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► ILLAWARRA: Andy Campbell had a tally of items to tick off her to-do list before she started kindy. Get fitted for her uniform? Check. Catch up with cousins? Check. Start her own business? Check.
► TASMANIA: This year’s Party in the Paddock will be hard to top in future years, according to organiser Jesse Higgs.
► NEW SOUTH WALES: See how pets across central New South Wales cooled off during the weekend's heatwave.
► ORANGE: Explosions were heard and black smoke filled the air as a fire blazed at a business in William Street, Orange, yesterday.
National news
► VICTORIA: More than 50,000 Victorian state school teachers and principals are preparing to strike unless the Andrews government fixes their "crushing" workload.
► REGIONAL: See the best photos taken by Fairfax Media photographers and journalists this week.
► VICTORIA: A cruise liner that lost power off the Victorian coast on its way to New Zealand with thousands of passengers on board is being towed back to Melbourne for repairs.
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World news
► Washington: Funny thing, reality. Donald Trump promised to be a hairy-chested president, who would shirt front all who stood in his way – but just as the courts have brought to heel on the legality of his migration crackdown, foreign policy experts have him turning somersaults on China, Iran and Israel.
► Bangkok: Cambodia's opposition leader has resigned to save his party from forced dissolution after threats from the country's strongman Hun Sen.
On this day: February 12
► 2008: GM reports record loss, offers buyouts to 74,000 workers.
► 1938: Judy Blume, popular young-adult author, is born.
► 1976: Actor Sal Mineo is killed in Hollywood.
The faces of Australia: David Manning
► That David Manning became a prisoner of the Japanese during World War Two at all was as much down to bad luck as to the general ebb and flow of history.