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Photos from across the Fairfax Regional network for the week ending September 5, 2015.

BENDIGO: Protests in Bendigo with left and right wing groups. Picture: GLENN DANIELS

MT ISA: George Fortune, Jacob Schafer, Olivia Wilkinson, Dane Sammon, Keehan Sellings, Chris Bulgarelli, TJ Hape, Gordan Parsons, Cody Parlow, Michael Saunders, Vaughan Wakefield helped build the Mount Isa Fish Stocking Group’s hatchery. 

BENDIGO: A car plowed into a tree west of Bendigo. The two in the car amazingly survived. Picture: GLENN DANIELS

BENDIGO: Model boats on Lake Weeroona. Picture: DARREN HOWE

BENDIGO: Multicultural soccer day. Picture: JODIE WIEGARD

BENDIGO: Protests in Bendigo with left and right wing groups. Picture: JODIE WIEGARD

BENDIGO: School athletics. Picture: DARREN HOWE

TAMWORTH: Ford Butchery owner Paul Avery will be among those who will fire up the barbecue tomorrow for Father’s Day, and he’s got some of the best tips in the business. Photo: Geoff O’Neill 

COLEAMBALLY: Brothers Rodney and Rowan Foster proved they know their way around a corn field. Picture: Anthony Stipo

DENILIQUIN: A Queensland man has been charged after being swept up in massive drug and firearm ring this week.

GRIFFITH: Descendants of Kathleen Aiton have called for her memorial to receive better maintenance.

LEETON: Lucy Trinca has seen many different benefits on her property thanks to environmental water flows in the past month in the Yanco Creek.

NORTH MACLEAN: Darby Beel, 10, of Mt Walker cuts tightly around the barrel at the National Barrel Horse Association two-round event at North Maclean. Picture: Susie Cunningham

TOCUMWAL: Aimee Snowden of Tocumwal combines her love of agriculture and Lego in a blog.

WAGGA: Getting ready for Sunday's scouts fundraiser are Paddy Carey, 13, Wagga Society of Model Engineers president Jim Weeden and Kael Hetherington, 11.

WAGGA: Wagga's The X Factor contestants Dane Kennedy and Justine Hogan are excited to see if they appear on screen when the show premieres. Picture: Les Smith

WAGGA: World champion Brett Bellchambers will make his Wagga debut at the Wagga 6 Hour Enduro on Sunday.

YELARBON: Ebony, Brooke and Toby Tait inspecting the promising barley crop with their parents, Jamie and Anna, Yelarbon. Picture: SARAH COULTON.

MANDURAH: Leonie Brown returned to her Harper Court property about 4pm to find her front windows smashed, a bird bath destroyed and an outdoor table ruined. Photo: Richard Polden.

AUSTRALIND: Friends and family have paid tribute to 15-year-old Alain Pollock who was tragically killed when he was hit by a car in Australind on Thursday night.

MT ISA:  A group of men at a track near Dinner Camp where riverbed dwellers camp. They stand near one of several damaged cars that remain near the dried Leichhardt Riverbed behind the bowls club on Mount Isa Island.

DUBBO: Keepers at Taronga Western Plains Zoo are pleased with the relationship that has developed between hand-raised cheetah cub Siri and her companion puppy Iris.

PARKES: Miss Parkes Showgirl 2015, Bridget Lee is sashed by last year’s winner, Nicole Tolhurst during the official opening at the Parkes Show. Also pictured are the other Showgirl entrants, Hannah Tanswell (left) and Casey Patton. Photo: BILL JAYET

COWRA: Students from Cowra and Newcastle's joint gymnastic squad recently attended the 15th annual World Gymnaestrada in Helsinki, Finland.

ORANGE: Canobolas Rural Technology High School new canteen and catering manager Andrew Farley has been having great success by providing more affordable and healthy food at the school canteen. Photo: STEVE GOSCH

DUBBO: Horder and her team of beauty therapists at Ella Bache Dubbo were thrilled to be named the 2015 Franchisee of the Year, beating more than 200 other franchises across the country.


BENDIGO: Fountain turns blue. Picture: Jodie Wieguard

BATHURST: Ava-Lily Turnbull dancing in the Bathurst Eisteddfod.


MUDGEE: Brothers3 – Makirum, Shardyn, and Tayzin Fahey Leigh – are set to be named Lifeskills Plus ambassadors at a concert for the organisation in September.


DUBBO: Volunteers with some of the rubbish cleared from in and around Macquarie River earlier in the month. Photo: CONTRIBUTED


BATHURST: Machattie Park’s majestic black swans are undergoing veterinary checks after being successfully relocated from the Lake Spencer enclosure.


WAGGA: Jessica McGrath will represent Australia in an international meat judging competition.


WAGGA: Wagga Wagga High School Student, Jake Angel of Tarcutta draws on his farming experience to design an innovative roll bar. Picture: Stephen Burns


MURRAY BRIDGE: Magic Harvest participants Cameron Pevie, Skye Hayes and Natalie Hatton learn about growing food and healthy eating from Magic Harvest trainer Karen Montgomery.

PORT MACQUARIE: Gwyn Richardson shows off his clothes that were ripped during the kangaroo attack. He suffered a gouge in his upper thigh and scratch marks on his back. Picture: NIGEL MCNEIL

PORT MACQUARIE: Black Duck owner Alistair Owen bottles some beer leading up to the Beer and Cider Festival.

DUBBO: Mayor Mathew Dickerson and Parkes MP Mark Coulton show Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss around Dubbo saleyards, which will benefit from a $3.29 million grant from the National Stronger Regions Fund. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

TAMWORTH: Bill and Dawn Schubert have just marked 70 years of marriage and Bill’s 91st birthday. Photo: Barry Smith

TASMANIA: Police at the South Esk River at Perth where a man's body - believed to be that of 20-year-old Ben Plowright - was found. Photo: Neil Richardson

LAUNCESTON: Mowbray Primary School pupils Ha Binh Nguyen, from Vietnam, and Nafahat Abdelrasoul, from Sudan, with fellow pupils from around the world. Picture: PHILLIP BIGGS

TASMANIA: Port Dalrymple hospitality students Hannah Barwock and Michegan Schenk with Bass Liberal MHA Sarah Courtney. Picture: PHILLIP BIGGS

MT ISA: Mayor Tony McGrady and competition winner Wil Vidler with his new best friend Sam. When five-year-old Wil entered a council run colouring-in competition this year, he never guessed he would win the greatest prize of all – man’s best friend. Wil's dad promised he could get a puppy if he won the competition - and he did.

KATHERINE: After announcing a $426,000 program to determine how long CGMMV lives in local soils, Primary Industry and Fisheries Minister Willem Westra van Holthe helps to collect a soil sample on August 31.

PORT AUGUSTA: Jeff Tansell and Geoff Fullerton with the Thoroughbred Racing SA 'Most Outstanding Achievement Award', awarded to the Port Augusta Racing Club.

GOULBURN: Trappers Bakery co-owner Rachel Woodman demonstrates the process that goes into making their prize-winning pies with staff Bal Kunwar, Shaun Haynes, Johno McMath, Tess Murphy, Louise Moran and Ben Suggett.

CANBERRA: Shearer Ian Elkins with the over 40kg (world record breaking) fleece at the RSPCA this morning. Photo: Rohan Thomson

LEETON: Italian Catholic Committee president Dom Amato surveys his own creations ahead of the salami night this montH.

The week in pictures | September 5, 2015

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