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Off-duty Ballarat police Sergeant Paul Kinna fined over drunken crash

An off-duty Victoria Police Sergeant, who set up Ballarat's liquor accord, has been fined for dangerous driving. Sergeant Paul Raymond Kinna has been suspended from the police force since last September. On Thursday he pleaded guilty in Ballarat ... >> view original

Ballarat prices rise again

PRICES at the Ballarat store cattle sale were $70-$100 a head dearer across the board today thanks to strong competition. That's according to TB White's Xavier Bourke, who said feedlot demand combined with buying strength from south-east South ... >> view original

Three To Watch - Ballarat

There's no more intriguing race on what is a metropolitan card than the two-year-old maiden, in which seven of the 12 runners are first starters. Few of the debutants appear as well-related as the Darren Weir-trained Starsi, who will be ridden by Dean ... >> view original

Pope blames the people's 'general lack of interest' for failure to combat climate ...

EFFORTS to combat climate change have “proved ineffective” due to “powerful opposition” and a “general lack of interest” among the people of the world, Pope Francis has warned. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. >> view original

Dallas Buyers Club has questions, Tesla has chargers and E3 has everything ...

Dallas Buyers Club LLC tells the court they want to know how much pirates earn, Tesla rolls out destination charging station and Microsoft and Sony go head-to-head at E3. by Nic Healey · @dr_nic; 19 June 2015, 4:22 pm AEST. facebook. twitter. linkedin. >> view original

Mercedes-Benz GLE: 2015 Australian Price And Features

The Mercedes-Benz M-Class has a new name and a new look, and now, it has a price for Australian customers as well. Meet the 2015 Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class - which is available to order in Australia from this week with deliveries scheduled to begin in ... >> view original

Apple makes a killing with the Watch band bringing in the bucks

Apple's coffers are set to swell even further with almost 20 per cent of Apple Watch buyers buying a spare band for the timepiece, according to reports. Reuters, quoting data from research firm Slice Intelligence, said Apple has sold an estimated 2.79 million ... >> view original

VR at E3 2015: hands on with HoloLens and Project Morpheus

Virtual reality has been seen as an inevitable product in consumer technology for over two decades, with films like The Lawnmower Man promising VR headsets as far back as the early 90s. Sadly, reality took its sweet time catching up with fiction. >> view original

Nintendo, Activision bring hybrid amiibos to Skylanders

See all Nintendo's E3 announcements. The emergent "toys to life" subgenre of video games in which plastic toys in the real world are brought to life within a game, is a crowded and competitive field. As such, Nintendo caused a stir this week when they ... >> view original

Twitter in push to appeal to non-users

Twitter wants to better explain to people how to use its services, and make the microblogging site more useful for non-members, people with knowledge of company's plans have said. Twitter, which is in the middle of a search for a new CEO, wants a new ... >> view original