Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Agents to abandon Ballarat's new saleyards and other top stories.

  • Agents to abandon Ballarat's new saleyards

    Agents to abandon Ballarat's new saleyards
    ONE of Victoria’s largest saleyards could lose half its throughput if a planned relocation goes ahead.A group of Ballarat livestock agents, who claim to handle half the livestock sales at the Central Victoria Livestock Exchange, is refusing to support relocation of the yards from Ballarat to Miners Rest.A letter on behalf of agents T.B White, H.F Richardson & Co. and Charles Stewart & Co to saleyard operator Palisade Investments said the agents did not believe the new facility would be “fit for ..
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  • VicRoads asked to review potential move from Kew to Ballarat

    VicRoads asked to review potential move from Kew to Ballarat
    VicRoads asked to review potential move from Kew to Ballarat Posted February 04, 2016 10:42:42 The Victorian Government has revealed it has asked VicRoads to conduct its own assessment over whether it should move to Ballarat.During the last election, the former Napthine government promised to move the roads authority but the plan was shelved when Labor took power.The Andrews Government has accused the Liberals of doing nothing more than announcing the plan.Treasurer T..
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  • The Ballarat Goldfields were far from a prudish and staid society

    The Ballarat Goldfields were far from a prudish and staid society
    Delve into the often-hidden side of life in the goldfields. Who were the Victorians, those people who flooded to Australia between 1830 and 1900? We might think of them as dour and religious.“My parents were very ‘Victorian’; they were very strict,” we hear. But were the Victorians really so different from us?We have been educated to accept a vision of Victorian life on the Goldfields as rough and ready miners and prim women in crinolines; a steady rise of respectable town life bu..
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  • Snapped in the Rat | January, 2016

    Snapped in the Rat | January, 2016
    Commemoration for Buninyong stalwart, Derick Leather: Harry Leather (Melbourne) and Stephanie Patterson (Buninyong). Picture: Kate Healy.Commemoration for Buninyong stalwart, Derick Leather: Deano, Topsy Newett (Mt Helen) and Ann Pryor (Buninyong). Picture: Kate Healy.Commemoration for Buninyong stalwart, Derick Leather: Peter Hiscock (Buninyong) and Margaret Rich (Mt Helen). Picture: Kate Healy.Commemoration for Buninyong stalwart, Derick Leather: Neville Wilson and Judy Wilson (Buninyong). Pic..
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  • Taste time for reggae and ska

    Taste time for reggae and ska
    BIG Jamaican dance sounds will fill Alfred Deakin Place this Friday night as the City of Ballarat kicks off its annual Backyard Tasters events. Ready for fun: Front: Deb Clark, Bonnie Prenc, 5, Alia Alnaimi and Suleiman Alnaimi. Back: Andrew Fry, Stella Savy, Vicki Coltman and Des Hudson. Picture: Kate Healy BIG Jamaican dance sounds will fill Alfred Deakin Place this Friday night as the City of Ballarat kicks off its annual Backyard Tasters events.Hot on the heels of January’s Su..
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  • Koalas “stressed” by development

    Koalas “stressed” by development
    A NEW subdivision in Ballarat has caused some koalas to flee and display signs of stress, say local residents who fear the animal’s welfare was not properly taken into consideration. A NEW subdivision in Ballarat has caused some koalas to flee and display signs of stress, say local residents who fear the animal’s welfare was not properly taken into consideration.CONCERNED: Kevin Pearse, is pro-development, but was concerned when he found a koala (inset) scared and alone in a tree ..
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  • Three matches called off on day three of Melbourne Country Week

    RAIN impacted the third day of Melbourne Country Week yesterday with three matches abandoned due to the wet conditions. Most matches went ahead with a reduced number of overs after showers hit Melbourne yesterday morning, but three matches — one from each division — were called off.The games affected were the Provincial match between the Bendigo and District and Traralgon and District associations, the Division 2 match between Ballarat and Mornington Peninsula 2, and the Division 3 match between..
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  • City of Ballarat refers Marvella Heights project to Minister for Planning

    City of Ballarat refers Marvella Heights project to Minister for Planning
    A high-density housing project proposed for Bakery Hill is one step closer to approval. Changes: A planning panel has found that one of the buildings of the Bakery Hill Marvella Heights project should be reduced from four storeys to three. A high-density housing project proposed for Bakery Hill is one step closer to approval, with the City of Ballarat referring the latest combined planning scheme amendment and planning permit application to the state government for consideration.M..
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  • The gun-toting, gay marriage-opposing Nationals senator...who lives ...

    The gun-toting, gay marriage-opposing Nationals senator...who lives ...
    Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie bought her Elwood property in 2014. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen She's the gun-toting, gay marriage-opposing Victorian Nationals senator who wants two ABC board members to be based in the regions.But Bridget McKenzie's home is in the leafy inner Melbourne suburb of Elwood, with the register of senators' interests revealing the senator purchased a property in Elwood in November 2014. And in fact, a spokesman for the senator - a f..
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  • Quoll-ity time for new zoo animal at Hartley's Crocodile Adventures

    Quoll-ity time for new zoo animal at Hartley's Crocodile Adventures
    A new addition to Hartley's Crocodile Adventures is Luna – a spotted-tail quoll that arrived a week ago from Ballarat in the hope she will breed with the parks existing male quoll Clyde. Pic of Luna the new female. PICTURE: STEWART McLEANTHIS little girl will be getting some quoll-ity time in a new breeding program at a Far North zoo.Luna the spotted-tail quoll just arrived from Ballarat, Victoria at Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures, near Port Douglas.The six-month old marsupial has joined the att..
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