Thrive and Revive - growing regional communities
ABC Rural, ABC Grandstand and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) are offering your town up to $50,000 to help your community thrive in the 21st century.
View ArticleAnglican Bishop Michael Hough speaks out
Anglican Bishop Michael Hough speaks out for the first time about an attack against his leadership from within his diocese.
View ArticleThe power of one - BREAZE
In Victoria, in the face of climate change, rural and regional examples of 'the power of one' are springing up.
View ArticleLake Bolac is full and all it needs is you
Good rain over the past few months has resulted in Lake Bolac filling for the first time in several years.
View ArticleCountry towns conference
Country towns around all states wrestle with the question of sustainability. What will keep them viable? What will boost population or income? What strategies will overcome social or economic threats...
View ArticleMacca comes to Ballarat
Ian McNamara is broadcasting Australia All Over from Lake Wendouree this Sunday the 31st of October.
View ArticleCivic Hall stick up
Opposition to the Ballarat City Council's plan to demolish the Civic Hall and replace it with a new administration centre has shifted from pure argument about what some see as the cultural and heritage...
View ArticleLocals say Greenhill road intersection is unsafe
Around 25 residents attended a public meeting last night at Damascus College to push for a reduction of the speed limit around the Greenhill road and Geelong road intersection at Mt Helen. Local...
View ArticleNAIDOC week in Ballarat
Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative chief executive officer Karen Heap says NAIDOC Week is a busy time. The co-op is holding several events to celebrate local Koori history and recognise the...
View ArticleArch of Victory re-opened
The $500,000 renovation of the Arch of Victory in Ballarat was officially re-opened by Her Excellency the Governor General Quentin Bryce AC on Sunday 6th November 2011.
View ArticleConnect, conserve and collect in Ballarat
The Museums Australia state conference will be held in Ballarat on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th March with the theme 'Connect, Conserve and Collect'. Laura Miles from Museum Australia discusses how...
View ArticleLooking back but towards the future
The 150th anniversary of the opening of the Geelong to Ballarat railway line was marked with an historic T class locomotive pulling 3 carriages built in the 1920s up the line to Ballarat. Hop on board...
View ArticleGreece is still the second best country in the world
Ballarat restaurateur Terry Frangos is Greek and thinks that despite the economic crisis, Greece is still the second best country in the world.
View ArticleDreamtime in Victoria
NAIDOC week isn't the only opportunity for us to gain a deeper understanding of Aboriginal culture.
View ArticleControversy over clergy abuse takes its toll
The Catholic Bishop of the Ballarat diocese for the past 15 years Bishop Peter Connors has retired a year early due in part to the ongoing controversy over abuse by some members of the Catholic clergy.
View ArticleEveryone's journey is different
A red carpet is rolled out for some. Whilst others trod under the floorboards, away from the lights and the sun.
View ArticleVoices from within Reid's Guest House
Reid's Guest House is run by UnitingCare Ballarat as a budget accommodation service for the public with long and short stay options that also provides emergency housing for people who, due to mental...
View ArticleUnder the floorboards: Linda Franklin
As part of Uniting Care's Under the Floorboards project, artist and art therapist Linda Franklin has spent a month at Karrung, a supported residence of apartments that provide safe housing for at-risk...
View ArticleThe biggest balcony in Ballarat
One of Ballarat's oldest hotels - on the corner of Lydiard St North and Mair St - is being returned to its former glory, and not just physically.
View ArticleUnder the floorboards - Cath Johnston
As part of Uniting Care's Under the Floorboards project, Moyston-based sculptor Cath Johnston has spent a month at one of Ballarat's older and larger homes on Victoria Street that provides emergency...
View ArticleA day in the life of UnitingCare Ballarat - Rebecca McLean
As part of Uniting Care's Under the Floorboards project, filmmaker Rebecca McLean has spent a month filming at seven key facilities and services operated by UnitingCare Ballarat to create a day in the...
