OLD BAR: Last night Old Bar’s Boyd Cordner led the NSW Blues to victory. He was was born to be a top flight rugby league player. Read more here
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MANNING-GREAT LAKES: MidCoast Council is set to apply for a Special Rate Variation (SRV) to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART), following an extraordinary meeting held Wednesday, May 31. Read more here
PORT MACQUARIE: Purpose-built modules have started to arrive as student accommodation takes shape near Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie Campus. Read more here
KEMPSEY: The Kempsey Eisteddfod Society will hold its annual eisteddfod commencing June 26. Read more here
State of Origin: Round one
New South Wales has gone one-up in the 2017 State Of Origin series with a dominant display in the opening match of the series at Suncorp Stadium. Read all about it.
State of the nation
Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
Regional news
►CRESCENT HEAD: Nearly 300 surfers took to the waves at Crescent Head over the last week for the annual Malibu Classic surfing competition. Full story.
►BURRADOO: A Burradoo home sustained significant damage after a fire broke out on May 31. Full story.
►NEWCASTLE: Two experienced Filipino crewman who died aboard a foreign-flagged ship in within a six-week period met with "foul play", a Coroner has ruled.
The chief cook, Cesar Llanto, 42, disappeared overboard from the giant coal carrier MV Sage Sagittarius on August 30, 2012 as it approached Australian waters in the Coral Sea en route to Newcastle. Full story.
►TASMANIA: A missing persons case in Tasmania’s south has become a murder investigation. Full story.
National news
► MELBOURNE: A late night Malaysia Airlines flight was turned back to Melbourne Airport shortly after take-off following a security incident involving a "disruptive" and "threatening" passenger who tried to enter the plane's cockpit while carrying an unidentified black object, according to the airline and local police. Full story.
► SYDNEY: For almost a decade Mark and Faye Leveson have searched tirelessly for their son.
They have armed themselves with shovels and spent hours digging at possible burial sites, lobbied for a $250,000 reward in Matthew Leveson's case and come face to face with the man once charged with killing him. Full story.
►CANBERRA: A male Labor politician has been forced to apologise for demanding to know whether Foreign Minister Julie Bishop ordered flowers and other decorations at an event because she is a woman. Full story.
►VICTORIA: Researchers undertaking a landmark study on the platypus are warning of significant population declines and localised extinctions across areas of South Australia and Victoria. Full story.
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World news:
►BANGKOK: A new video has emerged of Myanmar soldiers kicking, beating and threatening to kill six ethnic villagers as they were handcuffed on the ground.
The footage posted on Facebook also shows a soldier holding a machete to a villager's throat. Full story.
►BAGHDAD: An Australian schoolgirl was one of more than a dozen people killed when a massive car bomb tore through a popular ice-cream parlour in the Iraqi capital Baghdad this week. Full story.
►EAST TIMOR: East Timor's prime minister has asked a Dili court not send two journalists to jail in a controversial defamation case he brought against them that was condemned by human rights and press freedom organisations. Full story.
►WASHINGTON: As the high-powered congressional probes into Russian meddling in the 2016 election gather steam, who is in power and who is out has become key to the response of those connected to US President Donald Trump now and during his campaign. Full story.
On this day
1968 Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1.
1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV.
1970 "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1.
1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days.
1970 Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue.
1979 Los Angeles passes its first homosexual rights bill.
1980 1st transmission of CNN, the Cable News Network.
FACES OF AUSTRALIA: IMOGEN-FAITH MALFITANO
Wollongong’s CBD is now abuzz with hairspary, sequins and stacatto notes for the 123rd Wollongong Eisteddfod – the second oldest in the country.
Opera singer Imogen-Faith Malfitano, 24, from West Wollongong was one of the first competitors, listed in five different categories over the weekend. Read on.
