Monday, November 30, 2015

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    | The Courier
    Wasn't it great to finally hear some rain on our roof last night as a thunderstorm rolled in. We only had 4.6mm, according to the Bureau of Meterology, but it's ...
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  • Ballarat hospital CEO quits due to ill health - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Ballarat hospital CEO quits due to ill healthPostedDecember 01, 2015 11:41:10 The chief executive of the Ballarat hospital has announced he will be stepping down from the job, citing ill health.Criticism has been levelled at Andrew Rowe in recent months, with several health unions alleging a culture of bullying and harassment is entrenched across the hospital.The hospital has engaged a consultant at the behest of the Health Minister to investigate its workplace culture.Mr Rowe announced his ..
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  • Star Sunbury recruit Alik Magin intent on achieving Ballarat Football League success | HeraldSun

    Star Sunbury recruit Alik Magin intent on achieving Ballarat Football League success | HeraldSun
    Alik Magin is one of seven key recruits recently unveiled by Sunbury. Picture: Carmelo Bazzano.BOOM recruit Alik Magin has declared Sunbury will be primed for a “real crack” at its first Ballarat Football League premiership since 2012 next year.The former Gold Coast midfielder, who has crossed from Bendigo Football League side Kyneton, is one of seven key additions to the Lions for 2016.After successive elimination final exits over the past two years, Magin said Sunbury was intent on re-establis..
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  • INTERACTIVE MAP | Ballarat Christmas Lights competition 2015 | The Courier

    INTERACTIVE MAP | Ballarat Christmas Lights competition 2015 | The Courier
    Click here to view the entries for The Courier Christmas Lights competition for 2015.721 Geelong Road,Canadian has been brilliantly lit up.IT'S beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Ballarat.The Courier Christmas Lights competition is now in full swing, with almost 50 houses entered.Entries have now closed and soon it will be up to you, the reader, to determine who has the best Christmas lights in Ballarat.CHECK OUT OUR INTERACTIVE MAP BELOW AND GALLERY OF ALL ENTRANTS BELOWINTERACTIVE MAP |..
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  • Date set for George Pell to front commission

    Date set for George Pell to front commission
    VIC: Cardinal George Pell will give evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sex Abuse later this month.Cardinal George Pell is expected to give evidence on December 16.A date for Cardinal George Pell to give evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sex Abuse has been released.Cardinal Pell is expected to appear on December 16 during the second week of the public hearing regarding Catholic Church authorities in Ballarat at the Count..
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  • Unseen orphanage photos capture lighter moments in dark part of...

    Unseen orphanage photos capture lighter moments in dark part of...
    Unseen orphanage photos capture lighter moments in dark part of Australia's historyUpdatedDecember 01, 2015 14:09:50 A Victorian woman hopes to reconnect people with their childhood photos, after discovering dozens of her aunt's priceless pictures taken in orphanages more than 50 years ago.Sofia Fiusco found the old box of photos and negatives, belonging to her deceased aunt Annie Woods, while cleaning out her Ballarat home.Ms Woods was a mothercraft nurse around the 1960s and worked at seve..
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  • Sleuthing doctor is back on the scene

    Sleuthing doctor is back on the scene
    Doctor Lucien Blake will be back sleuthing baffling mysteries in Ballarat this weekCASE STUDY: Doctor Blake (actor Craig McLachlan) mulls over a mystery in 1950s Ballarat. The series will return to film more season four action in the city this week. Picture: Jeremy BannisterDoctor Lucien Blake will be back sleuthing baffling mysteries in Ballarat on Tuesday and Wednesday.The Doctor Blake Mysteries production team confirmed cameras would be rolling on more season four drama in the ABC television ..
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  • Child abuse royal commission: Archbishop Denis Hart admits he...

    Child abuse royal commission: Archbishop Denis Hart admits he...
    Child abuse royal commission: Archbishop Denis Hart admits he was aware of complaints against abusive priestUpdatedDecember 01, 2015 16:24:20 The Archbishop of Melbourne has admitted he should have done more to remove a violent priest who was alleged to have sexually abused children.In 1996 Denis Hart received a complaint that Father Peter Searson, a parish priest, had hit a boy in the head.Archbishop Hart told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that at t..
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  • Speedy property sales rake in top dollar in Melbourne's family...

    Speedy property sales rake in top dollar in Melbourne's family...
    8 Syon Court, Burnside Heights, sold for $635,000 within two days of hitting the market.FAMILIES are snapping up homes across Brimbank within days of them hitting the market.And they’re paying top dollar to secure a new home in family-friendly suburbs.A family from Delahey paid $635,000 for the four-bedroom house at 8 Syon Court, Burnside Heights, before its first open inspection.“The property was listed and sold within two days,” YPA Caroline Springs’ Raj Bakshi said.The buyers, who wanted to u..
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  • Man swerves to miss roo, crashes BMW into tree

    Man swerves to miss roo, crashes BMW into tree
    A STRAY kangaroo caused a man to lose control and crash into a tree in Mt Clear this afternoon.The scene of the crash. Picture: Lachlan Bence.A KANGAROO caused a man to lose control and crash into a tree in Mt Clear this afternoon.Police say a Ballarat man in his mid 40s was driving along Whitehorse Road just after 12pm when he swerved to miss a kangaroo that had leapt across the road.Man swerves to miss roo, crashes BMW into treeThe scene of the crash. Picture: Lachlan Bence.The scene of the cr..
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