Canberra, with the exhibition's highly decorated kangaroo mascot by cartoonist David Pope. Photo: Karleen Minney

Inked into history: cartoons tell story of us

GUY HANSEN

Regional education: We must make sure every Australian gets a fair go

Dan Tehan

POWERFUL: This is the image of Carlton's Tayla Harris in AFLW action that has people talking. Picture: Michael Willson, AFL Media

Tayla Harris photo response sparks vital dialogue at grassroots

Melanie Whelan

End-of-life doula Helen Callanan

Doulas provide support for the dying

Eileen Wood

ON REFLECTION: Simon Cullen with the Lookinglass artifical intelligence mirror.

AI mirror monitors Parkinson’s signs

BE SAFE: If you find it is too tricky or unsafe to fit a smoke alarm yourself, contact your nearest Fire and Rescue NSW station for advice.

Be alarmed about fire risk

Gladys Berejiklian has a narrow lead over Michael Daley for preferred premier with 38-36 per cent.

Daley unsure of schools and TAFE funding

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Scott Morrison says he's deeply offended by the Turkish president's remarks on Gallipoli.

PM seeks answer on Turkey Anzac outburst

Susan Neill-Fraser is serving 23 years in jail for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell

Judgment date in Neill-Fraser freedom bid

Graeme Bryan Curran has pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting a boy nine times.

Magistrate testifies at child abuse trial

Inaction could lead to koalas becoming extinct in NSW because population numbers are falling.

Nationals koala numbers laid bare

There's no evidence to back Labor's claim NSW power prices are the highest in the developed world.

Labor's NSW power price claim is false

Barry Ehrke was commissioned to prepare a report into the sinking of the prawn trawler FV Cassandra.

Ropes stop sunken Qld trawler's lifeboats

Aaron Bunch

Australia will wait for an international consensus on taxing the online economy.

Australia won't go it alone on digital tax

Marnie Banger

Maintaining the upkeep and cleanliness of farm silos is advised at anytime, but with the pressure of drought it might be one of those jobs which gets put aside. Photo: GRDC

Monitor farm grain storage

Stephen Burns

Flood damage on Ross Sherlock's farm outside Cooma after a rain supercell hit last week.

'Heaviest rain in 50 years' on parts of Monaro

John Ellicott

Port of Bourke Hotel

Bourke cues up record

Samantha Townsend

Business as usual: Peppers Blue on Blue.

Your weekly travel inspiration

John Rozentals

Qualia: Exclusive packages for Hamilton Island Race Week.

Do you need some travel inspiration?

John Rozentals

Take a taste stop at Haigh’s Chocolates on Beehive Corner, Rundle Mall.

Take the time to soak up a little bit of Adelaide

Bronwyn Ridgway

Broad Arrow Cafe with the water memorial. Picture: Scott Gelston.

Port Arthur survivors share their long road to recovery

Lucy Slade
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Samara Johnston's life jigsaw. Photos: supplied

One woman's search for answers: from Port Macquarie to Sri Lanka

Carla Mascarenhas

SAFE AND SECURE: One benefit of telehealth consultations for rural and remote patients is the feeling of confidentiality it provides.

Using video chat to access mental health treatment

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