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FAMILY: James and Jess Wood were able to welcome baby boy William thanks to IVF. Photo: DANIEL SHIRKIE

An elusive bundle of joy and one couple's journey through IVF

Danielle Cetinski

Young's main street on Tuesday morning. Photo: Peter Guthrie

INTERACTIVE: Let us know you're Open for Business

What you need to know after a day of social distancing this Saturday

DIGESTWhat you need to know after a day of social distancing this Saturday

Shana Morgan

Washing your hands properly remains the best available defence when it comes to avoiding the coronavirus. Picture: Shutterstock

The coronavirus explained: Everything you need to know

Peter Brewer

How COVID-19 is unfolding around Australia

IN DEPTHHow COVID-19 is unfolding around Australia

Gayle Tomlinson

DEMAND: Mt Roland Free Range Eggs' Angela and Phil Glover have seen a massive rise in chicken sales during the COVID-19 crisis. Photo: Scott Gelston

Why people are panic buying live chickens

Kate Benson

Want to risk being spotted? Photo: Shutterstock

Think you won't be fined for breaking isolation rules? Yeah, nah

Janine Graham

FAMILY: James and Jess Wood were able to welcome baby boy William thanks to IVF. Photo: DANIEL SHIRKIE

An elusive bundle of joy and one couple's journey through IVF

Danielle Cetinski

Young's main street on Tuesday morning. Photo: Peter Guthrie

INTERACTIVE: Let us know you're Open for Business

ADVICE: Working from home is different for many but not impossible if a few basic guidelines are followed.

WATCHWorking from Home: ACM Video Guide

Photo: Leigh Strange.

Life during COVID-19 - without a grocery store

All you need to know about coronavirus in one place

All you need to know about coronavirus in one place

Treatments for COVID-19 are progressing. Picture: Shutterstock

COVID-19 treatments may be ready to go in three months

Social distancing in a remote world - what we can learn from young people

OPINIONSocial distancing in a remote world - what we can learn from young people

Long queues formed outside of Woden Centrelink this week. Picture: Karleen Minney

EXPLAINERHave you lost work? Here's what you need to know

Julia Kanapathippillai

Cheers - in a time of COVID-19: Social distancing but celebrating the end of a big week - at home, of course. Photo: Shutterstock

DIGESTWhat you need to know today. Now go have a drink. You deserve it

Janine Graham

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday with a version of the coronavirus quarantine declaration that all international arrivals must sign. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Defence to enforce hotel quarantine for all arrivals

Kirsten Lawson

ADVICE: Working from home is different for many but not impossible if a few basic guidelines are followed.

WATCHWorking from Home: ACM Video Guide

Ashley Walmsley

Payne Haas of the Broncos takes on the defence during the round 2 NRL match between the Brisbane Broncos and the South Sydney Rabbitohs at Suncorp Stadium on March 20, 2020 in Brisbane before the season was suspended due to COVID-19. Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images

How the NRL season might have gone

Laurie Daley

NRL players are being asked to take a big pay cut so the game can survive the COVID-19 shutdown.

No deals yet on NRL, AFL pay cuts

Steve Larkin

Sandra Holmes and Lyn Page dressed for the occasion on Wednesday.

Helen and Liz leading

Payne Haas of the Broncos takes on the defence during the round 2 NRL match between the Brisbane Broncos and the South Sydney Rabbitohs at Suncorp Stadium on March 20, 2020 in Brisbane before the season was suspended due to COVID-19. Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images

How the NRL season might have gone

IOC president Thomas Bach says the 2021 Olympic Games may not necessarily happen in northern summer.

'All options on table' for Tokyo Oly dates

War veteran and Essendon ambassador Jack Jones (middle left) passed away on March 24 after being diagnosed with cancer in December. He is pictured here with (from left) John Worsfold, Senior Coach of the Bombers, Pete Smith OAM and Dyson Heppell of the Bombers at an ANZAC ceremony in 2018 in Melbourne. Picture by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images.

Essendon legend Jack Jones dies at 95

Rohan Connolly

Hallgrmskirkja, is a Lutheran church in Reykjavk, is the largest church and the tallest structure in Iceland. Picture: Shutterstock

Could cruise ships become floating hospitals?

Daisy Huntly

Stone walls criss cross through farmland on the largest of the Aran Islands, Inis Mor. Photo: Kathy Sharpe

Ancient relics and wild landscapes enchant on the Aran Islands

Kathy Sharpe

Hawaii is a winner. Picture: Shutterstock

Polynesian paradise awaiting at the end of the road

Mark Chipperfield

Rat lanterns created by Hennessy Catholic College students and Young Society of Artists members are on display at the Town Hall. Photo: file

Talking tourism: Here's what's happening around the Hilltops

John and Lindel Roxburgh, Peter Roberts, Peter and Julie O'Connor and Eris Gleeson. Photo: contributed

Talking tourism: Wickham Lane to perform at Take 5 Concert

Pat Simmons is one of three authors attending. Photo: contributed

Lambing Flat Writers seminar to explore writing for children

Rat lanterns created by Hennessy Catholic College students and Young Society of Artists members are on display at the Town Hall. Photo: file

Talking tourism: Here's what's happening around the Hilltops

Grenfell Kart Club to host second round of Southern Star Series

Grenfell Kart Club to host second round of Southern Star Series

Peter Guthrie

Artist Tracy Luff with the participants of the two-day lantern making workshop. Photo: Peter Guthrie

Giant rats to light up festival's lantern parade

Peter Guthrie

A sweet Easter treat that is easy on the waistline

A sweet Easter treat that is easy on the waistline

Emma Brown

Kings Canyon, Watarrka National Park, NT.

