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Anna Houlahan

With what first name was artist Jackson Pollock born? Was it Ezra, Paul, Noah or Felix? File picture 

What was artist Jackson Pollock's birth name? Take our quiz

Emma Horn

Bec Pridham

LONG-COVID: Surveys of COVID-19 patients around the world indicate a stronger link between some genetic precursors and long-COVID development. Picture: FILE

Preliminary surveys suggest there are a few indicators of whether you might develop long-COVID.

Who's most likely to end up getting long-COVID symptoms?

Ebony Bennett

A natural gas processing plant at Talinga Orana Gas Gathering Station in Queensland, Australia. Picture Shutterstock

It's a sweet deal for gas companies and a bum deal for us.

Labor's latest gas strategy is full of hot air

This could be when the building blocks are laid for the next era of Australian prosperity. Picture Shutterstock

Budget carrots go down easy in May, but governments have plenty of other tools.

Will this be Australia's first climate budget?

Why doesn't the Parliament act? Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong

Freedom of information? Try 'stifling' freedom of information.

The feeble political excuses voters won't tolerate

Linley Wilkie

Study reveals more of us are prone to disorganisation at home.

Aussies are battling to cut the clutter

Steve Evans

Education Minister Jason Clare. Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong

New legislation will also try to regulate agents in Australia.

Government to clamp down on bogus international student visas

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the "budget tree", the maple which is supposed to explode into redness at budget time. Picture by Elesa Kurtz

The money will help women and families fleeing from violence.

Budget to deliver $1 billion for crisis accommodation

Ben Silvester

Deakin medical student Casey McRae says trying to make ends meet during her two years of placement feels like running on a hamster wheel. Picture by Lachlan Bence

New support skips group that does the most placement.

'Two years of unpaid work': how students have been disadvantaged

Jacinta Dickins

Obieco's HR manager Fiona Sweeney with new recruits Te Awhitu Nankivell, accessory fitter, and Lloyd Broadfoot, trades person assistant. Picture by Gareth Gardner.

ViewJobs: Getting high-calibre bums on seats quickly

'Game-changer': Regional job platform delivers the goods

Joshua Bartlett

WAGGA: Five-year-olds Layla Quirk, Jake Frauenfelder and Oliver Seal, and three-year-old Livinnia Nagle, are ready for winter in Wagga. Picture: Kieren L Tilly

TAMWORTH: Organisers invite you to Cowboy Up  a country themed charity pub crawl at the Hats Off to Country festival. Photo: Peter Hardin

BALLARAT: Woady Yallock Primary School pupils  Ruby, 6, and James, 6, for 'dress like a pirate day' in support of cancer sufferer and fellow pupil Bella. Photo: Luka Kauzlaric

LAKE MACQUARIE: Swansea Labor MP Yasmin Catley will introduce a bill to make trials of driverless cars possible Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

ORANGE: Bills Beans East Orange's Josh Hunt and Ricky Carver. Photo: Jude Keogh

PORT STEPHENS: The tiny Mahony's Toadlet has been found on the Kangy Angy site which Transport for NSW controversially has selected for a rail maintenance facility.

NEWCASTLE: The unit fire on Sunday night. Picture: Dan Irwin

BALLARAT:  6 Year old India Coiman saved her younger brother Harrison's life. Photo: Lachlan Bence 

BALLARAT: Former AFL star Nick Dal Santo is playing a one-off game for Hepburn this weekend. Photo: Kate Healy

KEMPSEY: Surfers return to the water after a shark sighting interupted a surf comp. Photo; Callum McGregor

BENDIGO: Chris Weir at the Solar Park outside Bridgewater. Picture: Darren Howe

BENDIGO: Jordan Pilcher and his pooches enjoy the winter sun at Lake Weeroona on the first day of winter. Picture: Darren Howe

BALLARAT: Ballarat City's new recruit Courtney Austin. Photo: Kate Healy

FORSTER: Harper Patterson and Lacy Herbert at the annual taekwondo tournament Photo: Scott Calvin

BENDIGO: Norm Gray is leading a Jazz Meets Broadway show this month. Picture: Noni Hyett

TAREE: Fundraising clowns Fiona and Katrina Stanfield. Photo: Scott Calvin

BENDIGO: Jontee Brown named in Australian under-23 wheelchair basketball team to play in Canada. Picture: Noni Hyett

NYNGAN: Brian Hodge, Nyngan, with his quarter size, hand made, model, 1925 Cooper portable shearing plant. Photo: Rachael Webb

NYNGAN: Mullengudgery Merino stud manager, Scott MacMillan, Nyngan. Photo: Rachael Webb

GULGONG: Gulgong residents and neighbours that will be affected by the proposed Beryl solar plant. Photo: Rachael Webb

DUBBO: Lucy Parkes, Wellington, evens up the wool of one of her Lynwood Border Leicester stud ewes prior to judging at the State Sheep Show, Dubbo. Photo: Mark Griggs.

BENDIGO: Damian Mills and Jarrod Jackson for the Crusoe College arts and science festival. Picture: Glenn Daniels

BENDIGO: Students Max Harris, Tarli Goss, Patrick Barton-Grace and Aisha Quattrochi have been selected to be part of the John Noble Quartet Program.

