LAUNCESTON, TAS: Inheriting Lance Franklin's guernsey was always going to be a big ask. But the recent form of Tim O'Brien suggests a generation is finally coming where young Hawthorn fans donning the No. 23 will genuinely ask 'Buddy who?' Read more of Hamish Geale's words and check out more amazing images.
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BALLARAT, VIC: They say dogs are man's best friend, but labrador Luna is a best friend and so much more for her young owner Kayle Griffin - she has been trained to save his life. Kayle met his new epilepsy detector dog Luna for the first time this week. Courier reporter Michelle Smith was there, too. Read her report here.
NAMBUCCA, NSW: For 30 years Dr Danny Ryan has put his community's health and well-being at the front and centre in his life. Now he needs help to save his own life. Read Mel Davis' account of Dr Ryan's situation right here.
NEWCASTLE, NSW: Every morning, Siobhan Murphy opens her son's phone to find new memories of him more than a year after he died. She has continued posting to his social media platforms, organising memorials and fundraising events and interacting with his thousands of online friends and followers. Read Simon McCarthy's in-depth analysis of "life" after death.
BALLARAT, VIC: It was a surprise. Of rather enormous proportions. And that it involved the McDonald family who live on a farm made it all the more remarkable. Read on
PORT FAIRY, VIC: No signs nor visible tracks show the way to and over the dunes to where tributes to some of the township's earliest pioneers are now covered with thick overgrown vegetation. Jackson Graham met up with local historian Marten Syme in this article.