Man charged with online grooming in Albury and other top stories.

• Man charged with online grooming in Albury

  

  Police have charged a man over the alleged online grooming of a teenage girl. In September 2015, officers attached to Albury Local Area Command commenced investigations into the alleged online grooming of a then 15-year-old girl, NSW Police say. Police will allege a then 42-year-old man made contact with the girl via a social networking site. During online conversations the man allegedly sent the girl explicit and inappropriate images and made requests for her to send him similar images. About..

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• Improvisation 31 (Paysage): in tune with Kandinsky

  Improvisation 31 (Paysage): in tune with KandinskyBronwyn WatsonThe Australian12:00AM October 8, 2016SaveOn the evening of January 2, 1911, Wassily Kandinsky attended a concert in Munich that completely dazzled him. He was so transformed by the music that he went home and that very night started painting his impressions. Such was the impact of that concert that Kandinsky became a pioneer in a revolutionary new visual language — abstraction.Kandinsky, with his partner Gabriele Munter and fellow a..

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• Lake chiefs to take heat over flows

  

  Murray-Darling Basin Authority managers are preparing to face Border landholders annoyed at handling of brimming Lake Hume MURRAY-Darling Basin Authority managers will face critics of its administration of Lake Hume releases.KODAK MOMENT?: A passerby at Corowa with her dog stops to take a picture of the fast-flowing floodwaters between Corowa and Wahgunyah. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIREMember for Farrer Sussan Ley has spoken to the body’s chairman Neil Andrew and chief executive Philli..

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• Vic flood evacuation, residents on alert

  

  Australian Associated PressRising water levels have forced the evacuation of Victoria's Ulupna Island as residents from other flooded areas begin returning home to brace for wild winds.Flood water is spilling over the levee bank and Ulupna Island residents or campers should leave immediately, authorities said on Saturday.The river island is bound by the Murray River and Ulupna Creek.People who have left their homes should go to the relief centre at Numurkah Showgrounds, or a friend's place that ..

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• MANY MEMORIES: Brian Seidel at rest in his Beechworth studio ...

  

  WEEKENDER: Beechworth artist Brian Seidel reflects on his life ahead of a new exhibition MANY MEMORIES: Brian Seidel at rest in his Beechworth studio. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORGTOOLS OF THE TRADE: Brian Seidel developed his natural ability for art from childhood, always encouraged by his mother and grandmother.BRIAN Seidel paints things as he sees them and, with about 70 years of work behind him, he's seen a lot.THE BIG PICTURE:Beechworth painter Brian Seidel brings colour to the a..

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• Degree to address agricultural needs

  

  La Trobe University is launching a new degree to help boost regional economies and meet a growing demand for agribusiness professionals — and Shepparton is playing a major part.The Bachelor of Business (Agribusiness) will be taught at all Victorian La Trobe University campuses including Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury-Wodonga, Mildura and Melbourne from Semester 1, 2017. La Trobe’s pro vice-chancellor (Regional) Richard Speed said a unique feature of the course was three intensive place-based subje..

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• Richard Roxburgh pens children's book Artie and the Grime Gang ...

  

  Reading to his two sons opened the door to Richard Roxburgh's next creative venture. Richard Roxburgh pens children's book Artie and the Grime Gang out of love for his sons exitRichard Roxburgh is counting down the weeks playing solo parent while his wife, Silvia Colloca, an opera-trained mezzo-soprano, is performing interstate.The actor has just returned to the family's northern beaches home with its eyrie-top coastline views after a busy morning lending a ..

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• Taming the tropics

  

  Victoria, Walsh Street, South Yarra, $12m+One of Melbourne's busiest apartment developers, Michael Yates, has become his own client. He and his wife Louise are the classic empty-nesters: semi-retired, home alone and ready to downsize. With plans to split their time between the city and a property in the Riverina, the couple will buy an apartment in South Yarra after they've sold the Georgian-style five-bedroom family home they bought in the same prestige suburb almost 20 years ago. "The ho..

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• Telstra, Optus and Vodafone tout aims for 5G mobile revolution

  

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• Brisbane man falls asleep at wheel

  

  Brisbane man falls asleep at wheel

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