Six-year-old Gunningbland primary school student Shane Hourigan wins a Christmas card design competition. The tiny school west of Parkes has just eight students.
Highlights from the tuna tossing competition, the feature event of the Tunarama Festival, a three-day event held annually on the Port Lincoln foreshore in South Australia.
Tiny the Terrier, a clever canine from Taree, fetches the mail directly from the local postie on the footpath and delivers it straight to his elderly owner.
In 1929, Hoyts – with help from Studebaker and the Shell Oil Company – loaded cinema sound equipment onto a truck so regional Australia could experience the latest in 'talking pictures'.