Brr – it’s cold out there! A high chance of showers today – Bendigo has a top of 13, Maryborough 12, Castlemaine 11, Redesdale 13, and Echuca 14.

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Ask anyone in the medical profession and they will agree: there is a shortage of doctors in rural and regional Australia. And this shortage has created a clear – and disproportionate – divide between healthcare available in cities, and healthcare in the country. But when it comes to solutions, there appears to be far less agreement. More here.

Bendigo’s Courtney Pace has sealed her reputation as the undisputed queen of the picnic racing scene. More here.

Police are investigating the close call between a car and pedestrians at yesterday’s Anzac Day march in Elmore. More here.

Check out the pictures from your service and others, here.

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Award for 83-yo farmer who stared down a mining giant

AN octogenarian farmer who stared down a mining giant has won the world’s pre-eminent award for grassroots conservation.

Shots fired in Wangaratta: Four kids escape to neighbours

Two people have been found dead inside a Wangaratta home after an apparent murder suicide. 

Police entered the Belle Avenue home about 5.10pm and found the pair dead inside after a shooting.

Our strength in caring: Curtis McGrath's Anzac Day dawn service speech

Seventy-five years ago, Australia braced for impact, from the ever-encroaching conflict of World War II, as it made its way south through the Pacific. At a desperate low in the Kokoda campaign, stretcher-bearers lugged wounded Australian soldiers for days through strangling, unyielding jungle to reach medical help.

Australian troops in Iraq, Afghanistan for long term: PM

Malcolm Turnbull has flagged an Australian military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan for the foreseeable future, saying training of local forces needs to be "a long-term commitment".

Work for the dole a 'demonstrable failure, demonises the unemployed'

Work for the dole has been an expensive "demonstrable failure" that does nothing to lessen the nation's unemployment burden, one of Australia's biggest charities has said.

Taxi driver allegedly bashed by fare-evading teens

A 13-year-old boy is among four teenagers accused of bashing a taxi driver, leaving him with serious head injuries and two broken teeth.

Police believe the two girls and two boys caught a taxi to Bridge Inn Road in Wollert, north of Melbourne, about 3am on Tuesday and told the driver that a relative was coming to pay the $45 fare.

Kim Jong-un marks army's anniversary with subdued fireworks

North Korea has staged its largest live artillery "bombardment", involving 400 long-range cannons, in the eastern town of Wonsan under the watch of leader Kim Jong-un.

Charge Duterte with mass murder, lawyer tells The Hague

A blackened body lies unidentified on a slab in a Manila funeral home, one of thousands of suspected extra-judicial killings, or EJKs, as they have become known in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

Jakarta governor Ahok invokes Finding Nemo in blasphemy trial defence

Beleaguered outgoing Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has revealed an unexpected source of inspiration as he fights allegations of insulting Islam: a small clownfish called Nemo.

There are 249 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

1956 – First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.

2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.