State of the Nation | Sunday, May 28, 2017

► TASMANIA: A fatal crash involving a 26-year-old man at Meander on Friday night has taken the state’s road toll to nine. Read more

► BENDIGO: Two people have been taken to hospital following a two-car collision in Golden Square. Read more

► ALBION PARK: Hollywood actor John Travolta announced on Saturday he will donate his prized Boeing 707 aircraft to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society. Read more

► FALCON: Matilda is an active, loving one-year-old with a strong sense of humour, and the star of Falcon’s Pepper Street.

► DUBBO: Smiles galore from the 2017 Dubbo Show. See the photos

► One of Australia's worst serial asbestos dumpers has set up shop in Melbourne after narrowly avoiding jail for illegally disposing of hundreds of tonnes of contaminated waste across Sydney. Read more

► When the young men of Mutitjulu danced for the one of the biggest assemblies of Indigenous leaders in history this week, it was a pointer to a brighter future for a community with a troubled history. Read more

► BALI: The media - so loathed by Schapelle Corby during her dark days in jail - got its comeuppance on Saturday, with the convicted drug smuggler hoodwinking it to the end with a canny flight swap. Read more

► BRAZIL: The Rio Olympics were supposed to signal Brazil's arrival on the world stage. Nine months later, as a culture of corruption is exposed at the highest levels, Brazilians are asking who benefited most from the Games. Read more

Republic Day in Armenia and Azerbaijan (both 1918)

1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and over 30,000 men, set sail from Lisbon for the English Channel in an attempt to invade England.

1830 – US President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing him to negotiate with Native Americans for their removal from their ancestral homelands.

1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing introduced the Turing machine, a basic abstract symbol-manipulating hypothetical device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm.

1998 – The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission carried out five underground nuclear tests, becoming the seventh country in the world to successfully develop and publicly test nuclear weapons.

2010 – A train derailment and collision in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India, caused the deaths of at least 141 passengers.

Supporting someone with a terminal illness is not an easy or glamorous task.

But it’s a role Kerrianne Cassidy thrusts herself into every week.

National Palliative Care Week (May 21-28) highlights the important role people like Mrs Cassidy played in the lives of people with a terminal illness. Read more