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Ballarat breakfast report, Saturday, August 22, 2015

As part of National Science Week, Ballarat Clarendon College is conducting an experiment in the vertical laboratory and the Foucault pendulum. PICTURE: Kate Healy. Morning, Ballarat. We've got some more sun out today following a cold night, so enjoy it ... >> view original

Ballarat owners line up ex-Kiwi in Breeders Crown semi-finals

​FOR Ballarat harness racing owners Brendan and Anne James, it is an unexpected bonus to have an active involvement in Saturday night's Australasian Breeders Crown meeting in Ballarat. The couple has two runners - former New Zealand three-year-old I ... >> view original

Ballarat schools receive funding boost

Ballarat Secondary College principal Rick Gervasoni welcomed the funding, which would provide a maintenance upgrade at the college's arts and technology wing at its east campus. He said the college was currently at the stage of getting concept plans to ... >> view original

Families open up albums for Ballarat Foto Biennale artist-in-residence Daniel ...

The people of Ballarat will soon be opening their photo albums to an American visitor. He suspects he'll know the contents, but will be ready for surprises too – the gaps in the family histories. Daniel Coburn researches these intimate domestic ... >> view original

Skin Cancer More Aggressive with Fewer Moles Present

People who have fewer moles may be at higher risk for aggressive melanoma than those with more numerous moles, according to a new study. Researchers reviewed the charts of 281 patients with the skin cancer melanoma who visited a Boston hospital in ... >> view original

Man rescued from washing machine after being trapped for at least three hours

A man has been rescued from a washing machine in Australia, after he was trapped for at least three hours. The man, 22, is mildly autistic, firefighters told the Sydney Morning Herald. It is unclear how he became trapped. The Bankstown Fire and Rescue ... >> view original

Fiona Stanley Hospital. Source: News Corp Australia

THE head of state's top doctors group refuted Premier Colin Barnett's allegations of a campaign against his Government. Mr Barnett told ABC Radio on Thursday he did not want to “pick a fight” with the Australian Medical Association WA, but they were a ... >> view original

Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister says authorities warned him of vegemite ...

THE federal Indigenous Affairs Minister has launched a strident defence of his warning about Vegemite being used in home brews in indigenous communities, saying it was the authorities who tipped him off. Senator Nigel Scullion described the iconic food ... >> view original

Elderly woman forced to wait three hours on the footpath for ambulance after fall

AN elderly woman had to endure an incredible three-hour wait for an ambulance while lying on the footpath after being injured in a fall in Sydney's inner west today. The 83-year-old was forced to lie on the concrete path in Abbotsford as neighbours and ... >> view original

Medicare changes 'dire' for families

EXCLUSIVE. ONE thousand fewer babies will be born every year and there will be increased sets of twins, triplets and more if the government pushes ahead with it's plans to change the Medicare safety net. One of Australia's leading fertility specialists ... >> view original