We’ve got a partly cloudy day ahead – Bendigo 13, Maryborough 13, Castlemaine 12, Kyneton 10, Redesdale 12, Echuca 15.

Catch up on news here:

Leaders from Bendigo’s business, health and not-for-profit sectors have recommended a newly appointed citizens’ jury consider how council policy could address increasing levels of social disadvantage in the city. More here.

Prolific goalscoring from former Bendigo girl Caitlin Thwaites and Susan Pettitt has lifted the NSW Swifts into the trans-Tasman netball championship Australian Conference final with an imperious 67-53 finals win over Melbourne Vixens in Sydney. More here.

As Victoria braces for a cold, windy week, the worst of the winter conditions are expected to bypass Bendigo, the Bureau of Meteorology has said. More here.

Bendigo brothers-in-law Ben Hall and Andrew Quin are preparing for their first Variety Bash next month but have only three weeks from today to raise the $7000 entry fee (all of which will be donated towards children’s charity Variety). More here.

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

► FEDERAL ELECTION: We have a winner. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has conceded defeat a week after Australians went to the polls and says he accepts that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has a mandate to pursue the policies he took to the election. More here.

► YAGOONA: The ALP has thrown its full weight behind the life-and-death fight greyhound racing faces following the Baird Government’s decision to close the racing code in NSW from July 1 next year. More here.

► WARILLA: Warilla grandfather Cyril Glawson only discovered he had diabetes when his toe fell off in his loungeroom. More here.

► BENDIGO: Six years ago, members of the Junortoun Fire Brigade noticed something. Their town was growing, and with an increasing population came an increased risk the new neighbours seemingly appearing on every second street corner would be affected by fire and need their help. More here.

► ALBURY-WODONGA: Murray Local Land Services has temporarily closed several travelling stock reserves to allow the culling of over-abundant noisy miner birds. More here.

► BALLARAT: A man who was allegedly travelling in the passenger's seat of a car with a large amount of ecstasy ,speed and ice will front court charged with drug possession and trafficking. More here.

► DUBBO:Police believe a fire that badly damaged a Dubbo school at the weekend was arson. More here.

► WHYALLA: Dolphins are believed to be some of the most intelligent animals in the world but some have found themselves in trouble at the Whyalla Foreshore swimming enclosure recently. More here.

► QUEENSLAND: Having worked as an oyster farmer since he was 16, the time has come for Jon Ravell to travel the world. More here. 

► TASMANIA: Clothing may be optional on a section of Bakers Beach if a proposal before a North-West Tasmanian council gets up. At its regular meeting on Monday, Latrobe councillors will consider asking that a 400m long section of Bakers Beach within Narawntapu National Park be declared ‘clothing optional’. More here.

► CESSNOCK: Firefighters have pleaded with homeowners to be aware of winter hazards after another bad house fire in the Hunter at the weekend. More here.

► Australia's top public servants have refused for almost three years a directive to pay themselves bonuses. More here.

► Australia's peak AIDS organisations and scientists have announced an end to the AIDS epidemic, as the country joins the few nations in the world to have beaten the syndrome. More here.

► Since 2012, authorities have realised that the gold industry is at the epicentre of one of the biggest tax frauds in Australian history. They estimate it's already cost the public more than $550 million. And, despite an exhaustive, four-year investigation, it seems virtually impossible to stop. More here.

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► TEXAS: Who was Micah Xavier Johnson? They called him X – as in his middle initial. Some thought him cool – "not a violent or rough dude," in the judgment of Israel Cooper, a mate who'd known him for a couple of years. More here.

► AUSTRALIA: A former Brisbane high school science teacher-turned-religious leader has realised his dream to create a reportedly $100 million, 155m version of Noah's Ark that is about to open in the United States. More here.

► BAGHDAD: Twenty three-year-old Ali al-Tamn just wanted to watch the the penalty shootout in the Euro 2016 quarter-final between Italy and Germany on a reliable Wi-Fi connection. It put him in the wrong place at the wrong time. More here.

The year was 1969, and Apollo had just landed on the moon. David Bowie took the timing, releasing Space Oddity in the United Kingdom. Its success wasn't instant, and Bowie re-released the track later in the year in the UK and held on until 1973 to set it free in the US.

Two Wagga men were given the highest honour in their club for their service to the Wagga community.

Phil McIntosh was rewarded with Paul Harris Fellow recognition at the Wollundry Rotary Club annual changeover dinner on Tuesday night.

Paul Harris started the Rotary Foundation in the US in 1905. The recognition is a milestone for a Rotarian.

Mr McIntosh is the driving force behind one of Wagga’s most recent events – the Gears and Beers Festival – held on the October long weekend.

He said the reward meant a lot to him.

“It’s a deep honour to (be named a Paul Harris Fellow),” Mr McIntosh said.

“It was an extraordinary surprise when I received it."

Read more here.