BENDIGO: California Gully Primary School students will perform with a Pink Floyd tribute show. Picture: Glenn Daniels

BENDIGO: Amy Elliott's foster dog Daisy needs eye surgery before she can find a new, permanent home. Picture: Glenn Daniels

BENDIGO: Diana Lewicki had her car stolen from under her nose. Picture: Glenn Daniels

PORT ELLIOT: Locals and visitors dressed in period costume for the launch of a miniature garment collection at the Southern Fleurieu Historical Museum. Photo: Ryan Finlay

WAGGA: Circus Oz performer Jarred Dewey prepares for a Wagga performance. Picture: Kieren L Tilly

CASTLEMAINE: Police on the scene of a clandestine laboratory in Castlemaine. Picture: Darren Howe

WAGGA: Kildare Catholic College celebrates after defeating arch-rivals Mater Dei Catholic College in the Carroll Cup final for the first time in seven years. Picture: Kieren L Tilly

WAGGA: Aunty Gayle Manderson and Amelia Cox at the Tolland Community Centre's reconciliation event. Picture: Les Smith

BALLARAT: Ghost Mushrooms are appearing in Ballarat. Photo: Donna Crebbin

WAGGA: Three-year-old Joey and five-year-old Jesse Black were ready for the Blues' Origin win. Picture: Les Smith

BENDIGO: Crash between school bus, cars and a truck in White Hills. Picture: Darren Howe

DUBBO: Margie Crowley (second from left) takes part in Hump Day in April.

DUBBO: Hannah Mines, Lauren Lye and Lynne Mackander take a stand on nurse-to-patient ratios and nurse educators. Photo: Kim Bartley

BATHURST: WJ Coote and Sons owner Sam Coote in the store just after the doors opened for trade.

BATHURST: Perthville residents have praised Bathurst Regional Council for initiating a scoping study into the future of the village square. Photo: Chris Seabrook

BATHURST: Bathurst Regional Council deputy mayor Michael Coote and Bathurst MP Paul Toole on site along the Dunkeld Road where illegal dumping has occurred. Photo Chris Seabrook

PORT MACQUARIE: Zane Grigg, Mark Haverfield, Robert de Lepervanche, Blair Hancock, Nader Awad, Marty Plentinger, Warwick Affleck, Michael Ferguson. Photo: Lindsay Moller.

DUBBO:  Ian Crafter (left) and Kerrie Mitchell (right) with Yeseul (Lucy) Mun and Atef Benyekhlef during The Track 2017. Photo: CanalAventure©G.Pielke

YOUNG Acting Inspector Kristin Marshall spoke to students about seat-belt safety and mobile phone use in cars. Photo: Craig Thomson

WOLLONGONG: John Pollard awaits permission to re-enter his home, which remained surrounded in police tape throughout Monday afternoon. Picture: Angela Thompson

NEWCASTLE: Merchants Chris Johnston and Geordie Malone in front of Bridie Watt's mural.

INVERELL: Inverell Chamber of Commerce president Josh McPhee discusses the difficulty of finding work in the New England region. Photo: Simon McCarthy.

HUNTER: Slow Food Hunter Valley leader Amorelle Dempster with a serving of beef and potato curry at Maitland produce market. Picture: Belinda-Jane Davis

WOLLONGONG: Professor Zaiping Guo from the University of Wollongong.

WOLLONGONG: Howlin' Wolf co-owner Ben Abraham with just a sample of the 70-odd different beers on offer at the bar. He reckons that could be a beer record for bars in the Illawarra. Picture: Robert Peet

WOLLONGONG: Giants star Bec Bulley, with daughter Indie. Picture: Peter Braig

PORT MACQUARIE: Beautiful bikes were on show in Port Macquarie at the climax of this week's Ulysses AGM event. Photo: Tracey Fairhurst

PARKES: Parkes' events officer Natalie Caldwell and Baeden Faint star in the one minute and 20 second video promoting Parkes.

ORANGE:  Orange City librarians Peter Douglass, Sean Brady, Fiona Hawke and Rossanne Holmes. Photo: Emily Bennett

NEWCASTLE: University of Newcastle second year law student Taylah Gray says Australia needs a treaty between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people as a way to move forward. Picture: Simone De Peak.

LAKE MACQUARIE: Judy has suffered 14 years of severe mesh complications after surgery in 2003. Picture: Simone De Peak.

HUNTER: The Australian Rail Track Corporation brought in a crane to lift a train on the Hunter Line so that the bogie, the frame carrying wheels underneath the carriage, could be fixed. Picture: Nick Bielby

NEWCASTLE: Retiring Westpac rescue helicopter service chairman Cliff Marsh (left) with incoming chairman John Davis at the service's Broadmeadow base on Wednesday Picture: Simone De Peak

NEWCASTLE: Greenpeace protesters at Kooragang early on Monday. Picture: Greenpeace

NEWCASTLE: Six-car pile-up on Maitland Road at Hexham causes heavy traffic delays.

NEWCASTLE: Vandals damaged this statue of Norm Robbs at Waratah shops.

NEWCASTLE: Sarah Gray said about 28,000 Hunter students attended Life Education Australia programs and met its mascot each year. Picture: Simone De Peak

NEWCASTLE: Brian Walker has had profound results with a new treatment for heart failure. He is pictured with his dog, Bubba. Picture: Simone De Peak.

LITHGOW: Maureen Shephard and Carmel Thompson pack sanitary kits to be sent to Dili.

Photos from across Australia: May 28 to June 3, 2017

Joshua Bartlett

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