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A much cooler day ahead – Bendigo 28, Maryborough 26, Castlemaine 26, Kyneton 26, Redesdale 28 and Echuca 31.
Catch up on news here:
Principal not returning for start of school year
![On the go | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 On the go | Tuesday, January 31, 2017](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/34dXacDR8RguBkyLHxYXLhN/d7c9fcf3-87b3-4d3b-8a9e-77378fb36d21.jpg/r0_0_1200_675_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
The principal of Bendigo South East Secondary College will not return to the school for the start of the 2017 academic year. Read more.
Future for library truck staff unclear
![On the go | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 On the go | Tuesday, January 31, 2017](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/34dXacDR8RguBkyLHxYXLhN/8c741a2a-285c-49e9-a1d6-7471d3c413a8.jpg/r0_0_1200_675_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
The fate of workers from Goldfields Libraries’ defunct mobile borrowing service remains uncertain after the organisation’s chief executive officer refused to say whether the staff members could lose their jobs. Read more.
Campfires cause concern across the state
![On the go | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 On the go | Tuesday, January 31, 2017](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/34dXacDR8RguBkyLHxYXLhN/df2f493e-0b39-43c6-ac88-6c3f2bfc7740.jpg/r0_32_1090_646_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
CAMPERS are being urged to property extinguish their campfires after Parks Victoria staff found more than one hundred fires still smouldering on public land in the last three days. Read more.
Beard’s heroics not enough to save Bendigo
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Bendigo has no margin for error after suffering a shock loss to Warrnambool on day one of Melbourne Country Week. Read more.
State of the nation
Need a national news snapshot first thing – well, we have you covered.
► ABERDEEN: Police are investigating following a fatal accident between two vehicles in the Upper Hunter on Monday.
Just before 2.30pm, emergency services were called to the New England Highway, Aberdeen, following reports two vehicles had collided. Full story.
![On the go | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 On the go | Tuesday, January 31, 2017](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/m9cm3fQhzEZwYVrxgAgpQC/15e9dfa5-fb9a-4dfc-bfdf-4423f359654d.jpg/r0_1_1200_676_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
► TASMANIA: The death of a teenager in the state’s South on Saturday night has been described as “traumatic” by police.
Seventeen-year-old Margaret Mary Lore, of Richmond, was with a group of friends when she fell 15 metres from the top of a cliff at Blackmans Bay, south of Hobart. Full story.
![TRAGEDY: Tributes are pouring in for 17-year-old Margaret Lore, after she was identified as the teenager who fell from a cliff at Blackmans Bay on Saturday night. Picture: Facebook TRAGEDY: Tributes are pouring in for 17-year-old Margaret Lore, after she was identified as the teenager who fell from a cliff at Blackmans Bay on Saturday night. Picture: Facebook](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/m9cm3fQhzEZwYVrxgAgpQC/175db011-7a59-46aa-9bad-0de2c8872836.jpg/r0_0_1017_678_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
► BATHURST: A BATHURST family has been left disgusted after receiving several pieces of raw and under-cooked chicken from the local KFC outlet. Full story.
![This was the state of the KFC chicken served to Samuel Williamson on Saturday night. Photo: SUPPLIED This was the state of the KFC chicken served to Samuel Williamson on Saturday night. Photo: SUPPLIED](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/m9cm3fQhzEZwYVrxgAgpQC/85ee0863-39ae-4361-9e29-be571b5663a8.jpg/r0_0_1200_675_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
► MAITLAND: A planned public-private partnership for the new Lower Hunter hospital should be canned following the retirement of Health Minister Jillian Skinner, Maitland Labor MP Jenny Aitchison says. Full story.
![Change: Maitland MP Jenny Aitchison at the current Maitland Hospital. Ms Aitchison wants the new Health Minister to take a public private partnership for the new Maitland Hospital off the table. Picture: Simone De Peak
Change: Maitland MP Jenny Aitchison at the current Maitland Hospital. Ms Aitchison wants the new Health Minister to take a public private partnership for the new Maitland Hospital off the table. Picture: Simone De Peak](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/m9cm3fQhzEZwYVrxgAgpQC/d3fdb51f-8774-45fa-9315-6c710ec473d8.jpg/r3_0_1198_671_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
► MOUNT AUSTIN: A man has been arrested and at least two are injured after a tense stand-off with police on Monday night. Full story.
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National news
► SYDNEY: Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been forced to defend her new minister for women, Tanya Davies, and reassert the government's position on abortion after she revealed that "personally, I am pro-life". Full story.
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►HEATHCOTE: Four girls have been taken to hospital after they were hit by a falling tree branch at a high school in southern Sydney, on the first day back after the summer holidays. Full story.
![Teachers and emergency workers attend to a student hit by a tree branch at Heathcote High School. Photo: Seven News Teachers and emergency workers attend to a student hit by a tree branch at Heathcote High School. Photo: Seven News](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/m9cm3fQhzEZwYVrxgAgpQC/5121d6d3-a9f3-44b5-8058-0d16de551365.jpg/r0_0_729_410_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
IMMIGRATION: The day she started work in the United States, Shadi Sherafat came bearing gifts: Tim Tams and toy koalas for the team, a boomerang for her boss. She may have been born in Iran but was now a proud Australian. Full story.
![Shadi Sherafat has written to ambassador Joe Hockey seeking help. Photo: Supplied Shadi Sherafat has written to ambassador Joe Hockey seeking help. Photo: Supplied](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/m9cm3fQhzEZwYVrxgAgpQC/fa2fff4a-5ee6-45bf-9780-67edf9cd5f01.jpg/r2_0_728_408_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
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International news
► JAKARTA: After three years of life in limbo in Indonesia, Hazara refugee "Saira" and nine of her extended family members received wonderful news from the UN refugee agency in October - they would be resettled in the United States. Full story.
► RUSSIA: The last time Mikhail Gorbachev was in the news, he gave Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. That thought has now vanished as the former Soviet president warns "it all looks as if the world is preparing for war". Full story.
► BANGKOK: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a "cleansing" of rogue police and the disbandment of his country's anti-drugs unit after the abduction and killing of a South Korean businessman under the cover of his deadly drugs crackdown. Full story.
On this day
1950 - U.S. President Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.
1971 - Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.
1983 - The wearing of seat belts in cars became compulsory in Britain.
1985 - The final Jeep rolled off the assembly line at the AMC plant in Toledo, OH.
1990 - McDonald's Corp. opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow, Russia.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton invoked presidential emergency authority to provide a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
2000 - An Alaska Airlines jet crashed into the ocean off Southern California. All 88 people on board were killed.
2005 - Keanu Reeves received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Faces of Australia: Julie Ludlow.
![Nowra Rotarian Polly Hill (left) thanks fellow Rotarian Julie Ludlow for her interesting and entertaining talk and slideshow recently. Nowra Rotarian Polly Hill (left) thanks fellow Rotarian Julie Ludlow for her interesting and entertaining talk and slideshow recently.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/m9cm3fQhzEZwYVrxgAgpQC/b0a2ea51-7715-4043-b020-31c2a07fdcd7.jpg/r0_0_425_678_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
She organised the year 2000 celebrations in Nowra and the World’s Biggest Pumpkin record in Junction Court and recently Julie Ludlow has become a Nowra Rotarian. Read on.