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The City of Ballarat once again invites hospitality businesses to express their interest in outdoor dining infrastructure. The infrastructure includes glass wind barriers and in-ground umbrella sockets on footpaths outside their businesses to further enhancement outdoor dining experiences across the city. The program is funded by the State Government’s COVID Safe Outdoor Activation Fund 2021 and at this stage this is the final funding tha...

Finding Ballarat’s Ceramic Heart

A ‘Paint the City’ initiative, a bread delivery subscription service, and a cookbook of the city’s most popular dishes have been named Ballarat’s best ideas.     The ideas were provided to businesses and organisations in the Ballarat’s Best Ideas competition, held between April 17 and May 14, 2021.  The competition called for members of the community to share their positive ideas to support Ballarat businesses and organisatio...

Ballarat Animal Shelter to the rescue

Ballarat Council has voted unanimously to approve a motion to define the city’s new Growth Areas at Wednesday’s Council Meeting. The City of Ballarat will now apply to the Minister for Planning to obtain authorisation to amend the Ballarat Planning Scheme to rezone the growth areas to the Urban Growth Zone. A motion brought forward by Councillor Ben Taylor added a recommendation that Officers would report back to council on the progress o...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Ballarat.  City of Ballarat crews are busy this week transforming the CBD into a festive wonderland as the countdown to Christmas begins.  Many of the beloved decorations and installations will be returning this year, including: the giant walk-through bauble in the Bridge Mall, the floral reindeer and Santa’s sleigh, and much more.  Four Ballarat artists have been commissioned...

The Refugee Flag will be flying in Sturt Street until Friday to mark Refugee Week.The week-long celebration began in Ballarat on Sunday before the Refugee Flag was raised in Sturt Street’s Queen Victoria Square to mark World Refugee Day on Tuesday.Afghan refugee Jalal Ahmadzi delivered the keynote speech for the day, describing his evacuation from Kabul in September 2021.A bumper program of Refugee Week events has also been organised to celebrate...

The City of Ballarat welcomed 79 new citizens from 20 countries at a Citizenship Ceremony at Ballarat Civic Hall yesterday.   New residents from countries including Britain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Cambodia, China, India, Iraq, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Republics of South Sudan, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United States and Zimbabwe made the pledge of commitment to Australia and ...

Ballarat residents are being encouraged to do their part to divert waste from landfill and to learn more about where waste and recycled material from the City of Ballarat goes.     Managing waste is one of the biggest issues facing society today. The City of Ballarat is proactively working to sustainably address the issue of waste through strategies such as the Pass on Glass system and the development of a Materials Recovery Facility ...