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Wednesday evening at Ballarat City Council’s regular September meeting, Councillors considered a number of items:    Reusable cloth nappy and reusable sanitary product rebate   The Ballarat City Council was presented with feedback from the six month reusable cloth nappy and reusable sanitary product rebate trial.   From the initial $30,000 budget, there were 501 applications for the rebate, with a to...

All things tourism will be explored next week in Ballarat, with the nation’s tourism experts descending on Ballarat for a comprehensive regional tourism conference, the Australian Regional Tourism Convention.   The convention will be held from 10 to 12 October 2022 at the Mercure Ballarat. It will display the best of regional tourism across the country, whilst highlighting the visitor economy of Ballarat.  The theme for the c...

One morning, just before Christmas in 2019, Ballarat resident Anne Tudor and her wife Edie Mayhew took a walk through the Woowookarung Regional Park.  At one point Edie, who had been diagnosed with younger onset dementia a decade prior, looked up and said, “the trees want to know how we are”.  Anne, who was often taken aback by her wife’s innocence and wisdom, began to think about the space differently.  “My perspective an...

The 2022 Ballarat Winter Festival is set to dazzle and amaze again this year following the official launch at the Art Gallery of Ballarat today.  The festival runs from Saturday 25 June to Sunday 17 July and is sure to bring some warmth to locals and visitors alike with yet another fantastic line up of winter activities.  Headlined by Sovereign Hill’s Winter Wonderlights, there are several new events added to this year’s festival ...

Students making care packs for those less fortunate, a ‘give sport a go day' for people with disabilities and a non-disposable coffee cup exchange system have been named Ballarat’s best ideas for 2022.  The ideas were provided to businesses and organisations in the second Ballarat Best Ideas competition, held from 8 March to 19 April this year.  The competition called for members of the community to share their positive ideas to s...

Ballarat is fast becoming the home of national and state Masters sports events with a diverse range of codes including Rowing, Road Cycling, Swimming, CrossFit, and Badminton calling the city home in 2022.   The recent Australian Masters Rowing Championships, held at Lake Wendouree, attracted more than 1,400 athletes and spectators to the city.   It is estimated the Masters Rowing event injected $656,000 in total value t...

The City of Ballarat has welcomed the announcement that the Victorian Government will provide $1 million towards expanding Ballarat’s recycled water network.  The Victorian Government announced the upgrade as part of the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning’s (DELWP) Integrated Water Management Fund.  The project will upgrade capacity of the Class A recycled water plant at the Ballarat North Water Reclamation Plant ...

Wednesday evening at Ballarat City Council’s regular July meeting, Councillors considered a number of items: 

Ballarat’s young people will be recognised and celebrated this week at the City of Ballarat Youth Awards.  Almost 100 young people and influential adults have been nominated for a commendation at the 2022 awards.  The annual youth-led initiative is designed and delivered by Youth Services volunteers working with City of Ballarat staff.  The awards pay tribute to diverse contributors in the community including in the arts, ...

Ballarat’s arts and culture sector is growing at a rapid rate, according to a report received at a City of Ballarat Council meeting this week.  The 2021/22 Creative City Strategy Report Card was tabled at the City of Ballarat November Council Meeting on Wednesday, outlining the substantial growth within the creative industry.  Among the key findings in the report were:  The arts and culture sector is the fastest grow...