Connectivity central to helping NT tourism

Kym Morgan

PODCAST || Connectivity vital to regional Australia

PODCAST || Connectivity vital to regional Australia

Gemma Purves

A sweet Easter treat that is easy on the waistline

A sweet Easter treat that is easy on the waistline

One of the couples that feature in the Love is Not Enough video.

Love is not enough for end-of-life decisions

Finding a driving instructor who is the right fit for you

Finding a driving instructor who is the right fit for you

MILESTONE: Dubbo couple Taylar Osborne and Jack Browne and seven-month-old daughter Hollie Browne celebrate the purchase of their first home with real estate agent Adam Wells. Photo: SUPPLIED

How a young dad achieved his home ownership dream

Faye Wheeler

SAVINGS: $9 million has been saved by first home buyers entering market. Photo: FILE

$9 million saved by first home buyers entering market

Faye Wheeler

DREAM AWAY: The most expensive homes sold during 2019 in photos.

PHOTOSSee photos of the most expensive real estate sales of 2019

Nadine Morton

Keep your anxiety in check

Keep your anxiety in check

Gary Bentley, Rural Aid

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Friendship and commitment: Club president Mrs Reeves (centre) with members of VIEW in the 1960s.

Power of women: VIEW celebrates 60 years of friendship, strength and support

Rosie Ryan

Keep your anxiety in check

Keep your anxiety in check

Green dream in a fragile land

Green dream in a fragile land

Michelle Haines Thomas

PLANTING IDEAS: Celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis encourages Camdenville Public School students to see what goes on a ground level when planting fire retardant native shrubs.

Costa and Landcare sows hope after fires

Robyn Ainsworth

ADVICE: Working from home is different for many but not impossible if a few basic guidelines are followed.

WATCHWorking from Home: ACM Video Guide

Publisher ACM's newspapers around the country will carry the community safety message on their front pages.

WATCHWe've lent our trusted voice to virus safety message

A New York state of mind: coronavirus empties the Big Apple's steets

A New York state of mind: coronavirus empties the Big Apple's steets

The good news stories you NEED in your life right now

GOOD NEWSThe good news stories you NEED in your life right now

Kobe Mcinerney races around Bogolong Circuit during the Southern Star Series at Grenfell. Photo: Jamie Benaud

Karters flock to Grenfell for Southern Star Series

Flashback Friday: Young in December, 2003 | Photos

Flashback Friday: Young in December, 2003 | Photos

Jasmine, 9, and Abigail, 7, enjoy the great outdoors and some exercise with a hula hoop and skipping rope. A little pop tennis is also on the cards.

Old-fashioned fun to stave off the boredom among children

Jackie Meyers

Sexy business: Sex Education, clever and funny, it's perfect binge material.

Ten Netflix offerings for a binge-fest while you're ... indoors

Sorting the virus facts from the fake news

OPINIONSorting the virus facts from the fake news

Dr Kathryn Shine

Which COVID-19er are you?

OPINIONWhich COVID-19er are you?

Michelle Haines Thomas

Social distancing in a remote world - what we can learn from young people

OPINIONSocial distancing in a remote world - what we can learn from young people

Karen Walsh

Thinking of moving in with your adult children? Get legal advice first. Image: Shutterstock

Legal minefield: When granny flat arrangements fail

Eileen Wood

Pension rise won't lift many older people out of poverty. Image Shutterstock

Age pension increase announced for March 20

Eileen Wood

FIELD OF EXPERTISE: Cochlear implant inventor Professor Graeme Clark and Aussie cricketing legend Brett Lee have teamed up to urge older Aussies to get their hearing checked.

Cricket legend Brett Lee bowled over by bionic ear inventor

Geraldine Cardozo

Australians are facing tighter restrictions on where they can go as the coronavirus takes hold.

Thousands to be forcibly quarantined

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Paul Gill says the closure of gyms will cost jobs and hurt mental and physical health.

Gym closures hurt physical, mental health

32m ago

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian wants people to stay home, but has held off on tighter restrictions.

NSW watching community spread closely

32m ago

Labor candidate Lance McCallum looks set to win the Bundamba by-election in Queensland.

Vote counting continues in Qld polls

32m ago

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has pledged an extra $1.1 billion of funding for a range of services.

GP phone calls, mental health help expands

Katina Curtis, AAP Senior Political Writer
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About half a dozen Victorian councils shut their beaches after people defied warnings to avoid them.

Vic health officer slams 'crap' beachgoers

Benita Kolovos
32m ago

Grant Stevens says fines for people who don't self-isolate or quarantine will send a strong message.

SA's new fines for breaking virus rules

34m ago

Airline passengers arriving in Brisbane will be held in quarantine in a city hotel for 14 days.

Mandatory quarantine in effect in Qld

Michael Doyle
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The three-year average labour cost for rangeland goats is $11.34 per dry sheep equivalent.

Labour saving strategies pay off

MLA Goat Committee

JAD Speckle Park females sold to $20,000 twice and all 20 head averaged a healthy $13,050 at the second sale which wqs transferred to Greenvale, Yeoval on Friday.

Bidding raged for JAD Speckle Park lots

Mark Griggs

GEARING UP: Agronomists believe this winter cropping season could be the best for canola since 2016 when this photo was taken.

Eyes to the sky as soil profiles look to rebound

Billy Jupp

LOPS OF LOVE: Rabbits are social, curious animals who need bunny companions.

What's up doc? Five fun facts about bunnies, that's what

RSPCA

Don't delay that household issue, or it'll just become worse

Don't delay that household issue, or it'll just become worse

FOREST AND SKY: The timber columns and large windows of Green Velvet House at Barwon Heads allow for a vista of tea trees all around.

Timber and glass afloat in sea of green