Ballarat, Victoria

...LinkUp has had great success with the vocational and other courses it offers. Hundreds of young people who used to hang around Ballarat's takeaway outlets all day are now studying. But it, too, struggles to meet demand on limited...

In this article: Frankston High School, Department of Education, Ballarat Secondary College, University of Melbourne, and Julia Gillard

...by announcing the north-south pipeline. Mr Brumby fuelled the anger of the pipeline's opponents this year when on a visit to Ballarat, the scene of Mr Kennett's ''toenails'' remark, he branded these critics liars. Water policy is a...

In this article: Melbourne, Jeff Kennett, Steve Bracks, John Brumby, Ted Baillieu, ALP, Climate change, and Mark II

...coal before burning it. In contrast, in the past year the state has added 294 megawatts of wind power at Portland and Waubra, near Ballarat, with a further 63 megawatts under construction south of the Grampians. The Bogong hydro station,...

In this article: Coal, Australia, Methane, Origin Energy, Ballarat, Western Australia, and Portland

...Gabrielle Short, a forgotten Australian, described her ordeal at the Nazareth House, an orphanage in the southeastern town of Ballarat, to the Australia Associated Press (AAP). "If you wet the bed at the house, they'd rub your...

In this article: Kevin Rudd, Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, Canberra, Psychological trauma, and BBC Home Service

In 1943, the American cartoonist Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe it or Not fame dubbed Ballarat's Old Curiosity Shop "the queerest house in Australia". Thought to be Victoria's oldest tourist attraction, the historic property will be...

In this article: Ballarat, Rose, Robert Ripley, Ryanair, and Ripley's Believe it or Not

...socialist and mother, Florence, was active in the Australian Women's National League. One of her grandfathers had been born in a tent at Ballarat in 1854, the year of the Eureka rebellion, and Tipping remembered him talking about those years.

In this article: John Batman, Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Harvard University, Sydney, and Pacifism

...in an eccentric way. The horse has been the referee's pony in polo and rounded up cattle. He has not raced in 24 days, spent a night at Ballarat on his way to today's race. Dom Tourneur, the jockey, has invented places to ride so far and wide...

In this article: Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup, Jeune, and Lloyd Williams

...are a little bit country but within just over an hour of the CBD. Ninety minutes or so will get you to goldfields heartland in Bendigo, Ballarat or Castlemaine, and three hours plus will see you in Echuca, Swan Hill or Warrnambool. Most...

In this article: Bendigo, Walhalla Goldfields Railway, Mildura, Ballarat, Echuca, Miniature railways, and V/Line

...when he felt "sick of himself"' but he never thought of changing jobs. Yesterday he floated Kibbutz to the Victorian goldfields town of Ballarat - a six-hour round-trip with a horse in tow - for his final serious gallop and check-in with the...

In this article: Simon O'Donnell, Tax, and Melbourne Cup

...Hall of Fame - was only the first step in ensuring the long-term future of the race in the western Victorian town. Two months ago, Ballarat made a bid worth $1.25 million over five years to relocate the iconic event - which was first...

In this article: Victorian, Ballarat, and Easter