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Regional news
► ALBURY: Friends and former teammates have paid tribute to Border sporting identity Karl Jacka by hanging up football jumpers and posting pictures online. Read more
► BERRY: A Sydney man who allegedly crashed his car into another vehicle while trying to evade a random breath test in Berry on Australia Day was disqualified from driving until 2060. Read more
► BREADALBANE: A man has been refused bail after police seized a large amount of cash from his vehicle on Friday. Read more
► BENDIGO: A Bendigo woman is facing a charge of dangerous driving causing death in relation to a fatal crash in Moama almost one year ago, in which a 22-year-old Bendigo woman was killed. Read more
► WAGGA: ANXIOUS residents are storing weapons beside their beds in order to protect themselves from Wagga’s growing property crime spree. Read more
► FINGAL: Paul Southworth has a clear vision for his rundown Georgian hotel. Some may think he was crazy to buy a dilapidated pub at the heart of the Fingal Valley - more than an hour’s drive from Launceston. But Mr Southworth has a plan to turn the building into a destination itself. Read more
► TAMWORTH: Check out the photos from the Tamworth Country Music Festival Golden Guitars red carpet.
► ILLAWARRA: Cheeky nature-lovers have discovered the Illawarra’s appeal as a backdrop for eye-catching nude photos.
National news
► The Turnbull government is pinning hopes for its US refugee deal on a clause buried deep within Donald Trump's controversial anti-Muslim executive order. Read more.
► Any notion that One Nation, the political machine built by Pauline Hanson two decades ago, was still an outlier in western politics should have now been swept away by Donald Trump's first week in office. Read more.
► Two National Party MPs have racked up a combined bill of $200,000 chartering private flights to and from their electorates to attend sessions of Parliament in Canberra since the change of government.
► On January 17, as Novak Djokovic battled Fernando Verdasco on Rod Laver Arena, two men in their late 30s, travelling on Estonian passports, were pulled aside by Australian Border Force officials at Melbourne Airport's bustling international arrivals terminal. Read more.
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International news
► "Trump, you know he may turn out to be the bad guy that solves the problem." Loretta Napoleoni, for 20 years an expert on the politics and finances of jihadi terrorism, says this with a dry smile. Read more
► In the end star shells were all David Manning had left. It was February 28, 1942, and Banten Bay, on the north-west coast of Java, was swarming with enemy ships. Manning was a gunner on board HMAS Perth I, under siege from Japanese destroyers. The Allied cruiser had run out of ammunition, Manning, now 93, recalls from his home in Ballarat. Read more.
Faces of Australia: Brian Phillips
BRIAN Phillips’ chances of survival were about as slim as you could get.
After receiving a lung transplant at the Alfred Hospital in June last year, doctors called his family not once, but twice, to come and say their final goodbyes.
His wife Debbie describes how his condition was an hourly prospect.
But Brian cheerfully interjects:
“They didn’t tell me that now, did they?”