Braaap pair charged The owner and a general manager of one of Launceston’s biggest companies Braaap Wholesale Pty Ltd have been charged with fraud related offences following an eight-month New South Wales police investigation.

Report finds no flooding impact A much anticipated report into cloud seeding has found Hydro Tasmania’s operation had no measurable impact on rainfall leading up to one of the state’s worst flooding since 1929. 

Future chefs learn from the best Tasmanians who attended the latest in a series of dinners at TasTafe Drysdale restaurant were treated to a six-course experience served up by renowned Sydney chef Tetsuya Wakuda.

Temporary water call ‘impractical’ TasWater says it understands the frustrations of the Scamander community following the declaration of a permanent boil water alert, but won’t be providing the town with drinkable water during the summer period. 

True-Blue Bolts stands up Carlton coach Brendon Bolton wanted to move on and leave sentiment behind ahead of the familiar returns.

Need a national news snapshot first thing? We've got you covered. 

► BENDIGO, VIC: A Melbourne man has been convicted and fined $1000 after he was caught in possession of a flare during an anti-mosque protest in Bendigo last year. But Phillip Galea, 31, claimed the charge was part of a police plan to “criminalise the patriot movement” by portraying them as “dangerous”. Read more.

► CALDERWOOD, NSW: For two long years, Leah Bertacco waited for a call that would not only change – but save – her life. It never came. That’s when her mother, Marilyn Walsh, stepped in to donate a kidney and give her daughter another chance at life. Since her transplant in 2007, the Calderwood resident has become a mother herself, and has changed career paths to help others with health issues. Read more.

► CLEVELAND, QLD: An 83-year-old grandmother avoided being carjacked in Cleveland after two people jumped into her car demanding to be taken to Capalaba. Her response and quick police work saw two people charged in connection with the incident within half an hour. Read more.

► BENALLA, VIC: Pig farmer Colin Pace didn’t mix words when talking about a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruling against him. “We’re screwed … It’s wrong. They’ve really destroyed us and we face the real possibility of losing the farm now,” he said. Mr Pace and and partner Marion McDonnell run about 200 pigs on their 28 hectare property Piggyback Free Range Pork at Baddaginnie. They were sent to VCAT after Benalla Rural City Council refused to approve an intensive animal husbandry permit. Read more.

► TASMANIA: A much anticipated report into cloud seeding has found Hydro Tasmania’s operation had no measurable impact on rainfall leading up to one of the state’s worst flooding since 1929. But the Tasmanian Farmers & Graziers Association CEO Peter Skillern says questions remain as to why a known storm front and East Coast Low was not considered a warning sign. Read more.

► GOULBURN, NSW: The State opposition is "perplexed" that Goulburn MP Pru Goward is feeding facts about prison teachers to her colleague. Shadow Corrections spokesman Guy Zangari contacted the Post after reading last week that Ms Goward had informed Minister David Elliot that Goulburn Jail teachers had moved to a 48-hour teaching week. Read more.

► NEWCASTLE, NSW: The NSW opposition wants a parliamentary inquiry into a secret deal protecting Port Botany’s container terminal from any competition from Newcastle, as revealed on Friday by the Newcastle Herald. Read more.

► Akon Guode drove her car into a lake, killing three of her children, because she allegedly believed a love rival had engaged a witchcraft doctor to kill her. Tensions over a love triangle between Ms Guode and her husband's other wife were escalating in the days before the incident, Melbourne Magistrates Court heard on Friday. More here.

► The guards gathered in a tight pack by the isolation cells, with tear gas canisters and a German shepherd security dog barking and pulling at its lead. From the other side of the reinforced door came the sound of a 14-year-old boy smashing the concrete walls with a broken light fitting. Video footage of the 2014 incident at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre shows the guards laughing and calling him a "f---ing idiot". What little we know of these youth justice workers and correctional officers in the Northern Territory comes from snippets of CCTV and handicam footage of this and other atrocities, broadcast by Four Corners this week.  More here.

► Kevin Rudd says he was told he had Malcolm Turnbull's strong support for his bid for the top job at the United Nations before the Prime Minister suddenly reneged on that commitment, according to private letters from Mr Rudd to Mr Turnbull, obtained by Fairfax Media.In an explosive new development in the aftermath of the Turnbull government's official rejection of Mr Rudd's request for endorsement to run for the post of secretary-general of the United Nations, Mr Rudd has released letters, which, while only showing one side, suggest that agreements had been reached to support the Rudd bid, but that this support was suddenly withdrawn on May 1, just days before the election was called. More here.

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► ENGLAND: "We are worried there may be attacks that get through." Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe literally knocks on wood before saying the UK has not had any terror attacks – recently. But he admits frankly that one is "likely". The UK's top policeman, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is proud of the British capital's anti-terror record: no successful attack since the May 2013 murder of soldier Lee Rigby in South London. In that time France, Belgium and Germany have seen repeated atrocities and deaths. More here.

► INDONESIA: The fate of 10 death row prisoners who were saved from the firing squad in Indonesia just minutes before the executions took place remains unclear, with the country's attorney-general refusing to confirm if they have won a permanent reprieve. Just four of the planned 14 executions proceeded on the Central Javan island of Nusakambangan – known as Indonesia's Alcatraz  – in the early hours of Friday morning, despite all 14 prisoners being notified on Tuesday that they had just 72 hours to live. More here.

July 30, 1932: Walt Disney's cartoon Flowers and Trees premieres. The cartoon short was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full-colour three-strip Technicolour process. It was also the first to win an Academy Award. Take a look here:

Holly Conroy is finally living the life she was destined to live.

Formerly known as David, Miss Conroy made the brave decision in February to make a change and live as a transgender woman.

The usual feelings of fear, doubt and nerves plagued her but it was nothing compared to what she has felt over the past decade.

When Miss Conroy was 27, she declared to family and friends that she wanted to make the change to transgender.

Their responses were supportive but Miss Conroy noticed their hesitation and doubts.

“I questioned everything and it scared the hell out of me,” she said.

“I was naive and really scared of what was going to be in my future.

“I didn’t think I’d be able to do it … I just thought it was going to be too hard.” More here.