Australian Native Wild Food Dinner in Wollongong and other top stories.

• Australian Native Wild Food Dinner in Wollongong

  

  The Australian Wild Food Dinner will feature some of Australia's spectacular native produce. Southern Highlands chef Antony Green, and City Beach’s Murray Hickey, will join with special guest Vic Cherikoff, an advocate for, and expert on, native Australian foods. They have put together a five-course native degustation menu with selected wines. Cherikoff follows the likes of Author John Newtown in recognising that we have some of the oldest and most nutritious foods in our backyard. Barramundi an..

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• Glover takes the hard road towards US goal

  

  Glover is six to eight weeks away from playing again after rupturing his ACL while training at the Australian Institute of Sport. THE dream is to follow in Patty Mills and Matthew Dellavedova’s footsteps to a career in the NBA.Return fire: Talented Wollongong teenager Angus Glover is poised to head the US next year to play college basketball. Picture: Adam McLeanBut right now, Wollongong teenager Angus Glover’s only goal is just to be back on court.Glover is six to eight weeks awa..

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• Open Mics find local talent

  

  Originals Open Mic nights at Three Chimneys are starting to spark more interest in local live music. Local talent: Helensburgh singer songwriter Joshua Burgh at the Originals Open Mic night at Three Chimneys in Wollongong on Thursday. Picture: Greg Ellis. Originals Open Mic nights at Three Chimneys are starting to spark more interest in local live music. The second monthly event last Tuesday attracted more than 70 people. And as word begins to spread the event appears to be gettin..

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• Court to hear UOW, University of Sydney trade mark dispute

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• $1b of housing in surprising location

  

  Real estate trends on the upper north shore1:29Savills agent Craig Marshall explains the prospects for the housing market on Sydney's upper north shore. A DEVELOPER is hoping to bait homebuyers in search of a treechange with an ambitious project in central NSW that could be worth around $1 billion upon completion.Located close to Mudgee, Caerleon Estate will offer more than 1600 Torrens title homes on semirural land, which will eventually have its own town centre, shopping village, medical cent..

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• UOW getting solar power on the grid

  

  UOW researchers working with Sydney Water to cheaply and easily put solar power to good use, and eventually on the grid. BRIGHT FUTURE: A UOW-led project involving Dr Shulei Chou, Jon Knott, Prof Hua Kun Liu and Prof Shi Xue Dou will develop better battery storage for renewable energy like solar, to help Australia be a greener place. Picture: Paul JonesThree University of Wollongong research teams will this year begin delving into ways of storing renewable energy simply and cheapl..

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• Delays at Canberra: why Australia should have built fast rail ...

  

  The front-page headlines generated this week by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s promise to link Australia’s major eastern cities by fast rail may be seen by many voters as yet another major infrastructure pledge made hurriedly in the run-up to a federal election that is likely to evaporate just as quickly afterwards. Fast intercity rail certainly has form when it comes to being put on the table only to be whipped away again. Linking Australia’s two biggest cities by rail would be in the same ..

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• Readings Carlton wins top bookstore prize at London Book Fair

  

  Mark Rubbo, owner of Readings books. Photo: Eddie Jim Forget your Foyles of London or that Barnes & Noble on New York's Union Square. The best bookstore in the world sits on Lygon Street, Melbourne. Go Set a Watchman took pride of place at Readings bookstore in St Kilda. Photo: Simon Schluter On Tuesday night at the London Book Fair – the world's biggest publishing trade fair after the Frankfurt behemoth – Readings was crowned International Bookstore of the Year as part of the LBF Interna..

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• On the go | Wednesday, April 13, 2016

  

  Your morning news snapshot from around regional Australia and beyond. Today's Instagram #picoftheday is by @morganmcormondphotography - tag your weather pics #bendigoweather and we'll feature the best ones here.Good morning central Victoria! We’re in for a sunny day - Bendigo 23, Maryborough and Redesdale 22, Castlemaine 21, Kyneton 19, Echuca 25.Catch up on news here:Councillor takes City of Greater Bendigo to courtCouncillor Elise Chapman is suing the City of Greater Bendigo for..

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• Hall, Kay strike early blows

  

  Stef Hall shoots her best round to par. Neither are in front, but Stef Hall and Becky Kay have plenty to like about their Australian Junior Championship chances after an entertaining first day at Devonport Golf Club. New Zealand’s Momoka Kobori leads after a day of low scores, her seven-under-par 67 the culmination of some precision iron play on a lovely day in northern Tasmania. But Hall and Kay, both of whom have experience representing Australia, sit handily just one back after 68s th..

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