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Anyone else feeling a bit frozen this morning? There’s a frost warning in place, so take care on the roads. Read more on the warning here.
After the frost we’re in for a mostly sunny morning with the slight (30%) chance of a shower this evening - Bendigo 10, Echuca 12, Maryborough 10, Kyneton 8, Redesdale 10, Castlemaine 9.
Let’s take a look at what is making news around the region…
Indigenous leaders stand behind Goodes: Aboriginal community leaders are staunchly defending Adam Goodes. More here.
‘Don’t put up with it’, victim told: A magistrate in Bendigo has spoken of his frustration at the frequency of domestic violence victims trying to have charges against their abusive partners withdrawn. More here.
Drinking rates spike: Bendigo health experts have called for a “hard discussion” on the legal drinking age following recent figures we are consuming higher amounts of alcohol. More here.
Council to hear Chapman conduct decision: More than three months after fronting a Code of Conduct panel, ratepayers will this week find out what action City of Greater Bendigo councillor Elise Chapman must take over her genital mutilation tweet. More here.
Gift of life is a breath of fresh air: At just 22, Bendigo uni student Natasha Tripp has a sense of life’s gravity beyond her years. More here.
SPORT: Jets young gun in Cricket Australia rookie squad: Strathfieldsaye teenager Xavier Crone has been named in the inaugural Australian Cricket Pathway Rookie Squad. More here.
VIDEO, PHOTOS: Snow at Mount Macedon: Flakes fall on central Victorian mount. More here.
► KIAMA: It is at first difficult to visualise Australian stunt rider Robbie Maddison’s latest feat. Incredibly, the Kiama local has surfed some rather sizeable Tahitian waves on a motorbike. More here
► BALLARAT: The whole of Ballarat knew the sporty Sally McLean. But on Monday, they also learnt about a Sally who was always last to leave a party, who loved chocolate brownies, and who had a very quick wit. More here
► BENDIGO: A magistrate in Bendigo has spoken of his frustration at the frequency of domestic violence victims trying to have charges against their abusive partners withdrawn. More here
► WHYALLA: Whyalla mayor Jim Pollock will plead to both the state and federal governments to consider the steel city's potential as a base for building Australia's next fleet of submarines. More here
► MANDURAH: When Kelly Cooke’s house was robbed in March, the only thing she wanted back was her son’s ashes. Stolen during a burglary at Ms Cooke’s Harper Court home, the ashes were kept in a box the young mother had hidden in her linen cupboard. On Friday Ms Cooke got the box back. More here
► PORT PIRIE: A 78-year-old Mid North grandfather charged with 16 counts of sex offences has been released on bail to serve home detention. More here
► Victorian Liberal Tony Smith and South Australian Liberal Andrew Southcott have emerged as the most promising chances to fill the void left by disgraced former Speaker Bronwyn Bishop. More here
► National security laws to boost the Abbott government's powers over returning foreign fighters and asylum seekers who arrive by boat, and the controversial section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act are among those that interfere with "traditional freedoms" and should be reviewed, the Australian Law Reform Commission says. More here
► The party room will decide the next speaker of the Parliament, Tony Abbott says, signalling he will not repeat the so-called "captain's pick" that led to Bronwyn Bishop taking the coveted chair. More here
► CHINA: China's escalators have claimed another victim after a cleaner's leg was shredded in a shopping centre in Shanghai, the third such documented incident in that country within a week. More here
► REUNION: Reunion Island's erupting volcano is running out of puff but the collection of found beach debris suspected of belonging to missing Malaysian Airlines plane MH370 is mounting. More here
► MIDDLE EAST: If you're grumbling about the extended cold across southern Australia this winter, spare a thought for people in the Middle East who are sweltering through heat that's rarely been recorded before. More here
EIGHT-year-old Dylan Weir misses out on a lot of the things that children his age can expect to take for granted. With two extremely sick younger siblings, he has spent a lot more time in hospitals than most healthy kids his age.
‘‘There have been a lot of birthdays and Christmases spent in hospital,’’ his mother Brooke Walker said.
Both of Dylan’s siblings, Jordan, 6, and Logan, 3, have the rare disease x-linked chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction, or XCIPO.Dylan, from Raymond Terrace, received the Lions Children of Courage award as recognition for his help looking after his two younger brothers. More here