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LIFE SAVING: The Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program helped fund the purchase of 59 defibrillators in the Central West and Orana during 2018/19. Photo: FILE

Every 60 seconds lost drops your chance of survival by 10 per cent

Nadine Morton

ATTACKS: Vicious dog attacks are leaving sheep and lambs injured and killed across the region. Photo: FILE

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Vicious attacks are leaving sheep, lambs injured and killed

Nadine Morton

NEW CRIME CAMPAIGN: Assistant Commissioner Geoff McKechnie, state rural crime coordinator Cameron Whiteside and Crime Stoppers CEO Peter Price at the announcement at AgQuip. Photo: Vanessa Hohnke

Police announce rural crime blitz

Jessica Worboys

Photo: Neville Owen

Free grant seeker workshops aim to help drought affected community groups

Taylor Jurd

BRINGING SMILES: Pets may not be living in these aged care homes, but they sure bring smiles when they visit. Photos: BELINDA SOOLE, CHRIS SEABROOK

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Residents are not bringing their pets to live in aged care, data shows

Nadine Morton

BRIGHT FUTURES: NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell, Academy Principal Mandi Randell and MP Dugald Saunders. Photo: CONTRIBUTED.

Central west students grow in leaps and bounds

Taylor Jurd

A Right to Farm Bill will be introduced in NSW partly to stop animal vigilantes entering farms, with tougher trespass laws including possible jail time. Inset is two Northern NSW dairyfarmers who saw their biosecurity breached on farm by activists and another who had their details published online.

Jail for farm trespass, right to farm put into law

John Ellicott

LIFE SAVING: The Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program helped fund the purchase of 59 defibrillators in the Central West and Orana during 2018/19. Photo: FILE

Every 60 seconds lost drops your chance of survival by 10 per cent

Nadine Morton

ATTACKS: Vicious dog attacks are leaving sheep and lambs injured and killed across the region. Photo: FILE

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Vicious attacks are leaving sheep, lambs injured and killed

Nadine Morton

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

Photo: Supplied

Talent to be put on show at Peak Hill's busking championships | Photos

Photo: Neville Owen

Free grant seeker workshops aim to help drought affected community groups

Taylor Jurd

The Henty Machinery Field Days is now the single largest agricultural and open-air event in southern Australia. Photo: Supplied.

Organisers set for a bumper Henty Field Days

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Talent to be put on show at Peak Hill's busking championships | Photos

Martin Simmons, Dubbo Stock and Station Agents director; charity ball committee
members Libby Kelly and Patsi OBrien, and Rod Crowfoot, Macquarie Homestay at the Macquarie Homestay facility in Dubbo. The area to the right is where the second stage of the project is planned to be built. Photo: Supplied.

Stock and station agents to host charity ball

Yum: The event attracts people from all over Australia. Photo: Supplied.

Tuck into Trundle's delicious bush festivities | Photos

Taylor Jurd

The Henty Machinery Field Days is now the single largest agricultural and open-air event in southern Australia. Photo: Supplied.

Organisers set for a bumper Henty Field Days

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

Young Farmers: Yanco Agricultural High School have a proud history of providing a mix of traditional agricultural education. Photo: Supplied.

Time to build your skills

Andrew Lotherington

The Henty Machinery Field Days is now the single largest agricultural and open-air event in southern Australia. Photo: Supplied.

Organisers set for a bumper Henty Field Days

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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REAL ESTATE: Here's what $350,000 will buy you around the Central West and Orana. Photo: FILE

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What $350,000 buys you around the Central West, Orana

Nadine Morton

REAL ESATE: Looking to invest in the Central West? New data from Suburbanite shows where you should avoid. Photo: FILE

Looking to invest in the Central West? Here's where to avoid

Nadine Morton

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

Community minded: Cameron is not only an experienced HAZMAT Sydney firefighter, he also is the head of first aid training at his local surf club at Elouera.

Giving community support a red hot go

SAFE HANDS: Pick up your 32-page farm safety guide in the July 25 edition of The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock & Land and Stock Journal.

Time to put our farms in Safe Hands

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

Dick Smith was awarded 1986 Australian of the Year for his achievements as an entrepreneur and adventurer and his contributions as a philanthropist.

Dick Smith urges Aussies to nominate now for 60th Australian of the Year

Adrian Gath, Nick Pearce, and Glenn Box of 200 Bales, with Debbie Clemmet and Ros Lee from Newcastle Permanents Mudgee Branch.

200 Bales nearing one year, having has raised over $500,000

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

Earth, wind and fire - but not enough water

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Earth, wind and fire - but not enough water

Dog attack: Mechanic Brendan "Bear" Clark was working on a Coonamble property when he was mauled by two large dogs. He lost his right arm in the traumatic attack. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

Second man in court with deputy mayor after savage dog attack

Streaking clear: Track specialist Smart Desire at Goulburn. Picture: Goulburn Greyhound Racing Club.

Goulburn kick starts track reconstructions

Sarah Murray, Heike Kriek, Anya Kriek and Rhoda Kriek all set for the 5km fun run/walk. Photo: Simone Kurtz

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19th Mudgee Running Festival the most popular ever with over 1000 registrations

Benjamin Palmer

When the reality is a stark one

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When the reality is a stark one

Janine Graham

TRESSES: Eli Spielvogel will shave his long locks to raise money for the Leukemia Foundation. Picture: supplied

Eli's close shave to give thanks for good health

Michelle Smith

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

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Climate emergency or just rubbish?

James Joyce

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

Find effective strategies: Rural Aid Counsellor Gary Bentley says coping takes investment, effort and action. Photo: File.

Coping 'worth the effort', counsellor

Gary Bentley

Sometimes sadness crushes the daisies

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Sometimes sadness crushes the daisies

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

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

Mascot Towers owners vote to pay $7m levy

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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

Cassandra Morgan

Tim Fischer backed John Howard's overhauling of Australia's gun laws after the Port Arthur massacre.

Gun laws will be Tim Fischer's legacy

Paul Osborne

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

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

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

Versatile: "I wanted its name to be something you remember, says Maitland mum Jo Hardie of the Spewy. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers.

'Spewy' kids lead to mum's invention

Penelope Green