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About: Alistair Finlay

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Editor at the Ballarat Times News Group. Once at Westlock News, The Advocate, and the Latrobe Valley Express. Oilers fan. Email: [email protected] Facebook: @alistairfinlayjournalist twitter: @alistairfinlay_ Instagram: @alistairfinlayeditor

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October 14, 2022

City seeks cash for Eastwood overhaul

THE City of Ballarat has begun a push for State and Federal government funding for a planned overhaul of the Eastwood Leisure Complex. The municipality...

September 22, 2022

Funding divide over Link Road

A SIXTY-million-dollar election pledge by the State Opposition to extend the Ballarat Link Road has drawn the Government’s ire with the roads minister saying...

September 22, 2022

Land rezoned for urban growth

UP to six-thousand new homes will be built in Ballarat’s north after a several greenfield sites were rezoned as a future residential areas last...

September 15, 2022

Bombers cap perfect season with premiership

BUNINYONG’S A Grade netball side went the entire 2022 home and away season without a loss and that wasn’t going to change on the...

September 9, 2022

Animal advocate aiming for second term

CURRENT Western Victoria upper house MP, Andy Meddick, has been re-endorsed as the Animal Justice Party’s lead candidate in the region. Mr Meddick was first...

September 8, 2022

E-scooter network expanding

THE usable area that makes up Ballarat’s e-scooter hire scheme is set to grow. Currently limited to areas surrounding the CBD and Lake Wendouree, a...

August 25, 2022

Miners name MVPs

THE season’s most valuable players for the Ballarat Miners have been announced. Awarded at the annual Basketball Ballarat Ray Borner and Robyn Maher Awards night...

August 18, 2022

Service and sacrifice remembered

THEY had different reasons for attending, but veterans of the Vietnam War and their supporters came together last Sunday as one to reflect upon...

August 18, 2022

Defibs aim to save lives in Smythesdale

THERE are currently twelve automated external defibrillators in Smythesdale with three publicly accessible. Confirmation of the numbers came as Ambulance Victoria announced the town is...

August 4, 2022

Junior Miners off to nationals

A SQUAD of young local basketballers are heading to the National Club Championships in Sydney in September. The Ballarat Miners under 14 boys are set...

August 4, 2022

ALM fixture set, Mars gets two games

THE 2022/23 A-League Men season is set to go off, with the very first game of the comp a grand final rematch between Western...

August 2, 2022

Holy cow! Shire buys church in secret

A MAJORITY of Golden Plains Shire councillors have voted to, and subsequently purchased, a church at Smythesdale. The move was approved after two behind closed-door...

July 21, 2022

BJFNL players take on rep duty

BALLARAT Junior Football Netball League and Greater Western Victoria Rebels listed players were in action for Vic Country against Western Australia at GMHBA Stadium...

July 16, 2022

Miners’ J.D. Miller out after anti-doping sanction

  BALLARAT Miner, Jalon ‘J.D.’ Miller, is out for the rest of the Coles Express NBL1 South season following a sanction from the German National...

July 14, 2022

Miners’ women pushing for post season

SPORTING their First Nations uniforms as part of the Coles Express NBL1’s First Nations Round, the Ballarat Miners had mixed results last weekend. Hosting Keilor...

June 23, 2022

Back-to-back wins for Miners women

THE Ballarat Miners women claimed two NBL1 South scalps last weekend with home and road wins. On Saturday, the team welcomed the Hobart Chargers to...

June 12, 2022

Sick pay scheme benefits us all

-OPINION

  BY MICHAELA SETTLE MEMBER FOR BUNINYONG   MY first job was a clerk in a bank. It was a good job. I didn’t get paid a...

June 9, 2022

King ‘honoured’ by postings

FRESHLY returned Member for Ballarat, Catherine King, has said she’s “deeply honoured and humbled” to be named to the new Federal cabinet. Ms King was...

June 9, 2022

Miners women roster strengthened

WITH about half of the NBL1 South season to go, the Ballarat Miners women squad has been bolstered following the addition of Steph Gorman...

June 8, 2022

Ballarat Football League – round 8 results

Ballarat Football League ROUND 8   MCDONALDS SENIORS   Ballarat v Lake Wendouree Ballarat 7.12 (54) Lake Wendouree 6.5 (41) Best - Ballarat - Nicholas Swain, Carter Prendergast, Sam James, Andrew Hooper,...

June 7, 2022

Labor sets record for women in cabinet

PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has appointed a record number of women to serve on his first frontbench. Last week Mr Albanese announced a frontbench of...

May 26, 2022

Miners add extra name, pick up wins

ANOTHER player has been brought in to bolster the Ballarat Miners men’s roster for the remainder of the Coles Express NBL1 South Season. Two hundred-and...

May 25, 2022

Western Utd into first ALM decider

SERBIAN striker Aleksandar Prijovic has scored twice and added an assist as Western United advanced to the A-League Men grand final with an extraordinary...

May 20, 2022

Bowelscan backs FECRI

FURTHER community backing has come the way of the Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute, with the Rotary Bowelscan Committee pledging thousands more dollars more...