Last Top Stories: Ballarat breakfast report, Saturday August 1, 2015

Ballarat breakfast report, Saturday August 1, 2015

Emergency services experienced a quiet Friday night, with police, fire and ambulance not responding to any jobs of significance. Can you believe it has been one year since the city was blanketed in snow? Relive the magic in our gallery below: WEATHER. >> view original

Former Ballarat Bishop Ronald Mulkearns to appear at royal commission in Melbourne

A former bishop described as "pivotal" to the failure to prevent decades of widespread child sexual abuse at Catholic schools in Ballarat will appear before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The commission ... >> view original

Grant to boost reading skills of Ballarat children

More than 200 Ballarat children will receive an age appropriate book every month for the next five years courtesy of a significant grant from Perpetual Private Impact Philanthropy. The funding will support United Way Ballarat's Imagination Library ... >> view original

Ballarat Police launch Facebook page

The creation of the Ballarat police Facebook page comes three years after the program was launched in Victoria. Two years ago, former police and emergency services minister Kim Wells announced an expansion of the Eyewatch initiative to include Bendigo, ... >> view original

Mitsubishi launches all-new Montero Sport in Thailand

mitsubishi-montero-sport-1 Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announces the world premiere of first full-redesign of the Montero Sport (aka Pajero Sport) mid-size SUV in seven years in Thailand, where it is produced at Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) Co. >> view original

Ferrari 488 Snapped Up in Oz

The average age of Ferrari owners in Australia is decreasing and now is at 48 years old, an executive says, with demand accelerating as confidence levels rise among small-to-medium-sized business owners. First Australian deliveries of 488 GTB set for ... >> view original

India-bound 2015 Ford Endeavour first drive review

The affordable end of the market for a three-row or seven-seater SUV has fairly limited choices. Affordable isn't really the catch word here because these SUVs until now existed in the plus Rs 15 lakh bracket. But the full size SUV segment as we as we ... >> view original

Chrome has a hidden tab discard option that could solve your memory problems

For many people Google Chrome is their browser of choice. It may be popular, but most users would concede that Chrome has something of a memory problem -- it will gobble up resources like they are going out of fashion. To get around this issue, ... >> view original

Nintendo reveals New 3DS bundles for Animal Crossing

Nintendo revealed a number of of the primary batch of Animal Crossing's “amiibo buying and selling playing cards”. The white New 3DS bundle will also be available in the UK on October 2nd and be available later in Q4 2015 for Australia and New Zealand. >> view original

Q&A: Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems

In his first week as Cisco Systems' new CEO, Chuck Robbins has already made an impression, moving quickly on plans to create a leaner, faster-moving company out of the networking colossus. Cisco was born in the mid-1980s as a company that made ... >> view original