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►TASMANIA: The body of allegedly murdered man Bradley Breward has been found in the state’s North-West. Read on.
►ALBURY/WODONGA: True to form, Karl Jacka had the final word at the end of an emotion-charged funeral at Lavington Oval on Friday after succumbing to cancer a week ago. Watch his emotional final video message here.
►CALLALA BAY, NSW: A 65-year-old man has been shot in the forehead with what is believed to be an air rifle at Callala Bay. More here.
►WAGGA: Jordan Watkins and her husband Daniel live in fear for their property after a tree was set alight outside their home early Friday morning. More here.
►NEWCASTLE: The state government has paid over $7.4 million to purchase damaged properties and grout old mine workings that collapsed at Lambton, in what is believed to be the largest spend to date to tackle an instance of mine subsidence in the Hunter. Read on.
VICTORIA: They’ve been dubbed uncontrollable thugs and Victoria’s worst teen criminals.
But a systematic failure of the youth justice system is turning offending teenagers into hardened, lifelong criminals and endangering the safety of communities across Victoria. Read more.
National news
► The Turnbull government is set to put the brakes on federal money pouring into "over-funded" private schools in a new deal to take effect next year. More here.
► Pam Jackson has 72 children. Or at least that's how many, at one time or another, she has raised as her own. "I've got kids everywhere," she says. "Grandkids and great grandkids, too."
Northern Victoria is Yorta Yorta country, where the Goulburn meets the Murray, where Mrs Jackson was born and raised. It's where the Aboriginal elder fostered 67 children and had five of her own. Read more.
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International news
► JAKARTA: Exquisite head coverings were a highlight of this week's Indonesia Fashion Week in Jakarta amid the hijab's growing popularity in the country. Read more.
► EASTERN EUROPE: While Donald Trump was busy antagonising Iran, offending Australia and insulting Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vladimir Putin made a quick, businesslike visit to his best friend in Europe and showed how he intends to defend Russia's interests in this new age of uncertainty.
Mr Putin's talks with Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban coincided with a flare-up of the war in Ukraine. In the joint press conference afterwards, the Kremlin leader departed from his chosen economic script to field one question on Ukraine, making clear Russia was not about to apologise for any of its actions there. Read more.
This day in history
1576 – Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours
1885 – News of the fall of Khartoum reaches London
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal colonial possession
1937 – 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released
1988 – Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US federal grand jury for drug trafficking and racketeering
Faces of Australia: Justin Hap Hayward
Ballarat teacher Justin Hayward doesn’t have the typical ‘first day of school’ photo with his children.
Instead his wife snapped him pretending to be on the phone laughing, as he stands next to his exasperated daughter.