View ArticleDereel fires 'It was hell, absolute hell'
Gerald Ross has lost everything on his 10 and a half acre property on Paynes Bridge Road in Dereel following the bushfires last Wednesday.
View ArticleComing ready or not
First time mum Katie Gleisner of Waterloo, a sleepy hamlet 10 kilometres north of Beaufort in Western Victoria, had enjoyed an uneventful pregnancy so she assumed the stomach pains she was feeling...
View ArticlePart of the furniture in Ballarat
The City of Ballarat Heritage awards for 2013 kicked off the Heritage Weekend on Friday night and among the winners were two brothers from Cyprus, Angelo Christofi and Chris Christofi.
View ArticleArtist books are the perfect distraction
As part of Uniting Care's Under the Floorboards project, artist and ceramicist Barry Wemyss has spent a month at Tabor House, a drug withdrawal centre.
View ArticleFaces can be a mask but our hands show who we are
As part of Uniting Care's Under the Floorboards project, Ballarat based artist Kim Anderson who specialises in drawing, has spent a month with Uniting Care's aged and disability services.
View ArticleOp shops where people are the real treasures
As part of Uniting Care's Under the Floorboards project, Smythesdale based artist and printmaker Anne Langdon has spent a month inside Uniting Care's op shops in Ballarat.
View ArticleNAIDOC WEEK - from rations to wages
The Aboriginal flag was raised for NAIDOC week opposite the Ballarat town hall and despite the cold weather the ceremony attracted a healthy crowd who were warmed by the music of Joe Geia.
View ArticleHow the spoonbill got its beak
As part of Uniting Care's Under the Floorboards project, Warrnambool based interpretive consultant, scriptwriter and journalist Kirsty Hawkes has spent a month working with children at the Yuille Park...
View ArticleA door opens to a better life
When institutional facilities are built they usually have uniform design features with doors and furniture that look the same throughout. However at Uniting Care's Karrung, a facility for young adults...
View ArticleFostering a sense of family this Fathers Day
This Fathers Day will be the first for Adam Salicki of Ballarat but not because there's a new baby in the family. Adam and his wife Annette are yet to have children, but they've recently become foster...
View ArticleCriminality is generational says top Ballarat lawyer
Award-winning lawyer and former state politician, Diane Hadden, believes more needs to be done to educate children from a young age in order to break the cycle of criminal re-offending, which she says...
View ArticleWorld War One: one school's history
Ballarat's St Patrick's College has embarked on a research project in order to produce a book documenting former students who fought in World War One.
View ArticleReid's Guest House: The House at the End of the Line
Playwright and director Tracy Bourne wrote and produced the play 'The house at the end of the line' following her 2012 residency at Reid's as part of UnitingCare Ballarat's Under the Floorboards project.
View ArticleA red carpet is rolled out for some, while others tread under the...
Through their art project 'Under the Floorboards', 12 artists including a photographer, playwrite and filmmaker were given an insight into UnitingCare Ballarat's operations and gained understanding of...
View ArticleNAIDOC Week is for all Australians
Recently, Rachel Maza visited Ballarat as patron of the Survival International Film Festival, where she shared her thoughts on what NAIDOC Week means to her and what she thinks the week should mean for...
View ArticleSoil so good you could put it on your muesli
This is what Horticulturalist Nic Gowans thinks about the soil on his block of land in the heart of Skipton. The 6000 square metre parcel of land is situated below Jubilee Lake and can't be built on...
View ArticleWalking around Lake Wendouree come rain, hail or snow
With damaging winds, hail, storms, gales, snow and a top temperature of six degrees - the first day of August was one of the coldest days in Ballarat so far this winter and the city was covered in a...
View ArticleOne family behind one counter for 115 years
A historic Ballarat gun shop will shoot across town to a new location after the building which housed the business for 115 years was sold last week.
View ArticleThe challenges of keeping a small-town pub going
Five rural pub owners in Victoria share the ups and downs of running a pub in a small town as population numbers dwindle, football leagues fold and communities call upon their services.
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