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https://timesnewsgroup.com.au/goldenplains/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/03/PARADE-e1582703237764.jpg1000800BY RON EGEBERG A look back at where the Ballarat Begonia Festival began. This year marks the 68th Begonia Festival, which might prompt you to ask why were begonias chosen as the central theme. In 1889, the Ballarat Botanical Gardens curator at the time, Thomas Rooney, was the first person to pot up a [...]Read More...