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• Ballarat stabbing: Ty Ranger charged over stabbing of five-year-old girl

  

  Video will begin in5seconds.Ballarat girl stable after stabbingA 23-year-old man is in police custody but he has yet to be interviewed after a girl was stabbed multiple times on Sunday afternoon.PT0M35S620349A 23-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and intentionally cause serious injury after a five-year-old girl was stabbed in Ballarat.Ty Ranger, who also goes by the surname Fitzgibbon, is expected to face court on Monday afternoon.He was also charged with false imprisonment, ch..

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• Ballarat child sex abuse survivors unite with residents to march against abuse - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  Ballarat child sex abuse survivors unite with residents to march against abusePostedNovember 23, 2015 11:06:08 Victims of child sex abuse have joined more than 100 residents in a community march across Ballarat.The march was intended to coincide with the child sex abuse royal commission's public hearings into the Melbourne diocese, which is expected to start this week.The second hearings into Ballarat clergy abuse will start as part of the same sitting.The march was launched at the old St Al..

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• Bendigo belts Ballarat for shield | Bendigo Advertiser

  

  Bendigo retains Grigsby-Pethard Shield.WELL BOWLED: Bendigo skipper Simon Carter plays a shot during Sunday's Grigsby-Pethard Shield clash against Ballarat at Eaglehawk. Pictures: GLENN DANIELSBENDIGO has retained the Grigsby-Pethard Shield after a dominant performance against Ballarat on Sunday.CONCENTRATION: Bendigo's Gary Beckham sends down a bowl against Ballarat. Bendigo was too strong in winning 237-160.After the clash had been in the balance at lunch, Bendigo pulled away after the break t..

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• Regional cups icing on carnival cake

  

  Ballarat and Kilmore Cups a resounding successMark Zahra (outside) pilots Rhythm to Spare wins the Kilmore Cup ahead Brad Rawiller on Eximus.Source:SuppliedVICTORIAN racing has hit the jackpot with the Ballarat and Kilmore Cup double to end the most profitable and popular spring carnival.The move to regional centres, highlighted by their Cups, has provided a diverse end to the carnival that provided the superstar Cox Plate win of Winx and the historic Melbourne Cup win of the first female victor..

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• Ballarat girl stable after stabbing

  

  Ballarat girl stable after stabbing (00:35). A 23-year old-man is in police custody but he has yet to be interviewed after a girl was stabbed multiple times yesterday ...

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• Monday Rewind: State-by-state expert analysis on who to circle and...

  

  Junoob, with Brad Rawiller aboard, wins the 2015 Ballarat Cup. Picture: Colleen PetchIT was a bittersweet tale of two remarkable warhorse horses at the weekend: the passing of international racing’s most revered globetrotter Red Cadeaux and another breathtaking performance on the road from ageless Queensland sprinter Buffering.For most, Saturday morning would have been greeted with a tinge of sadness with the news Red Cadeaux has been euthanised because of complications from a leg injury suffere..

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• BCA selects initial squad

  

  Ballarat begins path to country weekByDavid BrehautNov. 23, 2015, 12:04 p.m.BALLARAT Cricket Association has injected a wealth of new blood into an initial squad to prepare for Melbourne Country Week.NEW FACE: first-season North Ballarat captain-coach Adam Eddy is among newcomers in the initial BCA representative squad.Heath PritchardBALLARAT Cricket Association has injected a wealth of new blood into an initial squad to prepare for Melbourne Country Week.Experienced recruits Heath Pritchard (Da..

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• Type is short-term, class is everlasting for Ballarat Cup victor Junoob | Sun Daily Standard

  

  Brad Rawiller riding Junoob after winning the Ballarat Cup. Photo: Getty ImagesThere is an old racing maxim that you should always forgive a horse one bad run.Chris Waller’s Junoob – a horse who had done his early racing in England before moving to Australia three years ago – can put in the odd stinker.In fact the eight-year-old did so last time at Flemington, when he trailed in 45 lengths behind Excess Knowledge in the Lexus Stakes on Derby Day – a performance so dismal it was too bad to be tru..

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• Cardinal Pell 'lightning rod for outrage'

  

  Cardinal George Pell has been described as a lightning rod for outrage and his third time before the child abuse royal commission will be no different.Cardinal Pell, now the Vatican's financial chief, will return from Rome next month to give evidence to the commission's resumed inquiry into widespread abuse in the Ballarat diocese and to answer what he knew about offenders in the Melbourne archdiocese.The former Ballarat priest's decision to hire lawyers to question abuse survivors, when the Cat..

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• AFL dream still burns for Rebel Templeton | photos

  

  AFL dream burns for North Ballarat Rebels' Tom TempletonByJUSTINE McCULLAGH-BEASYNov. 23, 2015, 2 p.m.Wangoom's Tom Templeton is among the country's AFL draft hopefuls.AFL dream still burns for Rebel Templeton | photosDETERMINED: North Ballarat Rebels midfielder Tom Templeton is hoping to be picked up in the AFL drafts after a strong TAC Cup season as a 19-year-old. The Portland export's family lives in Wangoom. Picture: Arj GieseSECOND CHANCE: South Warrnambool export Louis Herbert is eyeing an..

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