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About: Edwina Williams

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Edwina is a journalist at the Ballarat Times News Group, and Golden Plains Times, based in Ballarat. She is a passionate art lover and photographer, who enjoys capturing the colour and life of the city in her own time. Edwina has worked as a social media management contractor, and has had previous news experience with the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 7.30, Victoria Votes for Channel 31, and Junction Journalism. Contact her at [email protected] Twitter - @edwinawilltweet Facebook - @edwinawilliamsjourno

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November 29, 2021

Immersive tech for STEM school

LEARNING about skills of the future is only getting more exciting and interactive for secondary students engaged in science, technology, engineering and maths at...

November 29, 2021

Keen tween ideas to boost youth health

YOUNG people between the ages of ten and fourteen are set to become local government decision-makers. The City of Ballarat and VicHealth are partnering with...

November 28, 2021

New youth-led Scouting venture

SCOUT’S honour, Ballarat has a new group of young adventurers. Under the Australian flag, the Eureka Venturer Scout Unit launched earlier in the month on...

November 27, 2021

Growing, making and mending

WHEN a beginner green-thumb starts gardening or food growing, all they need to get going is a dibber tool and pair of boots. This concept...

November 26, 2021

Grant powering Green Fest

FOOD is Free is set to support the youth-led Ballarat Action Climate Co-op to run their own series of large-scale community events from early...

November 26, 2021

Groups align against family violence

CAFS has reinforced its commitment to inclusivity by re-signing as a Communities of Respect and Equality Alliance partner. A five-year-old Women’s Health Grampians initiative, the...

November 26, 2021

Saving mothers, babies, and the planet

THE Zonta Club of Ballarat and the Wendouree Cricket Club have partnered to put together birthing kits, designed to decrease developing countries’ maternal and...

November 26, 2021

City hosts Vietnam Veterans’ conference

THE 2021 state Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia conference was held in Ballarat this month. The Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia Ballarat Sub-Branch hosted 80...

November 26, 2021

Council takes a Gamble on new mayor

JUST over twelve months into his first term on council, Cr Gavin Gamble has been elected the mayor of the Golden Plains Shire for...

November 25, 2021

Bike track sees riders jump for joy

DURING pandemic lockdowns, fourteen-year-old Oscar Price headed to the old dirt bike jumps of Alfredton Recreation Reserve to exercise and be entertained while there...

November 25, 2021

Drones and AI assess arterial roads

STATE-of-the-art road maintenance technology will be trialled by the State Government on Ballarat’s arterial roads for six months from summer. Earlier in the week, Minister...

November 25, 2021

City to host Girl Guides of the world

GET ready to light the campfire, because a week-long International Girl Guides Australian Jamboree will take place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballarat will host the large-scale...

November 25, 2021

BADAC films keep history alive

A FIRST-hand digital history of Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative is now accessible to the broader community. As part of their 40th anniversary celebrations, BADAC...

November 23, 2021

Linton cricket nets under construction

KIRK McDonald remembers bowling and batting in the Linton Cricket Club nets as a kid. Decades on, now the club’s president and junior coordinator, he...

November 22, 2021

Comedic Cavanagh hosting awards

IT’S almost time to roll out the red carpet for the virtual City of Ballarat Youth Awards. From 7pm on Friday, 26 November, the event...

November 21, 2021

Carving landscapes in lino

SMYTHES Creek printmaker Marie Mason is the latest visual artist to present work within the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Backspace. A master of colourful reduction...

November 20, 2021

Radio icon switching off after 65 years

SINCE the late-sixties, former 3BA managing director Peter Caligari has been one of Ballarat’s most iconic and generous local radio personalities. But in recent weeks,...

November 20, 2021

Refugee group appeals for assistance

IT’S been twenty years since Australian Defence Force personnel rescued asylum seekers from the freight ship Tampa near Christmas Island. In the same year, hundreds...

November 20, 2021

Online raffle buoying dragon boats

THE SpringFest Online Raffle will be drawn in just under two weeks, so there’s still plenty of time to purchase a ticket, or ten,...

November 20, 2021

Crafts, friends and fun in Sheila’s Shed

WHILE staying at her son’s home, Isabel Birch was tasked with decorating some of his handmade wooden scissor-holders. Brightening them up with paint and stickers,...

November 20, 2021

Artist draws on the environment

JULIE Mahnken has brought some Equilibrium to Soldiers Hill. Currently the Old Butchers’ Shop Gallery’s featured artist, Mahnken’s “expressive, dramatic” charcoal drawings of the built...

November 19, 2021

Local SES Unit busier than ever

VICTORIA State Emergency Services volunteers have been active for seven decades, yet the state’s units were collectively called out to more jobs in the...

November 19, 2021

Small grants boosting Buninyong

MULTIPLE Buninyong community groups are set to benefit from Federal funding that was distributed by Member for Ballarat Catherine King last week. The Senior Citizens...

November 19, 2021

Local papers put Ballarat’s name in bold

STORYTELLERS of Ballarat stopped the presses at the annual Community Newspaper Association of Victoria Awards earlier in the month. Local grassroots publications were finalists in...

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