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• Ballarat company Gold Bus defends decision to cover up logo at ...

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Man covers bus logo after crash Hours after media filmed and photographed every inch of the bus that crashed in South Melbourne on Monday, a man arrives on scene and begins to tape over the bus company's logo. PT0M13S 620 349 The bus company involved in the South Melbourne bridge crash has defended its decision to cover up its name and logo at the scene.A charter bus carrying delegates from a major tourism conference slammed into a light-rail br..

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• Luxury Roman hotel to host Cardinal George Pell and survivors

  

  Luxury Roman hotel to host Cardinal George Pell and Ballarat abuse survivors Video will begin in 5 seconds. George Pell to give evidence in Rome The survivors of child sex abuse at the hands of pedophile Catholic priests are on the verge of a huge moral victory. PT1M52S 620 349 Cardinal George Pell will give video evidence to Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse from a conference room at a luxury hotel in Rome.The commission announced today th..

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• Emergency fire warning issued for Victorian towns

  

  Two emergency fire warnings issued for Victorian towns of Mount Bolton, Addington, Somerville Updated February 23, 2016 15:09:31 Two fire emergency warnings have been issued for Mount Bolton and Addington, north-west of Ballarat, and Somerville on the Mornington Peninsula. At Somerville, there is a fast-moving, out-of-control grass fire travelling south from Frankston Flinders Road near Raymond Street.Residents are urged to shelter indoors.Metro has suspended train serv..

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• Emergency warning issued for fast-moving bushfire at Mount Bolton ...

  Residents should take shelter indoors immediately. (Twitter: John O’Brien) Victoria's Country Fire Authority has issued two emergency warnings as they battle separate out-of-control fires.An emergency warning was issued for Somerville, south-east of Melbourne, at 2.42pm. A fast-moving grassfire is travelling south from Frankston-Flinders Road, near Raymond Street.  Residents are advised it is too late to leave and are urged to take shelter indoors immediately.  The fire near Mount Bolton and Ad..

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• Death, divorce and 'daughter-in-law syndrome': Farmers launch ...

  

  Death, divorce and 'daughter-in-law syndrome': Farmers launch book about succession planning Updated February 23, 2016 11:24:53 Husband dies in farm accident. Both parents die suddenly without a will.Dad remarries and leaves everything to his new wife.These are just a few of the chapter titles in a frank book about succession planning, Who Gets the Farm?, authored by a Ballarat farmer and his wife.With case studies like 'husband dies and wife left penniless', it is not ..

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• Going Beyond The Cacophony Of Blackface And 'Racism In Public'

  

  OPINION: Another day, another case of blackface. Cameron Smith tries to cut through the noise. It was two ‘legends’ at an ‘Australian Icons’ themed piss-up in Ballarat a couple of weeks ago. Fox Sports journalists last year. Serena Williams fans at the Australian Open. Hey Hey It’s Saturday in 2009. Yesterday, social media channels everywhere were overflowing with anger over fringe Opals forward Alice Kunek’s woeful blackface ‘homage’ to Kanye West. That incidents like these are indeed shocking..

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