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We’re in for a cloudy day with a medium (50%) chance of showers, most likely this afternoon - Bendigo & Maryborough 15, Castlemaine & Redesdale 14, Kyneton 12, Echuca 16.
Catch up on news here:
Plebiscite pushback
Members of the central Victorian LGBTI community have welcomed Labor’s decision to block a proposed same-sex marriage plebiscite. Read more here.
Burglars target Kangaroo Flat businesses
Police are warning business owners in the Collins Street industrial estate in Kangaroo Flat to be on guard following a series of burglaries in the area. Read more here.
Derelict dive or hidden heritage gem?
Is it an essential part of Eaglehawk’s heritage which must be preserved or an eyesore which has fallen beyond repair? That is the question Bendigo councillors will be asked to decide tomorrow night – and at stake is both the future of a run-down, 140-year-old miner’s cottage and that of its pensioner owner. Read more here.
Attendees quiz Eppalock candidates
Attendees made the most of an opportunity to question candidates for the Eppalock ward of the City of Greater Bendigo. Read more here.
BDCA season opener postponed for a second time
POOR weather has caused a further delay to the start of the Bendigo District Cricket Association season. Read more here.
Regional news
Vincent Stanford had thoughts of killing someone when he was as young as seven or eight and by the age of 12 was acting on those thoughts by trying to strangle a school teacher, the Supreme Court has heard.
Peter James has been a paramedic for 41 years and delivered 22 babies, but delivered a baby mid air for the first time on Monday afternoon.
National news
One woman has been arrested during a demonstration in Sydney on Tuesday night which protested against the treatment of Indigenous youth in detention.
Labor's decision to kill off the same-sex marriage plebiscite has delayed the reform indefinitely.
It means if Australia is to achieve marriage equality, it will not be via the admittedly imperfect way proposed, even though it was the only way forward this term.
Catholic schools in wealthy suburbs across Australia are being significantly overfunded by taxpayers, with some receiving up to four times their appropriate funding levels under sweetheart deals struck in the dying days of the Rudd government.
National weather radar
International news
Every morning if Thiolina Marpaung sees or smells smoke she obsessively hunts it down to its source.
Back in October 2008 as the American people were poised to choose between Barack Obama and John McCain – it was a more innocent time –The New Yorker magazine's David Sedaris tried to put himself in the frame of mind of an undecided voter.
Byron Bay woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor will soon be transferred to Bali's infamous Kerobokan jail to await trial over the death of Balinese police officer Wayan Sudarsa.
On this day | October 10
1928 | An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
1979 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
1988 | Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1994 | The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1997 | Elton John went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Candle In The Wind 97' A re-write of his 1974 hit about Marilyn Monroe. This version was raising funds for the Diana, Princess of Wales charity, following her death in Paris. It went on to become the biggest selling single in the world ever.
The faces of Australia: Natalie Grylls
A young Riverina girl has been given the chance honour the memory of her friend with a study trip to Canada.
Natalie Grylls from Book Book was awarded the Matthew George young stockman award at the Melbourne Royal Show. The award was set up eight years ago after Mathew died in a car crash aged 21. Read more.