A trough is slowly moving across Tasmania this morning, while an associated low moves through eastern Bass Strait. The low will move away to the east tonight, as a narrow ridge of high pressure extends over Tasmania. A front is expected to cross the state on Sunday bringing a cold southwesterly airstream, which will tend southerly during Monday as a ridge of high pressure extends to the south of Tasmania. A low is then expected to develop along the southern New South Wales coast during Tuesday.

North-West news

► RAIN or shine thousands of people are set to flock to Latrobe for the NWFL grand final on Saturday. Latrobe Football Club general manager, Kandice Blake, said a crowd of 4000 would be wonderful. Read more.

► THE threatened Devonport Show will be held again in November but organisers have called for more volunteers to come forward. The future of the 108-year-old Devonport Show was assured for this year said Agricultural and Pastoral Society president Lesley Young. Read more. 

► DESPITE the wet weather, students were happy to get their hands dirty for the Latrobe BioBlitz. The aim for BioBlitz is to discover and record as many species as you can within 30 hours, and involves students working closely with naturalists, volunteers and scientists within the community. Read more.

State of the nation

Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered. 

► ILLAWARRA: Father’s Day started like a normal Sunday for Joseph Meli. That was until he was out walking through Crown Street Mall around Midday and noticed models on the catwalk during Heat 2 of Illawarra’s Top Model.

Joseph has suffered from mental health personally and thought to himself “what a great thing they are doing”.

But it also got him thinking about what he could do to raise some more awareness and turn the depressing feeling that comes from the impact of a mental illness episode on its head.

► NEWCASTLE: Corrective Services NSW has unveiled its world-class training centre for new recruits in the former Tomago Detention Centre.

Corrective Services revealed it has started the recruitment process for 150 officers who will be based at Cessnock Correctional Centre and undergo training at the new Tomago facility.

In a major milestone, the first recruits have become the first to graduate under Corrective Services’ biggest recruitment drive in its history.

► TAS: Creating intrinsic sculptures is something that brings a great deal of enjoyment to artist Paul Brunyee. 

As you drive up to his luscious green property you are greeted by some of his sublime sculptures.

 “I’ve always been creative, in 1990 I had a small introduction into art cutting glass for a Dutchman,” Brunyee said. 

“He was able to show me the benefits of cutting glass then I ended up for many many years with a leading glass designer named Jeffrey Hamilton in Sydney.”

► BENDIGO: A former Bendigo Health construction manager will next month plead to corruption and deception charges relating to goods and services said to be part of works clearing the way for the city’s new hospital.

It’s alleged Adam David Hardinge, 39, stole more than $30,000 in tools and equipment belonging to Bendigo Health, and allegedly gained more than $15,000 through deception.

Hardinge appeared in the Bendigo Magistrates’ Court on Friday where his matter was adjourned to a plea hearing on October 19.

► VIC: Among the many images gleaned from the Tromp family's ill-fated car journey from outer Melbourne into the wilds of NSW – a long, 1500-kilometre road to nowhere – one remains more frightening than the rest.

The finer details of it are thin because the man who found Riana Tromp, 29, the eldest child of the successful berry farming family from Silvan, has opted not to elaborate beyond the basics. But what we know is Keith Whittaker, of Goulburn, got in his ute to drive to Canberra last week and felt a kicking on the back of his seat.

► PORT MACQUARIE: It might say spring on the calendar, but lifeguards operating in the Port Macquarie-Hastings region will get their first taste of summer this weekend when they are put through their paces at their annual proficiency and induction day. 

Approximately 30 lifeguards will be at Flynns Beach on Saturday, September 10 for the formal induction process and testing of their skills and fitness. 

The aim is for the recruits to be in peak condition and able to respond to any coastal emergency during the 2016/17 season. 

► BATHURST: A crisis can occur at any moment and having people reading and willing to help can make all the difference.

To mark R U OK? day and World Suicide Prevention Day, which both occur this week, Lifeline Central West’s volunteer crisis supporters have stepped up to the mark.

The Bathurst call centre, which takes crisis calls from across Australia usually operates from 6am-10pm, but from Thursday until Saturday this week volunteers will man the phones 24-hours-a-day.

► WARRNAMBOOL: Elderly people who are being abused by family members are encouraged to speak out.

Warrnambool police Acting Sergeant Shannon Kavenagh said elder abuse was a complex and hidden problem that occurred in the community.

She said often family member or friend abused the older person, who did not report it for fear, shame or because they loved the perpetrator.

► WAGGA: Marcus Stanford, the twin brother of the man who murdered school teacher Stephanie Scott, has been freed from the Junee jail.

Stanford hid in the back of a silver four-wheel-drive believed to be driven by his mother, going past waiting media camped at the gates of the Junee Correctional Centre this morning.

Stanford, who pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact of Ms Scott’s murder, was released after serving a 15-month fixed term jail sentence handed down on August 24 but backdated to June 15 last year when he went into custody.

► It has been just over 10 years since John Bradley's daughter, Heather – a budding actor – took her own life. Yet Mr Bradley, who has two other children, says grief still manages to "ambush" him.

"Last Sunday was Father's Day," he says. "I had some contact with my surviving children, but obviously not with Heather. Those days, I feel, you get ambushed in your grief.

"I can hear just a bit of music, see something – a photograph – or bump into someone.

► The education company at the centre of the donations furore that halted the front bench career of Labor senator Sam Dastyari is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the government's new streamlined visa program, new data from the federal Department of Education reveals.

Data released this week shows that 98.5 per cent of Top Education students are international, more than double the Australian private higher education institution average of 42 per cent. It has one of the highest proportions of international students of any private higher education institution in NSW.

Of the 13 local students the institution has enrolled, only 46 per cent successfully completed their first year.

► London: A furious Norwegian newspaper has taken Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to task for "abusing his power" as the world's most powerful editor, after the social media company demanded censorship of the famous Vietnam war 'napalm girl' photograph.

Espen Egil Hansen, editor-in-chief of the Aftenposten, the country's biggest newspaper, has published a long tirade against Mr Zuckerberg after receiving an email from Facebook saying the image contravened the site's rules on nudity.

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For decades Harris ‘Chip’ Redhead has been seeing to the health of Blayney Shire residents as one of its longest serving GP’s, but if fate had turned a different corner, Dr Redhead could well have become an architect.

“I’ve always been interested in drawing, always, and before television of course I used to have a box of watercolours and I would copy the paintings on the wall,” he said. “I still have the original box of watercolour paint.”

That was in 1938 as an artistic 10 year old but it wasn’t until just after the Second World War had ended that Dr Redhead had his first lesson. Read more here.