Pictures from across Australia

NEWCASTLE: Photographer Marina Neil captured this amazing photo on Thursday night.

BATHURST: Carpenter Dale Harrison with his work ute and trailer that had tyres slashed early Tuesday morning. Picture: CHRIS SEABROOK

BALLARAT: Dave Harrison and Darren Dubberley have been together 18 years and are looking forward to the day they can get married. Picture: Kate Healy

BALLARAT: Medieval action film The Siege is filming at Kryal Castle. Tom McCathie - Merlin. Picture: Kate Healy

BALLARAT: Lexi Hanrahan, 4, and Chloe Hanrahan, 4, as part of Run Ballarat. Picture: Kate Healy

BATHURST: Jenny and Tim Hector will open their garden, Benning, for the Spring Spectacular. Picture: RACHEL CHAMBERLAIN

BLAYNEY: Joan Stonestreet says that being involved in the community is of great benefit.

COWRA: Jan Jordan_ Matt Jordan and Freda Haddock all smiles it the Post School Options Family and Friends Day.

DUBBO: Swim 4 Kicks instructor Rae Andrews teaching five-year-old Brax Rowe how to swim on Thursday. Picture: ORLANDER RUMING

DUBBO: Jared Readford's impressive consistency led him to being named a NSW champion. Picture: NICK GUTHRIE

DUBBO: Girls Academy Aboriginal dancers Niesha Crawford, Skye Crawford, Kiesha Ross, Sarah-May Bruce, Rordan Ross and Talesha Murray. Picture: Taylor Jurd

LAKE MACQUARIE - FUNNY BUSINESS: Gary Brophy has been a clown for 25 years and is a seventh-generation circus performer. Picture: Andrew Campbell

LAKE MACQUARIE: Emily and Brayden Sawer with their brother, Blair, at the Camp Breakaway celebration. About 200 people attended. Picture: David Stewart

LAKE MACQUARIE: The latest phase of the Toronto Streetscape Master Plan was completed last Friday afternoon, just in time for the Toronto Spring Fair.

KEMPSEY: Col Howe at the Kempsey spring steer and bullock sale.

LAKE MACQUARIE: Munmorah Power Station pictured in its heyday of 1973. Picture Supplied

LAKE MACQUARIE: Benjamin Gibbs heading into Newcastle courthouse on Thursday. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

NEWCASTLE: A fur seal drops in at Bar Beach on Thursday. Picture Dave Anderson

NELSON BAY: Sienna's Pizzeria Bar and Restaurant will showcase its new Magnus Street Nelson Bay store to Taster Trail participants.

NEWCASTLE: The city and parts of the Hunter were lashed by hailstorms on Thursday. Picture: ‎Karynne Lawler‎

NEWCASTLE: Alice Cooper Ace Frehley at Newcastle Entertainment Centre. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

NEWCASTLE: Gallery installer Hank Vantienen with a Tarbosaurus Bataar, which means “alarming reptile”. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

PORT MACQUARIE: Business owner Scott Brown has had his removal truck covered in graffiti by vandals. Picture: Matt Attard

ORANGE: Lochie and Melanie Young playing horse ball at the Australian National Field Days. Picture: JUDE KEOGH

RAYMOND TERRACE: Hail at Corlette on Thursday afternoon. Picture: Meagan Harding

TUNCURRY: A storm lights the sky at midnight on Thursday. Picture: Tina Gogerly

RAYMOND TERRACE: The mascot for Mambo-Wanda Wetlands Conservation Group presents mayor Ryan Palmer with the petitions. Picture Sam Norris

The Cathedral School's Fletcher Kelly Imogen Evans, Mitchell Peters, and Jeremy Roberts taking part in the Mighty Minds Muster.

TAREE: Layla Philipson, Evelyn Hunterzappala, Ruby Lowe, Darcy Brown, Sara Harris, Marley Brown and Harry Cook buddy up for big school. Picture: Scott Calvin.

TAREE: Julie-ann Booth and Kate Fotheringham at a fundraiser for a river stage. Picture: Scott Calvin

WAGGA: NRL and Wagga Council team up for Inaugural Walanmarra Gundyarri Cultural Day, over 500 primary school students take part. Picture: Les Smith

LAUNCESTON Basin Cottage at Cataract Gorge. Picture: Scott Gelston

LAUNCESTON: Sian Beeton, 15 of Exeter High, and Mia King, 16 of Scotch Oakburn. Picture: Paul Scambler

LAUNCESTON: Australian Masters Games cycling time trials. Picture: Phillip Biggs