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SAYING GOODBYE: Reverend Scott Dulley will host his last service in Muswellbrook on November 24.

Reverend Scott Dulley off to new pastures

Cody Tsaousis

HARSH TRUTH: The demonstration held no punches, showing the death is a very real possibility if you're doing the wrong thing.

Mock crash addresses real issues | PHOTOS, VIDEO

Cody Tsaousis

We're happy to do our bit | PHOTOS

We're happy to do our bit | PHOTOS

Rod Thompson

New Mt Arthur GM has big plans

New Mt Arthur GM has big plans

Teen vying for leadership prize

Teen vying for leadership prize

Rod Thompson

High temperatures pose a danger

High temperatures pose a danger

WELL DESERVED: Senior Constable Sheree Gray at the Rotary NSW Police Officer of the Year Awards.

Sheree Gray wins major award

Cody Tsaousis

SAYING GOODBYE: Reverend Scott Dulley will host his last service in Muswellbrook on November 24.

Reverend Scott Dulley off to new pastures

Cody Tsaousis

HARSH TRUTH: The demonstration held no punches, showing the death is a very real possibility if you're doing the wrong thing.

Mock crash addresses real issues | PHOTOS, VIDEO

Cody Tsaousis

Port Macquarie - a lifetime ago: Well, about a fortnight ago anyway. Photo: Brittany Daly

REAL AUSTRALIAA dollop of tolerance goes a long way

It's a massive thrill

It's a massive thrill

Craig Kerry

French double sets up win | PHOTOS

French double sets up win | PHOTOS

Rod Thompson

Golfer's future looks bright

Golfer's future looks bright

Tony Webeck

It's a massive thrill

It's a massive thrill

SUN SAFE: The Muswellbrook Junior Cricket club is happy to welcome MACH Energy as their major sponsor for 2019/20.

MACH puts energy into keeping junior cricketers sun safe

Cody Tsaousis

Athletes showcase skills | PHOTOS

Athletes showcase skills | PHOTOS

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Self portrait: Ben Quilty after Afghanistan 2012. Private collection, Sydney.

Documentary captures Ben Quilty confronting injustice head-on

Jim Kellar

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

POPULAR: Dave Matthews Band is returning to Australia in April for Byron Bay Bluesfest and will play sideshows at Sydney and Melbourne.

MUSICTalking (Australian) turkey with Dave Matthews

Lisa Rockman

Use the fruit from a pomegranate tree to make grenadine. Picture: Shutterstock

A homegrown pink picnic

Susan Parsons

One of the greatest benefits of the digital health industry will be unprecedented equity in the services and level of patient care available.

Closing the gap

One of the greatest benefits of the digital health industry will be unprecedented equity in the services and level of patient care available.

Closing the gap

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

This one is a keeper

This one is a keeper

The perfect family package

The perfect family package

There's so much to this property

There's so much to this property

#TrainHack participants will travel to Armidale on the XPT train.

Inaugural #Trainhack postponed due to bushfires

Gemma Purves

Who will it be for 2020?: 2019 Australian of the Year award winners. Photo: Salty Dingo

32 great Aussies vying for national honours

Endeavours receive much acclaim

Endeavours receive much acclaim

Rod Thompson

#TrainHack participants will travel to Armidale on the XPT train.

Inaugural #Trainhack postponed due to bushfires

UHCM staff Vincent Parmeter and Samantha Cobcroft with Ravensworth Complex manager Klay Marchant, former UHCM chair John Colvin and his wife, Gwen.

Singalong hits the right note

GROUP FUN: Angelo Mendoza, Ashton Hanye, Andres Flampoulidis, Luke Visic, Bailey Hartley and Jack Markham.

Colour running for a new playground | PHOTOS

Cody Tsaousis

French double sets up win | PHOTOS

French double sets up win | PHOTOS

The long form TV style gives time for the exploration of landscape, stories, culture and history. Picture: Supplied.

The outback uses 'slow TV' to share stories, culture

A tale to tell: North Haven residents Jodie and Nathan Gardner present day (left) and the Port News photo after Nathan's birth in 2009 (right).

Were you involved in a highway delivery 10 years ago?

HARSH TRUTH: The demonstration held no punches, showing the death is a very real possibility if you're doing the wrong thing.

