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• Young girl rushed to hospital with serious upper body injuries in...

  

  Young girl rushed to hospital after being stabbed in BallaratBallarat Base Hospital, where the girl is in a critical condition.A five-year-old girl is fighting for her life after being stabbed multiple times in Ballarat.Police have arrested a 23-year-old Mitchell Park man, who is in custody.Paramedics were called to Mitchell Apartments, a low-cost residential facility on the site of a former motel, on Learmonth Road in Mitchell Park just before 3pm on Sunday.The girl, who had stab wounds to her ..

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• Review: Ballarat 24-hour Experience

  

  The Healing Maneuver, a dance work telling stories about cancer.Photo: Leonie Van Eyke It's 4.22 am. I'm sitting on the floor of an underground room with about 25 people. Some are asleep in bean bags; so tired they don't care that they are being watched or that the room is filled with the amplified sound of snoring. This is the 24-Hour Experience in Ballarat.It's hour 17. About 90 people have come and gone since the Saturday midday start. Ten of us have seen every work. We are tired. Very t..

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• Ballarat Cup: Myer Fashions on the Field | The Courier

  

  Ballarat Cup: Myer Fashions on the FieldNov. 22, 2015, 10:26 a.m.Check out the competitors here.Ballarat Cup: Myer Fashions on the FieldThe host of the Myer Fashions Casey Bruce on the Field at the 2015 Ballarat Cup.Allie Guy.Danielle DownsRenay Dwyer.Allie Guy.Millinery Award winner Jasmin Fitzgerald and runner-up Nicole Walter in the Myer Fashions on the Field at the 2015 Ballarat Cup.Millinery Award winner Jasmin Fitzgerald and runner-up Nicole Walter in the Myer Fashions on the Field at the ..

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• Junoob shows class in Ballarat Cup | RACING

  

  Brad Rawiller and Junoob claimed the Ballarat Cup for Chris Waller (Image: Darren McNamara) Top jockeyBrad Rawillercollected his fourthBallarat CupasChris Waller’sSpring Carnival dominance continued withJunoobtaking out the $300,000 feature.There was plenty of talk pre-race about how open an event it was and so it proved as Junoob ($17) got home first withWales($51) andSonntag($15) filling the minor placings.Most punters couldn’t find that combination with the trifecta returning $23,454..

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• Zahra and Childs in Ballarat suspensions

  Mark Zahra missed the four days of the Melbourne Cup carnival through suspension and has incurred another careless-riding ban on Ballarat Cup day.Zahra pleaded guilty to a careless-riding charge aboard Lips Areios in Saturday's Sam Miranda Handicap and was suspended for 12 meetings.Stewards ruled a shift from Zahra passing the winning post the first time fell into the mid-range of carelessness.His ban begins after Sunday's Kilmore Cup meeting.Apprentice Jordan Childs was also suspended for seven..

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• Energy meetings kick off in Ballarat | The Courier

  

  BRIEF: A SERIES of community renewable energy workshops will start in Ballarat from this week.Picture: Kate HealyA SERIES of community renewable energy workshops will start in Ballarat from this week.Starting November 23, the workshops will be run by the state government as it finalises its Renewable Energy Targets.Environmental group Friends of the Earth said government, industry, community and householders all had a role to play when it came to growing renewable energy in Victoria and tackling..

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• State of the Nation | Sunday, November 22, 2015

  

  BALLARAT: There were plenty of reasons people chose to attend this year's Ballarat Cup, some for obvious reasons like getting to see racing legend Michelle ...

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• Cardinal Pell 'lightning rod for outrage'

  

  Cardinal George Pell has been described as a lightning rod for outrage and his third time before the child abuse royal commission will be no different.Cardinal Pell, now the Vatican's financial chief, will return from Rome next month to give evidence to the commission's resumed inquiry into widespread abuse in the Ballarat diocese and to answer what he knew about offenders in the Melbourne archdiocese.The former Ballarat priest's decision to hire lawyers to question abuse survivors, when th..

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• Goal to catch taggers

  

  Goal to catch taggersByAMBER WILSONNov. 22, 2015, 9:20 a.m.A GRAFFITI crime tracking system that promises to help nab vandals could soon be set up in Ballarat and used in a police-community partnership.Eyesore: Ballarat graffitiA GRAFFITI crime tracking system that promises to help nab vandals could soon be set up in Ballarat and used in a police-community partnership.Venom: VandalTrak volunteer Josh Maxwell gets evidence of one of Ballarat's taggers. VandalTrak offers rewards for information le..

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• Meet Darcy Tucker

  

  2 days to the draft: Meet the rebounding gun with a lethal left foot Darcy TuckerCallum TwomeyNovember 22, 2015 9:00 AMDraft Trumps: Darcy TuckerThe running defender looms as a first round pick with his leadership a standout•Draft order: Your club's provisional picks•Get to know the next young guns at the NAB AFL Draft Hub•Draft countdown: 30 future stars in 30 days•Draft machine: Pick this year's top 10 and you could win $10kWHEN Darcy Tucker burst onto the scene last year to win All Australian..

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