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What's making news today? The search for missing 23-year-old Luke Smith will continue in Lake Macquarie at Swansea, a 17-year-old L-plater has been charged over a crash that killed his 16-year-old passenger at Salt Ash, and Knights centre Bradman Best has been picked for NSW in Origin III.
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