Agent Profile: PATRICK CURRAN
Traveling across the countryside has been Paddy’s modus operandi to learn an enormous amount about property and its various facets. His journey has lead him...
CBA, BANKWEST WITHDRAW FROM reverse mortgage market
THE last remaining major bank offering reverse mortgages, and its subsidiary, will withdraw their reverse mortgage products from sale next year according to Australia’s...
INDUSTRY AWARDS ANNOUNCED
THE Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) recognised 32 agencies and individuals at the most prestigious event on the Victorian real estate calendar: the...
Town by town snapshot: BANNOCKBURN
TOWN PROFILE The size of Bannockburn for ABS data collection purposes is approximately 82.7 square kilometres stretching from Sutherlands Creek up to Clyde Park Vineyard...
Phone app helps create safer spaces
BETWEEN March and May this year just over 130 women, aged from 10 to 67, used the Right to the Night app identifying 305...
Only Lucas school promised $1.8 million
THE only school in Lucas, Siena Catholic Primary School, was the setting earlier this week when Shadow Minister for Education, Tim Smith and Member...
Racecourse roundabout gets go ahead
MINISTER for Roads and Road Safety Luke Donnellan this week announced the construction of a new roundabout at the intersection of Gillies Road and...
Let there be light
MINISTER for Regional Development Jaala Pulford’s announcement of $272,000 worth of funding for outdoor exercise equipment around Lake Wendouree on the Steve Moneghetti Track...
More than just great food – how Italian migrants helped shape the city
TWO years ago, Ballarat Italian Association president Cesare Dichiera briefed journalist Jan McGuinness to write a history of Italians in Ballarat since Eureka. Walkley Award...
Nominate a Ballarat achiever for an Australia Day Award
Peter Caligari OAM needs little introduction. The renowned Ballarat radio identity and campaigner for those less fortunate was this year recognised as the Australia Day...
Ballarat’s Big battery ready to power homes
THE first of two large scale batteries built to support Victoria’s energy grid has been unveiled in Ballarat. Minister for Energy Lily D’Ambrosio last week...
Forum brings candidates and business together
COMMERCE Ballarat held a State Election Candidate Forum last week, the aim of which was to allow their members to hear from and question...
Local link to Flying Corps commemoration
THE Airforce Association will commemorate the one hundred years since the Armistice of WW1 at the Australian Flying Corps Memorial at RAAF Base Point...
Karova Lounge comedy club is back
AARON Gocs, Ballarat-based comedian originally from Melbourne, is bringing comedy back to the Karova Lounge. On Thursday 8 November the well-known music venue will morph...
Wendouree Rotary Club – 60 years young
Rotary Club of Wendouree celebrated its 60th anniversary at a special dinner, attended by approximately 80 members and guests, at Sovereign Hill’s New York...
Visit Ballarat appoints new chair of the Board
PAUL Armstrong was appointed chair of the Visit Ballarat Board of Directors last week at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting. Mr. Armstrong, left Ballarat about...
Unbridled art inspired by the trots
THE Ballarat and District Trotting Club, hosting the second heat of the Australasian Inter-Dominion Championship at Bray Raceway is running an art activation project...
Nurses to come together for 90 years of service
BALLARAT Base Hospital Trained Nurses League is celebrating its 90th Annual General Meeting and reunion dinner this weekend. First founded in 1928, the League has...
Connecting us with Western Victoria’s producers
EAT Drink West is the new buzz phrase around town, being touted as Western Victoria’s go-to source for all things produce related. Eat Drink...
King opens Ballarat Seniors Expo
FEDERAL member for Ballarat Catherine King recently opened the Ballarat Seniors Expo at Sebastapol’s Ingenia Gardens Sovereign retirement living facility. The two-day event, part of...
WRISC – Providing Family Violence Support in Ballarat for 30 years
WRISC Family Violence Support Service Inc will be gathering for their Annual General Meeting on Thursday, 15 November, hailing 30 years of Family Violence...
Hobson becomes Patron of Cathedral Music Foundation
THE Chair of Trustees of the newly-established Ballarat Anglican Cathedral Music Foundation, Andrew Greenwood, and The Dean, the Very Reverend Chris Chataway, recently announced...
The monument to lost musicians you drive past a lot
AT the bottom end of Sturt Street, on the corner of Camp Street, stands an Edwardian Bandstand that many of us would pass on...
FROM THE DESK OF Roland Rocchiccioli
I despair when I remember the many theatres I’ve worked, and how many are now gone! I STARTED out at the National Theatre at the...