Mock crash addresses real issues | PHOTOS, VIDEO

We're happy to do our bit | PHOTOS

We're happy to do our bit | PHOTOS

Rod Thompson

Port Macquarie - a lifetime ago: Well, about a fortnight ago anyway. Photo: Brittany Daly

REAL AUSTRALIAA dollop of tolerance goes a long way

Janine Graham

REGULAR DONOR: Paul McLean donates plasma fortnightly at the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood service in Warrnambool.

South-west Victorians urged to give blood as fires rage

Kimberley Price

Ex-cop rescues koala as northern NSW burns

Ex-cop rescues koala as northern NSW burns

Ben Smyth

Preparing teens for jobs that don't exist yet

OPINIONPreparing teens for jobs that don't exist yet

Brent Lehmann

'Pray for rain, pray harder for leadership'

OPINION'Pray for rain, pray harder for leadership'

Badja Sparks

Port Macquarie - a lifetime ago: Well, about a fortnight ago anyway. Photo: Brittany Daly

REAL AUSTRALIAA dollop of tolerance goes a long way

Janine Graham

Preparing teens for jobs that don't exist yet

OPINIONPreparing teens for jobs that don't exist yet

Are you talking to me? Picture: Shutterstock

Are you someone who likes to talk tough?

John Malouff

Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack (left) has come under fire for dismissing comments linking bushfires to climate change as "ravings of some pure enlightened and woke capital city greenies". Picture: Alex Ellinghausen

SUBSCRIBERAn open letter to the Deputy PM: Fire is burning your party

David Shearman

RAINBOW RIBBON: Queensland AIDS Council CEO Rebecca Reynolds, Arcare CEO Colin Singh, Local Liberal state member for Bonney, Sam OConnor at the opening of Arcare Parkwood.

Queensland's first LGBTI aged care opens

OUCH: Corticosteroid injections versus orthotics.

Heel pain: to jab or not to jab?

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Polio survivors at Polio Australia's 2017 health and wellness retreat on the Sunshine Coast.

Demanding action for polio survivors

Rowan Cowley

Fire conditions in Queensland remain grim.

Queensland fires flare as winds pick up

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Andrew Hastie is unrepentant about his criticisms that have seen him barred from a trip to China.

Liberal MP refuses to back down on China

Firefighters and residents northwest of Sydney have been trying to prepare for conditions to worsen.

Anxious wait as NSW bushfire rages

The government is set to ban the import of bump stock devices that increase gun firing speed.

Rapid-fire gun attachments set for ban

The NSW government has kicked in another $200k to help clean up fire-ravaged areas.

NSW govt boosts bushfire aid by $200k

Aine Fox

Greens MP Adam Bandt has defended Jordon Steele-John's spray over climate change.

Greens MP backs senator's 'arsonist' spray

Matt Coughlan

The fire danger in northern NSW and Sydney will increase as conditions worsen this week.

Bushfire crews backburn to protect homes

Aine Fox

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is resisting calls to speed up tax cuts and other stimulation measures .

Treasurer sticking to his guns on economy

Matt Coughlan

ON THE MARKET: Do you have an interesting real estate story that could be featured in an upcoming edition? Please email brendan.crabb@illawarramercury.com.au with details. Picture: Supplied

Luxury Jamberoo property with popular farm-stay cottage listed for sale

Brendan Crabb

DRAINED: Tony Sergi is incredibly disappointed in the government knowing they are 'playing politics' with our donated water. PHOTO: Jacinta Dickins

'Playing politics' with MIA irrigator's plan to donate water

Jacinta Dickins

Home on the range where the bore water is forever on tap. This unique property is up for sale.

A farm where the water never runs out

John Ellicott

Our team took blood samples, four DNA samples and imbedded two GPS tracking devices while myself and eight others worked hard to keep the animal upright. Photos: Scott McRae

Combining conservation with wanderlust

Scott McRae

Working out how to switch off all the lights in a hotel room shouldn't be that difficult ... should it? Picture: Supplied

Room for improvement: What hotels could be doing better

Michael Turtle

Wineglass Bay: Guests will learn about the unique animals that live there and the peninsula's history, including the pink granite peaks of the Hazards Mountains.

Have wanderlust? Here are travel news bites

COLOUR POP: Next year's hottest colours reflect everything from our current faves to environmental concerns. All furniture available at essentialhome.eu.

Take a seat and check out the colour trends for 2020

Paul said the owners are especially happy with the rich internal palette. Images: andymacphersonstudio.com

Built to blend into Byron Bay

The plastics and metals used to make mobile phones are valuable resources that can be recovered and made into new products, reducing the need to mine.

How is your Recycling Week going?